The thrill up Chris Matthews’s leg has returned.

In an interview on MSNBC today, the evening host offered a soliloquy on Barack Obama, calling the president “spotless” and “beautiful” (the latter in reference to Obama’s apparent embrace of American exceptionalism), and praising him for “not going off and making a ton of money.”

Heck, Matthews even took the time to infuse race into his love poem description, saying that the president’s detractors use “the paranoid fear of white’s of black males.”

Shakespeare should be jealous: