U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio on Aug. 21, 2012.Kevin Lamarque
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Obama's Gotta Go
That's the title of a controversial essay written for Newsweek by the historian-economist Niall Ferguson. It's included here in the Reader because Ferguson's scathing critique of Obama is very much based on the financial well being of families.
Rebuttals to Ferguson's argument have piled up quickly. Here's some extensive fact-checking by as associate editor at The Atlantic magazine.
And here's a take from the British newspaper The Telegraph that offers another critique.
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