re: #396 sagehen

I think Obama has a general sense that part of how we defeat the terrorists… is by not letting ourselves be terrorized.

The military is taking action against people who do us violence. For everybody else, our part in the fight against terror is to not live in terror, to just go about our lives secure in the belief that there will be a tomorrow and next week and next month.

The administration is not doing frothing press conferences, and raising color codes, and whipping up fervor, all of which is a big change from how the previous administration did things, and that bothers people who approved of how the previous administration did things.

Post 9/11, bush did much the same thing (not letting ourselves be terrorized) by saying we should go about our ‘normal” business. The raising color codes, “whipping up ferver” was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. the country was in unchartered territory. A year and a half later here were daily driefings by Rumsfeld re: the war in Iraq, the war was live and in color 24/7, so that was needed (imho). in fact, the media clamoured for it