Is the President's Style a Break With Protocol?

"This is ino the public feed backright? I've heard people argue that the president's style, it seems so a breaking with protocol with earlier presidents," he says. "We get so used to it that it becomes difficult, maybe, to make distinctions between a president who everybody thought was kind of fun when he called his opponents short, crooked, ugly." 'It's not little pro wrestling, little reality t v smaltines thrown in for communicative purposes,' Obama adds.