Chris Cillizza reports:

Nearly eight in ten Europeans approve of the job President Obama has done in international affairs, according to a new “Transatlantic Trends” survey being released today by the German Marshall Fund. That represents a massive change in international attitudes from the presidency of George W. Bush; just 19 percent of Europeans approved of the job Bush was doing on international affairs last year in this same poll. Interestingly, despite the popularity of Obama’s general handling of international affairs, Europeans are less sanguine about his administration’s chances of success in Afghanistan, with two-thirds saying they are pessimistic about order being restored to the country.

How nice for Obama that his fellow “citizens of the world” are so pleased with the president, whose effectiveness the same respondents doubt so overwhelmingly. You think the two might be related, do you? No more of that American boosterism. Who needs a great war leader? They have someone who shares their contempt for the unseemly provincialism of Americans and who fully appreciates America’s failures and sins. He’s their kind of guy!