Furious Chris Matthews Explodes: Cory Booker 'Betrayed' and 'Sabotaged' Obama
A furious Chris Matthews on Monday railed against Cory Booker for his "betrayal" and "sabotage" of fellow Democrat Barack Obama. A bewildered Matthews couldn't understand why the Newark mayor would "trash" the President.
Howling over Booker's break from party loyalty, Matthews snarled, "... I think [this] was an act of sabotage. Whatever the intention was, [Booker] was trashing the entire Obama campaign of the summer." The Hardball host then played a clip of Obama "trying to defend himself against what looked like something like a betrayal." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Talking to liberals David Corn and Howard Fineman, Matthews attempted to deride Booker as some sort of heretic: "On comes Cory Booker, supposedly a surrogate for President Obama, comes on the show listed as a surrogate, points out he's got surrogate notes in his hand, said he's been working as a surrogate and then trashes the entire campaign..."
The cable anchor marveled at the "astounding" nature of the mayor's comments, ridiculously asserting, "I never saw anything like this that we saw on Meet the Press yesterday."
Of course, such things happen to the GOP all the time. In fact, MSNBC has a three hour show where Republicans are brought on to trash other Republicans. It's called Morning Joe. The only difference is that Matthews and other journalists applaud those acts of "betrayal."
A transcript of the comments can be found below:
Hardball
05/21/12
5:04
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I want you to just hold while we watch the President now do this very intricate response to what the mayor of Newark said yesterday, which I think was an act of sabotage. Whatever the intention was, he was trashing the entire Obama campaign of the summer in one appearance on Meet the Press. Let's watch the President today trying to defend himself against what looked like something like a betrayal. Let's watch.
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MATTHEWS: Let's recap here for our audience who didn't watch Meet the Press, David, before you come back here. I watched Meet the Press yesterday and I watched Cory Booker, a very impressive fellow with an incredible education, include Stanford behind him. And he went on television and basically said the President's entire campaign, which is to go after Bain Capital, to go after Mitt Romney, his presumed opponent in this election, attacking Romney for destroying jobs as head of Bain Capital. He said he was basically a job destroyer. They've been putting on one ad after another making this point. On comes Cory Booker, supposedly a surrogate for President Obama, comes on the show listed as a surrogate, points out he's got surrogate notes in his hand, said he's been working as a surrogate and then trashes the entire campaign by saying, "There's really nothing wrong with private capital. Nothing wrong with Bain Capital. I fire people. He fires people. So what? This is all good for American capitalism." It was an incredible 180 on everything the President stands for in this campaign. The President just went on and tried to deal with it right now. But, I'll tell you, it was astounding that they have listed this guy as a surrogate when he is intending to go on television and to trash everything Obama is making the case for. Now, your thoughts, David? I never saw anything like this that we saw on Meet the Press yesterday.
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The truth
Submitted by Ars21689 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:20pm.
has now become treason. Pathetic. Chris Matthews should stick to Jeopardy..... oh wait.
Chrissy cannot stand the fact that a Democrat actually told the
Submitted by nonncom on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 9:27am.
truth about his impression of the party line....LOL....further proof that you can't be honest and still be a Democrat.....
That there's funny!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 11:12am.
I don't care who you are.
- Larry the Cable Guy
He's right
Submitted by Skunk Ape on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:24pm.
Cory Booker told the truth, and Matthews has never seen a Democrat do that before.
That tingle running down Chrissie's leg...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:29pm.
...was warm & unwelcome!
Start buying Depends stock. It's gonna be a great year!
Fineman and Corn
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:33pm.
Why would anybody ASK those two anything? Two bigger idiots you'll never find. I suppose they agreed with Tingles and even took it further extreme.
Chris' panties are in a wad under his Freudian slip.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:33pm.
Repeating a bad joke told by a previous psychiatry mentor.
Uh hoh geez....
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:39pm.
Listen to Matthews whine.
Booker does not work for MSNBC.
He is allowed to criticize the President unlike anybody who works for the network.
What is even funnier is that if a Republican was criticizing Romney, Matthews would be calling it a refreshing bit of honesty from somebody with unquestionable integrity.
Where was Booker "listed as a surrogate" for Obama?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:41pm.
What a doofus.
To Tingles, this is even worse than if he had caught his own wife cheating.
BTW, Booker is now doing the Reverse Moonwalk.
in tingles world
Submitted by jimtrees on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:44pm.
What is construed a wife? Chris should invite him on his show and make the old citizens arrest. Booker can go to jail for being critical of our Dear Leader.
Corey Booker is off the plantation!
Submitted by smokeybehr on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 6:51pm.
The Slave Catchers in the MSM are out in force trying to bring Booker back. It's the exact same thing that they've been doing to every Black that doesn't toe the Party Line, or shows the slightest bit of Conservative leanings. They'll never admit to it, but you can see it every time. Look at what happened to every Conservative Black person that has been either elected or appointed: They get called "House N***", "Oreo" or "Uncle Tom".
Right on, Smokey.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:32pm.
Won't be long before someone will refer to Booker as "uppity," and getting "above his raisin'."
Or 'punchin' above his
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:17pm.
Or 'punchin' above his weight'????
or speaking...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 11:14am.
above his pay-grade.
Admit it Chris, you and your
Submitted by forest on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:09pm.
Admit it Chris, you and your all-white old-guy panel just hate Booker because he's black. And apparently a capitalist - gotta hate him for that too I guess.
Chris Mathews
Submitted by dusaa-1975 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:10pm.
Will Tingles ever stop proudly announcing that his is an extension of the obama campaign?
Really???!!!
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:11pm.
He works for a network that is controlled and programmed by the White House Press Office.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Mathews and Obama
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 11:30am.
Remember, it is Mathews' job to make sure that Obama succeeds.
The Tingler
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:14pm.
Wonder if Tingles considers Booker to be an anti-Tingler.
Matthews blurts out the truth
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:19pm.
and admits that Obama's intent is to destroy American capitalism.
[Booker]:This is all good for American capitalism."
Matthews: It was an incredible 180 on everything the President stands for in this campaign.
Mother - you are insanely genius
Submitted by ParalegalGoddess on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:01am.
This needs to be put in a 20 second or 30 second spot and run ad nauseum by the Romney campaign - if the were smart this is in the works 5 seconds after it was uttered.
Hey Chris........
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:27pm.
Doesn't a Campaign bundler FOR OBAMA currently run Bain Capital right now? Uh, YES.
When someone actually prides themselves as being a "Speechwriter for Jimmy Carter", that means that they are actually dumber than a box of rocks. Hell, I think that if you combine Matthews, Corn, and Fineman's IQ's together it is STILL in negative territory. I'd say that it is -17.
Definition of "negative IQ":
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 11:15am.
When anyone around the speaker ends up dumber just from hearing his words.
We all know what happened/is
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:36pm.
We all know what happened/is happening. Soon after Booker said this stuff, some muckety-muck from Obama's goon squad grabbed Booker by the ear and dragged him into an empty room. Then he pulled out a club with a heavy brass replica of Obama's head on the tip and started beating Booker all across the room. Only when Booker was weeping and begging for mercy on the floor did the Obama thug stop, and scream at him. 'You do NOT question your master's authority! You will repent and issue a retraction or you're a DEAD man!'
And Booker wept, pleading, 'Yes mastah, yes mastah, I do what you say! Don' beat this po' tired body!'
And here we are - with Booker's 'hostage' video retractions, no doubt filmed at direct gun point.
See? The Democrats DO like to use guns sometimes....
Excellent!
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:14pm.
This is what happens when a homosexual runs the government and heterosexual dares to criticize him!
Prissy, you twit.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:37pm.
The truth is a bitch, ain't it.
It's amazing how upset liberals get when they think on of their "boys" gets off the plantation.
Will African Americans ever figure out how low white liberals consider them to be?
Stock
Submitted by stan25 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:39pm.
I am going to buy some shares of the Orville Redenbacher company. I could get rich from all of the popcorn that is going to be sold this summer, watching the left crap themselves every time Obama gets another defector.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:50pm.
Another black man wanders off the White Liberal Plantation and gets taken to the woodshed.....hilarious to watch these tolerant libbies, isn't it??
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
It's all about loyalty to
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:50pm.
It's all about loyalty to these liberal scumbags. Truth and honor mean nothing to them. If one of their own strays from the party line they are 'taken care of' like the 'Night of the long knives' or Stalin's purges. Anything to keep power! Liberals like Matthews are the scum of the earth.
Blame the mayor
Submitted by CJohnson on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:55pm.
Does Mathews know it is he himself sabotaging Obama's campaign when he claims a mayors' comment inadvertently trashed it. Now, what sort of flimflam campaign could a 'mayor' undo?
The worse
Submitted by Tjexcite on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 7:56pm.
The worse punishment for apostasy is done to those in the church of liberalism. Islam will just kill you and then forget you. The Church of liberalism will destroy you, your reputation and political career first and then make you wish you where dead. No mater how much graveling and penance one does less than 12 hours latter.
OH!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 11:17am.
That's good....Your comment I mean.
Well come on, we know what this shows about Matthews
Submitted by OffTheLows on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:03pm.
He's saying that black leaders in the Democratic party are not allowed to have divergent views from the party. Chris Matthews wants Booker put in his place, to shut up and sit in back of the bus. So, Chris Matthews is pretty much admitting that he's racist. Yep, no doubt about it, Matthews is racist.
Credentials of the benign racist
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:09pm.
Chris the Wide Mouth Frog said: "Cory Booker, a very impressive fellow with an incredible education, include Stanford behind him."
Isn't that so white of him?
Would Matthews say that of a white politician? "Tip O'Neill was an impressive fellow, incredible education, including ______________ . . ."? Of course not. That's taken for granted or not necessary. But there is paternalistic Matthews, buffing up the qualifications of the black guy, just so we know (1) Booker does have the creds and (2) Matthews is an enlightened man who knows and appreciates those creds.
And then Chris froths at the mouth (which is actually pretty easy for him to do—just breath heavily through the spittle) as he excoriates Booker for betrayal, exactly the same thing conservative black politicians are guilty of.
At least Chris
Submitted by panzerakc on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 12:06am.
didn't intimate that Booker "didn't talk like a Negro, unless he wants to" a la Harry Reid.
Ah, yes
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 5:30am.
Senator Pomegranate's famous compliment.
Almost as endearing as Biden's comment about the Indian accent of Seven-Eleven clerks.
What, in the real world is
Submitted by MikeB on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:10pm.
What, in the real world is "truth" is, in the land of Chiroptera lunarii "swift-boating", "betrayal", "sabotage", "lying", "racism". How many other synonyms have I left off?
MikeB ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:19pm.
'Chiroptera lunarii' ---
Had to look it up to be sure, but it made me laugh out loud.
Good one.
MD
The universal malediction
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:53pm.
(Or "male diction." not to put too fine a point on it) is "hate speech" or hurtfulness, as in Booker (co-star with Chris Christie in a little bipartisan fun on YouTube) is spewing hate speech when he says Bain Capital is a good actor.
And then there are all the Nazi and Bush epithets, too.
That cannot be
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:10pm.
A black Democrat went out of the reservation. He went out of the plantation, as defined by Deneen Borelli and Star Parker. That cannot be.
Booker is the real deal
Submitted by stunned on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:14pm.
I grew up near Booker but never met him but have watched him over the years. He worked hard, graduated from college, went to work as an organizer without the usual attacks on the "man" and he often speaks how lucky he was to have a solid family background and loving parents who taught him the value of an education and set high expectations. When he moved to Newark and started out in politics he was attacked for not being authentically black enough to connect with "the people" by the corrupt Newark Democrat machine. They have worked against him at every turn
He is one of the hardest working, honest, generous and gutsy guys around. He did charge into a burning building to rescue a neighbor and along with the cops in his security detail and ended up pulling out one of the cops who ran in ahead and was injured as well. He gave all the credit for the rescue to the injured cop and the rest of his security detail and downplayed his role.
He has worked hard (16-18 hours a day, seven days a week) to attract business to Newark, lower taxes and improved services over the years. He is hated because he works well with Chris Christy on areas where they agree, won't bend over for the unions, won't blame Republicans for every thing wrong in the Newark's poor neighborhoods, demands parents take responsibility for raising their kids and is a blunt speaker. Yup the Dems hate sure have a lot of reasons to hate this guy.
tired of liberal lies
Too few Dems are like Mayor
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:12am.
Too few Dems are like Mayor Booker. I don't think he'll survive as a Dem. They had no room for Lieberman, and they have no room for Booker.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Chris Mathews
Submitted by dusaa-1975 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:15pm.
Will Tingles ever stop proudly announcing that his is an extension of the obama campaign?
Hey, he's doing double duty these days
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:57pm.
Now that Keith the Sports Boy has left "channel a million" and is stumbling around in the outer darkness, picking up crumbs from George Steppingonagoose* and other real TV programs on real TV networks.
* HT to another NBer who used this several months ago. Sorry I can't recall who it was, but it's a great name.
I thought Matthews claimed he was a journalist?
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:16pm.
Why would he care if Booker (or anyone else) came out with a statement like that. Sure, go ahead and report it as news, even analyze it for possible effects and ramifications, but to get upset at it shows that he is definitely biased.
Would he be upset if something similar had happened to Romney? He would probably have been giggling like a little school girl.
Booker speaks the truth and Chris Matthews has a meltdown because it undermines Obama's campaign strategy. Wear your heart on your sleeve there much Chrissy?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
bed wetter
Submitted by PVC1234 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:29pm.
if a Republican rips ROmney or Bush they are courageous people for speaking out. A democrat (who by the way Booker scaled back his comments) is betraying Obama? keep peeing yourself and showing what a dope you are on Jeopardy even though you mockingly wondered how bad Palin would do on Jeopardy.
This is gonna be a wonderful Summer & Fall
Submitted by The_Barrel_Guy on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:35pm.
However you want to describe the Obama campaign of 2008, it did work... McCain was out to lunch... The legacy media was in full suck mode... Democrats of all stripes were in lockstep... The voting public just wanted it to all go away... The campaign did work... Obama was elected...
Now, four years later, we have any number of wonderful changes... Every day we see and hear an unacceptably honest democrat (Mayor Booker) or an idiot democrat (Pow Wow Warren) or a just plain stupid democrat (Joe Biden) followed by the "professional damage control" freaks who try to explain it away...
I honestly do not think they have a clue what they look and sound like...
DO NOT LET THIS STOP...
If we can get to election day with these clowns on the front page everyday for all to see, Romney just might come close to the electoral numbers of Reagan in 1984 or Nixon in 1972...
One can only hope...
You are spot-on target with your analysis
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 8:47pm.
I am predicting a rout in November. Actually, I'm envisioning it to be somewhere like an 83-17% rout. I can't tell you how disgusted I get at listening to these idiots on M-BS-NBC lie to their 7 viewers about this administration creating 4 million jobs. Where are these jobs? Certainly these jobs Obama created aren't at Solyndra or GM, right?
I wish you were right, but I think not...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:08pm.
In this time of hyper-partisanship the Democrats will vote (D) and the Republicans will vote (R). That leaves only the Independents as the swing votes. I think that a difference of 10% is as close as we will see to a rout in this day and age.
More important than the popular vote will be the Electoral College. It is possible that we may see a margin of victory greater than Reagan had in his second election win.
And then we will hear the democrats whine and cry about how old-fashioned and out of date the electoral college is and how it "disenfranchises" voters, blah, blah, blah. They will push to abolish it and elect the president via direct popular vote. This must NEVER be allowed.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Booker will almost certainly
Submitted by Uncredentialed on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:02pm.
Booker will almost certainly be referred to as a white african american from now on.
Hardballs.
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:10pm.
Soft-head!
Chris and Cory
Submitted by BondPlainBond on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:44pm.
The respect I had for Cory Booker flew out the window when it was obvious Obama had inserted his hand into Booker's back, wrapped his evil and gnarled fingers around Booker's spine, and snatched it out with one swift and malicious yank, leaving exposed the fact that Booker has been/is nothing but an Obama-puppet. All according to Obama's plan.
One of the many useful idiots representing MSNBC's non-existent standards in journalism, Matthews continues to demonstrate the odd workings of his irrational, hobbled, and hate-filled mind through his spittle-flying tirades; all speech encourage by the Obama White House.
Both men are devoid of personal courage (sorry, Cory, you've earned this excoriation); but always available to serve as Obama's political puppets.
Tingles Psychosis
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:50pm.
If the camera would've zoomed in, we might've been treated to a closeup of Tingles' infamous spittle.
yeah but it would have jacked
Submitted by ParalegalGoddess on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:03am.
yeah but it would have jacked up the camera....
Cory Booker's "Reversal of Mis-fortune"....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:00pm.
...reminded me of that episode of "Roots" where the massah beat the living "Kunte Kinte" out of Lavar Burton until he was a good "Toby"...
Chris Matthews - Bigot
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:51pm.
What really irks Chrissy is that Mayor Booker is no longer on the Liberal/NAACP/groupthink plantation. I saw Meet the Depressed on Sunday, and Mayor Booker came across as a very sharp guy who knew what he was talking about. He's a very impressive gentleman. He spoke the truth, so naturally Tingles was upset.
So, who's the real bigot here. Will Massa Chris be upset with anyone who is Black and veers off the party line plantaation?
I was on another island over
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:27pm.
I was on another island over the weekend - with my son and grandson - so I'm just now catching up on the news, including this story. It seems to me that Booker made some common sense with his statements, and I even think that another 'black' mayor agreed with 'the substance' of what he said. Of course, this is going to drive the Leghumper AND Boy Baraka crazy that some 'upiity black Democrat' would DARE to 'speak TROOF to power'.......................especially them!!!
So I see that Axelgrease is in full damage-control mode, and that Booker is under some serious pressure from 'da man', and I also read that Boy Baraka has stated that going after Bain is legit, and part of the campaign strategy. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
So I'm thinkin' (Obamaspeak) to myself....................if going after these types of things that went on in the past - like Bain, and tying a dog to the roof, and harrassing a kid in high school..............................what, exactly, is wrong with going after ANY of the multitudes of bad history and negative facts in Boy Baraka's past (to say nothing of the same types of things in his present!!)?
He got a pass in the last election - from the StateRun Media as well as the spineless and gutless McCain Mutiny............so all of that TROOF that is out there about Boy Baraka is STILL waiting to be blown up across America - so that not only those of us who DID our homework can be reminded of it, but all of the morons, idiots, sheeple, brain-dead, and sound-bite followers can also be exposed to some 'dirt' (although it's TRUE DIRT!!!) about their hopeless, useless, and worthless piece of Kenyan Kow Krap poser/president.
Runaway Slave Alert! Chris 'Simon Legree' Matthews
Submitted by DaMav on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 12:46am.
requests the assistance of all liberal men & wymmen in locating & returning an escapee from the Obama Plantation as is your obligation under the Dred Scott ruling.
I wish Romney would talk about Obama's
Submitted by Shreve on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 6:56am.
business record. Oh, wait, he doesn't have one.
Apparently, the Kossacks think Booker is just a Democrat for convenience.
Chrissie is a putz.
Submitted by texastommy on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 7:29am.
Chrissie is a putz.
Too bad Booker hasn't stood by his initial comments.
Submitted by BoilerFan on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 8:00am.
I was mostly pleased with Cory Booker's comments on Meet the Press on Sunday. (I disagree with his negative mention of the Rev. Wright stuff, as I believe it's perfectly legitimate to question why Obama sat in the man's pews for two decades and never challenged his views until he was called out on the subject in 2008. And it's legitimate to ask how much BO agrees with the basic assumptions of the black liberation theology that served as the primary foundation for Wright's preaching.)
It's too bad Booker's caved in a bit after his fellow Democrats repeatedly hammered him for his (accurate) comments about Obama's ignorant rants against private equity. I would have far more respect for the mayor if he stood by his remarks and told his fellow Democrats to get stuffed.
As for Matthews...He's ticked because a fellow Democrat made the mistake of telling the truth instead of spewing the party's talking points on the Bain/private equity narrative. As usual, shame on Matthews for his blind-to-the-truth partisanship. Obama can count on this shill to come to his defense, regardless of how wrong Obama is on the subject being considered.
In Section F
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:36am.
Duped
In the News
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:37am.
Fashion style editor says the emperor's new clothes are getting rave reviews.
In the metro sextion, a man wearing the same attire was arrested for flashing a group of nuns. Sister Mary Jeans and the female arresting officer, when asked for comment, both agreed it was no big thing.
It is "Little Christie"
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 10:45am.
It is "Little Christie" Matthews if his hero "Zero" said he was going to Nuke Denver tomorrow, Christie would be telling everyone that it is such a wonderful idea and that the brilliant Obama has solved all of America’s problems in this one action.
The idea that a fellow liberal would tell the truth about the scum in the White House would be unacceptable to “Little Christie” and I am surprise he hasn’t declared “Vendetta” and employed assassins for insulting his Obama.
“If you don't have a record to run on, then you…make a big election about small things.” -- Barrack Obama
Did Chris Matthews just
Submitted by RandomUK on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:07pm.
Did Chris Matthews just describe American capitalism as "an incredible 180 on everything the President stands for in this campaign"?