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ATHENS -- A sightseeing trip to the Acropolis gave President Obama a break Wednesday from the primary mission of his European trip; assuring European leade stanley cup rs that President-elect Donald Trump wonrsquo;t abandon them. lrm; Obama tries to reassure Europe on final international trip 02:01 As anti-American protesters took to th stanley cup e streets to mark his arrival, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says Mr. Obama praised Greece as the birthplace of democracy, but warned there is a dark side to the type of populist movement led by Mr. Trump.We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an lsquo;us and a them,rsquo; Mr. Obama said. The fast pace of economic and social changes has alienated people, he said, and leaders like Trump have successfully tapped into that anger. He called for a course correction in the West to ensure that all members of society benefit from the advances in technology and globalization.Mr. Obama said societies that manged to foster greater equali stanley cups ty were less likely to turn on each other, less likely to appeal to some of the darker forces. Zlvq Report: Budget deficit $845 billion this year
Don t be confused. I will bring the Iraq war to a close when I am president of the United States of America. That was Barack Obama, forcefully pushing back against growing questions about his commitment to the anti-war position that helped propel him to the Democratic nomination.His suggestion last week that he was continuing to refine his position on the war was the latest in a series of shifts on a variety of issues which have befuddled and angered his political base. Thousands of his own supporters launched a protest on the official Obama Web site after he announced his support for the Senate compromise on FISA, for example. And conservatives have crowed about his seeming support for Supreme Court decisions on gun control and the death penalty that put him in the same camp as Justice Scalia.Most of those semi-minor shifts could be forgiven by Democratic activists smelling stanley quencher a November victory in stanley cup the air as attempts to solidify his position among centrists and inoculate his candidacy ag stanley tumbler ainst the Republican attacks to come. But not when it comes to the war in Iraq. That s an issue on which progressive activists have little wiggle room. In 2006, Democratic candidates rode a wave of anti-war sentiment to a Majority in the House, ending nearly six years of Republican rule in government. Hopes were high among those who had organized, blogged and raised money for candidates whose primary goal was to bring the war to an end by any me
ATHENS -- A sightseeing trip to the Acropolis gave President Obama a break Wednesday from the primary mission of his European trip; assuring European leade stanley cup rs that President-elect Donald Trump wonrsquo;t abandon them. lrm; Obama tries to reassure Europe on final international trip 02:01 As anti-American protesters took to th stanley cup e streets to mark his arrival, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says Mr. Obama praised Greece as the birthplace of democracy, but warned there is a dark side to the type of populist movement led by Mr. Trump.We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an lsquo;us and a them,rsquo; Mr. Obama said. The fast pace of economic and social changes has alienated people, he said, and leaders like Trump have successfully tapped into that anger. He called for a course correction in the West to ensure that all members of society benefit from the advances in technology and globalization.Mr. Obama said societies that manged to foster greater equali stanley cups ty were less likely to turn on each other, less likely to appeal to some of the darker forces. Zlvq Report: Budget deficit $845 billion this year
Don t be confused. I will bring the Iraq war to a close when I am president of the United States of America. That was Barack Obama, forcefully pushing back against growing questions about his commitment to the anti-war position that helped propel him to the Democratic nomination.His suggestion last week that he was continuing to refine his position on the war was the latest in a series of shifts on a variety of issues which have befuddled and angered his political base. Thousands of his own supporters launched a protest on the official Obama Web site after he announced his support for the Senate compromise on FISA, for example. And conservatives have crowed about his seeming support for Supreme Court decisions on gun control and the death penalty that put him in the same camp as Justice Scalia.Most of those semi-minor shifts could be forgiven by Democratic activists smelling stanley quencher a November victory in stanley cup the air as attempts to solidify his position among centrists and inoculate his candidacy ag stanley tumbler ainst the Republican attacks to come. But not when it comes to the war in Iraq. That s an issue on which progressive activists have little wiggle room. In 2006, Democratic candidates rode a wave of anti-war sentiment to a Majority in the House, ending nearly six years of Republican rule in government. Hopes were high among those who had organized, blogged and raised money for candidates whose primary goal was to bring the war to an end by any me