This is a pre quid pro quo for the upcoming "empty chair" cover.. Imagine Larry Tribe still stands by his ole "professor" buddy !!! Even lying to call bozo a professor !

Yes, and when asked, friends of the Captain of the Titanic stated that the ship didn't just smash into the iceberg and doom it's riders. Instead, the ship was professorial and attempted to be inclusive to the pressure of the iceberg as it pressed into the side of the ship, neatly tearing a gigantic hole which then thoughtfully shared the air space both within and without the hull of the ship.

Good grief, they all live in a Yellow Submarine.

Ask Representative Paul Ryan and Supreme Court Justices about the polite man who reached out to work across the divide of philosophical differences.

I bet they would have a different opinion of him...especially the liberal justices who received the very rude "shout-out" from the Pres the State of the Union.

This article needs a barf-alert and a big Baloney!

Unfinbelievable! He got to be editor of the review because of affirmative action. He is not a conciliator, he is a gutless liar. If it wasn't for his syncophants he would be collecting garbage like his brother in the campaign ad.

FTA:“The President has always been someone who takes the truth seriously and has a great faith in the American people and their ability to handle big ideas,” Burns said. “He doesn’t patronize them. He uses the campaign as an educative process. He wants to win but also wants to be clear about his ideas…." To borrow a British term, I am completely Gobsmacked! And this friends is only one of many whoppers!

Yeah right, "he doesn't go for the jugular," that is, unless your back is turned or your hands are tied!

"He showed no forensic bloodlust".
Do a search on his debate as State Senator when he was arguing against medical treatment for botched abortion babies born alive.
"The baby or fetus, whatever you want to call it doesn't come out limp and cold"..
There is an audio of him..listen, then send it to your friends.

Do we have a "Must Not Read" list?

As for being a "professor", "Those that can "do", those that can't "teach"".

He was never a professor.

Harvard says he was an occasional guest lecturer.

The anticipated resuscitation has begun. In this charming display of CPR we learn that the reason Obama lost is that he is too substantive, has such a high regard for the truth, and is repulsed by the ugly aggression of political campaigning.

This remarkable fantasy might stand at least a glimmer of a chance of persuading if we did not have the spectacle of Obama demagoguing before friendly audiences to test it against. As it turns out, Obama is a magnificent debater - when he is attacking Straw Men and when there is no opponent present to challenge him. Nor are his supposed politeness and reverence for the truth on display in his solo performances. He manages to misrepresent, distort, deceive, denigrate and defame with the best of them. He is an artist at character assassination as per Alinsky - again, as long as there is no adversary present to contradict him. He is actually a kind of rhetorical bully when he is picking upon an absent opponent. He romps and stomps and shouts and howls and walks all over his adversary - as long as the latter is not there to defend himself.

Entiae non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem = keep it simple, stupid.

The dude is a dishonest dope. That's all there is to it. There is no more. Intricate and subtle hypotheses are not require to save the appearances. He performed precisely as a dishonest dope would be expected to perform under the circumstances of the debate.

THis is a poor Obama, he just doesn't do it that way, this is about what is good for the country not what is good for Obama.

These lefties are running out of whitewash.

Obama has old friends?

Obama skews cerebral?? He's managed to hide that fact from me!

Sigh. More liberal Obamabot spin. Obama got crushed. Plain and simple. This is true on both style and substance. Polls after the debate said people, by more than 3 to 1, thought Romney won. I'll give this writer credit. At least he didn't try to peddle the latest liberal meme. That is, Romney had a "cheat sheet" on his handkerchief and that every time he wiped his nose he looked at his notes.

The old "he was too nice to go on the offensive" trick. Total Barbara Streisand.

I do recall his mastery at out-debating the smartest woman in the world, Hillary. His debating ability must stem from that one storyline in the eyes of so many sheep in this nation. The only problem with this theory is that She is the worst candidate ever to stand on a stage-bar none. And He needed a teleprompter to do something as simple as that

Gasp. How ridiculous can they get?

I agree with Ice-T on Twitchy.com: Lay off the weed Brother!

Also agree with Hillbuzz: He was on something that night whether it was falling off ValJar's wagon, AIDS meds, cocaine withdrawal, Parkinsons from cocaine use, weed...who knows?

The best part of the article is the cover (see Drudge). Oops, I guess that isn't the article that is piled high BS from miraculously appearing "old friends." The good thing is that the cover (if they use it) will do damage...how many people actually READ the New Yorker. Kudos to #10.

It looks to be very frustrating for Obama and the professors to be so darn smart!

Obama was expecting the fawning debate treatment he got in 2008 (remember the SNL skit, where the CNN folks were asking Obama if he was comfortable, wanted a glass of water, etc.).

Obama's idea of fairness is where he gets to bring a gun to a knife fight.

Life's a ....

And yeah, we never knew Obama had "old friends."

If Barack skews cerebral, so does pee wee herman.
A law school graduate should be able to think on his feet, rebut opponents' arguments, and be as tough as necessary.
(Any fellow l dotters who live in pennsylvania, go to the PCN channel, where the appellate court cases are shown. You will see that every attorney arguing before the coourts has the necessary skills unknown to barack.
Law schools require moot court as a required course. I doubt very much if barack took that course.

No one mentioned the smirks and the purposeful ignoring of his opponent. Is that a result of his "brilliance?" These people are pathetic.

I'm willing to bet that when he showed up as a guest lecturer people fled the hall. Those that stayed just set their snooze alarms and pulled their feet up to avoid the crap running in the aisles.

Obama was President of Harvard Law Review, and was not an editor. It takes scholarship to be an editor, but apparently he was elected president by law review memers, because he was seen as a conciliator. Half the members were lefties and half righties. Choom guy helped bring a divisive membership together, or something.
I heard this back in 2004 in Boston, when he had come to prominence after the D convention there. A colleague told me that he had heard about Obama as presidential material way back in the HLS days.

Let's see-he studied law, but can't argue aggressively and eschewed moot court competition, he was president of the law review, and apparently did not write a single thing during his tenure, yet argument and persuasive writing are key attributes of a good lawyer. There is a old saying that those who can't do teach. Perhaps that is why Obama seems more suited as a lecturer (not professor) at a law school as opposed to one required to think and act on his feet without aids such as teleprompters.

He has friends? You expect me to believe that he put aside his Alinsky tactics for the years he was in law school? No way!

Couldn't finish the article, I was hooting and slapping my leg, and shaking my head and could not continue with the punishing pace of pathetic rhetoric.

I try to read many MSM (leftist) articles to ensure I am not living in a conservative bubble, but I gotta say it requires a gag reflex stronger than I possess.

We need to make sure we don't get too far ahead of ourselves. He is an empty suit but anyone who thinks that was the real Obama forgets the 1st Bush/Kerry debate (It's hard work). IMHO Obama realized early on that he was woefully unprepared and just decided to cover-up like a boxer until next round. That was why he didn't use his best stuff (the 47%, Bain, etc.) He knew Romney was ready to respond to it and he wasn't to defend it so he didn't want to waste it.

One of the most ridiculous things to read this morn. They, the smart, smarmy professors/elites.....believe they are so much more knowledgeable than anyone else, regarding their poor, misunderstood, perfect idol....gack.

It reminds me of the time when all of banker Drysdale's buddies thought Jethro was a genius, because his chalk scribblings on the sidewalk ended up having 2+2 equaling 5.

WOW! That was so sweet and gooey my monitor is covered with flies...or are they there because of all the BS this loon spewed?

Let's face it...King Bozo Over here's main claim to fame is putting the Bull in the Bully Pulpit....Americans are really seeing this now.

This is such c----! The President has always been one who takes the truth seriously? We are both "professors"? (Try lecturer, with a not particularly outstanding rating among students.) Etc. Do these people really BELIVE this stuff?

I don't think they all really believe the BS they spew, but they have to do it. There is no deviation from the Party line allowed, and they all must do their part to reinforce the fantasy, when asked, and give a politically correct answer. They all live in liberal la la land, and this is what they do, indoctrinate, propagandize, self-reinforce each other in their delusions.

He did not go out of his way to defeat someone in argument; instead he tried, always with a certain decorous courtesy, to try to persuade, to reframe his interlocutor’s view, to signal his understanding while disagreeing.

Huh! That must not be the real Obama on the campaign trail. That Obama slanders and lies with every word. I guess this is what Democrats call decorous courtesy.

Debating is a skill, reading a teleprompter with at least 15 people formulating the words is a shill.