(Leading the way into his study) I'm a father of daughters, you're a father of daughters. It looked to me like right before you went on stage, Sasha told you she likes a boy in her class who has a tattoo. OBAMA That's not what hap --  BARTLET Here's what you do. You invite the boy over for dinner, you have a couple of fellas from your detail brush their suit coats back just enough so the lad can see the .44 Magnums -- problem solved. You have what every father of a daughter dreams of -- an army and a good dog. OBAMA The girls are fine, that wasn't the problem. In the debate prep we --  BARTLET Whoa ... there was prep? OBAMA (shouting ) Enough! (taking a cigarette and lighting it) I appreciate that the view's pretty good from the cheap seats. Gore chalked up my debate performance to the altitude. He debated at sea level -- what was his excuse? BARTLET They told you to make sure you didn't seem condescending, right? They told you, "First, do no harm," and in your case that means don't appear condescending, and you bought it. 'Cause for the American right, condescension is the worst crime you can commit. BARTLET All right! (back to OBAMA) And that was quite a display of hard-nosed, fiscal conservatism when he slashed one one-hundredth of 1 percent from the federal budget by canceling "Sesame Street" and "Downton Abbey." I think we're halfway home. Mr.