Obama's Gotta Go? Newsweek Tries to Save the Brand

I wrote just a couple of weeks ago, "Newsweek Circles its Final Swirls Down the Drain."
At issue was Michael Tomasky's completely lame cover story, "Mitt Romney: Too Wimpy for the White House?" So I guess Tina Brown's reading my blog, or something. Because this Niall Ferguson piece is way more in line with the prevailing zeitgeist, "Obama's Gotta Go" (at Memeorandum):

I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the apotheosis of Barack Obama. You would not be human if you failed to acknowledge this as a cause for great rejoicing.”

Despite having been—full disclosure—an adviser to John McCain, I acknowledged his opponent’s remarkable qualities: his soaring oratory, his cool, hard-to-ruffle temperament, and his near faultless campaign organization.

Yet the question confronting the country nearly four years later is not who was the better candidate four years ago. It is whether the winner has delivered on his promises. And the sad truth is that he has not...

No, has not. Which is why Obama can't run on his record. He's a presidential failure.

But keep reading.

And the progressives are outraged. Outraged! How dare Ferguson take over the cover of the Democrat house organ?!!

Paul Krugman, the depression economist, quibbles with CBO numbers on ObamaCare deficits --- numbers of which no one outside the think tanks have read --- and even then it's not the numbers that bother Krugman, but Ferguson's interpretation of them. See, "Unethical Commentary, Newsweek Edition."

And Jew-bashing Scott Lemieux, at the discredited hate-blog LGM, posts yet another "Hactacular!" entry --- number 24 according to the URL, which means that when the idiot "Lame-ieux" can't actually rebut an argument, he attacks the author as a "hack." And remember, the LGM blog publisher over there screens "Che"-worshipping movies for his seminars in American counter-insurgency strategy, amazingly, since that gets the arrows of national loyalty going the wrong way, "Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky, Screens Steven Soderbergh's Che to Commemorate Fiftieth Anniversary of Bay of Pigs."

In any event, you gotta hand it to Tina Brown. Some say she's actually a quite savvy editor, with her finger to the pulse of cutting-edge opinion. And no doubt that's the case with the Ferguson cover story. Indeed, Obama's gotta go, and not a moment too soon.