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Politico’s Mike Allen reported this morning that Barack Obama, in a forthcoming interview with Rolling Stone, indirectly calls Mitt Romney a “bullshitter.” Rolling Stone‘s editor, Eric Bates, told Obama that he’d asked his six-year-old if she had anything she wanted to pass along to the president. “You can do it,” the kid responded. According to the article Obama, hearing this, “grinned”: “‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, ‘Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.’” Add it to the binder, already bursting, of election-cycle words that begin with the letter B: bayonets, Big Bird. Bain Capital. (The president’s comment is also, the Guardian points out, sort of a descendent of Joe Biden’s “big fucking deal,” so those of you looking for some symbolic continuity with this trend: there you have it.)
