Because he’s so smart.

Via Beltway Confidential:

During the White House Press gaggle aboard Air Force One today, a concerned reporter questioned Traveling Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki whether the president was “doing any work to prepare for Romney potentially trying to get under his skin.”

“I will say that the President is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers,” Psaki replied citing Obama’s performance at the Univision forum and the NBC Education interview.