What happens if Obama stops getting pitched softballs?

This is why we traditionally select our Presidents from a small pool of seasoned executive politicians.  Politico explains:

When the even-keeled and cool President Obama gets prickly in public, it never goes unnoticed.

For Obama, who has carefully cultivated a reputation of easily managing confrontations with people who disagree with him, these moments are as rare as they are revealing of the person behind the presidency.

So it's no surprise that Washington took notice when after a tense interview with a Texas TV reporter on Monday, Obama unclipped his microphone with no smile in sight, and tersely warned, "Let me finish my answers next time we do an interview, all right?"

The president of the United States was not happy. Obama had been corrected (he lost Texas by 12 points, not "a few," in 2008), he was accused of punishing the state for political reasons (he denied that the White House had any part in the decision not to award a space shuttle to Houston), and he was challenged with the most basic of political questions: Why are you so unpopular in Texas?

And all that in a setting the White House anticipated would be largely free of tricky questions.

Doug Ross thinks it's long overdue: "Perhaps now we know why legacy media blistered Sarah Palin with complex, amorphous policy questions while simultaneously lobbing softballs to Obama. Kudos to WFAA reporter Brad Watson for his straightforward questioning of the president. Has America ever had a more petulant and narcissistic man serve in the White House? For you drones: that's a rhetorical question."