Matthews questions whether Obama is "too darn intellectual, too much the egghead"
November 20, 2009 5:27 pm ET
From the November 20 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:
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Yep, Common Sense. Solves all problems. That, and calling Senator Bernie Sanders a "Socialist" who believes in "Socialism" every couple of minutes when you realize you are losing the argument by having no actual ideas of your own.
I suppose you assume that president Obama was supposed to make everything all better in less than a year after 30 years of Reaganomics??
Even FDR took almost 4 years to get things going... not that I like the idea of Obama waiting that long... regardless, your post stinks of wanting to ignore all the economic damage done by Bush policies and that those of us who voted for him somehow figured he would make things all better by now?
Only the right-wing mouth pieces brought that up! At no time did any one not corporate owned bring such trash up!
You want to know why things have not gotten better... it is because president Obama is a centrist and unfortunately has surrounded himself with a few too many Republican leaning advisors!
Obama is not a liberal and is not surrounded by any for if he was, we would be out of the economic turmoil by now created by Reaganomics!
Obama has about 6 more months to create some jobs before the runup to the midterms where Democrats are going to lose ground if things don't improve. I don't care who's fault it is the party in power will get the blame from the voters.
After that...well pretty soon it's time for Obama to start running for reelection so that second two years is going to be pretty uneventful.
Maybe Obama's 2012 campaign slogan should be:
Yes We Can....but we won't.
FIXED
Now Obama is trying to fix everything and nobody wants to play with him, not even his own party. You think maybe Democrats aren't on board with your version of what "fixing" things is? They can cover themselves by blaming Republicans while really having no intention of playing ball in the first place. As Rachel Maddow said on her show last night (after documenting all the demands the moderate Dems have made to the health care bill) "When will the moderates take "yes" for an answer?
Wierd.
It's called unwise bipartisanship after we were attacked on 9/11. They trusted him to do the right things, and they were stupid to do so. Those of us who had been in Texas while he was Governor kept trying to tell everyone to not trust Bush and Rove - too few listened.
Maybe they aren't very wise no matter what.
I acknowledge that Republicans screwed up bigtime which is why they have lost so badly the last two ekections.
Also Obama has called the war in Afghanistan a war of necessity. If we send more troops we are looking at another 5 years minimum over there and $$$$$$$$ dollars that we don't have. I hope he reconsiders.
The only bipartisan support he got was the war authorization. That's it.
I know pretty bad.
Great. They're bringing back stupid as a virtue.
He went on a rant discussing how Jackie Kennedy stood beside LBJ to show there was no coup going on in America. He called it "class" or something like that, then continued to spout that this President (Obama ) does not have "it."
Of oourse he has Ron Brownstein as his guest, a lightweight at best.
I'm afraid that Matthews has fallen over the edge. At least today he didn't concentrate on abortion.
Obama doesn't have a chance. The right goes after him with everything they've got, and the left is doing the same.
What scares me is that the Democrats, if they do not support Barack Obama, will hand power back to the Republicans who have become more right wing and dangerous than before. And I fear that this time, they will make sure they keep power for a very long time.
And tell Chris that then he won't have to worry about intellectuals; we'll be governed by knee-jerk, gut, cowboy, religious mentality.
Full disclosure: I voted for Hillary in the primaries and Obama for the President because McCain is lower than Lieberman on my respect scale.
Right, Tweety -- 'cause the last thing America needs is a president who can speak in complete sentences WITHOUT saying things like: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, fool me -- I won't get fooled again!"
You never disappoint.