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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:

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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"

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