Matthews on Obama's SOTU speech: “I forgot he was black tonight for an hour” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 01/27/10 10:52 PM EST From MSNBC's 2010 State of the Union coverage: Video file Previously: Matthews: “Can Obama now win over the regular folks, white folks, against John McCain?” Matthews: Obama “can't walk into a dinette with five or six guys there, white guys, in some cases ... He can't just shake hands and hang out” Matthews: Does Obama “connect with regular people” or just African-Americans and college grads? Matthews on Obama: "[T]his gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody"
