Echoing remarks by President Obama earlier this year, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dubbed the European financial crisis a “headwind” slowing the United States economic recovery.
“It [has] created a headwind for much of the year, and continues to create that headwind,” Carney said during today’s press briefing, adding the the eurozone crisis “does remind all of us that we need to take decisive action on things that we can control” in terms of job creation.
In October, President Obama described the European crisis as “the biggest headwind the American economy is facing,” but international critics — such as the German publication, Handelsblatt — faulted Obama for trying to blame the results of his economic policies on Europe.
Senior advisers to Obama backed off his ‘headwinds’ comment earlier this month ahead of the G20 summit, merely describing the issue as the main topic of the summit.
