Chris Mathews slams Obama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know what he thinks of the Rep candidates--what he thinks of all Repub. I find it interesting that someone who was so enamored of Obama was speaking so negatively and so frankly. Furthermore, I find it interesting that this has been largely buried.

Ow exactly do you bury the commentary of msnbc's anchor?

Seriously you are living in a paranoid alternate universe.

[Anonymous]

The timing of the airing.

[Anonymous]

Little or no coverage of his tirade by media. They jump all over the story when a Rep jumps on a Rep--not true here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know what he thinks of the Rep candidates--what he thinks of all Repub. I find it interesting that someone who was so enamored of Obama was speaking so negatively and so frankly. Furthermore, I find it interesting that this has been largely buried.

Ow exactly do you bury the commentary of msnbc's anchor?

Seriously you are living in a paranoid alternate universe.

LOL MSNBC has about a dozen viewers? However, that said, what Chris Matthews does or doesn't say is immaterial to me. Zzzzz...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Little or no coverage of his tirade by media. They jump all over the story when a Rep jumps on a Rep--not true here.

Get your head out of Rupert Murdoch's ass and you might be surprised at what you see and hear.

[Anonymous]

I am definitely seeing sunshine. What I am not seeing is any mention of this rant on mainstream liberal media outlets. That doesn't surprise me. I do find it interesting that this event has been largely ignored when so much coverage has been given to his support of O.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please don't relect obama, please also eject the demos out of the senate. Give the helm to the repubs and see how things go, we gave it to the dems and they dropped the ball so now it's our turn.

you had your turn. You launched two wars without a plan to win or pay for them. You cut taxes and ran up our national debt. You started a program to spy on Americans and called it patriotic. You oversaw a banking crisis and a real estate crisis and let unemployment rise nearly 4% in eight years. And as we slowly dig out of these messes now you complain that we haven't fixed it faster. Meanwhile you use what little power you have to fight change every step of the way.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please don't relect obama, please also eject the demos out of the senate. Give the helm to the repubs and see how things go, we gave it to the dems and they dropped the ball so now it's our turn.

you had your turn. You launched two wars without a plan to win or pay for them. You cut taxes and ran up our national debt. You started a program to spy on Americans and called it patriotic. You oversaw a banking crisis and a real estate crisis and let unemployment rise nearly 4% in eight years. And as we slowly dig out of these messes now you complain that we haven't fixed it faster. Meanwhile you use what little power you have to fight change every step of the way.

The last 2 years of the bush administration was controlled by the democrats so it is more like the last 6 years you guys had the helm and failed. Yes the repubs failed prior to that but now it's our turn again. Also note that even george bush was able to get us out of the last recession pretty quickly so his ideas worked where as obama's have not helped. One could argue that it was due to prolonging the inevitable recession but 9-11, and the .COM crash were pretty massive.

I'm sorry, somehow I missed this - could you explain how this happened to me? Did he fire a bunch of his staff and replace them with Clintonites, or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am definitely seeing sunshine. What I am not seeing is any mention of this rant on mainstream liberal media outlets. That doesn't surprise me. I do find it interesting that this event has been largely ignored when so much coverage has been given to his support of O.

Hate to break it to you but a pundits comments are not news events. Unless he said something outrageous like say Rush would do, it isn't news. I know you are dying for anything negative about Obama to be trumpeted from the heavens, but face facts-- you don't watch this guy, so you never thought much of his opinions before. Now you are a fan of convenience.

[Anonymous]

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please don't relect obama, please also eject the demos out of the senate. Give the helm to the repubs and see how things go, we gave it to the dems and they dropped the ball so now it's our turn.

Ball fell under Bush's watch. Repubs did their best to screw up all Obama's attempts to pick it up (which I admit were half-hearted). So I'm not enthusiastic about Obama, but better a half-hearted attempt to fix things than more gung-ho f**king up.

You nailed it, Takoma! Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:please don't relect obama, please also eject the demos out of the senate. Give the helm to the repubs and see how things go, we gave it to the dems and they dropped the ball so now it's our turn.

you had your turn. You launched two wars without a plan to win or pay for them. You cut taxes and ran up our national debt. You started a program to spy on Americans and called it patriotic. You oversaw a banking crisis and a real estate crisis and let unemployment rise nearly 4% in eight years. And as we slowly dig out of these messes now you complain that we haven't fixed it faster. Meanwhile you use what little power you have to fight change every step of the way.

The last 2 years of the bush administration was controlled by the democrats so it is more like the last 6 years you guys had the helm and failed. Yes the repubs failed prior to that but now it's our turn again. Also note that even george bush was able to get us out of the last recession pretty quickly so his ideas worked where as obama's have not helped. One could argue that it was due to prolonging the inevitable recession but 9-11, and the .COM crash were pretty massive.

You have a funny idea about turn taking. Did you learn that at daycare?

[Anonymous]

Hate to break it to you but a pundits comments are not news events. Unless he said something outrageous like say Rush would do, it isn't news. I know you are dying for anything negative about Obama to be trumpeted from the heavens, but face facts-- you don't watch this guy, so you never thought much of his opinions before. Now you are a fan of convenience.

And that is where you are wrong. All of the media is so biased that it is necessary to watch/read multiple outlets to try to discern what the truth isn on any matter. However, to be intellectually honest, if a fox pundit turned on a rupub pres while he was in office the left would be blasting it everywhere.

[Anonymous]

BTW, no one is commenting on what Mathews actually said, just that he is insignificant.

[takoma]

Anonymous wrote:So dems. Still waiting on your reaction to Mathews. This was the man who got a "shiver up his leg" for Obama. He isn't feeling the love anymore. Response?

My response is "Big deal!" He does not like the O's style. He says the policy is fine, but the pres doesn't use his bully pulpit. He's right, I suppose, and Reagan sure proved that style is important, but that's not what I would call a "slam". A slam is "The President should be impeached for ordering the assassination of American citizens." "The President should telephone members of Congress" is minor criticism, and I think it would be hopeless navel-gazing for the networks to make a big deal out of Chris Matthews' tactical advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Hate to break it to you but a pundits comments are not news events. Unless he said something outrageous like say Rush would do, it isn't news. I know you are dying for anything negative about Obama to be trumpeted from the heavens, but face facts-- you don't watch this guy, so you never thought much of his opinions before. Now you are a fan of convenience.

And that is where you are wrong. All of the media is so biased that it is necessary to watch/read multiple outlets to try to discern what the truth isn on any matter. However, to be intellectually honest, if a fox pundit turned on a rupub pres while he was in office the left would be blasting it everywhere.

So then you have to ask yourself why Fox and Rush aren't doing their jobs. After all that is what your analogy requires.