Orator-in-Chief
Obama Gives His Plan to Fight Islamic State an Emotional Makeover
But the commander-in-chief sticks to his guns on substance.
Obama Talks Tough on Islamic State: How Did He Do?
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He used words like “barbaric” and “destroy.” He invoked 9/11. President Barack Obama even invited America inside his White House bedroom when he described a romantic bedside photo in which he and his wife are kissing in France's fabled Luxembourg Gardens.
For all those who have accused him of not reacting emotionally enough to the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks on Paris, Obama seemed determined to provide a strongly phrased rebuttal at his joint press conference Tuesday with French President François Hollande.