Matthews says McCain deserves to be president

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On the November 10 edition of C-SPAN's Book TV live from the 2007 Miami Book Fair International, while promoting his new book Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation and Success (Random House, October 2007), MSNBC host Chris Matthews was asked, "re there any success lessons from John McCain ?" During his answer, Matthews said: "I'm allowed to like certain people. I like , I like Richardson , I like some of these people. I like Biden . There's some guys in this business that most people would like." He continued: "You don't have to think they should be president, although if John McCain were president tomorrow morning, I'd be happy, because even though I might not vote for -- or vote for him depending on the options, I just feel if he became president he would deserve it for what he's done for the country." Matthews added: "eserve's a hard word, but he would deserve it. He served this country and the other guys haven't."

This is not the first time that Matthews has said that McCain "deserves to be president." As Media Matters for America has documented, Matthews has previously said that McCain "deserves to be president" because of his "contributions to the country over the years." As Media Matters has also noted, Matthews has described covering McCain's campaign's problems as the "worst part of job." Furthermore, Matthews has frequently adopted the McCain campaign's talking point that McCain offers "straight talk," and has frequently praised the Arizona senator, including during a November 19, 2006, edition of his NBC-syndicated Chris Matthews Show, on which he referred to McCain as "kind of like a Martin Luther" and described him as a "smart hawk." More recently, Matthews repeated his description of McCain as a "maverick" who offers "straight talk" on the August 29 edition of MSNBC's Hardball.

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[rox63]

1. All this means is that McCain is Matthews' latest man-crush

Ewwww! :puke:

[Captain Hilts]

2. He's got quite the man-crush on McCain. I wonder what Kathleen Matthews thinks? nt

[Eurobabe]

4. Dunno, but didn't his brother just win Monkey Co. Commish?

LOL, make that Muntgumery County, suburbs of Philly. The guy's name was Jim Matthews and he was a dead ringer for Tweety. On edit, yeah it is him, but he's the incumbent member of the commission. Joe Hoeffel and Bruce Castor got the other two vacancies.

[eleny]

3. And when he was interviewed one on one he said he would probably vote Dem

He said that the Republicans will keep us in Iraq, so voting R wouldn't bring change.

He's always had one cheek on either side of the fence. Ratings and revenue rule his world.

[Vickers]

5. If McCain is a maverick, I'm an astronaut.

Unless you define "maverick" as someone who doesn't give a fuck about the will of the American people.

[MalloyLiberal]

6. He liked that whole "bitch" thing probably

[DemBones DemBones]

7. No doubt, and it's a good chance to hold his feet to the fire if

someone will go on his show and raise the issue.

Matthews said this before McCain laughed at the "How do we beat the bitch?" question yelled out yesterday so it would be logical to ask him how he feels about that, how he'd feel if his wife were running for office and got called a "bitch," and if he still thinks McCain "deserves" to be president.