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Matthews: We're Learning Obama Can't Change Things With Just The Power Of His Personality
newsbusters.org ^ | Feb. 21, 2010 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/21/2010 9:48:49 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Chris Matthews is beginning to realize that Barack Obama can't change things with just the power of his personality.

Such was amazingly discussed during the syndicated talk show bearing his name this weekend as two White House correspondents made some astonishing claims about the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

"He feels that he has some ability to bring people together," noted NBC's Savannah Guthrie.

Helene Cooper of the New York Times agreed, "There's this fundamental belief that he can change, that the power of his personality and the power of his oratory can change people... But you can't just do it with the power of your personality."

A seemingly stunned Matthews replied, "Well, we're learning that."

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Matthews: We're Learning Obama Can't Change Things With Just The Power Of His Personality

So Chris, the old personallity cult doesn't work?

21 posted on 02/21/2010 10:13:31 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Chrissie, you R-word!


22 posted on 02/21/2010 10:14:18 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"He feels that he has some ability to bring people together,"

What a joke. The only people he appeals to are welfare recipients, academics, Hollywood and the mindless drones that make common cause with the muzzies and they're all drinking out of the miscreant Marxist kool-aid jar.

23 posted on 02/21/2010 10:17:40 PM PST by Track9 (The measure of a good education is knowing what truly sets you free)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Personality”?? He has major personality defects and I would dread being forced to meet him for even a single minute. He is a narcissistic bloviator, educated far beyond his intelligence, a legend in his own mind, a petulant child with a severe “me” attitude who always got whatever he wanted handed to him without ever engaging in real work. He is a disgusting POS. I still can’t believe that over half of the voters were suckered in by this charlatan.


24 posted on 02/21/2010 10:21:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Free ThinkerNY

For me, Chrissy, that tingly feeling up my leg was the result of the nerve damage caused by Obozo’s domestic and foreign policy positions that scare the hell out of me.


25 posted on 02/21/2010 10:28:10 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: SoldierDad

sounds like the pee that ran down his leg is beginning to dry


26 posted on 02/21/2010 10:29:05 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

LOL - hope it left a really nasty rash.


27 posted on 02/21/2010 10:30:47 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: kcvl

It gags me to look at Guthrie - she needs to buy an upper lip. And a brain.


28 posted on 02/21/2010 10:30:54 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: SoldierDad

;)


29 posted on 02/21/2010 10:32:19 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Chris Matthews is beginning to realize that Barack Obama can't change things with just the power of his personality.

This would be laughable if the philosophy was only in practice over domestic policy. But to be so idealistic in how we deal with our adversaries, what were these people thinking? Iran, Venezuela and China have only taken advantage of Obama's naivety in the last year and it has put us in a weaker position.
30 posted on 02/21/2010 10:33:35 PM PST by ATX 1985
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"There's this fundamental belief that he can change, that the power of his personality and the power of his oratory can change people... But you can't just do it with the power of your personality."

Obama changed people. Look at Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virgina. He just didn't change them the way he, his party and his media wanted.

31 posted on 02/21/2010 10:34:32 PM PST by Brugmansian
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To: Free ThinkerNY; All
Chris Matthews asks:

Last question here: How can you be a man of, a leader of the progressive movement, really do things that enlarge the role of government in the healthcare field for example, and in financial regulation, and still make the country in this Kumbaya, we all get along mood?

Ha ha, read that again! Chrissy admits Obambi is a progressive and the leader of the progressive movement in America!

And what was it Chrissy was so beside-himself about when "talk radio" calls Obambi a progressive?

32 posted on 02/21/2010 10:37:51 PM PST by fightinJAG (Behold the Republican Super-Minority !! (h/t ArchAngel1983))
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Matthews: Why can't Obama change things since he's the "leader of the progressive movement"?

English transaltion: Why don't Americans want a Communist nation?

33 posted on 02/21/2010 10:40:18 PM PST by fightinJAG (Behold the Republican Super-Minority !! (h/t ArchAngel1983))
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The first words out of the MSNBC election night anchor Chrissies mouth after Zero was declared the winner were (I can’t quote) My job is to make sure that he is successful. The co anchor I forget was taken aback and questioned Matthews and he repeated the same with all his tinglies.


34 posted on 02/21/2010 10:42:19 PM PST by Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Basin; when you're there , thats the best)
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To: Track9

They sound like school kids, only a little less jaded.


35 posted on 02/21/2010 10:50:25 PM PST by des (Without a big tent we lose.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is wrong. We have added 10 trillion to the deficit over ten years. That is a stunning “victory” It is impossible notto make stunning and deeply radical changes with that alone.


36 posted on 02/21/2010 10:52:34 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: kcvl

Savannah, Yes! Helene...Fright night! Nice pockety complexion!


37 posted on 02/21/2010 10:52:46 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Pissy! Pissy Mathews! The stem cell that morphed into a newscaster! The dim bulb finally illuminates!
38 posted on 02/21/2010 10:57:09 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

BUT THE EXTRAORDINARY THING is that after each failure to persuade, Obama goes on to waste his time appearing exactly the same way at the next lost cause, as if he can still do magic and with no apparent recognition or memory of his previous failures.


39 posted on 02/21/2010 11:41:09 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What! No more tingle?

The Emperor has no clothes.


40 posted on 02/21/2010 11:49:38 PM PST by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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