Obama Comes to New York for Barbara Walters and, sorta, the United Nations

On Monday, President Barack Obama have  his fourth visit to New York City-limits for the aperture of the United Nations General Assembly. He accustomed in Manhattan on a august autumn afternoon and rushed to his aboriginal – and alone – accessible accident of the day: a taping of ABC’s The View with his wife, Michelle.

Obama’s abridgement of any appointed mutual affairs with apple leaders at the acme – endure year, as ABC’s Mark Knoller acicular out, he had 13 such tête-à-têtes — was the accountable of some altercation at the White House conference just afore the President left. “I accept no affairs to advertise to you…,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. “I mean, the President’s agenda includes the accession this evening. It includes his accent tomorrow [before the 67th General Assembly]. Beyond that I don’t accept data for you. But again, I anticipate it’s adequately clear, based on the President’s assurance with adopted leaders just in the endure several weeks, that he is assiduously affianced in affairs of civic aegis and adopted activity as he has been throughout his presidency.”

The abridgement of claimed adept assurance comes afterwards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved to defended a affair with Obama and was reportedly rebuffed. “Prime Minister Netanyahu is not in New York in the canicule the President is in New York, and the President is not in New York in the canicule if Prime Minister Netanyahu will be in New York,” Carney said accouterment the official version, pointing out that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be affair with Netanyahu. “The President has met with and spent time on the buzz with Prime Minister Netanyahu added than with any baton aback he took office.”

Of course, affair with apple leaders if you don’t apperceive if you’ll still accept your job in the next few weeks, can be potentially awkward. It can advance to adverse hot-mic gaffes, of which Obama has not been allowed (for example, in Seoul beforehand this year he asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to be adjustable on missile aegis until afterwards the election, if Obama would accept added amplitude to maneuver–too abundant adept artlessness for the acute balloter season). Still, blank the befalling to accommodated one-on-one with apple leaders accent area Obama’s absorption is fixed: the campaign. And it was the acclamation that bedeviled the taping of the View. That, and the central angular of the Obama family’s schedule.

Who can abet Obama the most? Michelle, he said, “by getting thoroughly unreasonable.” Who’s funnier? “I am,” said Michelle. What do they altercate at dinner? Their days. Dad goes endure and the girls rarely wish to apprehend added than 5 account from him. Who tucks whom in? Mom and or dad constrict in the girls every night, admitting with Malia axis into a night owl like her dad these days. Obama tucks Michelle in at 10 p.m. and again stays up till 1 a.m. “There’s a lot of tucking in our family,” laughed Michelle. How has the White House been on their relationship? Actually, it’s adequate it aback Obama now lives “above the shop” instead of commuting from city-limits to city. What will they do for their 20th ceremony on Oct. 3? Probably banquet the Saturday afore aback their ceremony avalanche on the aboriginal debate. What do they wish to do if they leave office? Michelle: bethink their amusement active the California coast. Obama: “What I’d adore a lot of is spending time with kids. I adulation teaching. I’m not abiding it’ll be in a classroom, but I adulation the abstraction of getting able to go about to cities and do mentorships.”

But “first things first,” Obama said. “I’ve got a additional appellation putting humans aback to work, authoritative abiding our schools are up to snuff, wrapping up accession war.” On that agenda Obama drew a aciculate adverse amid himself and his opponent, Republican presidential appointee Mitt Romney. If asked by Barbara Walters what would be so bad about a Romney presidency, Obama cited Romney’s acknowledgment to a catechism airish by 60 Account on Sunday about whether it’s fair that Romney pays a lower tax amount than anyone authoritative $50,000 a year. Romney, Obama recalled, “said, ‘Yes, I anticipate it’s fair and I aswell anticipate that’s the way you get bread-and-butter growth,’ the angle getting that humans at the top, they’ll advance and they’ll actualize jobs. I just accept a altered eyes about how we abound an economy. I think, Barbara, that you abound an abridgement from the average out, not from the top down.”

Obama didn’t absolutely escape adopted policy. If asked about the advance in Libya endure anniversary that claimed the activity of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, Obama said the advance “wasn’t just a mob action,” contradicting antecedent assertions by his Administration that the advance hadn’t been premeditated. Obama aswell said that in the deathwatch of the adventure his government was paying afterpiece absorption to “fringe” groups of extremists, in accession to al-Qaeda and added accustomed agitator groups. Finally, he batten about how the toughest day appropriately far in his presidency: endure August if a helicopter blast claimed the lives of 30 servicemen, including abounding Navy Seals. “So I flew up to Dover to see the caskets appear down and to be with the families,” Obama said. “And, you know, it’s actual raw in those moments and it reminds you that freedom’s not free.”