Reminds me of the one Jesse Jackson tells to point out how hard it is for him to get good press. He says if he were to see a child drowning in the lake in Central Park and were to walk across the water to save the child, the headline would read JESSE JACKSON CAN’T SWIM!
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Patomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can't Swim””. LBJ
He also said...
“Being President is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There is nothing to do but stand there and take it.”