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JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Let me ask you losers, political losers of the year?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Terrible year for the president. I mean, it’s terrible, this…
SCARBOROUGH: Can you go back a year? One year ago, the president was getting ready for his second inauguration. So much hope. This has been a terrible year.
MATTHEWS: There’s another piece of it which you’re subtly getting at. It’s not just that it’s a bad year in terms of the rollout. There’s an erosion in interest. It feels like a very long presidency now. It feels like the seventh or eighth year of a presidency. It doesn’t feel like the fifth. There wasn’t that rejuvenation that comes with re-election. There wasn’t any, certainly he was never going to get a honeymoon from the other side, but there was no sense of wow. And I think that’s hurt him a lot.
I can't find the quote to link to, but a prominent Democratic strategist recently lamented that "When the President goes on TV, and no one stops to listen to see what he has to say, there's definitely a problem."
Which might very well be The Understatement of the Year™
I thought matthews was some kind of ultra-lefty that was in love with Obama according to the right wingers?
You'll enjoy these quotes from MSNBC Chris Matthews:
"I get the same thrill up my leg, all over me, every time I hear those words. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that's me. He's talking about my country and nobody does it better. Can President Obama stir us again and help his party keep power this November?"
"This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. Everything he’s done is clean as a whistle. He’s never not only broken any law, he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American."
"You know, in the Bible they talk about Jesus serving the good wine last, I think the Democrats did the same."
I thought matthews was some kind of ultra-lefty that was in love with Obama according to the right wingers?
Here is more Chris Matthew Quotes:
"the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."
"What a mind he has, and I love his ability to do it on television."
"if you're in a room with Obama, you feel the spirit. Moving"
"Ted Kennedy] just wanted to bring back what Bobby and Jack had given us. He wanted to be his brother’s brother. And then he turned that torch over last year to Barack Obama.... Amazing history. Barack is now the last brother. It’s history."
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