MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman suggests that President Obama made a bit of an error early in his administration when he told voters to judge him on his performance.
MSNBC just keeps upping the ante on intentionally bizarre. They’re turning into the political version of Weekly World News.
For example, MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman suggests that President Obama made a bit of an error early in his administration when he told voters to judge him on his performance.
Fineman now realizes that’s a losing concept so he thinks Obama should pivot and run on some nebulous “values” platform instead of running on his record.
We would suggest you keep your day job, Howard, because your future as a political strategist seems very limited.
Good Lord. What a day. First we find ourselves defending CNN’s Rick Sanchez and now we find ourselves agreeing with Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews.
Good Lord. What a day. First we find ourselves defending CNN’s Rick Sanchez and now we find ourselves agreeing with Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews.
Does anyone have any smelling salts handy? We’re feeling a little faint right now.
But back to the story. Fineman made one of his regular appearances on Hardball and made the point that Obama caused his own “Is Obama a Muslim” problem by not going to church.
Fineman: Can I say something here that’ll probably get me in trouble? But I’m going to say it anyway. Barack Obama probably should have joined a church here. OK? Now, I’m not excusing any of the hatred or nasty language or any of the dirty strategy that we’re talking about. But some things in politics you have to do at least for the symbolism. Matthews: Yes. Fineman: Now, he quit the Jeremiah Wright church. OK? But he hasn’t joined any other. Matthews: Yes. Fineman: And had he done so and if he’d done so, but especially if he’d done so… Matthews: Yes. Fineman: … after he came to town, a lot of this stuff would never have arisen, in my view. Matthews: Yes.
So there you have it. Fineman and Matthews making sense and us agreeing with them.
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman just didn’t know what to make of President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the Gusher in the Gulf. But they knew they didn’t like it.
They’re sad. They’re angry. They’re confused. Damn, it’s a beautiful thing to watch.
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman just didn’t know what to make of President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the Gusher in the Gulf. But they knew they didn’t like it.
RealClearPolitics has this handy, dandy summary of the trio’s disappointment:
Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.”
Matthews: compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.”
Matthews: “No direction.”
Fineman: “He wasn’t specific enough.”
Olbermann: “I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.”
Fineman: Obama should be acting like a “commander-in-chief.”
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. “I’ll barf if he does it one more time.”
Matthews: “A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk.”
Matthews: “I don’t sense executive command.”
Say goodnight, Mr. President. When you’ve lost MSNBC, you’ve lost several dozen Americans.
We now have proof that Chris Matthews not only loves President Obama for his body, but for his mind. Consider the following conversation between Newsweek’s Howard Fineman and the MSNBC host
We now have proof that Chris Matthews not only loves President Obama for his body, but for his mind. Consider the following conversation between Newsweek’s Howard Fineman and the MSNBC host.
Matthews: He’s hung back at a point that’s almost driven us crazy. He has let Harry Reid carry the ball. Fineman: Well, Chris, one of the things… Matthews: Is that smart? Fineman: I think it may turn out to be. I’ve been like you, all over cable TV saying, “How come he isn’t out there pounding away at this? He ought to do it like Ronald Reagan and have four points and pound!” Matthews: Right, right. Fineman: That’s not Barack Obama. Matthews: I know. Fineman: He is…one of his great qualities, whether you like him or not, is patience. And he’s playing a very patient game here. Matthews: Howard, is he smarter? Howard, is he smarter than us? Fineman: Of course, he is. Much smarter!
Yes, Chris Matthews undoubtedly has frequent fantasies of Barack Obama pounding. If you know what we mean.
Howard Fineman: The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube.
Linguists and liberal Democrats have just discovered that "Barack" is the Swahili word for "empty suit."
Howard Fineman takes to the pages of Newsweek to say the words Obamaniacs do not want to hear, especially not from another lib:
Barack Obama is an empty suit.
The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story. Continue reading “Newsweek speaks the unspeakable: Obama is an empty suit”
