Michelle talking to her kids about the raid on the Bin Laden Compound and the subsequent assassination, couldn't explain to her kids that killing a terrorist and murderer was a good thing! She was in a quandary on how to break the news to her little daughter. She explains that telling her children that the USA took out a terrorist that was responsible for thousands of deaths around the world, is "a convoluted set of concepts."
Here read the interview
How much did Jill Biden & Michelle Obama know about the attack before it happened?
JILL BIDEN: “I didn’t have a clue. Joe left early and was gone all day. Didn’t come home for a meal—nothing. So I knew something was happening, but I thought it was about Libya. [When I heard,] I was grading papers and watching TV.”
MICHELLE OBAMA: “I knew something was happening, but when it gets down to that level of secrecy, there’s just a small number of people who know anything.”
She adds, “I was actually out to dinner with girlfriends, and I didn’t know until I walked in the door. It was later in the evening, and Barack had his suit on, because he was going to the press conference. And I said, ‘What’s going on?’”
Her reaction? “I was like ‘Wow.’ Then I wanted to know the details: ‘How did it happen? Then what? And then what happened?’ I was probably like every media person.”
On explaining the mission to her children:
MICHELLE OBAMA: “I think kids instinctively feel that ambivalence—is this good or is this bad? And then you have to explain in a way that says it’s not good, but it’s good. The older kids, I think, get it. It’s a convoluted set of concepts. But I think they understand, when it’s placed in context.”
