Video - MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Obama: Smells Like Clinton, Waddles Like Cleveland

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MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews had Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, on his show today. Here's what Matthews asked:

"It seems like this President has had to go to a lot of fundraisers lately, he's played alot of golf lately, he's hung around with Geithner and Summers and the Paulson crowd, the whole New York rich guy scene.

He's beginning to look like a Clinton, he looks like a typical Democrats now, hanging out, playing golf, going to rich people's parties, bringing people into the White House to go bowling, this whole thing begins to smell like the Clinton era, what happened to the change we can believe in?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfC3c_iWhg



I happen to agree with Matthews. The cast of characters around Obama, particularly on the economic side - Summers, Geithner, Bernanke, Rahm, Messina, troubles me to some extent. Where are the progressive voices who are personally close to the president?