Media Matters: Tweety went there again. "Did it surprise you that he was so un-ethnic tonight?"

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Matters for America: Matthews on Obama's debate performance: "Did it surprise you that he was so un-ethnic tonight?"

During MSNBC's post-presidential debate coverage, host Chris Matthews asserted that "we don't know who won this debate 'til we know how, to put it bluntly, the white working class guy, the regular working stiff out there, responds." He later asked Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson: "Did it surprise you that he (Obama) was so un-ethnic tonight? That he never once talked about the condition of African-Americans in this country, never once talked about poor people, never once mentioned poor people, never once talked about the underclass."

Matthews has previously questioned whether Obama can "now win over the regular folks, white folks, against John McCain," and has asked whether Obama can "connect with regular people" or if he "only appeals to people who come from the African-American community and from the people who have college or advanced degrees."...

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MATTHEWS: Gene, did it surprise you that he was so un-ethnic tonight? That he never once talked about the condition of African-Americans in this country, never once talked about poor people, never once mentioned poor people, never once talked about the underclass, the people that don't get a break generation after generation. Not once admitted where he came from and what he struggled for as a community organizer -- ever once.

ROBINSON: No, it didn't surprise me. You know, I wrote once that if he's going to become president, Barack Obama has to come across as the least aggrieved black man in America, and I think that's true. And you know, it's not a winner for him to, you know, recount America's racial sins.

MATTHEWS: Yeah.

ROBINSON: If you want to become president, you know, I mean, that's just a fact.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809270007?f=h_latest

[kestrel91316]

1. You can't please these people. If he DID dwell on the plight of

African-Americans, they would be ALL OVER HIM, calling him an angry black man, and saying how he was alienating whites and just pandering to blacks.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Americans like good news, wealthy winners, and a pot-o-gold at the end of the rainbow.

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