OBAMA:
President Obama at a fundraiser last night outside Seattle: “People are anxious.
Now, some of that has to do with some big challenges overseas. I am very proud
that we have ended one war, and by the end of this year we will have ended both
wars that I inherited … But whether people see what’s happening in Ukraine, and
Russia’s aggression towards its neighbors in the manner in which it’s financing
and arming separatists; to what’s happened in Syria … to the failure in Iraq for
Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise … to what’s happening in Israel and Gaza”
…
“Part
of people’s concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn’t
holding and we’re not quite yet to where we need to be in
terms of a new order that’s based on a different set of principles, that’s based
on a sense of common humanity, that’s based on economies that work for all
people. … But here in the United States, what people are also concerned
about is the fact that although the economy has done well in the aggregate, for
the average person it feels as if incomes, wages just haven’t gone up; that
people, no matter how hard they work, they feel
stuck.”