This is Presidential?

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was taught that only rude, crude and ignorant people used the type of language I have heard coming out of the mouths of some of our political leaders lately. (Or maybe I should refer to them as politicians. They don't seem much like "leaders" to me.)

The President, even though he often drops the "ings" from the endings of his words, a habit that would have sent my English teacher into shock, has managed to use fairly clean language in his public speeches---until today.

"President Obama, who was briefed by Allen on Monday, later warned that "even if we are successful in containing some or much" of the oil, the problem of the leak will not be solved until a relief well is completed -- a process that will take "several months."

The president also expressed concern for the health of workers now trying to clean up the spill. Scientists are "not seeing huge elevations of toxins in the air or on the water" near shore, he said. "But that may not be the case out where people are actually doing the work."

He later bluntly defended his administration's response to the spill, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."

I'm just as sad, depressed, and unhappy as President Obama is over the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico, but I don't think that talking like a deckhand, (my apologies to deckhands who don't use profanity), is going to solve anything. In fact, it may make things worse as people begin to realize that the man they have put on a pedestal has clay feet, just like a lot of other people do. I certainly would never encourage my children to follow an example like the one above.

Considering how much our government costs us in taxes, I would expect some more presidential behavior from the White House.