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NEW YORK, N.Y. – In a pre-taped interview for ABC’s The View, President Barack Obama declined to call the lethal attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya terrorism despite his administration’s assertion that it was.
Asked by co-host Barbara Walters whether the attack was terrorism, the president responded, "There's no doubt that the kind of weapons that were used, the ongoing assault, that it wasn't just a mob action."
He added that there are "extremist strains" in the Middle Eastern countries adapting to new governments in the wake of their dictators being overthrown. But, he said, "the overwhelming majority of Muslims, they want the same things families here want."
During the interview, which he taped with his wife Michelle at ABC’s studios in New York City, the president also divulged that his toughest moment in office thus far was overseeing, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the dignified transfer of the remains of 30 soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
"It's very raw in those moments. It reminds you that freedom's not free," he said.
The interview also had some lighter moments, as when Michelle Obama joked that she is one of the few people who can anger her husband.
"By being thoroughly unreasonable," her husband added, smiling.
And when asked what they would like to do in five years, Mrs. Obama said she would like to take a long vacation, including retracing the honeymoon road trip she and her husband took 20 years ago from San Francisco to Los Angeles along Highway 1.
Her husband said he would think about those plans after the election.
"First things first here. We do have an election ahead," he said.
Of life after the White House, Obama said, "The thing I think I would enjoy the most is spending time, working with kids. Just giving young people the sense of possibility, of opportunity."
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Julia-WAKE UP
Those people who are supporting Obama don't care about the Americans who were murdered by the terrorist attack on the embassy in Lybia. If they did care, they wouldn't support a president who says their deaths are only a bump in the road, or a president who failed to give them protection when they were fearing for their lives, or a president who failed to act on the advice that a terrorist attack was only a few days away.
President Obama has failed to rebalance the US economy and the Obama Doctrine foreign policy is a sham.Maybe former President Obama and/or former 1st Lady Michelle can get a job replacing Barbara or some other TV Talking Head gig come January.
Barry has shown the world now for almost 4 years, that he is making the USA weak and vulnerable. Barry is cutting our military, bombs, etc. He is taking our security away and leaving us open for the Terrorist Muslim to move in. They already live in the states and waiting for the word. It is like the Russian sleepers. Barry is DESTROYING our country.
Yet, another vacation Mrs Obama?
ICantBelieveYouFools
Probably checking out the compound the Kenyans are building with the millions of dollars Obama has been sending over there and Indonesia. Wonder why the USA is supporting that area now?? Wonder Why???
"And when asked what they would like to do in five years, Mrs. Obama said she would like to take a long vacation, including retracing the honeymoon road trip"
Pointing out that they take vacays a tremendous amount and go to these social gatherings and parties instead of concentrating on more important things.
kelseyab1127
Obama has sure shown us where his priorities are. He has only been working on his personal agenda for almost 4 years. He isn't far from finishing it (USA) off! Which is turning the USA into a Socialist country and Obama as the Dictator!