Chris Mathews on Barack & Michelle Obama: "They don't look happy-like they enjoy the presidency."

[jenmito]

That's a paraphrase, but that was the gist of it. He also said that Obama basically thanked everyone for attending the inauguration and then said, "Now go home and watch how smart I am." Another paraphrase, but again, that was the gist of it.

He went on to say Obama never asks the people to do anything, like "Write to your congressman..." Has Chris been so busy selling his book that he missed Obama telling his audiences to "Call your congressman, or tweet, or email, or even write a letter to tell them to pass this bill"? Chris was talking a mile a minute, just spitting out these false claims about Obama (and the First Lady). I wish he'd stop talking for one minute and start listening.

[dkf]

1. If they looked happy they would be called out of touch.

Obama is doing us a favor by taking on all this. What person in their right mind enjoys a floundering economy and one near financial disaster after another?

I feel bad for him.

[jenmito]

4. Good point.

But Chris said the Obamas don't look like they even like being President and First Lady. He's implying, IMO, that the Obamas wouldn't mind losing the '12 election. :eyes:

[monmouth]

29. The man arrived home this morning I believe around 4:15 a.m. I

wouldn't be looking to chipper either.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

33. Not unlike some people around here, unfortunately.

n/t

[Beacool]

9. HE is doing us a favor???????????

Then maybe he should have stayed in the senate and learned to do that job first before he did us any other favors.

:eyes:

[dkf]

12. No one could have gotten this perfectly right.

It's the after effects of a financial bubble, housing, which was the foundation of investing for the average American.

Hillary would be stuck too. But maybe a little less worse if she put jobs before health insurance reform.

[Beacool]

15. I know, but I would never have written that she was doing us a favor.

It is the job they campaigned very hard to obtain. None of these politicians are doing us any favors. They only favor themselves. Maybe it's a cynical attitude, but IMO Obama is no different than the rest. he's main concern is to remain in power, whatever it takes. He's no LBJ in that respect. Ditto for the rest of them.

:-(

[dkf]

18. Well I think he is doing me a favor taking on only headaches.

Sounds awful to me.

[Schema Thing]

28. WHAT TEH HOLY FUCK ARE YOU ON ABOUT???

JESUS CHRIST!!!!

You are responding to Chris Mathews comment on Barak Obama. Get some fucking perspective.

[Beacool]

63. Get some f*cking reading comprehension.

I was responding to DKF, not commenting on Matthews assertions.

Oh, and BTW, stop screaming. No one is deaf.

:eyes:

[treestar]

77. They are serving us

They could all make a lot more money doing other things.

There may be a few who like power too much, but one has more power as a CEO.

[Beacool]

82. They are serving themselves.

Not just Obama, the rest of the bunch too.

[CakeGrrl]

22. 's OK. The POTUS didn't REALLY say that.

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

[emulatorloo]

25. Why the hell are you taking a Chris Matthews Rant as the gospel truth?

Seems odd to me

[treestar]

75. Maybe Hillary should have stayed there, too

She had no greater experience than Obama did.

[Beacool]

81. Obama had been a state senator.

Hillary had been a US senator for more than 6 years when she decided to run for the presidency. Obama? Not even two full years.

Please........

:eyes:

[treestar]

86. So 4 years in the Senate is the magical number?

Who knew?

And yet Hillary held no elective office lower, ever. Obama was a state senator all of those years and that means he had more years in politics.

[emilyg]

23. Joke, right? He wanted

the Presidency - nobody twisted his arm.

[emulatorloo]

27. THINK. This is a Tweety Rant. Nothing more, nothing less

[dkf]

37. Well sometimes what you think you want isn't all that great.

I am thankful he took the job. Yeah he gets perks but is it really worth it?

[treestar]

78. Crummy attitude to have towards people who take on things

we never would.

People want to be doctors, too, and that can be a tough job.

[CJCRANE]

2. Tweety is clueless. I saw several

of Obama's "pass this jobs bill" speeches where he said exactly.

[jenmito]

8. Yup...

anyone who saw ANY of his speeches saw him saying that.

[Maccagirl]

3. They live in the real world-not some bubble.

I'm sure they both have WTF days-just like all of us. Maybe Obama doesn't have the internal resilience of a Bill Clinton, but I don't know anyone who does.

[Hutzpa]

17. "Maybe Obama doesn't have the internal resilience of a Bill Clinton"

wth is that?

[CakeGrrl]

24. Doesn't have "the internal resistance"?

Where does THAT assessment come from?

He's fielded more death threats than any other President.

He's taken more obstructionist shit from Congress than any other.

He has an worthless Corporate MSM to have to work AROUND.

Did you know he just came from a very successful 9-day Asia trip? Probably not, if you were watching U.S. "media".

I'd say that continuing to do his job in the wake of a shitstorm of stupidity, ignorance and anger bespeaks a resilience that very few others possess.

[freshwest]

54. +1,000

[Beacool]

5. What's up Chrissy, your leg finally stopped tingling?

:D

[frazzled]

6. .......

"Did he really say that? Ha! He really said that!"

[jenmito]

14. .....

I was going to post pics of the happy couple, too. Thanks for posting this. They sure do look miserable, don't they?

[CakeGrrl]

26. Great pic.

The more ridiculous and baseless the claims, the more out-of-touch those who make them seem to be.

Matthews seems to forget there's a world out there outside his Beltway inner bubble.

[Brigid]

34. I love this pic!

Michelle looks great in purple. I'm jealous. :)

[boxman15]

39. Look at them hiding their depression!

Such great actors. We all know Obama is a depressed conservative acting like a confident liberal. :sarcasm:

[Tippy]

7. Tweety talks out of both sides of his mouth

[secondwind]

10. what a bunch of crap! I have a 12 yr old granddaughter who has now decided to be a teacher

because Obama said this in a recent speech..... He said we are sending "our brightest" to Wall Street, but we need good teachers as well.......

[jenmito]

16. That's great...

and I bet there are quite a few stories similar to yours. I wish Matthews was aware of this.

[AlinPA]

11. Matthews is a loudmouthed slobbering fool.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. When Obama ran, I said I wouldn't envy the Chimp's successor

The great Bush mess is deep and still stinks to high heaven. I don't see how any President could not be thinking occasionally about opening his veins, given the mess that Bush left, the inability to get anything past the Senate filibuster or the uncompromising House, and to work with an opposition party whose main goal is to bring down the economy in order to get him out of office. I criticize Obama for many things he does, but I have to admire his perseverence and patience in the face of a seemingly impossible situation. Of course he isn't enjoying the presidency. Who in their right mind would? Yet he goes on.

[otohara]

19. Mind Reader Matthews

thank you for your "out of butt" thoughts.

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. Tweety, it's a stressful job

He actually works at it, unlike a certain moron who occupied the office from Jan 2001 to Jan 2009.

[CakeGrrl]

21. Matthews' ODS is acting up, looks like.

This President drives the Beltway punditocracy crazy.

If they actually reported NEWS, he wouldn't have to circumvent them.

He circumvents them, they act like idiots.

The U.S. media is a joke.

[whathehell]

36. What is ODS?

[CakeGrrl]

40. Obama Derangement Syndrome

Whereby something about this POTUS inspires people to do or say some outlandish bs.

[whathehell]

41. Okay...Yeah, I've heard that one..Thanks. n/t

[Beacool]

79. You must be joking!!!!!!

Matthews was the biggest Obama fan on MSNBC in 2008. As a matter of fact, the whole place was Obama's unofficial network.

:eyes:

[bahrbearian]

30. " we are all neo-cons now" right tweety?

[Brigid]

31. All I know is . . .

They seem happy enough to me. :shrug:

Give it a rest, Tweety. Reverend Al and Keith Olbermann put on much better --and more accurate -- rants than you do.

All told, I think Obama has done quite a respectable job, considering what he has had to deal with. Not that I've never disagreed with him or been disappointed, but there you have it.

[pennylane100]

32. Does anyone remember the early days of Salon.

For some reason Chris Mathews was referred to as Pigs Vomit.

[yardwork]

35. What do you expect. It's Tweety.

[Tom Ripley]

38. The Rona Barrett of Political Journalism (my apologies to Rona)

[Pirate Smile]

42. Chris gets a certain thought in his head and, even though it is often wrong and there are facts to

dispute it, he just beats it day after day. It makes you want to pull your hair out.

He has been on this idiotic kick for weeks now. He can be so friggin dense sometimes.

He is on Twitter now - tell him (& show him why) he's wrong. @Hardball_chris

[jenmito]

44. I know...

and I tweeted this to him about 3 weeks ago and then a few days later, Romney's pic was there instead of Palin's:

@jenmito jenmito
@hardball_chris Could you PLEASE drop Palin from your intro graphics (with Boehner & Pelosi) and replace her with the WINNING VP (Biden)?
28 Oct via web

So I WILL tweet him on this to see if he'll change his tune.

[Pirate Smile]

60. I have before but haven't seen a response.

[jenmito]

62. I haven't gotten a response from Matthews, either,

but I'm just assuming my tweet caused them to change Palin to Romney. I could be wrong, but it would've been quite a coincidence.

[Pirate Smile]

67. I wouldn't doubt that your tweet to them caused them to think about it & switch. I bet they just

had not thought about it yet. Twitter is very good for getting them to recognize a new issue or question or POV.

[jenmito]

74. I like to think that's the case...

but that's probably just my ego talking. :)

[noel711]

43. So, how happy would you be with your job if...

you have multiple death threats daily?

If your 'loyal opposition's' only goal is to destroy your credibility
and take you down at the expense of the country?

If the average citizen mocks you, derides you, and claims you are a foreign born plant sent to
overthrow the country?

If your wife is bashed daily ... as an angry, simian socialist?

And your hard-earned education is disregarded by those who can't spell correctly?

Really, Chris Matthews, you should know better than to compare
Obama to Kennedy, who was one of the priviliged few?
And to Clinton, who was riding high on the good old boy network?

You can't compare them, and then strike out on Obama,
who has little in common with these two white men,
besides intelligence and education.
Barack Obama was NOT to the manor born.
And most think he should only be allowed to enter the back door thereof.

Oh, I wonder why he's not thrilled with the office!

[politicasista]

45. Yawn

:boring:

[Tarheel_Dem]

46. My question is, why does anyone here still watch Tweety? We know he's schizo.

He's still doing penance for his "tingle up the leg" comment. And he's gone so overboard to try & distance himself from that remark that he can't be seen as objective anymore. Tweety has a chronic case of foot-in-mouth.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. Nah...he's just like at least 50% of the people here. Had HUGE hope

in 2008, starving for someone to lead us forward. Chris Rock says he has been worried about reelection and he can't wait for the second term

BUT....no money...and no agreements in congress.

I personally think Obama is brilliant...He's figured it out...brick wall. He can't do anything he wants.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. Chris Mathews is looking for a hero....someone to show us the

way....with big ideas. He doesn't schmooze.

I agree with Chris 100%

BUT....Bush left us with no freakin money.

BUT...he still could schmooze with congress. Obama, DUH

[jenmito]

49. While "looking for a hero," or another JFK, he's lying about Obama and what he's doing.

He first claimed that Obama, unlike "Jack" Kennedy, always says "I" instead of "we." That's plain false. A funny thing is that when Chris was on one of MSNBC's shows pimping his book, he was asked why he thinks Obama's numbers are improving, he said it's because Obama started using "we" instead of "I" (just in the last few weeks, which is ridiculous).

He also claimed that Obama never asks us to DO anything, like calling our congressmen, which I'm sure you know is totally false, too, as he has repeatedly told people to call, write, tweet, use a carrier pigeon, to let let their congressmen know to pass the jobs bill (and then to pass parts of the bill).

And he continued with his false claims, saying that Obama told his supporters, right after his inauguration, to "go home and watch how smart I am."

I understand that he's trying to sell his book and that he thinks JFK was a hero, but he can't just make stuff up to try to diminish Obama at the same time.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

64. which comes first...the chicken or the egg? You can tell

he (Matthews)... wants so much for Obama and the country to work. He's a brilliant historian..with an immense amount
of gravitas. I was actually thinking...Obama needs to hire him as a chief adviser.

Most everyone, including me, and Obama's strongest supporters, believe that there is something missing. Not enough
to not want him elected, HELL NO, but something deep and intrinsic.

[jenmito]

72. Obama has been doing those things BEFORE Matthews' book came out.

Chris IS brilliant in his way regarding politics, but he also, at times (like this) gets a thought in his head and won't let go-like a dog with a bone, regardless of the facts.

He obviously has not been watching Obama's town halls that he's been giving for WAY before Chris's book came out, where he DOES ask people to act. Maybe he's too busy preparing for his show every day, but he surely must've been unaware that Obama has been doing the very things Chris has been claiming he wasn't doing.

And for him to claim that both Barack and Michele don't enjoy the presidency, saying they're not happy, is also something he could not possibly know, but if he'd look at them once in a while, he wouldn't say such a thing. They both look extremely happy and energized when they're out talking to the people, hosting WH events, etc. Facts DO matter.

[treestar]

76. Heck, I'm not buying his dopey book

Why would anyone who wanted to read about JFK read a book written by TWeety when so many others must exist that were written by people with brains?

[a kennedy]

85. I'll read Stephen King's JFK book before I'd ever read Matthews book

:thumbsup:

[polichick]

50. imo Chris has a good heart and I love his enthusiasm for all things political but...

...he really is not a good listener - and far too often interrupts his guests.

[jenmito]

51. I agree...

which is why I never miss his show. He loves politics, and he does go hard on people he disagrees with, but he does need to stop talking and start listening much more.

[FrenchieCat]

52. The man who thought he knew too much.....

deciding what the man who most likely does know too much is thinking and feeling.

Makes good TV anyways...I guess he reckons!

[jenmito]

56. Good one...

and you're exactly right. But that doesn't stop him from TALKING too much.

[freshwest]

53. He hasn't looked happy since he won. The look on his face was like someone going to a funeral...

He knew as well as Bush what was coming and so did she. Tried to argue against it in the campaign and inherited the biggest mess in history and the worst enemies ever. Who would want that?

Edited here:

Okay, I see I'm getting a few replies on this for mentioning my impressions from nearly 3 years ago. I fully expect him to run, and I respect that he is not playing for the votes.

I voted for him and will vote for him again. In fact, I've told my friends if they sent a ballot a year in advance, I'd vote for him right now and get it over with. I am one of the infamous DU Obamabots. So you guys can fight it out with the anti-Obama's.

Bye now.

:rofl:

[CakeGrrl]

55. That's why they've disbanded OFA and have packed it in for 2012.

Oh wait...



;-)

[jenmito]

57. Yeah, he looks absolutely depressed, as does Michelle:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

58. When did they not look happy?

[jenmito]

59. You gotta ask Matthews for the answer to THAT question. n/t

[flamingdem]

61. Chris Tweety A-Hole Matthews is SELLING A BOOK

The shit will say anything to get attention right now. Pathetic.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

65. ridiculous...I have been watching him for years. He is a historian and

truth (real) seeker. He is sincere. And, he is right. He is trying to shake Obama up.

[flamingdem]

66. He's not Bill Clinton. That is all. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

68. chris mathews is not bill clinton? ? nt

[99 Percent Sure]

69. Chris Matthews is full of spittle and is a *PAB.

He's full of sour grapes because, during the campaign, when *PAB tried to jam up candidate Obama, the future president put his foot in *PAB's mouth and *PAB hasn't recovered and never will. Correct me if I'm wrong, but *PAB has never interviewed Obama again--doesn't have access-- and probably never will.

*PAB is trying to generate interest in his latest book, too, so he'll say anything.

That is all.

*PAB = Punk A** B****.

[Skittles]

70. oh fuck off, Tweety

they're still neck deep in BUSHIT

[WI_DEM]

71. some times Tweety makes things up to conform to his ways of thinking

In his mind every president must be like 'Jack Kennedy'.

[jenmito]

73. I agree...

and it's so maddening. He should know better, but he seems to romanticize JFK and then he compares Obama unfavorably, despite the facts.

[_ed_]

80. Chris Matthews is the epitome of a Beltway insider

working for the media arm of the Comcast corporation. He voted for GW Bush in 2000. He's a fool and a liar, and he's clearly intellectually incapable of commenting on modern politics.

[Cigar11]

83. Why should they?

If the Country you were born in and live in questioned your right to be called an American, how would you feel?

[Mass]

84. WHy does Tweety still have a show? He has largely passed his peremption date.

He is the one who is totally out of touch. Enjoying the presidency? I would not trust anybody who enjoys the job at this particular time.