Reply #87: From your link, Matthews' comments in their entirety:

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"I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It's interesting: he is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he's gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and past so much history, in just a year or two. I mean, it's something we don't even think about. I was watching, I said, wait a minute, he's an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people. And here he is president of the United States and we've completely forgotten that tonight — completely forgotten it. I think it was in the scope of his discussion. It was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you don't think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard. A very subtle fact. It's so hard to talk about. Maybe I shouldn't talk about it, but I am. I thought it was profound that way."

The context does provide a slightly more flattering light of what the idiot said, but the idea that Obama is post-racial is so laughably stupid it's ridiculous. How the hell can Matthews call the man "post-racial" and then in the next breath say "I forgot he was black for an hour."

And Obama's race is something that a whoooooooole lot of Americans spend a GREAT DEAL of time thinking about. They haven't forgotten it in the least, regardless of how hard Matthews tries to pretend otherwise. Matthews actually seemed to dig the whole he was in a bit deeper with his comments. Oh, and I'm black too. :) These little dog whistles don't fly over my head.