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Chris Matthews sours on Obama [likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch]
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Posted on 05/15/2013 5:16:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Chris Matthews sours on Obama

By DYLAN BYERS | 5/15/13 7:05 PM EDT

President Obama "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch," Chris Matthews said tonight.

Yes, you read that right: The MSNBC host who in 2008 felt a "thrill going up my leg" after hearing Obama speak has grown disenchanted. Tonight's episode of Hardball saw Matthews delivering a rare, unforgiving grilling of the president as severe as anything that might appear on Fox News.

"What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn't like dealing with other politicians -- that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn't particularly like the press.... He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft," Matthews said.

"So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere," Matthews continued. "But what part does he like? He doesn't like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn't like selling to the press. He doesn't like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn't seem to like being an executive.”

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To: Sub-Driver

I think that was like having an out of body experience..... for Chrissy, or maybe it was for me.


21 posted on 05/15/2013 5:30:07 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: dfwgator

You couldn’t be more right.


22 posted on 05/15/2013 5:31:54 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: uncitizen

Obama is our first Spokes President.

Ronald Reagan was an actor who became a president.

Obama has become an actor playing the part of President. Of course, the part he is playing is the sequel to the “The Manchurian Candidate”, a movie titled, “The Manchurian President”

Who’s playing Eleanor in the sequel, an actress named Michelle or an actress named Valerie?


23 posted on 05/15/2013 5:31:55 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Sub-Driver
He was not saying that tonight on his TV program.

He was saying things like that many in the right wing were out to get Obama/bring him down because he's a black man. He also said Obama was a man full of right motives (something like that) not like Nixon who was full of lies/crap. He was touting Obama with Dan Rather. Maybe Chris goes in and out.

24 posted on 05/15/2013 5:34:15 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Sub-Driver

Obviously he doesn’t like issueing orders to Save Our Own People under attack leading to their death.

To Barrack being the President is all about “Road Trips” and Partying on Honky’s dime.


25 posted on 05/15/2013 5:35:03 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: bigheadfred

in fact i hope they carve it on her headstone.”

Before 2016.


26 posted on 05/15/2013 5:36:50 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I'm Looking For New Love Baby...
27 posted on 05/15/2013 5:37:00 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Chrissy was expecting Stalin and is soooooo disappointed he didn’t get him. Stalin would’ve eradicated all his enemies by now.


28 posted on 05/15/2013 5:38:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: svcw

No just trying to cover his ass. With ratings like his he only has cab driving left as a career choice.....


29 posted on 05/15/2013 5:38:33 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess those tinkles down his leg have turned into to brown squishy lumps.


30 posted on 05/15/2013 5:39:08 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Norm Lenhart
Incrementalism works. They know it. And effective at wielding it.

Masters...I hope to say someday I watched it failed while marveling at it the entire time.

31 posted on 05/15/2013 5:39:19 PM PDT by IrishPennant (All warfare is based on deception.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is it possible that they want Zero out early so Hillary only has to run against Biden?


32 posted on 05/15/2013 5:40:25 PM PDT by majormaturity
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To: bigheadfred

i hope her what difference does it make comment haunts her through the next auction for POTUS in fact i hope they carve it on her headstone


I hope she has, for the rest of her putrid life, an image in the back of her mind of a very mean and serious looking SEAL staring down at her. I hope she has ongoing nightmares of that.

Enough said.


33 posted on 05/15/2013 5:40:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The criticism they are directing towards Obama now could just be the mainstream media's way of laying the groundwork to later praise him as “the Comeback Kid” when these things die down a few months from now.
34 posted on 05/15/2013 5:41:41 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: IrishPennant

I watched them use it to shut down logging in the Northeast via environmentalism/Sierra Club and landuse in the west via BLM/Sierra Club.

It works because the genpub refuses to accept the truth in front of them, Same here.


35 posted on 05/15/2013 5:42:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Average Al

He has ratings?


36 posted on 05/15/2013 5:42:16 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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To: Sub-Driver

He likes Reggie Love.


37 posted on 05/15/2013 5:42:32 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver
Don't buy it. Chris has almost sobered up many times before on his return to his own vomit.

He is in full-hypnotic mode...just give him some time and he will be peeing down his leg again.

I can't explain why (nor do I know)...but the Obama Kool-Aid is powerful stuff.

38 posted on 05/15/2013 5:42:57 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama's Chechens are coming home...to roost.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I take it Chrissy wants more $$$$


39 posted on 05/15/2013 5:43:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bama gonna pee on his little leg.


40 posted on 05/15/2013 5:44:03 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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