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Dan Rather: 'Articulate' Obama Couldn't Even 'Sell Watermelons'
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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."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: GonzoGOP
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posted on
03/08/2010 12:16:30 PM PST
by
TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: MrB
To: Sub-Driver
The black watermelon. Black on the outside, red to the core.
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posted on
03/08/2010 12:17:41 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
To: GonzoGOP
I like see how they going backtrack on this
I think what happen Dan Rather realize he got b***hslap by Freepers on Bush miltary records that he hasn’t been same we that gooddd
84
posted on
03/08/2010 12:18:11 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: TaraP
85
posted on
03/08/2010 12:18:13 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Sub-Driver
LOLOL!!!
86
posted on
03/08/2010 12:18:41 PM PST
by
maggief
(Not everything is what it seems.)
To: norraad
Woop, forgot to say, another time he told the truth....
87
posted on
03/08/2010 12:18:44 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Sub-Driver
88
posted on
03/08/2010 12:19:10 PM PST
by
garjog
(Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
To: onyx
89
posted on
03/08/2010 12:19:36 PM PST
by
maggief
(Not everything is what it seems.)
To: Sub-Driver
At this point, Dan Rather’s best bet is to have his office issue a press release revealing that Ol’ Dan is completely senile, and will be retiring quietly.
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posted on
03/08/2010 12:20:22 PM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
To: MrB
91
posted on
03/08/2010 12:20:50 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Sub-Driver
Be forgot bow clean Obama is too.
92
posted on
03/08/2010 12:20:54 PM PST
by
appeal2
(Government is not the solution, it is the problem and eventually the enemy.)
To: Sub-Driver
Would it be racists to say an Italian couldn't sell pizza?
Those at a church picnic can enjoy watermelon, but only if they're white? Weird.
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posted on
03/08/2010 12:21:38 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
To: Sub-Driver
Dan Rather, nobody says it better.
94
posted on
03/08/2010 12:22:00 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: GOP_Raider
95
posted on
03/08/2010 12:22:18 PM PST
by
maggief
(Not everything is what it seems.)
To: maggief
Historical document!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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posted on
03/08/2010 12:22:23 PM PST
by
onyx
(BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
To: kcvl
Watch the MSM run for the bushes.
97
posted on
03/08/2010 12:23:05 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: colorado tanker
Looks like we’ve reached the tipping point. The MSM may have put Zero in office, but they have no intention of taking the fall for his failure.
There is another thread here about how “Obama’s Failures are the same as Bush’s”.
Basically the article says that neither was smart enough to take advice on how to govern from Mainstream Media elites.
To: appeal2
Be forgot bow clean Obama is too.
No way you can work with Rham Emanuel for a year and be considered clean. You just have the whiff of filth around you.
99
posted on
03/08/2010 12:23:47 PM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Parley Baer
Hell, Fried Chicken sells itself.
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