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Right from the start of Tuesday’s Hardball on MSNBC, it was clear that host Chris Matthews was in a giddy mood thanks to President Barack Obama having stumped hours earlier for Hillary Clinton. Of course, he was enamored from the get-go exclaiming that Obama was “back” and rhetorically asked viewers if they saw Obama’s Philadelphia rally so he could assert it included some “magical” lines.
With a smitten look on his face, Matthews proclaimed that “[h]e's back” prior to the show’s opening credits and wondered immediately afterward if anyone happened to “catch President Obama today” because if not, “you missed the la monde start of what could be the wildest barnstorming presidential campaign ever, certainly one by an incumbent and certainly a campaign for someone else.”