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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