Newsweek's Evan Thomas to Chris Matthews on Hardball, June 5, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.

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 chauvanistic, 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.

Wow.