IN OVER HIS HEAD: National Journal: Paris and the Press Put Obama on the Defensive: The president spent Monday’s press conference repeatedly making the same arguments in response to tough questions. And showing passion only when he started attacking Republicans. “There were 11 ques­tions asked, but they all boiled down to two: Why did you un­der­es­tim­ate the po­tency of the Is­lam­ic ter­ror­ists who seized so much ter­rit­ory in Ir­aq and Syr­ia and struck in Par­is with such bru­tal­ity? And why isn’t your strategy work­ing?”