MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: 2013 Was a ‘Terrible Year for the President’

SCARBOROUGH: "Let me ask you the losers -- political losers of the year?"
MATTHEWS: "It was certainly a terrible year for the president."
SCARBOROUGH: "Can you go back a year ago? One year ago the president was getting ready for his second inauguration. So much hope – “
MATTHEWS: “There's another piece. It’s not just a bad year in terms of the rollout. There’s an erosion in interest. It feels like a very long presidency now. It feels like the seventh or eighth year of a presidency. It doesn't feel like the fifth. There wasn't that rejuvenation that comes with a re-election. He certainly was never going to get a honeymoon from the other side, but there was no sense of wow. And I think that's hurt him a lot. But you know, we've had presidents come back from Iran-Contra, Eisenhower and Sputnik, and that huge recession in '58. I was going through the last three or four presidents who’ve had two terms. They tend to come back in terms of [INDECIPHERABLE] in the last year or two. But he's got to be better than that. He’s young. He’s got to come back with some gusto, and I don't see him rebuilding a team.”