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Chris Matthews: Is Obama just too darned intellectual ?
Hot Air ^ | November 20, 2009 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 11/21/2009 6:56:49 AM PST by RobinMasters

Believe it or not, he’s not just spinning here. He’s sincerely criticizing Obama for some of his dopier decisions lately; he just can’t help letting his admiration for The One get in the way and filter it as a matter of excess virtue. None of the problems he cites are necessarily — or actually — the product of too much deep thinkin’. Obama’s bow to Akihito was, in fact, stupid since it had the opposite intended effect. His deliberations on Afghanistan are fine, but should have been conducted six months ago given McChrystal’s warning that the war would be lost within a year. The KSM decision is dumb not only because it’ll give archterrorists a media platform (as Matthews himself acknowledges) but because it’s completely incoherent from the standpoint of due process. Obama’s problem isn’t that he’s too thoughtful, in other words; thoughtfulness is all to the good. It’s that he’s indecisive, slow to move on public priorities that don’t coincide with his agenda, and too eager to be liked abroad. A self-critical intellectual could correct all of that. How ’bout it, champ?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bloggersandpersonal; chrismatthews; fawningmedia; intellectual; matthews; msnbc; obama; snort
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1 posted on 11/21/2009 6:56:49 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 11/21/2009 6:57:08 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

Or is Chris Matthews just too darned STUPID?


3 posted on 11/21/2009 6:58:22 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: gwilhelm56
TDSFW!!!
4 posted on 11/21/2009 6:59:23 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
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To: RobinMasters
Obama is a simple Chicago "jerk" who can't make a decision. The jerk even said he picked Biden because he didn't know anything about foreign affairs.

I'll bow to that!!!

5 posted on 11/21/2009 6:59:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RobinMasters

Matthews is an idiot.

Obama is a failure as a president. It’s a long way from being a community organizer.


6 posted on 11/21/2009 7:00:17 AM PST by boycott
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To: RobinMasters
Chris Matthews: Is Obama just too darned intellectual ?

Chris Matthews: Is Obama just too darned ineffectual ?

There, I fixed it.

7 posted on 11/21/2009 7:00:47 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither)
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To: RobinMasters

“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”

- Ronald Reagan.


8 posted on 11/21/2009 7:01:14 AM PST by P.O.E. (- End road work.)
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To: Sacajaweau
The toughest decision he has had to make up until now is,
paper or plastic.

And that one held up the line.

9 posted on 11/21/2009 7:01:57 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
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To: RobinMasters; All

FAIL!

Intellectuals would release their transcripts from college!


10 posted on 11/21/2009 7:02:49 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: RobinMasters

First, there is denial.

Second, there is pain.

Third, there is anger.

Fourth, there is depression.

Fifth, there is reconstruction.

Sixth, there is acceptance.


11 posted on 11/21/2009 7:04:30 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: gwilhelm56

Both!

The President is book-centric ... Das Kapital. As well as self-centric.

Matthews is blind as a bat and his radars is off. Oh and self-centric.

Self-centric - that’s why they get along so well and why they can be at odds with each other. Any idea which ‘cat’ will win this fight?


12 posted on 11/21/2009 7:04:59 AM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: RobinMasters

I don’t know what I will do when Mathews comes out and calls zero a...ah...zero!


13 posted on 11/21/2009 7:05:50 AM PST by immadashell
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To: RobinMasters

Visions of Jimmah Carter. Chrissy was just saying the same thing about Jimmah a few weeks ago.

Chrissy probably thinks Al Gore, and his million degree temps 2 miles below our feet, is too intellectual as well.


14 posted on 11/21/2009 7:06:10 AM PST by NotSoModerate
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To: RobinMasters

A faux “intellectual” is no substitute for documentation.

WHERE IS HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE?


15 posted on 11/21/2009 7:06:28 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: RobinMasters

Hey, maybe that would make a good campaign slogan AGAINST him in 2012:

“obama - just too darned SMART to be a decent president!”


16 posted on 11/21/2009 7:06:28 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: RobinMasters

I think that was Bush’s..., yeah that was George Bush’s problem... too intellectual for those at MSNBC... that’s obviously why they didn’t understand him.


17 posted on 11/21/2009 7:06:51 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (The only thing standing between us and complete victory over the evildoers is POLITICS!)
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18 posted on 11/21/2009 7:07:34 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: RobinMasters

19 posted on 11/21/2009 7:08:18 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: RobinMasters

“Indecisive”? That’s mild. He hasn’t made one proposal of legislation since taking office. He has delegated that to Congress which can’t get anything right. This is the same guy who never took a stance on any key legislation when in the Illinois Senate (He voted “Present” most of the time). How would you like to have this guy as your Commander in Combat? I think that equals “Dead”.


20 posted on 11/21/2009 7:11:00 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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