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Chris Matthews: ‘We’re Stalled As A Country’ And Obama’s Not Running The Train Anymore

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Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell were live on MSNBC immediately after President Obama’s speech on the credit downgrade. While Mitchell thought Obama demonstrated a confident tone and reassured Americans that “we’re still a AAA country,” Matthews was much less optimistic about Obama’s performance.

Matthews was worried nothing will get done in Washington because the political parties are so far apart, and didn’t think Obama’s attitude was doing much to change the outcome. “The challenges are so awesome and the President says I’ll deal when the other side deals,” Matthews worried. Therefore, he’s unsure how any type of big economic action will get accomplished:

“I think it still needs some sort of engine to make this happen, and I don’t think the President is the engineer anymore. I don’t think he’s running the train. I think we’re basically stalled as a country, politically right now.”

And while conservatives think “the solution to our economic problem right now is to get rid of Obama” and liberals are “confused and disorganized,” Matthews’ desire for a conductor to move this “train” along to the next stop remains unfulfilled.

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  • Anonymous

    Maybe he could get on the crazy train with you Chris. Tingle?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I called it in an earlier thread:

    Obamacrats – the engine’s running, but there’s nobody behind the wheel.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    God Bless Tingles and his loved ones

    Signed-The American People

  • Anonymous

    The thrill is gone, twinkle toes?

    But Chris, just 2.5 years ago you said this:

    “This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament.” | “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.” – Chris Matthews

    And your friend said this on your show:

    “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.” (Newsweak editor Evan Thomas)

  • Anonymous

    Wake Up Chris……Obama is causing the train to wreck, not stall!! He doesn’t know how to operate anything ,especially a country!!

  • Anonymous

    You got the wrong guy Matthews. Obama isn’t the one to bring people together to solve the country’s problems. He has spent his entire political career pitting Americans against one another. He’s not the “Great Uniter” as he was advertised. You got sold a bill of goods.
    He’s never been the one to make people believe in their own abilities to overcome like Reagan or MLK. He has had to make people believe they are victims and that he and the Nanny State are the answers.

  • Anonymous

    And the Tea Party Depression begins.

  • Anonymous

    This may be the end of the tingles, chills, or any other homoerotic responses to the actions of this president.

  • Michelle

    Been visiting Move-on eh?  Give it up, that talking point isn’t going to fly come election day. 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Vomit.

  • Harry Flashman

    There there, Chris. It’s all right. Hush now. You, too, Andrea. We’re still a AAA country because Obama says so. Shhhhh. I know…that big bad S&P scared you, but It’s all right now. Obama will take care of you. Shhhh.

    Who’s your daddy? See? All better now.

  • Anonymous

    400 point drop as a result of S&P and the downgrade as a result of Tea Party obstructionism.

    You do the math.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    We need an Upgrade from Obama in 2012.

  • Michelle

    You can continue to lie, but it won’t make it true.

    Come 2012, Ozero is a Debt Man Walking (credit to someone very smart)

  • Anonymous

    Memo to the President: Lead, follow or get out of the way.

    It’s time.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t disagree with you.  But a GOP imbecile isn’t the way to go.  Then we’ll have 25 Constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, and no taxes at all, and a privatized military, coupled with 35% unemployment.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Ok…now…the corn that used to run down his leg is now just an air. Sorry Chris…evidently after two year, i dont think he was ever in that train.

  • Anonymous

    600 points on the heels of Ozero blathering yet again, and promising a plan we’ll never see. The math says you’re delusional.

  • Valkyrie101

    Yes, Chris, in fact Obama is down right uppity.

  • Anonymous

    Funny shit, considering the Tea Party caused all of this.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the people who have been screaming “STOP!!!” for 2.5 years caused what exactly they warned was going to happen. By pointing it out.

    Is there anything Obama says that you’ve ever questioned?

  • Anonymous

    Sadly, no. We could use some uppity. It might even pass for leadership. Obama is just bitchy.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t speak for all of the American people, freak.

  • Kelc

    35%  unemployment LOL.You libs are to funny.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Hopefully tomorrow’s election in Wisconsin will begin the process of removing the tea party representatives from public office, and replacing them with responsible politicians.

  • Anonymous

    Somebody PLEASE check Matthews for weapons, rope, sleeping pills, belts, shoe laces, and sharp objects before the show tonight! Can’t wait for the depends hero to drool and spit himself into a coma!

    And no pointy pens or pencils on the set, for his sake. Just dull crayons or chalk.

    “All aboard!!! He’s going off the rails on a crazy train! He knows that things are going wrong for him… We don’t need to listen to his words…”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3AXWJ4T2ZWD556H72VX5FKROGY jdaboss

    your side has some goddamn nerve calling anyone else crazy,

  • Anonymous

    Sir, I am not a fan of Republican Obama, he’s waaaaaaaaay too Conservative and allows you fucknuts to get too much through.

  • Moderate

    Throw the bum out.
    Index Value:10,865.70Trade Time:3:56PM EDTChange: 578.91 (5.06%)

  • Anonymous

    Oh, do tell us who you’d like to see in the White House. This should be fun.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Calm down boss. RHL is right…he is crazy!!

  • Ajolily

    Obama was never on the train. He’s still on the platform making speeches and kissing babies. He sent his stooges in to start it up because he didn‘t know how. They got to goofing around like fools tend to do and knocked it onto a side rail.

  • Anonymous

    It’s over for you, tingles and the rest of the progressive mob. Face it. Dow-600. Thanks Libs!

  • Anonymous

    its funny because the tea party doesn’t really have that much power, how many are in congress?

  • Kelc

    Yes responsible politicians that will give all the money to their union buddies.

  • Anonymous

    You are deluded. Good to have priorities. Homosexual marriage solves what? (Who cares anyway?) No Taxes? Now you are sounding literate and coherent. One of the Constitutional roles of the government IS to RAISE and MAINTAIN the military, but your public school education must have skipped that in favor of wrapping cucumbers in condoms. Why only 35% unemployment? Surely your Peabagger mind can think of a number bigger than that. Maybe with no choking taxes, small businesses may actually (*gulp*) hire people, but again, your liberal education being what it is, fails you there again.

    What was the unemployment rate under Bush? The liberals say it was the worst in history. What is it now? The liberals are beginning to call it worse than Carter, who believes in UFO’s!

    Keep throwing out foolish talking points.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Relax!!!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe the mob rioting at the state fair will have an impact? We’ll see. Dems out 2012.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Your right…..replace all the democrats who bailed when the state need them the most.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think the President is the engineer anymore. I don’t think he’s running the train. I think we’re basically stalled as a country, politically right now.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIfNtUttcYk

  • Anonymous

    Or he appoints them as unelected and unaccountable Czars. Nice language from a peacenik liberal. Why you so angry? Scratch that. Who cares. Be angry.

  • Anonymous

    Hi, this is Chris Matthews, host of the wildly popular MSDNC show softball. I cannot get to the phone, computer, or camera right now as I am curled up in the fetal position with my diaper on trying to get the thrill back into at least one leg. Please leave a message, and once I am threatened with my job like Cenk-off was for direct criticism of the one, the messiah, the most historic, grand glorious leader this country has ever known, I may be allowed to resume my post here at DNC HQ. Until then, forgive me oh great leader, for my sins and my blasphemy against your administration. Global Warming is Real!!!!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You’re the only liar around here, Michelle-in-Utah. Well, you, Casterate, Paulie, I’ve No Clue. But, you’re the best liar of the lot.

  • Anonymous

    Very relaxed.

    Signed-The TEA Party

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    We need to get rid of these Tea Party beggers

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    LOL! funny stuff

  • Anonymous
  • Michelle

    Dude, you’re obsession with me is bordering on the psychotic. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    You mean you are in the Pee Party, pissing on America since 2009.

  • clever

    What is your IQ 20?

  • clever

    another high IQ 19 tops

  • clever

    Funny shit your a talking point libtarded Obama zombie.

  • Anonymous

    awesome english skills there buddy!

  • fanofgrendel

    Tea Party downgrade. Tea Party market slide. We damn near had a Tea Party NFL strike. Forecast tomorrow is a Tea Party hot and humid day.

  • BR

    You can do all of the talking points that you want.  There are a few of you leftists that will stand by Obama no matter what.  You are insignificant now.  Be gone and take communist Obama with you.  

  • john.kliber

    I’m taking it on faith that the only reason you post stories about Matthews is because he’s a doddering, senile idiot who was probably exactly the same when he was 20. The mystery of the Sphinx and Matthews career are the two shows I’d most like to see on a new program called “What the Hell, Why?”

  • Michelle

    (Daily Mail)
    — A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost
    $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA
    credit rating.Now questions are being asked of whether the trader
    had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the
    futures market.There are mounting rumours that investor George
    Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’,
    could be involved.He made more than $1billion on currency
    speculation when the British pound left the Exchange Rate Mechanism on
    Black Wednesday in 1992.The latest bet was made on July 21 on
    trades of 5,370 ten-year Treasury futures and 3,100 Treasury bond
    futures, reported ETF Daily News.Now the investor’s gamble seems
    to have paid off after Standard and Poor’s issued a credit rating
    downgrade from AAA to AA+ last Friday.Whoever it is stands to
    earn a 1,000 per cent return on their money, with the expectation that
    interest rates will be going up after the downgrade.

    I look forward to the corrupt liberal media absolutely ignoring this. 

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party hasn’t obstructed anything. We passed a crap, do-nothing bill in place of the absolutely-nothing-but-more-debt bill Obama wanted. What was obstructed?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not bordering, Michelle. Kook is a full blown psychotic. Apparently, he crashed along with his Messiah.

  • Anonymous

    You tenuous hold on reality has finally slipped to a complete delusional state. 

    The last six weeks has been a nightmare that has scared the American people, and made them hate the Tea Party.

  • Anonymous

    You tenuous hold on reality has finally slipped to a complete delusional state. 

    The last six weeks has been a nightmare that has scared the American people, and made them hate the Tea Party.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you give us the details of how the Tea Party made that happen?

    I’ll tell you why. You got a talking point and exactly nothing else.

  • Rio

    Obama, hailing from Chi-town has been as helpful to this economy as Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was to his hometown then, we should be thankful that someone is pissing on the fire he started.  How ironic that the cow is referred to as Mrs. O’s.  It’s a local thing, lol.

  • Rio

    Obama, hailing from Chi-town has been as helpful to this economy as Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was to his hometown then, we should be thankful that someone is pissing on the fire he started.  How ironic that the cow is referred to as Mrs. O’s.  It’s a local thing, lol.

  • Anonymous

    S&P’s own words. 

    Political brinksmanship on debt negotiations is THE reason they gave for this.

    Tea Party caused that debate.

  • Rio

    Hyperbolic, love to see you clowns reach that stage.  Trouble in paradise, no pot at the end of your rainbow, no unicorns and pixie dust and it’s the fault of those evil republicants and tea partiers.  This is how you get when we finally run out of other people’s money which leaves our babes in arms to pick up the slack for someone like you that obviously could give a darn.  I hope one of them picks out your nursing home, hopefully it’s a card board box under a bridge.

  • Rio

    Most of us in here have read the report but, at least you unwittingly mentioned debt and thank heaven the Tea Party “caused that debate” because the massive debt was Thee large part of the S&P downgrade.  Most of your fellow travelers are yammering about revenues aka increasing taxes.  Thanks for being…….whatever.

  • Anonymous

    Is it computer day in the asylum?  Did you finally cover the windows with enough tin foil?

  • Anonymous

    Obama got off the train at Willoughby.

  • Anonymous

    Smart enough to know about covering the windows with ALUMINUM foil, as “tin” foil does not exist. Must be on the asylum computer too.

  • Anonymous

    Next stop… The Twilight Zone….

  • Anonymous

    No, I mean TEA Party, you Peabagger.

  • Anonymous

    When was he ever “running the train”?

  • NeverWrong

    What tha hell??? The Thriling Tingle is gone for old Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews? Dang, I figured that old low IQ geezer would be kissing Obumbler’s rear till that cold day in early 2013 when the keys to the White House changes hands. I’ll be damn!

  • Rio

    Another slip up?  I did not know asylums had a computer day, anything else you would like to share?

  • Dflojak

    Sorry, poopsie, but when tingles and maher and stewart start bashing the stupidity of this president, things are gonna get ugly for the community organizer. We’ll see again how the left’s predictions come out, kind of like the hope and change you all voted for in 2008.

  • Mia

    Aww, poor Chrissy – did you come to the enlightenment that its just lipstick on that pig? Ever consider Obonehead’s record of voting “present” when the going got tough? Or dumbo never once ran anything in his life? Community Organizer does not = Qualified for President.

  • Anonymous

    Breaking News: The White House has canceled its Daily Briefing for today. I guess Carney is too busy slashing his wrists in a padded cell. He can’t take much more of the very deserved browbeating he’s getting from journ-o-lists, who are realizing that–Hey!!–we stand to get caught up in Obamo’s noose if we don’t start acting and behaving a little more objectively.

  • http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/gol.html Game of Life

    You can lie all you want, the fact remains that the repubaggers caused this mess. It’s just a continuation from chimpy disastrous reign of terror. Eat it repubaggers it yours, you are proud of it happening (go read your blogs.)

    There is more to come from these idiots. They want to sink the USA.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6VZDNDDOKDCOKBW7SORPC2MPIA DJH

    Wow, that’s the first lucid comment I think I’ve ever seen from this unprofessional clown.

    barry never had it, maybe if idiots like this had done their jobs and actually vetted the empty suited race baiter the atmosphere and the economy would be a bit less volatile!

    Concentrate on removing obama above all else, then focus on bringing the media to their knees for their unprofessional, intellectually dishonest, obviously biased assault on the American people in favor of odumbo and the far left zealots in control of the dems.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6VZDNDDOKDCOKBW7SORPC2MPIA DJH

    Wow, that’s the first lucid comment I think I’ve ever seen from this unprofessional clown.

    barry never had it, maybe if idiots like this had done their jobs and actually vetted the empty suited race baiter the atmosphere and the economy would be a bit less volatile!

    Concentrate on removing obama above all else, then focus on bringing the media to their knees for their unprofessional, intellectually dishonest, obviously biased assault on the American people in favor of odumbo and the far left zealots in control of the dems.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6VZDNDDOKDCOKBW7SORPC2MPIA DJH

    I just finally watched this clip, only matthews could destroy his own credibility before making the single intelligent comment he’s made in years. He claimed half the country is liberal – not even close! Libs account for roughly 25% of the population, roughly 49% consider themselves conservative, the rest (most of them) consider themselves CENTRIST, or in the middle – NOT LIBERAL you lying twit!

  • Donorman

    Instead of trimming his sails Obama keeps trying to change the way the wind is blowing.

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    Obama is basically voting “present” on the issues facing the country like he did in the Illinois senate. Sorry Barry, things are different in the oval office. No present votes are allowed. The buck stops with you. So show some leadership for a change.

  • JMcCarthy

    Chris, is it true?  Your not going steady with obama anymore???  Have you returned his tingly leg ring, say it isn’t so!!  It’s ok, you can come out of the closet now, you know obama is ‘one of you’, be loud and proud!  You should really consult with Barny Frank on this, he can help you keep that stiff upper lip.  I’m pulling for you Chris!!

  • Duck1002

    Wake up Joe, blame goes on Wall Street, Oil companies and the complete group of slim that works in washington. Its all their faults including Obama, Its time to quit blaming one person. They are all greety little children that cant do their jobs, I hope they rot in hell. They have destroyed our great county.

  • Otto48170

    You are making my knees quiver.

  • Anonymous

    OK, here’s what “Tingles” was really saying with his train metaphor, “the little engine that thought he could, can’t.”

    Repeat after Obama:  “I think I can; I think I can; I think I can.”

    The train has gone off the track!

    So, now it’s time for a presidential golfing vacation on the New England coast.

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