Outspoken liberal TV host and Obama fan boy Chris Matthews seems to have lost that loving feeling for the President. The political pundit sounded more like a conservative critic on Wednesday night than a progressive one, begrudging that Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch.
“He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere,” Matthews lamented. “But what part does he like? He doesn’t like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn’t like selling to the press. He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”
The MSNBC host, who in 2008 said that Obama had sent a “thrill up his leg,” seemed to have a change of heart last night on “Hardball,” but it was not the first time this week that Matthews delivered a harsh critique of the President.
On Tuesday night, Matthews targeted the President’s extra-curricular activities and declining influence, stating that the President had lost his “thrust.”
“There’s a reason the President’s an easy target tonight,” Matthews said on Tuesday. “He’s a ship with the engine off. He can go play golf, take Marine One up to Manhattan, but none of that matters. None of it. What matters is that he commands no big cause. There’s no thrust to his presidency right now.”
Clearly, Matthews seems to be fed up with President Obama behaving more like a Campaigner-in-Chief, rather than a Commander.
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