Posted on 03/08/2010 11:47:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Dan Rather: 'Articulate' Obama Couldn't Even 'Sell Watermelons' By Geoffrey Dickens Created 03/08/2010 - 14:41
HDNet's Dan Rather stepped on one mine after another in the racial minefield that exists when talking about the nation's first black President as the former CBS anchor, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show on March 8th, uttered the following take on the President's ability to get health care passed and how the GOP and independents would view it.
DAN RATHER: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. "Listen he just hasn't been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death." And a version of, "Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."
Dan is just a bitter, rejected old man who’s gone a bit senile. He doesn’t care what he says, he just craves attention like he got in the good old days.
Mission accomplished, Dan. Congratulations. You got your headline.
"but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."
Would the troopers be guilty of racial profiling if they stopped the 'wrong' traffic?
LLS
Perhaps some in the media care what Dan Rather thinks; the rest of us, not so much. If you’re going to interview an old guy who might say something embarassing and shallow, try Joe Biden, instead, because then it might be funny, too.
Watermelons? lulz, Dan is a disguised racist.
“but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
That’s probably accurate - BO has no familial connection to the American black experience in the North or South.
OH BOY!! Hey,wait one cotton pickin minute here... that’s racist!! :)
Arugula did make the cut.........
Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House
Published: March 19, 2009
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets — the president does not like them — but arugula will make the cut.
No watermelon...
Not a problem for a liberal to say Watermelon and Barack in the same sentence. hehe
I would have said he couldn’t stump whip chitlin’s with an instruction book!
Mathews couldn’t shut Rather up or off fast enough. I guess ole Dan-boy found out how to stop the tingle up Chrissy’s leg.
Bam would (like Mugabwe) take over the farms first or apply a hefty tax on the growers. Then he would distribute the melons based on need and punish those competing growers with punitive penalties and regulations and force their workers to unionize like the good, rat, socialist commies drones for his glory (and votes too).
Who knows maybe Dan Rather’s fried chickens will come to roost.....but the Liberal Media will give him a pass
Just think if a Michael Savage or Bill Cunningham said that....
If you read it carefully, it is what Rather claims the Repubs will say about Obama during the elections, not what Rather himself thinks.
This is not Rather saying that Obama couldn’t sell watermelons.
Dan Rather is a racist sub-human.
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