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.
View video here.
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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Chrissy has done and said a lot of truly ignorant things. But this incident takes the cut-glass fly swatter.
Congressman Billybob
Take whatever Matthews says and reverse it.
Chris Matthews needs to put that bong down!!
Matthews = BRAIN DEAD
Yet, in many states, they get elected (e.g., MA, NY, PA, IL, CA, etc. I'll let the reader guess who I have in mind...)
and in other news, Hilary Clinton announced today that she has changed her name to Fatima Ali Baba
Northern Yankee, I was refering to Matthews statement.
As far as Obama the man confirms with each passing day that he is not ready for primetime. Sorry if he's your guy, no offence.
Regards
Man, can this guy get any stupider?
What a target he would be as president!
What credibility he would have!
Crissy is worse than an idiot!
Best way to avoid war with Islam is soundly defeat it, not surrender to it.
That is why almost every country in the world has serious terrorism problems except America. Iraq and Afganistan has made Islam respect us. If it were not for the democrats suplication to Muslims, we would not have to be fighting Iran and Syria in Iraq now. The world would be rather peaceful.
But the radicals still believe that they have a chance, so the war continues in Iraq and around the world.
America needs to stop waffling, and focus on winning, not the hearts and minds, but the territory of Islam.
One has to have a heart to win it, Islam has no heart.
Huh, malaria?
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Hospitalized With Malaria
Jul 23, 2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/721151/posts#8
Im actually surprised he mentioned Obamas middle name.Maybe he's doing a stealth Hillary hit by making sure we don't forget the name. It's pure fantasy to think his name will help him dealing with Muslims. But it's not fantasy at all to consider the liability that name has in this election.
Why did Chrissy bring it up? Maybe Chrissy's a Hillary Girl.
We can only hope!
Hollywood’s Red are of the mind that we could’ve ended the Cold War far sooner if Truman had just surrendered to Stalin.
Actually, Obama’s muslim roots would probably be a negative in trying to get along with the muslim radicals. Islamic radicals regularily try to and do intimidate other muslims. Obama would from the git-go have to crack down hard just to nip this in the bud. If he did not, and he probably would not, the USA could expect even more trouble than usual from our savage Islamic adversaries.
No, he is from Massachusetts as last I know, and that state is run by IDIOTS, voted in by IDIOTS, and represented by IDIOTS (Kerry, Kennedy etc).
Massachusetts is institutionalized insanity. Matthews is their posterboy for media idiocy.
Need I say anymore?
Lardball’s just doing what liberals do best.
Keeping the rest of us entertained with his utterly astonishing stupidity.
doesn’t that fly in the face of multicultural rhetoric?
or, is multiculturalism racism?
I'm sorry... I wasn't referring to you. (I thought that was obvious.)
Matthews is an idiot, and so is Obama.
It's as though liberals have no sense of history, or understanding of history.
Cheers!
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