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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Ignorant is too weak a word to describe this quisling. It would never dawn on Matthew's that it is that part of the world who needs to connect with us - not the other way around.
Matthews decided to ‘cut~n~run’ from his War on Insanity...;’}
If that’s the standard (”by his name, he can deal with muslims”) my vote goes to Richard Coeur de Leon.
LOL! From what I hear, people he is talking to would remain dryer if he wore one.
The morning after the Pakistan comment, one of my co-workers greeted me with, “Did you hear that? That was the sound of Barack Obama shooting himself in the foot with his new Invading of Pakistan gun.”
Oh wait, never mind they kill the hell out of each other.
This is definitely one of the stupidest things I’ve heard Chris Rather of Leftspin say.
At that time, Chrissy was fairly reasonable and kind of fun for a political junky to listen to in those days when there wasn't much.
He is now a total buffoon.
I see we’re still waiting for that boy’s brainstem to bud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBnlNjZq24
Zell Miller owns Chris Matthews at the 2004 RNC
so you're saying that Cialis with a Levitra kicker about an hour ahead of kickoff might make a conservative out of him?
He’s a yenta in pants. Frivolous, silly, petty, ditzy, gossipy, not serious, cowardly. I could go on.
LOL. You could...but that was a pretty good list.
No, the only way to AVOID war with the Muslims is to bow down and become Muslims.
When you say “soundly defeat it”, the only way that can be dome is through war. Therefore, that is not a way to AVOID war with them. (But it is also what we MUST do. Avoiding war with them is the wrong thing to do.)
Seems Chris lost a few tiles on his last re-entry.
Not only that but he’s not even taking into account that the two people leading in Afghanistan and Iraq - who have lived in the ME most of their lives - cannot deal with the terrorists.
The spitter needs to be taken off the set in a straight jacket; he has really shown he is insane. Not just with the Obama comment but his recent diatribe on President Bush and the WOT as a crusade brought to us by God talking to President Bush. He has become completely delusional. I used to watch him for the laugh fact, but as I have said many times here, MSNBC/NBC has become a real propaganda station with nothing but hate speech and lies from morning till night.
Mathews definitely has a drinking problem. He’s brain dead.
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