[Hotlanta Mike]

[MaxMax]

This is what happens when you only watch one channel and believe everything you hear.
Stop allowing others to make your mind up for you.

[ilgipper]

Some people are gullible. At no time has Obama proven to be a good debater. He can’t speak off the cuff. Anyone who thinks differently doesn’t think at all.

[Talisker]

Sidney Barthwell, a district court magistrate in Michigan who attended... Harvard Law School with Obama...

Uh, ya wanna tell the country a little more about that, on yer honor, yer Honor?

[Condor 63]

“Barack will smoke Romney,”

Doesn't sound all that neutral to me. Go figure.

[funfan]

That man looks a little shady to me and got to laugh at the photos he holds for each candidate.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yeah he looks like someone I would turn to for a serious analysis of someone he hasn't spoken with since highschool.

[driftless2]

Obviously the guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Even lukewarm Romney supporters like me knew that Obama is basically an ignoramus concerning economics and Romney is a numbers wonk. But I’ll bet Obama knew the price of all the best recreational drugs back in the day. Impressed this fool.

[A Strict Constructionist]

It’s in the eyes, this man lies...

[jazusamo]

Sure, Barthwell, Obama had the flu. /sarc

[Praxeologue]

Barthwell also said the president was unusually reserved, even in the face of full-on attacks from Romney - a possible sign, he suggested, of Obama's acute awareness of the politics of race. "It’s possible he doesn't want to appear to be the angry-black man type,"

So Obama couldn't respond to Romney because he didn't want to appear to be the angry black man type.

It appears that it is Barthwell's "acute awareness of the politics of race" that is driving his preference.

[Fawn]

All kinds of excuses are flying...obama on medication, obama tired, obama sick....lack of air....what a loser.

[cripplecreek]

Anybody know this guy? The name sounds familiar.

[dynachrome]

Neutral? BS!!! (puzzled by the $250 to Romney , though. The rest went to obozo):

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=MI&last=Barthwell&first=Sidney

Contributor

Candidate or PAC

Amount

Date

FEC Filing

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D)

$2,500
primary

10/11/10

Barthwell, Sidney
Detroit, MI 48214
36th District Detroit/Magistrate

MILES, PATRICK A JR (D)
House (MI 03)
PAT MILES FOR CONGRESS

$250
general

10/05/10

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA VICTORY FUND

$1,450
primary

10/27/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$2,300
primary

06/30/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$-750
primary

06/30/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$750
general

06/30/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$250
primary

05/07/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$250
primary

02/12/08

Barthwell, Sidney Jr
Detroit, MI 48214
36Th District Court-Detroit, MI/Mag

OBAMA, BARACK (D)
President
OBAMA FOR AMERICA

$250
primary

06/07/07

BARTHWELL, SIDNEY MR. JR.
DETROIT, MI 48214
SIDNEY BARTHWELL/ATTORNEY

ROMNEY, MITT (R)
President
ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC.

$250
primary

03/29/07

.

[twyn1]

for someone purporting to be neutral, he sure has the latest Dem. talking point (excuse) down pat.

[CitizenM]

... I’m thinking the man might have had the flu or something."

Yeah, right. Let's see...Obama was fine the day before out in his swanky hotel prepping for the debates. He was fine when he walked in. And he was fine today back out on the campaign trail where he enjoyed his normal routine of ridiculing Mitt and said, about last night "that wasn't the real Mitt Romney."

So as soon as Obama stood behind the podium he must have been hit by a Two-hour flu bug! A sudden striking, weakening, sweat-producing, stammer-causing illness that caused him to appear dazed and obviously delusional if he thought the real Romney wasn't there! ROFLOL These Libs never, never, never stop searching for excuses for Obama.

[justlurking]

Check out the latest Daily Doom antidote at hillbuzz.org.

You may have to scroll down a bit to see the article in question.

Kevin doesn’t think it was the flu.

[Wage Slave]

Romney born 1947 and Obama born 1961....and they have a classmate in common?

[mrsmith]

“BARTHWELL, SIDNEY JR
DETROIT, MI 48214
36TH DISTRICT COURT-DETROIT, MI

DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
10/11/2010 2500.00 10931717372

OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
06/07/2007 250.00 28991922407
02/12/2008 250.00 28992086429
05/07/2008 250.00 11972231262
06/30/2008 -750.00 11972352238
06/30/2008 750.00 11972352239
06/30/2008 2300.00 11972352238
09/27/2011 250.00 12970010825

BARTHWELL, SIDNEY JR.
DETROIT, MI 48214
36TH DISTRICT COURT/MAGISTRATE

OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
02/03/2012 250.00 12951914835

BARTHWELL, SIDNEY MR. JR.
DETROIT, MI 48214
36TH DISTRICT COURT DETROIT MI 48

ROMNEY, MITT / RYAN, PAUL D.
VIA ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC.
02/03/2012 250.00 12951542580

BARTHWELL, SIDNEY MR. JR.
DETROIT, MI 48214
SIDNEY BARTHWELL

ROMNEY, MITT / RYAN, PAUL D.
VIA ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC.
03/29/2007 250.00 27931483675 “

Seems a little DNC oriented LOL!

[C210N]

That was not the real Barack Obama in my opinion.

So, are you saying Romney was the real Romney, but Barack was not the real Barack? Barack is saying that Romney was the not the real Romney - perhaps an imposter. Maybe, both Barack AND Romney were both imposters... and both not real! Folks, there is a mystery here... if the Barack was not the real Barack, then the fake Barack should go look for the real Barack. If Romney was not the real Romney, then the fake Romney should go look for the real Romney... or, if that WAS the real Barack, the real Barack should go look for the real Romney!

[MNJohnnie]

The man is a liar and this reporter got rolled.

Obama 1st year at Havard was 1988. Romney was there in 1971

Romney is the son of Lenore and George W. Romney (Governor of Michigan, 1963–69). Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, beginning in 1966, he spent thirty months in France as a Mormon missionary. In 1969, he married Ann Davies, and the couple had five children together. In 1971, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University and, in 1975, a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. Romney entered the management consulting industry and in 1977 he secured a position at Bain & Company. Later serving as its chief executive officer, he helped bring the company out of financial crisis. In 1984, he cofounded and led the spin-off company Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. His net worth is estimated at $190–250 million, wealth that helped finance his political campaigns prior to 2012.

In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[39] and president of the journal in his second year.[33][40] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[41] After graduating with a J.D. magna cum laude[42] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[39] Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention[33][40] and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations,[43] which evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[43]