Posted on 10/11/2010 7:13:49 PM PDT by sickoflibs
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with President Obama and what he`s done. I say the following because no one else including the president has. It is the hard structure of reality that in the current cacophony so often is overlooked.
This president came into the office facing the worst economic outlook since the 1930s. He took action — bold action — the action prescribed by the best economic minds following the best thinking there is in economics since the 1930s.First, even before taking office, he backed up his predecessor in preventing a major collapse in the financial industry. Everyone involved said it had to be done to avoid catastrophe, the destruction of our country`s financial spine.
Second, he took the action, again, boldly, to powerful offset the white knuckle drop in consumer spending and business investment. If he hadn`t, no one, including his worst critics, have any idea what would have befallen us. We can argue about the name that was given, the stimulus bill, but the creation of this great boost in economic demand for goods and services was critical to break what was widely seen as an economic free- fall.It`s easy to stand on the sideline, voting against everything, rooting against everything, and deride that bold action for the simple reason that nobody would ever remember if you had a seriously, reliably alternative.
Third, the president achieved what so many presidents from FDR from on have said, needed to be done, and this humiliating dependency of tens of millions of Americans in the emergency room as their only way on get medical attention. He said our society had a responsibility to look out for its members health that individuals should be required to do what they can personally to provide for their care.
For the first time in our country`s history, we are no longer the holdout in the modern world against broadly available, accessible health insurance. It is no time for political high-fiving for bragging, we know that. The economy`s down and people are hurting. But I wonder who`s good it did does for president and those who wish him well to overlook the simple, bold, impressive, gutsy facts of what he`s got done only now approaching two years in office. Someone needs to say it.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
Full Transcript MSNBC : Hardball 10/7/2010
There is no doubt that Chris Matthews has a major Man Crush on Obama.
Pathetic.
No matter how bad things get, the libidiots will always reply “yes, but think how bad it would be if he wasn’t president!”
Liberals truly are the dumbest people on the planet.
Someone needs to pay it . . .!
Would you tell us, matthews, how much it took to line your pockets for that doozie!?
GE, which owns NBC, got more than $20 million in stimulus money.
“So would Obama turn around 2010 with this advise?
“...best economic minds following the best thinking ...”
That big talk is exactly what got us here.
Epic Fail. He made it tons worse.
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