Weirdly the economic crisis in Europe is helping the President politically.

[DCBob]

Chuckie Todd just said that on Hardball. I think he is right.

I have been thinking this for some time. I think many people see the mess over there and think, thank goodness its not that bad here, and most people give the President credit for that.

The GOPers think they have political winner on Europe by claiming America will go the route of Greece if we continue going "socialist". Most people will think, well, we havent gone the route of Greece and in fact we are heading in the just the opposite direction... I guess the President policies were right.

Its all looking good for President at the moment... almost too good. Its makes me nervous..

[Renew Deal]

1. He might be right

I've talked to people recently that said basically "compared to the rest of the world we're in pretty good shape."

[DCBob]

3. Yes, I think thats the general sentiment out there.

Its a win-win situation for the President. If things do stabilize/improve over in Europe it will likely help our economy and the President will benefit from that too.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I didn't think about that

but the pundits might be on to something here (for once). Comparisons seem to always help people realize that, compared to some, we've still got it better in many respects. Comparisons are, after all, one of the things that is helping Obama politically against the GOP...........until "Generic Republican" throws his/her (are "generic Republicans" gender neutral?) hat in the ring, Mitt, Rick, Newt, and Ron are the only people the public has to compare to Obama and they DON'T compare favorably to him at all.

[DCBob]

4. Yes indeed, "comparisons" help people to put things into perspective.

Compared to the alternative our President is looking like a million bucks!

[Historic NY]

5. A friend used the GOP talking Points about Greece...

my responce was I didn't care about Greece were not socialist and were going in the opposite direction...he the STFU. Greeces problem lies in the people who evade taxes.

[libinnyandia]

6. A lot of our problems are caused by tax evasion. In our case the evasion is mostly legal and

unfortunately it doesn't look like that is going to change very soon. Oh to go back to the tax rates from the 50's.