Obama told NBC News' Ann Curry, "I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign."

He also said in the interview: "When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can't serve as effectively as you need to, at the time when people are worrying about jobs, and their mortgages, and paying the bills -- then you should probably step back."

Weiner, who has been the focus of political attention since it was discovered he had been sending racy photos of himself to various women through social media platforms, entered a rehab facility over the weekend.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who also called for Weiner's resignation, said Monday that Democrats should push harder for him to resign. 

"I'm hoping that they will begin to move, if he does not resign, toward things like perhaps stripping him of his committees," he said.

In the wake of last week's release of more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's emails from her time as Alaska Governor, The Daily Beast compiled a list of 14 of the juiciest bits uncovered so far.

Among them: she actually had nice things to say about President Obama; she wrote that climate change was a "top issue" for her state; she asked God for help on Alaska's budget; and she denied her daughter Bristol was pregnant when, in fact, she was.

Another "key" discovery: Palin really, really likes to use the terms "flippin' unbelievable" or "unflippinbelievable."

Ever wonder how educated state lawmakers really are? Well, wonder no more! The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monday released a study of where 7,000 state lawmakers went to college, if they went at all.

Some findings:

• 25 percent of all state politicians do not hold degrees from four-year colleges.
• California is the state with the most educated politicians, with nearly 90 percent of its lawmakers holding a bachelor's degree or higher. 
• Virginia, Nebraska, New York and Texas rounded out the top five.
• New Hampshire is the least educated, with just over half of all state lawmakers graduating from at least a four-year university.

The state of Ohio is apparently still very bitter LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers to go to the Miami Heat. In the wake of their loss to the Dallas Mavericks last night in the NBA Championship Finals, Ohio Gov. John Kasich issued an official proclamation today, essentially congratulating the Mavs on their victory and declaring the team honorary Ohioans on Tuesday, June 14, 2011.