Evan Thomas (Newsweek) - 'Obama's Sort of God'

Evan Thomas (from Newsweek) had some interesting things to say on Hardball. Basically, he said that Obama is God. Perhaps not surprisingly, Chris Matthews apparently agrees.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god

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"EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-

MATTHEWS: Yeah."

Video embedded below.