Obama in Rolling Stone

He is a bad ass and I dig that about him:

In what way will people underestimate you as president?
[Long pause] Because I tend to be a pretty courteous person and I don’t lose my temper, I think people underestimate my willingness to mix it up. I don’t know if they’ll continue to underestimate that after this campaign, but I think you’ll still get columns saying, “He’s too cool, he’s too soft.” [Laughs] That’s OK, actually.

You like being underestimated in that way.
Yeah. No point in having them see you coming.