Obama blasts anti-Americanism in Europe

Source: UPI

U.S. President Barack Obama Friday called on Europe and the United States to change their attitude toward each other to better confront joint problems.

Addressing roughly 3,000 students at a town hall-style meeting in Strasbourg, France, Obama conceded that the trans-Atlantic alliance had been allowed to "drift" over the years.

Americans in the past often showed "arrogance" toward Europe, failing to appreciate its leadership on many issues, Obama said.

"But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that can be casual but can also be insidious," he said. "Let me say this as clearly as I can: America is changing. But it cannot be America alone that changes."



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I guess europeans want to see American change consolidated first

Maybe I have California stamped on my forehead but I have never encountered anti-Americanism in Europe.

Anti-Bush doesn't equal anti-American

and I have family in Europe...

I think Obama's words were very conciliatory. Look the man does things I don't like but this is just BS.

For better or for worse (mostly for better), the man is one of the most diplomatic, conciliatory human beings on Earth.

to be coming from AP, UPI and Reuters, all of which seem to slant right like nobody's business. This is so scary.

I'll still wait this out, but I'm increasingly feeling he's playing empty words to everybody. :(