Evan Thomas and Chris Matthews managed to put President Obama in the proper perspective while discussing the president’s speech at the D-Day commemoration:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he’ll be honoring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow. He will be delivering the world once again from evil. Evan Thomas is editor at large for Newsweek magazine. Evan, you remember ‘84. It wasn’t 100 years ago. Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?
EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
THOMAS: He’s going to bring all different sides together. It’s a very different-
MATTHEWS: Can he – well, here’s Ronald Reagan. Let’s take a look, a little Friday night nostalgia. Here he is speaking about peace and reconciliation at Normandy back 25 years ago. Let’s listen.
RONALD REAGAN: But we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to deter aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and, yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union so together we can lessen the risks of war now and forever.
MATTHEWS: Let’s talk about the difference. He was talking about the evil empire, trying to reconcile with the people of Russia and the Soviet Union, but not the country. Barack Obama the other day was saying, yesterday, that we don’t have an enemy out there per se. We have people who choose extremism, but Islam’s not our enemy. That’s not the evil empire.
THOMAS: But Reagan did it with a very – for the first term it was a clenched fist. I mean, we ramped up the cold war before we ramped it down. We built up our military. We – all of this D-day stuff was about war. That was about fighting.
MATTHEWS: Right.
THOMAS: Reconciliation only after the fighting. That’s not – Obama’s not doing that. Obama – we’ve had our fighting. Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together. I think he has a much tougher job, frankly, because-
MATTHEWS: What’s his shtick? Reagan had the United States arms race, winning the arms race. And we had the threat of high frontier, we were going to beat the Soviets at technology.
THOMAS: I don’t think he has – his shtick is he’s the teacher. He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that-
Thomas: “He’s sort of God.” Matthews: “Yeah.”
Maybe this was an actual Newsweek cover I missed, and not a parody by National Review. I mean, to Thomas and Matthews, “Better than FDR” and “Cooler than JFK” can only mean, equal to JHC, right?
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Were they drunk? Or do they have no excuse at all?
I hate to break it to these parochial, chauvinistic, provincial American fascists, but the rest of the world
didn´t ask for a teacher, doesn´t accept his moral authority and generally has the same goals and attitudes it had 4 years ago. If Obama wants them to act against their perceived interests, he will find out what the underside of the bus looks like.
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Next Issue of Newsweek:
IS OBAMA THE SON OF GOD?: How Obama’s rise to the White House parallel’s ancient Hebrew prophecies.
Yes! Shivers go up my leg when I look at the Newsweek photo of (cute initials) BO. There’s a halo around his head.
And lipstick on his left cheek, upper and lower set!
So do they actually believe that we have no enemy out there? Do they really believe that we were the bad guys after 9/11? One may not agree with HOW GWB executed the GWOT, but I’m pretty sure the vast majority of congress voted to fund it, again and again and again.
That has got to be one of the dumbest most short sighted conversations I have ever read. I feel that my IQ dropped just having read that…thanks.
How can you be that stupid and still get paid to voice your opinion over the airwaves?
I am shocked. No really. I knew Chris Matthews is a stupid fat drunk but for crying out loud Chris In Vino Veritas is kind of a fact of civilization. We get it, we know you have thing for Obama and your little friend does to. THis is like reading a conversation between two high school girls mooning over Lief Garrett way back the hell then. BARF!
“THis is like reading a conversation between two high school girls mooning over Lief Garrett way back the hell then.”
Like Obama is SOOO Hot!
I know, he is like like sexy
Like I like knOW! He can like sexy your socks off!
When I like look at his like picture I like go like wet.
Sort of God … a true journalist would accurately take out the ’sort of’ … that’s MSM style!
I’ve heard deoderant is good for B.O.
Must admit, it’s fun watching the death spiral of the MSM, though.
>>his shtick is he’s the teacher. He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that->>
The party of children as teachers. I believe the Valley-speak I’m searching for is “Sheeyah!!!”