If the president’s objective at his year-end press conference was to soothe the public’s nerves as the threat of terrorism has again surged to the forefront of American minds, he failed. That, of course, wasn’t his objective. President Barack Obama had but one goal when he took the lectern in the White House briefing room: to defend his record and to keep Democratic partisans happy inside the tent ahead of 2016.
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