What's in a name? For Chris Matthews, a lot. Posted on 08/15/2007 5:19:18 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
What's in a name? For Chris Matthews, a lot.
Discussing foreign policy on this afternoon's "Hardball," host Matthews advanced this astonishing theory.
HARDBALL HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you have a sense, though, well certainly I have it, that just by his name, Barack, ah, Barack Hussein Obama, by his background, having grown up in Indonesia which is a largely Muslim country, that he would have a feel perhaps other presidential candidates don't have of how to connect with that part of the world, the billion people, that we seem to have such a problem connecting with and avoiding war with.
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David Mendell, author of Obama, a biography of the candidate, gently brought Chris back down to earth.
DAVID MENDELL, AUTHOR "OBAMA" BIOGRAPHY: Well, he certainly would like you to think that. That's part of his biography, that's part of what they put forward in the campaign, that he's a multicultural individual. He actually grew up in Hawaii, and spent about four or five years in Indonesia as a young child. But he would like you to think that he understands the world better than some of these candidates who've just lived in the United States all of their lives. He thinks he has a world view that is different than they do, and that's part of his appeal to some people, this interesting biography that he has.
Obama, someone uniquely qualified to avoid war with Muslim countries? Obama, the guy who undermined his own campaign and touched off an internal crisis in Pakistan by threatening to invade it?
Earth to Chris!
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Matthews thinks Obama best at avoiding war with Muslims. Ping to Today show list.
Just ... ignorant.
Matthews is an idiot!
Matthews is possibly not sane. I think we really have to consider that at this point.
Who’s this Chris Matthews person?
Just beyond ignorant. Is he drinking all day long now?
That's like equating MacArthur couldn't understand the problems in the Pacific because of his Scottish ancestry.
Yeah, ten years ago these same morons were telling us that Madeline Notsobright could force the Muhammadens to respect a woman.
Matthews is an idiot!!
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In several states, idiots do not have the right to vote:
Arkansas Article III, Section 5[5]
Iowa Article II, section 5 [6]
Kentucky Section 145[7]
Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[8]
New Jersey (Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 6)[9] (amended Jan 2007 to remove the word idiot[10])
New Mexico Article VII, section 1[11]
Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[12]
IS Matthews from any of these states?
LLS
“Barack Better at Dealing With Muslim World” especially after we carpet bomb the cities in Afghanistan
And he’s better with the President of Canada, too
Oye.
I’m actually surprised he mentioned Obama’s middle name.
Thats what chowder head Matthews really meant to say.
Or maybe it’s tertiary syphilis, just like Al Capone.
Maybe we’ll soon have pix of Chrissie fishing in his swimming pool.
I would like to bitchslap Matthews....
..when I’m thru with O’Butthead.
Osamma, Obamma, what’s in a name?
He obviously has a mental problem or his physical health has deteriorated due to diabetes to the point he is no longer able to function very well.
MSNBC should replace him as he no longer has any rating to speak of.
I stopped watching him after he broke down and started crying after the "Goracale" concession speech in 2000
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