Because Barry’s such a badass.

Via Newsbusters:

Liberal historian Douglas Brinkley said President Obama has a “steel backbone” and hailed him as a “firewall president” in a Thursday afternoon segment on CNN.

“And you saw that in this crisis, the steel backbone of Barack Obama, that’s what history’s seeing him as, the firewall progressive,” Brinkley fawned over the President. He also offered this pathetic excuse for Obama’s “forceful” tone with Republicans in his Thursday address: he was “exhausted.”