This guy is cool?
(Politico) — Chris Matthews thinks President Barack Obama has a lot to learn from John F. Kennedy.
The MSNBC host says the president, whom he famously said sent a thrill going up his leg in 2008, is too arrogant for his own good. He faults Obama for not building relationships with other leaders in Washington, for not asking Americans to follow him and for not showing voters that he has learned from the mistakes of the past three years.
“Obama is very brilliant, but that’s not leadership necessarily,” Matthews told POLITICO in an interview about his new book, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero,” due out Tuesday.
The liberal commentator believes the president’s personality is more like Richard Nixon’s than Kennedy’s in at least one key way.
“He and Obama are detached, very cool customers, but Jack didn’t like to be alone, and I think Obama does,” Matthews said. “Obama is more like Nixon that way. He likes to be alone or just with his family or just with his pals from Chicago, and that’s hurting him politically.”