Barack Obama Likens Himself to Aaron Rodgers in the Pocket

November 17, 2015   ·   Katie Richcreek   ·   Jump to comments

When Bill Simmons sat down with Barack Obama for an interview published by GQ on Tuesday, he compared the president's temperament and ability to focus despite whatever might be going on around him to San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.
Fair comparison?

Wrong. More like Aaron Rodgers. Or at least that's the way Obama—the Chicago Bears fan—would like to see it.
Here's the president's full self-comparison to the Green Bay Packers quarterback:
Or maybe [Aaron] Rodgers in the pocket, in the sense of you can’t be distracted by what’s around you, you’ve got to be looking downfield. And I think that’s a quality that I have—not getting flustered in what’s around me. So there was never a point, even early on—even in the first six months, where we weren’t sure whether we were going to dip into another Great Depression, we weren’t sure whether the steps we were taking on rescuing the auto i...

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