Quoted off th'article.
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. It is bizarre that Obama should be regarded (or should regard himself) as a kind-of European
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He's only regarded as such by political opponents who use it as a perjorative.
See Romney, Gingrich, et al
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...who is trying to bring a sophisticated kind-of socialism to American economic life, complete with government-run health care and ***8220;fair***8221; (high) taxes on the wealthy. If his European credentials were up to date, he would know that this was precisely the social model that is causing the EU to implode, and whose hopeless contradictions the best economic minds on the Continent are attempting, unsuccessfully, to resolve.
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The current EU problems have little to do with tax rates and nothing at all to do with healthcare policy. As a percentage of GDP goes, the generic EU share for healthcare is massively below that of the US. Problems of fiscal independence conflicting with political and monetary union (and with a inflationary hawkish central bank) are totally unique and can't be handwaved away as a "social model". Nevermind the exact details of the Greek tragedy or the Irish/Portugese bailouts.
This writer does not know what she's on about. Standard Torygraph.
EDIT - Tater, just saw your post. I liked Zinn's
History. Pretty clearly biased, but I learned about a couple of new things in it that a lot of other books skip over.