Chris Matthews: Obama Team Has Too Many ‘Little Kids With Propellers On Their Heads’
Hardball host Chris Matthews recently sat down with fellow MSNBC host Alex Witt to, among other things, discuss his new JFK biography. When the conversation inevitably turned to the current administration, Matthews shared a pretty harsh assessment of President Obama‘s campaign efforts, demonstrating that he’s come a long way since experiencing a “thrill up his leg.”
A transcript of Matthews’ jeremiad is below (courtesy of TheBlaze)
What are we trying to do in this administration? Why does he want a second term? Would he tell us? What’s he going to do in the second term? More of this? Is this it? Is this as good as it gets? Where are we going? Are we going to do something the second term? He has yet to tell us. He has not said one thing about what he would do in the second term. He never tells us what he is going to do with reforming our healthcare systems, Medicare, Medicaid, how is going to reform Social Security. Is he going to deal with long-term debt? How? Is he going to reform the tax system? How? Just tell us. Why are we in this fight with him? Just tell us, Commander, give us our orders and tell us where we’re going, give us the mission. And he hasn’t done it.
And I think it’s the people around him, too many people around, they’re little kids with propellers on their heads. They’re all virtual. Politics, this social networking, I get these e-mails, you probably get them. I’m tired of getting them. Stop giving them to me. I want to meet people. Their idea of running a campaign is a virtual universe of sending e-mails around to people. No it’s not. It’s meetings with people, it’s forging alliances. It’s White House meetings and dinner parties that go on till midnight, and he should be sitting late at night now with senators and members of Congress and governors working together on how they‘re going to win this political fight that’s coming.
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It does seem that the Obama campaign took a once innovative digital communications strategy and turned it into political spam-bots, sending unnecessary texts and emails to anyone who signed up for information alerts back when then candidate Obama promised to reveal his VP candidate via text message.
Watch Matthews’ harsh assessment below, courtesy of MSNBC:
(H/T TheBlaze)
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