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‘I Want Him Back’; Matthews Declares Obama Is ‘Still Thrilling to Me,’ Dems Need to Step Up
newsbusters.org/blogs ^ | August 1, 2019 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 08/02/2019 2:36:15 PM PDT by ransomnote

On Thursday night, it appeared as though MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was tired from the long hours covering the 2020 Democratic presidential debates as he observed #TBT with riffs about how Barack Obama and his rise are “still thrilling to me” even though “[t]he only thing I've ever had against Obama is when he recedes from us” because “I want him back.”

During his A-block panel recapping the debates, Matthews declared that he wanted to talk about “the historic nature of Barack Obama running in '08 and ‘12 was so dramatic, I can understand why people who — of color who don't normally vote, think it's all B.S. or whatever showed up because it was so thrilling.”

Matthews added that not only was he “thrilled” then, but the rise of Obama was “still thrilling to me,” including his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. Matthews said all that to fret that “you're not always going to have a thrilling, charismatic African-American person of either gender or any background to come on,” so who could capture that in 2020.

Later, Matthews asked presidential historian Jon Meacham about Michael Moore’s MSNBC appearance on Wednesday in which Moore hoped Michelle Obama would join the field because, in Matthews’s words, “she is incredibly positive as a personality, and she's tough on issues.”

Meacham replied as one would expect from a liberal historian and fan of Acela Corridor lefties (click “expand”):

Well, I have no idea. I do know that you and I are on our best day have not exactly gotten 15,000 people at a single book event, maybe close here and there. She is a remarkable cultural and political figure. When she came to Nashville here on her book tour, people were coming down the steps of the Ryman Auditorium after shaking her hand, weeping. It's like they were at Lourdes and I think that's part of what Moore might be getting to is people are looking for a miracle in this, because they see Trump as such a disease. They see him as something that has to be overcome[.]

Going to former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, Matthews hit the accelerator on the crazy train by wondering if “Barack Obama, who has laid back during this primary fight, will he come on like Richard the Lionheart coming back from The Crusades” by “next November, maybe starting in September and really be the lion of the Democratic Party for whoever the nominee is?”

Things got weirder when Matthews had this exchange about missing Obama with The Washington Post’s Robert Costa (click “expand”):

MATTHEWS: The only thing I've ever had against Obama is when he recedes from us, when he goes away. I want him back. Anyway, that's my only problem. Go ahead.

COSTA: The Democratic Party turning its lonely eyes to the Obama family is revealing. It's a testament about how the —

MATTHEWS: Are you Paul Simon? 

COSTA: — it’s a testament —

MATTHEWS: Turn your lonely eyes to them. Go ahead. 

COSTA: — it's a testament to how this party feels about the presidential field. 

Earlier, Matthews told SiriusXM’s Zerlina Maxwell that Biden “was ten times better” on Thursday “than the last time” and “last night, he was twice as good as he was the first time” even though he predicted that Biden won’t even be one of the final two candidates (for that, he picked Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris).

However, he reiterated a point he’s made in the past (like here) that the party could go so far left that, while not a carbon copy, a similar setup to 1972 (click “expand”):

My question is are we in danger? We, I'm on the center left. Are we in danger of doing again what the Democrats did in '72 when they were so thrilled to defeat Richard Daley of Chicago, so thrilled to defeat Tip O’Neill in Boston that they ran a candidate who was not going to beat Dick Nixon. George McGovern was not going to beat Dick Nixon. Everybody knew it. We knew it from the beginning to the end, but they wanted a more important — they wanted to beat the moderates. Did the people on the risk being so determined to get the moderates they commit suicide in the general? Your thoughts. It's an open question because I don't know the answer.

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To: ransomnote

Get a ROOM, Chrissy!


21 posted on 08/02/2019 5:18:36 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Exactly what issues is she tough on?

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She’s tough on hating America.

When has she ever been, “incredibly positive as a personality?” She HATES America and is ashamed of it!


22 posted on 08/02/2019 5:19:40 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Matthews has homosexual feelings towards Obama and wants to commit homosexual acts with him.
Why doesn’t he just admit it already.

Hey, hey, hey! Just because an old closets fat bag of crap gets a boner every time he sees a gay mulatto, and his transvestite man/wife, doesn’t mean he’s gay.....oh wait, it does. Sorry carry on!


23 posted on 08/02/2019 5:19:43 PM PDT by Bommer (2020- Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!)
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To: ransomnote

A friend of mine said “Get a room you two”


24 posted on 08/02/2019 5:25:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ransomnote
There have been one or two women who've sent “thrills” up and down various parts of me but it's never happened with a male.
25 posted on 08/02/2019 7:37:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Apparently Pissy Chrissie didn't get the memo.

26 posted on 08/02/2019 11:43:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dsrtsage

Otoken was a complete media fabrication, and the demeaning teleprompter really illustrated that. Unscripted, he was a clumsy fool (”the police acted stupidly”, “If I had a son...”, “I don’t want them punished with a baby”); his 2012 re-election was a truly frightening display of media influence (dragging him over the finish line after four years of failure).

He was a puppet of those who controlled the teleprompter, and the rise of Black Lies Matter on his watch (when blacks realized they’d been had) coupled with the failure of black voters to deliver PA, MI, and WI to Hillary couldn’t have made it more clear that the scales had fallen from many blacks’ eyes. In the end, Obama’s legacy will be 1) the new ObamaCare “tax” (administered by the IRS), 2) “gay marriage” (which he publicly opposed, as do many blacks), 3) Ferguson/Baltimore (the continued misery of Black America), and finally, 4) the election of Donald Trump.


27 posted on 08/03/2019 12:11:57 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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