Obama: "even though I believe all the choices we've made have been the right ones, we're still going through difficult circumstances"

In a combination interview/statement of intellectual exhaustion with ABC News' Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama uttered the above quote, plus this memorable one-liner: "the Mexican president, President Calderon, has done a heroic job of trying to take on these transnational drug cartels." Read the whole thing, especially if you need a good nap.

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