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