it is a weird and delicate ballet, a phrase i have been using a lot lately, in terms of how mitt romney deals with this. on one hand, he can t give the president a pass and say look, europe is sort of, you know, the conditions over there will have an effect on us over here and sort of take that arrow out of his quiver. at the same time, he doesn t really have a prescription to solve what s going on over there or potentially any sort of i mean, the u.s. president, if you believe what biddle is saying, the president s hands are effectively tied in terms of influencing rowdy greeks. i will play off your comments again. we like it like that. it s like a ping-pong game. the european backdrop provides context for a debate we re going to have. it will be a very profound debate. if romney truly embraces ryan, the ryan plan, which he has, he has not done it with total specificity but he basically is boxed in where he has to, that next to the obama plan for the economy, that is a radic