Obama Wraps up California Fundraising Trip
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Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — President Obama wrapped up his fundraising trip to California on Saturday, addressing a Democratic National Committee event at the W Hotel in San Francisco.
As he spoke to a cheering crowd, Obama touched on the ISIS threat in Syria and Iraq, Ebola in West Africa, and Russian aggression in Ukraine.
“..What ties these things together is the fact that on each and every one of these issues… at the center of it, leading it, is the United States of America,” the president said. “When problems happen around the world, they call us.”
While Obama cited the U.S. as a world leader, he addressed the issue of “showing leadership at home.”
The President touted progress — in health care, energy production, and educational and economic changes — over the last six years, but emphasized the need for more progress with minimum wage and and benefits for the middle class.
“We live in cynical times. And Washington feeds that cynicism,” Obama said, alluding to differences between the two parties. “But I always tell people: Cynicism didn’t put a man on the moon. Cynicism never cured a disease. Cynicism never built a business. Cynicism is a choice. Hope is a better choice.”
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