Sunday, June 8, 2008

Matthews: Obama not really American

On two occasions in recent days, MSNBC's Chris Matthews expressed concern that Obama's personal history makes it difficult for him to connect with real Americans.

On June 3, he asked:
Does he have that experience that people -- most Americans have? Does he connect on the basic struggling-class level? And I'm not sure he does.

On June 4, in the summary from Media Matters, he
criticized Sen. Barack Obama's expression of patriotism, asserting that Obama "thank[s] America" because he "got certain things from it," rather than, Matthews claimed, "express[ing]" "that gut sense of Americanism," which, Matthews said, is "a hard thing for someone like Barack Obama ... to express." He also purported to distinguish Obama from "regular" Americans, saying: "People that don't have anything, including beautiful families and Ivy League degrees, know what they got. They're Americans."




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