If this is what John Boehner considers a good relationship with Obama, we’d hate to see a bad one. On State of the Union, the House speaker said that he tries to avoid personal attacks on the president—before personally attacking him. In addition to accusing Obama of following bad advice from his campaign staff, Boehner suggested the president is “diminishing the presidency” by picking the superficial battles. “Then they pick this student loan fight when there is no fight,” Boehner said. “The president is bigger than this, the presidency is important.”