But you also have to like that his arm strength appears to have returned four years after he partly tore a ligament in his throwing elbow.
A material of stone-like strength that is commonly known as "hempcrete" is also produced using the hurds of the hemp stalk which is claimed to be up to seven times stronger than the traditionally used concrete, half as light and three times as elastic.
He conceded that "we cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency like that in Afghanistan".
"After that, it's up to how the teams fare with their record and who they've played and their strength of schedule and things like that.
"It gave me a real individuality and a strength of character, so I really liked that, but at the same time I couldn't do the long-hair ballets as easily," Ms. Whelan said.
I think both of us weren't feeling 100 per cent physically, but he found the strength to finish like that, and hats off to him, what a way to finish off a great year for him".
"I like her strength, and I like that she's been behind the scenes in the White House and knows the process and has the Senate experience," Karla Whitt, 32, a small-business owner in Charlotte, N.C., said in a follow-up interview.
