What no comments about this article? Oh, I forgot, if you say anything negative your phobic. Well said by the way. You’re right on seeing through the skin-deep rationale. I think I’ll read more of your writings!

Barack Obama has done absolutly nothing in his entire life that would in any way qualify him to be President. I disagree with him on every issue. I wouldn’t hire a dog catcher on Chris Matthew’s recomendation. Why do empty headed liberals like Matthews who have never done anything in their lives except blow smoke think everyone should follow their lead? He and Keith Olberman are the most pathetic excuses for commentators on TV. Anyone who would do anything because either of these jerks suggested it is a total numbskull.

Yeah you should have gone with Paul over McCain. Paul would have been able to take votes away from Obama on the war issue and retained conservatives on economic issues.

And you are reading what you want out of Mathews comments. You hear vote for Obama because he’s black, But why don’t you hear Don’t vote for McCain based on the race of Obama?

Personally I can’t stand either of them. They will just choke the middle class out of all their savings and create an even bigger federal government than ever. I’m voting for a third party candidate and so should everyone else.

What a great opinion. You have put into words what many Americans are thinking and feeling. How are we ever going to move on if we are continually referred to as racist if we do not agree with a person of a different color. Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge that there are many of us who vote based on ISSUES. My children have had many opinions and many of them are because they were not out in the REAL WORLD and working and paying taxes. It has been interesting to see how they have progressed in their thinking now that they are working daily and seeing where their pay is going. My children know that Social Security won’t be there for them, because the see the inaction of Congress and they know how frustrated we are that nothing is being done.

It always amazes me when those who want me to make a very bad decision appeal to my emotions
and not my reason. Too often we Americans vote our emotions and we often pay the penalty for
this. If Mr. Matthews was facing heart surgery, I suspect he would not want the surgeon who has
little experience–white or not. “Let’s see, the surgeon with three years experience or the one with
thirty years experience?”

Obama continues to show day after day that he is the better, more qualified candidate. The challenge for Americans is to vote for him despite his background. This is what Chris Matthews was saying.

Wow, another example of the, “If you don’t side with me you must be evil” mental illness. If it wasn’t so wide spread amongst liberals it would be laughable. The sad thing is that anyone even gives these small minded people any time. Even sadder is the fact that there are quite a few people with this disability. Now there are not as many people with this illness as the mass media would have you believe, but then again MOST in the mass media suffer from the same disease. When a liberal says things like, ” I believe in tolerance” or ” I support freedom of speech” ; the simple fact is they are lying. I don’t believe in political correctness(no one has the right to not be offended) so I don’t have a problem calling a liar a liar. We need as a majority to speak out and let these suffering individuals know that we do not agree with their warped assessment of the world or of this great country. Also just because we know Mr. Obama is one of the most radical leftists to come down the pike and we like our freedoms from government nannying, does not make us racist. What it does make us is informed and enlightened. I personally do not call anyone in the mass media a journalist, by their actions and their obvious political slant they have made themselves editorialists…and obsolete.

“It would be great if the older people in the country, the 70 year olds, the 80 year olds who are suspicious of change to say, “you know, why don’t I think the way my kids are thinking and think about the future.””

Ummm… News Flash!.. Those “Older” people do think about the future - And, they’re more open and twice as open-minded than perhaps 90% of the sub-30’s in western society. Want proof? Simple… How many ol’ folks worry about staying within the tight borders of popularity-based style, whether it be fashion or politics. Whether a 20’s something or a teen, the majority of younger people want primarily to fit in, to mold themselves to fit some popular image - get older & you’re more likely to tell a con like Mathews where to put the BS, whether it fits or not! If anyone doesn’t want to spend any time and effort to verify, just look at the shoes.

Of course, Mathews is using a standard coercive marketing technique, which would have worked better were he quite a bit younger himself, but no matter… Pick a group of people (better known stereotypes work well), cast them as undesirable, and state “you’re with me or you’re one of them”. [Ironically the same sort of ultimatum Pres. Bush has been villified for.] But why is being older undesirable?

Mathews answers on two counts - 1) he dismisses experience & practicality as old folks being “suspicious of change”, and 2) he thinks older people are racist, whereas our kids are not. On both counts Mathews implores us to open our hearts, whilst presumably ignoring our minds, our intellects which might possibly be screaming: “So how does Obama’s walking on water put food on my table or gas in the car”? The racist part is pure, unadulterated grade school thinking…

Most young kids, at least the ones prone to trouble, soon discover that the surest alibi for your misdeeds, is to deflect attention towards someone else. Make a complaint, casting blame on someone else before anyone has a chance to ask, before they have a chance to wonder if you could have done it. In this campaign there are very clear racial undertones, but not on the part of whites. Blame older Americans, stick the racist tag line in there to mean older white Americans, and Mathews hopes to distract anyone from looking at, or mentioning the racial undertones that do exist.

Is Mathews talking affirmative action? I think he’d agree to that in a heartbeat, but I’m not so sure here that he’s that sophisticated. Instead perhaps he’s just throwing out a possible, thought-free, talking point others can rally behind because it sounds better, more mature and reasonable than most elementary school level taunts.

At the dire risk of fitting into the cadre of Mathews chosen scapegoats, one change I’m not open to after his appearance on Leno, is watching his program on TV.

What really stuck in my craw is that he went to Berlin today and told the huge crowd who gathered there to hear him that he did NOT COME AS AN AMERICAN as if he is ASHAMED OF HIS OWN COUNTRY !!! I am totally disgusted. What came out of his mouth today …originated in his HEART. In his heart he is NOT a true American. He is a traitor to this country and would sell his own soul to the Devil himself.

You covered it nicely, it’s simply Matthews trying to drum up votes for Obama by making a veiled attempt to imply one is racist if they don’t vote for Obama. If it wasn’t so vapid and insidious, it would be funny.

I know hundreds of people who plan on voting for McCain, warts and all, and who can provide coherent reasons for their opinions. Yet whenever I ask an Obama supporter why they will vote for him they can’t come up with any substantive justification. All they can ever say is, “Well, a black man in the White House might heal our race wounds,” or, “I just feel good about him,” or, “I like his speeches,” or, “he has a nice-looking family,” or “McCain is old.” That’s about it. Of course, there are many who won’t admit their real reasons for supporting Obama, which generally fall into the category of, “I want something for nothing.”

Groundless emotion, race-guilt, and selfish greed may therefore place Obama in the White House. But inasmuch as his policies are destined to fail and make the current economy look like a paradise or productivity, within two years Obama will be the most hated President in American history. (The northeast liberals who love him now won’t think so kindly of him when they get their January, 2009 oil heating bills.) People will eventually learn the lesson that their vote should be driven by logic and thought, not Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, or Chris Matthews. Regrettably, that will leave an awful big mess for conservatives to clean up after the November, 2010 elections.

Mathews is right on the mark. Older people will vote for McCain simply because he is white and Obama is black. I’ve heard many of my older coworkers make exactly that comment. On a recent plane trip the woman sitting next to me who was in her 60’s and an ardent Hillary supporter and life long Democrat said she would vote McCain because “Obama was black and Muslim”.

Our country has made progress but we have a far way to go.

“Ron Paul was very popular on college campuses this year. Should we have thought as the kids thought and gone ahead with him?”

YES!.

Please vote for Ron Paul in 2008 for the President of the United States. He has a 20 year track record of doing exactly what he says he will do. He works as a Conservative should. The rest act, poorly at that.

Please, for our childrens sake, DO NOT vote for Obillary or McPain. We and Our children will suffer for it.

God Bless

Frank Pytel

Careful there, Betsy. You’re getting dangerously close to sounding Biblical. “When I was a child, I thought and spoke as a child, but when I became a man, I put such things aside.” (Terry McGraw’s paraphrase of something the apostle Paul wrote)

Stupid me. I thought as a parent I was supposed to think FOR my child, you know, decide what he would eat, what he would not eat, when he should take a bath, go to bed, do his homework, whether or not he can drive my BIG FAT BEAUTIFUL SUV down the street, that sort of thing. And now that I’m a half a century old I find out that I’m NOT supposed to think FOR my child, I’m supposed to think LIKE my child. No wonder the mass media is so screwed up! In fact, now that you mention it, it all makes sense to me now…the preposterous, outlandish, off-the-wall, fruit-cake stuff that comes out of these people’s mouths reminds me a lot of the foolishness that used to come out of my son’s mouth when he was three or four years old.

By the way, is Obama really half black? Which half? I don’t know Obama, he may be a really nice man. I know I don’t like arrogance, and I know I don’t like his ideas, at least not the ones I’ve become aware of. I know I don’t like his goals for America. So I’m going to assume that I really don’t like the man either. But this whole color issue has GOT to GO AWAY. He’s not ‘half black’ because one of his parents was white and one of his parents was black any more than I am ‘half woman’ because on of my parents was female and the other male. The man is a human being, that’s homo sapiens sapiens. He’s as much so as any of the rest of us. He has as much right to run, and no more, as any one else. The color of his skin and the genetic make-up that brought it about has nothing to do with anything. For God’s sake, (apologies to you athiests) grow up and leave it out of the equation and out of the discussion. He has a right to run, I have a right to vote for someone else.

The college kids who have been recently given the vote, (whose idea was that?) have thought processes that are very susceptible to sound bites, peer pressure, and Media. TAX THE RICH! sounds good to kids who don’t have jobs yet. When they do, and see what is left over each week after taxes, they’ll change their minds. GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW! sounds good to kids who are afraid there may be a future draft. When they get out of college and are liable for the draft, a democrat president just might draft them, as only the dems are talking about a new Draft. Then they’ll change their minds. DOUBLE THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX! sounds good to college kids who aren’t selling homes yet or don’t have homes yet. when they do buy a house later, 2400 sq.ft. Might be too small for them, but then they’d have to pay BO’s Extra tax. No, the college kids don’t have any way to relate to the extreme measures (and the cost) that BO would like to shove down our throats. But their PARENTS know. Their GRANDparents know.

I guess STICK IT TO THE MAN, MAN! means stick it to your parents too. And for the really far see’ers and longplanners, that means sticking it to yourselves too, MAN.

Please understand this, young voters, 18-21…..If you’re in a boat and don’t like the captain, you don’t drill a hole in the bottom.

I am a conservative. I don’t have any axes to grind, and I don’t identify with either of the political teams. Unless you are very rich, McCain does not represent your interests. He wants to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich. He wants to do exactly nothing to fix healthcare. He does want to pursue green technologies and reasonable immigration reform, just like the democrats. All of the people I know who plan to vote for McCain do so for one of three reasons, in this order: 1. They are republicans who have found some inane justification to vote for their team; 2. They are bitter that Hillary lost; 3. They are racists. That’s all there is. All of this highlights that there should be a test of some sort in order to vote. If you say moronic things in the test, you are given a pom-pom and allowed to cheer for your team, but not vote. Please let those of us who don’t buy into this fabricated sport make the decisions. You all are just too busy looking for evidence to support your beliefs to look at the evidence and then decide what to believe. Go Raiders.

Lucy- Did you actually watch Senator Obama’s speech? He did not say that he “did not come as an American” like you suggested. This is what he said;
“I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world”
Ronald Reagan also said before a large German crowd that he came to them as a “citizen of the world”. Would you also suggest that Reagan was ashamed of his country and that he would sell his soul to the devil? You clearly have more hate in your heart than patriotism and you definitely have a limited grasp on reality. People like you are much scarier than anything I’ve seen or heard from either candidate. Get your facts straight if you’re going to make hateful allegations.

This column gave me chills down my leg.

Think like a child? Without adult supervision children grab toys from the hands of other children, grab hot pots from the stove and run into traffic as the chase a ball. They are totally self-centered; maturity is about outgrowing that. Obviously Chris Matthews hasn’t.

Half black, huh? How about half a vote, then?

Ditto! My thoughts exactly! You go, Girl! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Obama’s Excellent Adventure. I’m thinking: who died and made HIM Jesus?

I just turned 60 and I have decided who I am going to vote for in November. I didn’t take advice
from the pundits. I am not persuaded by age, race, sex, or any other prejudices. Sometimes I
do childish things but I hope I don’t think as a child when I make decisions. I have listened to
politicians for many years from both parties and even some third party candidates and they ba-
sically say what they think you want to hear depending on which group they are speaking with.
So what I have learned to do as an adult is to let their actions speak louder than their words.
I check out their voting records and see how they voted on issues that are important to me.
If they have written books or articles not aimed at any particular group but for the general
public, I read them and draw my own conclusions about their values and character as expressed
in their own words. If I can I read information written by people who actually know them and
have worked with them to judge what their real priorities are. That’s what I have done in
this campaign as well and my vote will go to Sen. McCain. I certainly do not agree with him on
every issue but I can see he is a man of character, valiant, has integrity, and has the wisdom
& experience to weigh issues and make sound decisions for the country. His loyalty and service
to the United States cannot be argued. Sen. Obama may someday be ready to be the President
of the U. S. but not yet. His own book, The Audacity of Hope, was a deciding factor in my
decision. The ideas expressed in it were scary. I simply don’t want those kinds of changes
in my country. Read it for yourself and check out his voting record and actions in the Senate.
If you’ll take your emotions out of the equation (which those who think like children have a
hard time doing.) you will make a better decision.

Voting in this November’s Presidential election is all about character. Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed about an America where all of its citizens are judged for their character and not their skin color. I will NOT vote for Senator Obama based on his character. His position on abortion and gay rights are misguided and wrong. For those two reasons alone I believe that many Americans will NOT vote for him. His ethnicity and religious upbring play no relevance in my decision. I fear for my children and for the quality of life in our society if he were elected.

Since time began character counts, it always has and always will. One’s character shapes one’s decision making thought process. Senator Obama has come up lacking in that area based on his voting record. That alone is the measuring stick I use when deciding whom I vote for. Feelings and emotions don’t cover all the bases when making such an important decision. Reason and logic, as well as some fact finding research are key in making an informed decision about anyone running for any public office.

There exists today far to many talking heads on both sides in the media who don’t want you to think for yourself. They desire for you to listen to a sound bite and some spin doctoring and believe every word you have been told. As a society we are much better off if we use our own logic and rational abilities to determine who is the best person for the job of President.

Bravo Terry!!! Very well said and I completly agree. Black, white, blue, green, tall, skinny, short, fat, hairy, bald, beautiful, ugly, young, old, coffee drinker, tea drinker, it DOESN’T MATTER!!!! But it DOES matter what someone stands for, against, says, does and how they stand on issues that affect my family and this greatest country in the world. On this judgement, Barack Obama is rejected….

I haven’t heard that many white people complaining about a black man running for president. It’s the other way around. Most people not liking Obama don’t like him because he is way to liberal. Apparently most of the people harping on the color of someones skin really don’t know much about the constitution. Our founding fathers thought it important that anyone running for President of the U.S., to have attained at least 36 years of age. They however did not see it important to put any age limits in. So Matthews along with many others need to quit being ageists.

tax YOU’RE presious republic as much as you want SOCIALISM NOW!

Before Obama went to Germany, I knew that he would make some comment revealing his Benedict Arnold side. He will fall and he will fall hard. So should the media groupies, who have run out of journalistic creativity. How anyone can contemplate voting for this weak, silly wannabe, is amazing. To bow down to Europeans when they look to America for strenth, leadership and new invigorating technological ideas (even though few would admit it) is backwards. This idiot needs to be captured and put back in his strait jacket. His free day from the nuthouse has lasted long enough.

I think Chis has developed tingles up his thighs again. Step back, take a deep breath, clear your mind for a few seconds of the daily grind and then compare the issues which are the most impostant thing to think about.

I use the examples below to think of and I use McCain first as M comes before O in the alphabet.
Does McCain favor raising taxes or lowering taxes on the average citizen? Where does Obama stand on this issue?
Does McCain favor drilling for the oil located in America? Where does Obama stand.
Does McCain favor lowering taxes for corporations to make them more competitive in the business world? Where does Obama stand?
Does McCain favor individual investments to help booster Social Security? Where does Obama stand.
Does McCain favor a plan where employees and businesses share in health plan coverage? Where does Obama stand.

Senator Obama gave a speech in Berlin which I had to watch as my wife wanted to develop a better opinion. Close to 200,000 Germans from the Berlin area attended in order to see the newest Rock Star from America looking for the new JFK. Judging from the reaction of the crowd which was applauding the speech did not go down so well with the Germans in attendence. Yes, work on the global warming, yes, stop nuclear weapons, but, no, to futher troops in the fight against terrorism.
The Americans in the audience were all Democrats who want a Democratic President at all costs and this number was around 8,000 who live and work in Berlin. However, the most interesting part was my wife’s remark - He sounds like G.W. Bush when he was here not once, but, twice saying the same thing, but, he has that great American smile.

This election is not about race, it is about the issues facing the voters both young and old.

Affirmative Action? Is he really advocating this or is he challenging us to think about more than the color of skin that would qualify someone to be president or anything else.

Lets be honest, for some the idea of voting for a black man makes them cringe. These same people love and respect the constitution, love and respect GOD but cant do the same for a fellow American.

How American is that?

Gee Whiz, Mr. Matthews…..sure I’ll think like my kids, but anyone who has kids will tell you that they are really, really good at spotting phoniness-especially in adults-from a mile away. They don’t like it and they won’t respond positively to it. They should be good at it because they manuveur through the poplularity contests everyday at school Thank God their generation doesn’t base things on race - they are truly free to make choices about their friends based solely on actions and words. At least we have given them that much.

So, if I am to think like my kids, I will vote for the real-deal. My kids have watched Obama’s actions and listened to his words. He has been spotted…….’we” will be voting for McCain. As my kids have put it, he may not be the flashiest, or the most polished, but his actions and words are real to them. They know the real deal when they see it……….out of the mouths of babes……….

At last, someone who actually says out loud that The Messiah is only half black, which, conversly, means he is half white. I am so sick of hearing about the first black candidate for president…hello, he isn’t. He is demonstrably a mixed race man who finds it better for his political career to be ‘black’. He might be a better candidate if he had run as a mixed race american and cut through all the racial animosity, instead of stoking it. As it is, he is just another garden variety socialist, with no real qualificatrions to be president, unless you count community organizing…….

The saddist part of all this political wrangling is the attempt of the media “talking heads” to tell the American people who they should vote for, what language that is acceptable to use when expressing an opinion, and taking us for the fools we are when we let them influence our decisions, as if they have all the answers to the political scene today.

i have to admit. this is one of the best blogs and response sets i’ve read to date on this topic; not just because i happen to agree w/the betsy and most of the respondents. take cafferty’s on cnn’s site, for example. nothing but childish tripe and mindless sniping.

let’s keep up the intelligent discourse and focus on issues, not race. we’ll eventually win the day.

thanks for the article re ron paul. he is the only candidate that realizes that the federal reserve is the cause of the economic problems of this country.
thanks again.
more on ron paul please.

Succinctly, here is the big difference between McCain and Obama.

McCAIN’S A HERO! OBAMA’S DONE ZERO!!

Succinctly, here is the big difference between McCain and Obama.

McCain is a hero. Obama has done zero.

Well said Jeremy !!!!

It cracks me up to hear Republicans whining about Obama’s lack of experience. No previous presidential candidate in U.S. history had less experience than George W. Bush in 2000, and I certainly didn’t hear them worrying back then, although in retrospect they certainly should have been. I’ll be voting for Bob Barr this year (yeah, I know - it boggles my mind to think that it’s come to this) but if Obama wins he will simply be following the precedent sent forth by the single most corrupt, morally bankrupt, incompetent man to ever slime his way into the office. Republicans have no leg to stand on at all now that the Bush dynasty has utterly ruined a once great political movement.

Mathews has been doing this for a while. I used to watch him but I turned him off about two months ago after he insulted my ethics for the last time. Hey Chris, I got news for you, I don’t need you to tell me how to make ethical decisions!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe you’re too busy interupting the whole world and you missed it that part in Catholic school.
Perhaps you’re not quite as smart as you think you are and you really don’t get that there’s more to ethics and morality than what the left difines as racism.

By the way, MSNBC, I used to watch you guys to try and get the perspective from the left, NO MORE!!

For me this election is simple. Without regard for political affiliation, race, or gender…Barack Obama has absolutely zero qualifications to be President of the United States. What he does have is a gift for oratory, and unspeakable arrogance.

It cracks me up to hear Democrats leaping to the attack on Bush when they obviously can’t field a decent candidate any more than the Republicans can. This man is not qualified to be the president of the US, period. John McCain barely is.
Its obvious Obama has no respect for the military, and he’s asking you to make him commander-in-chief. The only reason you would vote for him is if you too had no respect for the military (which I would believe of a great many of you). That’s a dangerous message to send, but if that’s the way you feel, fine. You’ve done this before when you elected Clinton,… another nimrod with no military experience and no business giving them orders. If you want to make this move, to make the president not only anti-military, but completely clueless about what they do, then strip him of the position of commander-in-chief and give it to somebody else who does have that qualification.
At the very elast, the last thing we need is another lawyer in charge of the country.

Matthews is nothing more than a kool-aid drinker!

Would somebody PLEASE tell me what Obama has done to make him experienced enough to be the President of the Untied States?

The man is nothing but an empty suit!

John McCain isn’t the sharlest tool in the shed either! However, he is a much better choice than Obama. Neither will do anything substantial about “illegal” immigration!

I’m thinking of either just not voting or voting for a third party.

May the Good Lord watch over us and keep us safe from the stupid politicians we elect to office!

Robert-
Anyone who refuses to vote for a person, based soley upon the amount of melanin he carries around in his skin can safely classified as a moron. Furthermore, such a person doesn’t even know God much less love Him.

Barak Obama is dangerous to America, not because he is black, but because he is basically a communist. He wishes to take control of every asset this country has and let the gov’t dish out goods and services as it sees fit. I am diabolically opposed to that concept. Those on the left, though they might never concede publicly that they are socialists or communists, want the U S to operate in the same manner a communist government operates. Therefore, I must presume they embrace the concept. As far back as 30 years ago our state universities were teaching our young people that communism was the best form of government known to man (I know this because I sat in one such class at Southwestern Oklahoma State University). Communism does not, cannot will not work. I shall vote against it regardless of who its banner-bearer is, what color he/she is, which continent his ancestors hail from or what religion he claims to embrace.

And Rich–it’s ‘your’.

I get it completely. Vote for Obama. It’s the childish thing to do.

The main stream media’s lovefest with Obama is sickenning. Chis Matthews is thinking like a kid. A 12 yr old girl who is infactuated with the ‘Cool’ boy that sits three rows over in Social Studies… Personally, I have three children between the ages of 13 and 17.. All of them are for McCain.. Hopefully more adults in this country will think like my kids than the ones that Chris Matthews is referring to.

unfortunately, a “bullet proof” congress is a real possibility. then it won’t matter who’s in the white house. the hogs are lining up at a much more expanded trough already.

as far as Chris Matthews, i thought he did a great job covering the ‘00 extended election. thoughtful, and, dare i say it, fair and balanced coverage. but since then his coverage and analysis has tilted too far left for my viewing pleasure. i pop in from time-to-time just to make sure.

Anyone seen “The Dark Knight” ? Hmmmm, all the citizens hate him, he suspends liberties for a time to serve the greater good, he does what’s right for the citizenry even though they want the easy way out just because it is the right thing to do. Sound familiar????? The man behind the mask is none other than……………George W. Bush, our president. What a guy!!!

Diane writes here:
“Obama continues to show day after day that he is the better, more qualified candidate. The challenge for Americans is to vote for him despite his background. This is what Chris Matthews was saying.”

This is rightly known as the audacity of Oxy-Obama-Moron. In essence, you say he is qualified, but does not have a background. How the heck can he be qualified if he does not have the background?

He is the wolf in sheep’s tongue. That is his most powerful background and it does not make him qualified.

He is ashamed of being an American and would put the values of Europeans and others around the globe as our standard, much like activist Judges have used the values in other countries to usurp the Constitution into their own values.

Julian says, “No previous presidential candidate in U.S. history had less experience than George W. Bush in 2000….”

I suppose you’re right; being the Governor of Texas provided W absolutely no experience in dealing with budgets, agencies, sparring branches of the legislature and judiciary, or anything like that. And I doubt his experience in the military affords him any insight at all into dealing with the Joint Chiefs of Staff or understanding defense issues.

Whereas BO has all those years of experience as an Illinois legislator and a US senator where he’s had to worry about…. um, help me here, what did have to worry about again? Aside from fund raising and pleasing the unions?

W has made his share of mistakes, but to imply for even a second that BO is better qualified to be Commander in Chief of the greatest country on the face of the Earth is dillusional.

I think that for every person that will not vote for Obama because he is black there are two people that will vote for him because he is black.

Obama talks a lot but says very little !!!! I have yet to understand what he is for and what he will do for the USA and IT’S CITIZENS. He comes across as being injudicious and insincere. I feel like he is a puppet and I wonder who is in charge of the strings !!!!!?????

I used to watch msn, but now its just a joke, I cant believe what MSN has brought it self down to.
They sound like used car dealers, trying to sell Obama

Julian…

Pres. Bush was the Gov. of Texas before he ran for President, giving him experience in a executive position that neither Obama nor McCain have.

Obama’s not black, he’s not white, he’s HAWAIIAN.

I do believe Obama is beginning to realize that he cannot win over the majority in America. So what does he do? Uses taxpayers money to fly around Europe and Middle East to campaign. He has a purpose, no doubt. But is his purpose in the best interests of America or in his own best interests? My guess is his own. He’s carving out a niche for when he loses in November. Somehow, he believes Europe will open their arms to him. Naive attitude. Yet another two reasons not to vote for him…naive and squanderer of taxpayer dollars.

You really managed to completely miss the point in this one. What Dave was saying was really the exact opposite of how you’d like to paint it. Don’t vote for Obama because he’s black, rather don’t vote against him because he’s not white. It’s a subtle difference, but one that even a staunch partisan like you should be able to recognize. Oh yeah, that’s right. You’d only recognize it if Obama were the one with an “R” behind his name in this election.

“It cracks me up to hear Republicans whining about Obama’s lack of experience. No previous presidential candidate in U.S. history had less experience than George W. Bush in 2000, and I certainly didn’t hear them worrying back then, although in retrospect they certainly should have been.” ~ Julian

Please, get your facts right. Bush was governor of a major state, and had done a good enough job to get re-elected in Texas. That is real experiance.

Conversly, Lincoln served only one term in the US House, and his main claim to fame was that he almost became a US Senator. Or what about Andrew Jackson, Dwight Eisenhower, or Zachary Taylor, who never held an elected office before becoming President?

The fact is that almost everyone who says that the latest is the best or the worst is an ignorant poser.

What I find interesting is all the BO fans talk about his speaking ‘from the heart’. No he’s not, he is speaking from a teleprompter that carries a script written by his speech writers. Without them he cannot speak at all…..uh uh uh.

Finally! A factual & thoughtful article. Thank You. I was beginning to think there was something in the water that almost all the other so-called journalists in America were drinking.
Ash_N, Toronto, Canada

Chris Mathews, if I didn’t know better I’d think you were baiting all of us. Want to answer? The fact that those posting are rarely fooled makes me think we’re all onto you. I can’t believe that a grown up (you are grown up aren’t you?) would consider making the remarks that you did about children making better decisions than adults. Come on, fess up, or maybe Fox could find someone with more actually clear thinking?
I admit, I’m 64, and I really don’t want my country to become more socialist or communist than it already is. I can’t believe that Obama ever lived in a free society like the US. His opinions sound like he came from a third world country rather than a Republic/Democracy. He wants us to be less successful, more into poverty, drive in old cars, or walk or ride a horse. He wants our country to go backwards. Hey, I like freedom to choose, don’t you? Obama is the last person that I would ever consider voting for, for any office. Obama wants to make it a race issue. He’s just a brainless nut that thinks we should feel sorry for the poor guy because he’s 1/2 and 1/2. I don’t vote on pity or sorry for someone. I am voting for who I think could pull this wonderful country out of our dilema. It’s not a race issue for me, but I’m thinking it certainly is a race issue for Obama and he’s doing a good job trying to make it so.
In my day we called it like we saw it. You can take your polically correctness elsewhere.

Matthews and hid ilk are nothing but socialists. And a non-vote for Obama is only because someone is racist. Hogwash! I would vote for a black person if that person was qualified and reflected my values. In fact, I would vote for the President who was on “24″ the first couple of seasons. Of course, he had that goofy wife, should of like Hillary.

What everybody is forgetting is that Obama himself started the race card. And if you do not know

where I’m coming from, research his comments.

I will STILL vote for the MAN who sacrificed and fought for my freedom over the BOY who can’t make up his mind………and chose not to visit the wounded american troops in German hospitals…..but decided to go work out at the Ritz Carleton. Is that appealing to the elites?

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING, 70 % OF THE VOTING AGE KIDS TODAY ARE INTERESTED IN ONE THING
WHERE ARE THE GUYS AND THE GIRLS, AND THE BOOZE, AND CARS, AND THE CONCERT, AND THE MOVIES, AND THE SPORTS TICKETS, AND WHERE TO GET SOME MONEY FOR THE GAS FOR THE CAR
TO GET WHERE I HAVE TO GO FOR A GOOD TIME. TALK TO THE KIDS AT THESE COLLEGES AND ASK THEM WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND DID RUN FOR PRES THIS YEAR AND THE ONLY ONE THEY WILL REMEMBER IS OBAMA, ASK THEM WHAT HE HAS DONE TO GET WHERE HE IS AND THEY WON’T EVEN REMEMBER HIS NAME THE SECOND TIME YOU ASK THEM.. YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING, WHAT’S HIS CHRIS MATTHEWS, NOW THERE IS A REAL PEACE OF WORK FOR THE COAL MINES…

Didn’t Matthew have any other recommendations about Obama beside he is black that americans should vote for?