Don't kid yourself. Obama WAS NEVER a street thug. His body language is all wrong. This guy had his ass handed to him.
Obama was and always will be a WANNABE street thug. And in reality that makes him even worse to deal with.
Didn't say he'd ever been a street thug, but it is definitely part of his attitude. And we can be sure he was exposed to quite a bit of it during his community organizer days in Chicago.
Being black and being a street thug is Obama's chosen vocation, not his identity. To achieve his career objective, he needed all the help Frank Marshall Davis, Reverend Wright, Valerie Jarrett, and Billy Ayers could provide.
Proper street thug blacks take umbrage at Obama the Interloper: