This photo taken May 8, 2012 shows President Barack Obama speaking at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, N.Y. The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial threat to the United States that could undermine President Barack Obama's efforts to cast himself as the agent of a U.S. economic revival. That could feed Mitt Romney's argument that the economy under Obama is too weak to sustain a financial shock from across the Atlantic.