Speaker:
There he is.
(applause)
President Obama:
Hey, hey. Good to see you.
Something smells good up
here. I got (inaudible).
I will have some sweet tea.
If you're in Georgia, you
got to have some sweet tea.
Speaker:
That's true.
Speaker:
Before you arrived we said
we weren't going to ask
questions so you could
have a nice time --
President Obama:
No. Go ahead.
No, no, no -- how often are you going
to have lunch with the President?
(laughter)
Mine as well ask some questions.
And let me have some of them
black eyed peas over there.
Speaker:
One of each?
Speaker:
Take mine.
President Obama:
I think I'll try this one first.
I think we've come through
probably one of the toughest
year we've had
since the thirties.
Objectively speaking, if you
just look at what the economy
went through, we're in
the middle of two wars,
the burden on military families.
I actually think we're now at
a stage where were out of the
worst part of it.
Speaker:
Oh, I hope so.
President Obama:
But, there were a lot
of issues that had not
been dealt with even before
this crisis started.
And, you know, the challenge is
trying to make our institutions
responsive to the new challenges
that we face as opposed to
putting them off.
And that's hard to do because,
I'll be honest with you,
I think the country -- we're
like -- we're like folks
that have had a long party all 
night long and then there's a
little bit of a hang over and
you got to do a little bit of
clean up and nobody wants to
-- nobody wants to hear the
story about how well, now
we got to do some hard things.
Can I be honest with you?
One of the tougher things about
being president is you're always
in this bubble, you know,
everywhere you go you're always
-- you're trapped really, and so
at the chance to get out and go
to a restaurant; sit
down with some people.
Speaker:
You're people.
President Obama:
It is a great treat.
Speaker:
They're your people.
President Obama:
It's a great treat.
I'll take a drum stick.
I mean, if it was a wing,
I would have taken a wing.
Speaker:
Well, that's no problem.
(laughter)
President Obama:
Let me just have one. Now, I
don't want to get carried away.
