For the last few days, each time Obama had a media availability, there was a mini-intervention beforehand as people tried to help him find the right tone on ISIL. Show more anger. Speak to people’s fears. “As a mother,” Susan Rice told him in one of these sessions, “I can see why people are afraid. You have to meet them where they are.” “I get that. But more people die slipping in the bathtub than from terrorist attacks,” Obama said. “But folks back home think that ISIL is going to come behead them,” Susan said. “That’s because there’s a bunch of folks on television telling them that,” Obama
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