Team Barack Obama knows they are in a heap of re-election trouble when pundits look at his shambles of an economic record. So what to do? Easy. The most shameless of our Obama-loving journalists are painting Obama as an action-movie superhero in the war on terror.

Just open up Newsweek Magazine to an advertisement for a book by its own Daniel Klaidman called “Kill Or Capture.” It begins by asking about Obama: “High-minded idealist or calculating killer?” They mean that in a positive way. Then comes this sales language: “How has President Obama waged the war on terror? With one hand tied behind his back — and the other dealing death sentences to suspected terrorists around the world.”

Yes, this is the same Obama who refused to allow the term “war on terror” to be used.