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Niall Ferguson: Obama’s Gotta Go
Daily Beast via excerpted version from Business Insider ^ | August 19, 2012 1:00 AM EDT | Niall Ferguson Daily Beast; Joe Weisenthal Business Insider;

Posted on 08/19/2012 1:47:13 PM PDT by blam

Edited on 08/19/2012 5:08:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The other day, Newsweek had a cover story about Mitt Romney's "Wimp Factor."


(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; election; elections; government; hittheroadbarack; newsweak; newsweek; niallferguson; obama; politics; romney; ryan; thedailybeast
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To: blam

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

The agonizing answer (for Obama acolytes) and the truth is that the only people who are better off than they were 4 years ago are the most soulless golem that comprise the 1% cronies of the Chicago syndicate better known as “progressives” and Obamunists.

Things have gotten progressively worse for the most vulnerable Americans especially may I note for people of color, the working poor, senior citizens and the disabled or anyone living on a fixed income.

When we factor in the stunning inflation of the cost of food, gasoline, electricity and health care the poor in America, those who bleeding heart crooks on the left always exploit and claim to represent, are suffering cruel poverty unseen since the Great Depression and their numbers are growing exponentially.

It causes anyone with the slightest degree of humanity and/or conscience to wince and to wonder if there isn’t something Pharaohesque in the DNA of the new democrat that makes them knowingly gleeful at the suffering of so many as they enjoy the grotesque, nouveau riche spoils of their office?

THE NEW LEFT...OF, FOR AND BY THE ONE PERCENT!


121 posted on 08/19/2012 3:43:31 PM PDT by Binstence (Live Freep or Die)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"They're publishing this cover in mid-August for insurance. That way, when they start their heavily biased, full court press against Romney/Ryan throughout September and October, they'll be able to point back to this cover and say they've been "even-handed," with their criticism during this campaign cycle.

Exactly

122 posted on 08/19/2012 3:47:12 PM PDT by DKM
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To: GOPJ
We know Newsweek hates traditional Americans... why would they do this? It's strange ...

Magazines run on advertising revenue. When a country is in a depression, advertising revenue dries up. I suspect that perhaps someone in accounting has seen the numbers and advised the editorial staff that if Obama is re-elected they are all going to be on the unemployment line and then the editors decided that the prudent thing to do to save their sorry ass jobs is to jettison the guy causing all their problems.

They may agree with Obama 100% on his socialist/communist agenda, but money talks and under Obama, these news magazines are seeing less and less of it every day.

Or maybe not.

123 posted on 08/19/2012 3:51:11 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: DKM

Ha....I might make a few visits to my local leftie bookshop and purchase a copy.....make a few sarcastic comments....and leave the copy prominently displayed in the local community coffee shop...


124 posted on 08/19/2012 3:52:44 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: blam

Just wow. Is this a preemptive “anti-Obama” blitz so that in a month they can all unleash their real onslaught against Romney?


125 posted on 08/19/2012 3:55:04 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: blam

They are too reliably leftist (WHACKO leftist) for this to be anything but a cynical ploy.


126 posted on 08/19/2012 3:58:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yah, I think this is a preemptive “fairness” strike. Still, we conservatives cannot have it both ways: either these are influential or not. If influential on sheeple, this WILL NOT go unnoticed.


127 posted on 08/19/2012 3:58:47 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: LS
You know what else? It's a fascinating article to boot!

This little tidbit caught my eye:

ccording to Ron Suskind’s book Confidence Men, Summers told Orszag over dinner in May 2009: “You know, Peter, we’re really home alone ... I mean it. We’re home alone. There’s no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes [of indecisiveness on key economic issues].” On issue after issue, according to Suskind, Summers overruled the president. “You can’t just march in and make that argument and then have him make a decision,” Summers told Orszag, “because he doesn’t know what he’s deciding.” (I have heard similar things said off the record by key participants in the president’s interminable “seminar” on Afghanistan policy.)

128 posted on 08/19/2012 3:58:57 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom
Shocking isn't it?

Great question as to why. Who knows. Maybe someone is trying to spike circulation and are trying to save their relevancy. Regardless I especially LOVE the headline, “Hit the Road, Barack.”

I just wish they would have made the font size a little bigger!

129 posted on 08/19/2012 3:59:24 PM PDT by nicksaunt
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To: blam

Where this is going to get funny is when this issue sells more than any issue they put out in the last 12 years.


130 posted on 08/19/2012 3:59:36 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (ABO 2012)
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To: blam

Just hit the drudgereport! It is there headline!


131 posted on 08/19/2012 4:09:07 PM PDT by Plumres
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To: blam

Can’t believe this is Newsweek!
Love it!


132 posted on 08/19/2012 4:13:17 PM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: blam

To kinda paraphrase Johnson when he discovered he had lost Cronkite: If rackie has lost newsweek, his ass is grass, and the electorate is the lawnmower.


133 posted on 08/19/2012 4:17:19 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: blam
B T T T ! ! ! ©

134 posted on 08/19/2012 4:17:38 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

https://www.facebook.com/Newsweek
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/Newsweek
http://newsweek.tumblr.com/

It’s real


135 posted on 08/19/2012 4:20:00 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

An excellent read, too.


136 posted on 08/19/2012 4:22:38 PM PDT by polkajello (Romney: The Lesser of Two Weasels)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Act In The Next 30 Minutes

...and you'll get the entire Newsweek Company for $1, not just a magazine.
137 posted on 08/19/2012 4:23:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Hmmm...a real mystery, isn’t it. There are only 150,000 dentists in the US, and many of them share an office.


138 posted on 08/19/2012 4:25:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Ronin
What you write makes a lot of sense. So does the post that suggests the Dems know they are in deep doo-doo with Obama, and might use the upcoming convention to "draft" Hillary.

No matter what, this article--and probably just the cover alone--is going to leave a mark!

139 posted on 08/19/2012 4:37:11 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement.)
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To: blam

I saw the cover on Facebook and assumed it was photoshopped. Is this for real?


140 posted on 08/19/2012 4:39:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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