Posted on 08/02/2019 2:36:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
On Thursday night, it appeared as though MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was tired from the long hours covering the 2020 Democratic presidential debates as he observed #TBT with riffs about how Barack Obama and his rise are “still thrilling to me” even though “[t]he only thing I've ever had against Obama is when he recedes from us” because “I want him back.”
During his A-block panel recapping the debates, Matthews declared that he wanted to talk about “the historic nature of Barack Obama running in '08 and ‘12 was so dramatic, I can understand why people who — of color who don't normally vote, think it's all B.S. or whatever showed up because it was so thrilling.”
Matthews added that not only was he “thrilled” then, but the rise of Obama was “still thrilling to me,” including his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. Matthews said all that to fret that “you're not always going to have a thrilling, charismatic African-American person of either gender or any background to come on,” so who could capture that in 2020.
Later, Matthews asked presidential historian Jon Meacham about Michael Moore’s MSNBC appearance on Wednesday in which Moore hoped Michelle Obama would join the field because, in Matthews’s words, “she is incredibly positive as a personality, and she's tough on issues.”
Meacham replied as one would expect from a liberal historian and fan of Acela Corridor lefties (click “expand”):
Well, I have no idea. I do know that you and I are on our best day have not exactly gotten 15,000 people at a single book event, maybe close here and there. She is a remarkable cultural and political figure. When she came to Nashville here on her book tour, people were coming down the steps of the Ryman Auditorium after shaking her hand, weeping. It's like they were at Lourdes and I think that's part of what Moore might be getting to is people are looking for a miracle in this, because they see Trump as such a disease. They see him as something that has to be overcome[.]
Going to former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, Matthews hit the accelerator on the crazy train by wondering if “Barack Obama, who has laid back during this primary fight, will he come on like Richard the Lionheart coming back from The Crusades” by “next November, maybe starting in September and really be the lion of the Democratic Party for whoever the nominee is?”
Things got weirder when Matthews had this exchange about missing Obama with The Washington Post’s Robert Costa (click “expand”):
MATTHEWS: The only thing I've ever had against Obama is when he recedes from us, when he goes away. I want him back. Anyway, that's my only problem. Go ahead.
COSTA: The Democratic Party turning its lonely eyes to the Obama family is revealing. It's a testament about how the —
MATTHEWS: Are you Paul Simon?
COSTA: — it’s a testament —
MATTHEWS: Turn your lonely eyes to them. Go ahead.
COSTA: — it's a testament to how this party feels about the presidential field.
Earlier, Matthews told SiriusXM’s Zerlina Maxwell that Biden “was ten times better” on Thursday “than the last time” and “last night, he was twice as good as he was the first time” even though he predicted that Biden won’t even be one of the final two candidates (for that, he picked Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris).
However, he reiterated a point he’s made in the past (like here) that the party could go so far left that, while not a carbon copy, a similar setup to 1972 (click “expand”):
My question is are we in danger? We, I'm on the center left. Are we in danger of doing again what the Democrats did in '72 when they were so thrilled to defeat Richard Daley of Chicago, so thrilled to defeat Tip O’Neill in Boston that they ran a candidate who was not going to beat Dick Nixon. George McGovern was not going to beat Dick Nixon. Everybody knew it. We knew it from the beginning to the end, but they wanted a more important — they wanted to beat the moderates. Did the people on the risk being so determined to get the moderates they commit suicide in the general? Your thoughts. It's an open question because I don't know the answer.
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Meanwhile, in America, real people are thinking “thank God the Obama years are over”.
Dough boy is such a punk.
Ha ha ha ha ha... Cry in your pillow, Chris.
Any retard can have a meteoric rise when the entire media treats you like a messiah, while hanging on every single word as if it was cast down from heaven through the oracle of delphi, and ignoring all misteps, gaffs and burying all negative events past and present, and slobbering with their tongues so far up your ass that they are french kissing. O’bunghole would have arkancided himself if he had to endure one day of the non stop hyperbolic assault trump experiences daily no matter what he does
Can we have Chris Matthews certified and committed now?
Just saw where Schiff was praising sue Gordon and she should be DNI
Trump,dont do it.
Reeducation is becoming more and more necessary.
obama is the backend of the DNC donkey.
Homosexual, fine. But a traitor. Again and again he burns people. Always called G. Gordon Liddy his “close friend.” Did it again and again, even on his show. Using this, he got Liddy on his show and promptly ambushed him with questions about the minute differences between a long-form birth certificate and a COLB. I saw it back in the day. Matthews is not an honorable person. He is a liar and a creep. But again, I do not mind that Chris Matthews is gay and that Obama sends a “thrill up my leg,” though that’s some creepy-ass stuff. Can you imagine saying that about Obama? Or Nixon? Or Carter? LOL. To each his own but screw the jerks.
Chrissy Matthews admits he loves gay black men.
The tinkle down his leg has morphed into a river of diarrhea.
Come on, Chrissy. He's "African", not "African-American".
Matthews has homosexual feelings towards Obama and wants to commit homosexual acts with him.
Why doesn’t he just admit it already.
He appears demented and dissipated to me. I find him repulsive.
‘Later, Matthews asked presidential historian Jon Meacham about Michael Moore’s MSNBC appearance on Wednesday in which Moore hoped Michelle Obama would join the field because, in Matthews’s words, “she is incredibly positive as a personality, and she’s tough on issues.”’
Exactly what issues is she tough on?
NYTimes all over the place on Gordon...Gordon ponders retirement if bypassed ? Will be ousted by Pres. Trump ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-sue-gordon.html
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