'False Witness' Op-Ed by Chris Matthews

In two years, did you think he was going to put millions back to work, Get congress to work with him, solve the world's problem. Gee I didn't know he was superman.

I didn't think so, but he was going to be according to his campaign speeches!

Six more years and you'll see what he can do. The republicans sure don't have anyone that stands out as a great choice for president.

His present day deeds don't raise many questions with me. It's the lies about his personal past Chris was commenting on.

The Republican Party and it's offspring the Tea Party are driven by the lie machine. Same as Hitler's Nazis. The same folks, different time, different place, their votes drawn from a scared little bunny rabbit electorate. Our weak and dissolute national Democratic Party offers no comfort for them, so they vote for what they see as the strong guys.

Me? I don't own a gun and I've never been on a helicopter.

WHOOOHOOO ....very nice post, thank you !

Good point about the Klan. The reason Fox News (aka Rupert Murdoch) sounds a lot like the Klan is that Murdoch is saying what he thinks he must to recruit their votes. The South votes Republican for such reasons. It's what Repubicans are, it's what they do. Angry fearful haters. The fire must be stoked to inspire their hatred and keep them safely in the Repubican camp.

Everything you say is true. Thanks for a good comment.

I know more about politics then you. Of coarse I get my politics from MSNBC and before long KO.Mandate to fix the mess left him in two years. He must be hiding his magic wand from us.You Wake Up!!!

I voted for President Obama. If you don't agree with his policies that's fine but he is not a Puppet of the glogalists or inslavement for one world agenda. I'm glad you said he is ALLEGEDLY from another terrorist country He is American as Apple Pie. He has improved the economy. You seem to think everything should happen over night.He is our President and you should respect that. You wake up. He has six more years. Give him time.

Take heart bro, the revolution has begun and we intend to kick ass! Your last sentence hits it out of the park. When we collectively sublimate that fact, and refuse to let them make us feel guilty for being failures, after they have stolen trillions from us, we're going to get that money back. And we need your help. Check into the Reform Revolution. We're targeting every antisocial corporation, we want out troops home now along with the war budget, we want go scale back all of the military and want that budget back, we want windfall taxes on every corp, decriminalization of drugs, prosecution of legislators for treason and wahtever you can add to the list. You want to kick ass, or what?

Obama's had two years, and the American people delivered their verdict on he and his party last November. Wars, elitist Republican domestic economic policy - not what the people wanted. Supine weakness in the face of a Republican congressional minority. The entire Democratic Party, with Obama at its helm, was completely repudiated at the polls. What can we look forward to in 2012?

Wow, you admit that in public? Well, I guess if you believe the economy has gotten better, you really are that naive Respect has to be earned and the last President I respected was Clinton. Obama has two years left at the most, thank God.

If the elections could be held today, they would go the other way. Look what the republican govenors are doing to the people in WI. & Ohio. Why aren't the rep. house working on jobs. Abortion, taking away health care for people that need it,a budget that's not going any where, cutting SS & medicare from the seniors while wanting to give millions in tax cuts to the rich. Nothing on JOBS!! I think President Obama will look good in 2012.Even Limbaugh said the Republicans don't have much to choice. Wow, Wish I had that on tape.

The economy has gotton better. you must not listen to the news. Six years for PRESIDENT Obama. He's earning it.

I do listen to the news, but as far as the economy goes, I pay more attention to my wallet and my checkbook. Can't see as anything is getting much better.

You are preaching to the wrong choir.

its the only choir i know and we are all in it

take me to the heart, you batty coolll!

1 more for da bat!

If you want to talk about Obama's policies and that you're disappointed I'm sure you can find that thread somewhere. Go over to Huffingtonpost and dive in.

I'm no Matthews fan but even a stopped clock in right twice a day. Dismiss these crazy racist homophobes at your own peril and that of your country.

You are really a dreamer if you think McCain could have done better. Palin next in line for President--Thats scary. It's only been two yrs. Give him time.

Thank you!

You do know that while gov. in Mass. he put in health care just like President Obamas.

Now were picking on good old Joe. Must be a reason. He's a good man. Get facts.

The video speaks for itself.

I agree with you. Good comment.

Of course Huck wants to run for President. That is why he took a job that would give him name recognition. The last time he ran, no one knew who he was.

I wish I could have put the words as well as you did. Thanks.

I want t argue with your post ...but it so fucking crazy mixed up I dont know what it means.

Great post. Money is what it's all about. Hukabee has become just as big a of TV talking head whore as Palin.

Well, I understand your sentiment, but I have to play devil's advocate here.

Your opinion is an illogical because:

1. There is no widely accepted definition of what constitutes being "un-American." If you said "against the Constitution/BOR," that could easily be supported by evidence, just by quoting the Constitution/BOR. But there is no widely accepted definition of "un-American."

2. It is impossible to prove a negative, even if someone is correct. Therefore, you are setting an impossible grounds for proof o the opinon of those you claim are "un-American."

Do we have to join the fringe conservatives in their cheap bumper-sticker political jingoism by accusing other Americans of being "un-American"? I think if we do, we go against our own best interests, because we then have validated their own right to claim that WE are "un-American" because we believe in such "radical" things as reproductive choice, not getting American soldiers slaughtered to increase our access to natural resources, etc.

I really do understand our sentiment. I'm just really queasy about those "slippery-slope" situations.

I believe the definition of American that he is using to derive his thesis comes from the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

There is no real definition of American that the right uses to deride the left. By un-American they usually just mean "not conservative" or "worldly".

But why am I not surprised to see yet another post by you specifically defending "republicans, conservatives and teabaggers"?

I agree that your points may, indeed, be true. However....

1. There are plenty of Democrats who have one BIG issue that they will go to the mat about. For Matthews (who, by the way, has been for years an MSNBC host who I simply will not watch for any reason), it is racism. Since we have a president whose genetically is "half" African-American, in some cases I believe Democrats stand up for Obama because of their loathing for racism when, if Obama was 100% European-American, they would not.

2. It is easy to sit back and not stand up for the other issues that have great impact on Americans, when you are economically secure and have enough prestige and D.C. clout that you are pretty much immune from the kinds of threats the rest of us have to deal with.

3. I don't think there is anything wrong with being a JFK Democrat. My parents were and, even though I was very young at the time, I am, by familial osmosis, a JFK Democrat, too. If you witnessed on TV, as I did (our school had one TV, and our teacher had reserved it from about 10:00 on for a series of Spanish programs being televised to schools), the first announcement that JFK had been shot, and then all of the rest of the coverage the rest of the day, JFK and everything about him will always have an incredible presence in your heart and mind.

4. The reasons I don't like Matthews are:

***He shoves his illogical arguments on his guests and viewers by means of using his hosting power to shout over them, interrupt them, or preferentially call on a host with whom he agrees.

***He worships Nancy Reagan to the point of irrationality.

***He was one of the media pundits who relentlessly jumped on the GOP-backed "Dean scream" meme.

All of these reasons indicate a man of illogical convictions, and a willingness to do something unethical in order to advance his own agenda. Therefore, I just do not trust him or his opinoins.

I didn't and don't dispute any of that. I was just pointing out a bit about where Matthews is coming from. My point #1 was supposed to be the "bad side" from your point of view and generally covers everything you're complaining about (bad ideas, Spin Cycle, etc). My point # 2 was supposed to be the "good side". I was certainly not saying there's anything wrong with a JFK Democrat. In fact, quite the opposite.

But as I've said before, your outright hatred of Obama makes it hard to take anything you say seriously.

Your goal seems to be to carve out a tiny group in complete ideological harmony but which can never win a national election. So of course you hate Chris Matthews. I side more with people willing to build the most liberal coalition possible at any given time that can actually win.

What we have here is a vice president dumber than Dan Quayle. I'll bet they get together to play one potato, two potato.

you mean, 1 potatoe, 2 potatoe.

sheesh, learn to spell buddy, Quayle would be so disappointed.

You really can't be serious! Dumber Than Quail?

Dumber than Quayle. It's just the mainstream media doesn't like to grab left wing mistakes and hammer the person until every left wingnut believes it's the truth. It nice of Obama to honor a Navy corpse man while he was still alive. Which one of 57 states was the corpse from?

ITA about referencing HuffPost. We know it is a questionable (censored) source of information and I, for one, don't have the time to fact check everything in a HuffPost article before I feel okay about using it as a reference. ! +^'d.

hear hear...

Thanks. :)

Wow! Good post.

Thank you. :)

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they're unfit to serve humanity and should be Section 8 discharged out...

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the Republican Party nearly dragged the country, and world, off the cliff
since they're not at the control levers now
they're going to throw themselves off the cliff

they are one freaking weird group of self-destruct lemmings
i watch them in fascinated horror
from george w to cheney to rumsfeld to palin to The State of Arizona to
boehner to scott walker

what a show!
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They were very entertaining but now they are down right destructive to America!

unamerican activities i say...

They are nothing short of Fascists!

Kenny, the thing about Gingrich is the gullible voters he is courting are the conservative evangelicals, which is a huge voting bloc for the Republican Party.

Richard Land, a very powerful evangelical, told McCain flat-out that evangelicals would not accept Lieberman, Romney and Ridge as a VP candidate, but wanted Sarah Palin as VP candidate. Land threatened that, if Palin was not McCain's VP choice, there would be a fight in a challenge to McCain's VP nomination on the GOP Convention floor, which would have split the GOP and certainly lost any chance of McCain being elected president.

I think the GOP is going to be stuck with Gingrich as a presidential candidate, whether they want him or not.

However, considering how gullible the GP voters are, all the GOP will have to do is run a few ads with Gringrich's face superimposed over a flag/Ronald Reagan's face background, and the GOP voters will want him.

Lets hope so, cause 51% of the vote will be needed and Gingrich's negatives are high right now and in a Presidential election he will go nowhere! I can see the commercials about three wives keeping many at home!

Again, he is targeting evangelicals, and he is using very good election tactics to buy key leaders.

Key evangelicals have already publicly said, and written, that, basically, all is forgiven for the wives because Gingrich convinced them he is truly repentant and will go forward advancing the evangelical agenda.

This is something being ignored by the MSM now. By the time they start talking about it, if they ever do, it will probably be after the Iowa caucus, and by that time it will be too late to stop Gingrich.

Well good for the Evangelicals, but most Americans would understand that Gingrich served his first wife with divorce papers on her death bed while he was having an affair with his second wife.

And then cheated on the second wife with the third while impeaching Clinton for getting a
BJ.

To that I say, its a great thing! They are showing there true colors. The dumber they act, the crazyier there ideas get the better it makes us look. If they keep showing there asses maybe just maybe people will finally realize them for who they really are!

The biggest Hypocrite in the Repugnant party!

That's why I welcome his run for President! He will be destroyed!

Indeed. Here's what he said to his 2nd ex-wife when she asked how he can get up there and preach about family values:

"It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

I guess we should give him credit for openly admitting to being a hypocrite.

Right on, a Hypocrite of the highest order!

Gingrich has openly admitted to a top evangelical leader (I think it is James Dobson, but the quote was not identified in the article) that he was having an affair with his current wife when he was prosecuting Clinton for impeachment over Clinton's BJ.

But all is forgiven, as long as the collection plate stays full.

Yay! Something we can agree on. :)

we should give him credit for his "do as i say, not as i do" policy as well

he wont be destroyed by obama... obama is not a dirty campaigner... which is a big reason why he was elected.

He'll destroy himself!

Gringich was also fined $3000,000 by the House of Reps. on ethics charges,largest fine ever against the Speaker of the House. He resigned from the house 1998 when ethics charges were filed against him regarding his tax-exemptions to further his political goals.This i would hope would hurt a run for president.

Yep that works against him as well!