Dan Rather tried to explain something we all know – Obama is an ineffective leader. Most people are probably taking the watermelon remark as a racist comment, which perhaps it is. But for me the only thing that comes to mind when hearing Obama and watermelon mentioned in the same breath is watermelon Marxism, which is green on the outside and red on the inside. Obama can’t sell that to most Americans. That’s where he’s going wrong, in my humble right-of-center opinion.
Notice, though, how Chris Matthews started talking over him as soon as he heard the word “watermelon.”
Here’s the transcript of the entire exchange.
Chris Matthews: “Nancy Pelosi will have her greatest triumph?”
Rather: “When you talk about a triumph though, part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership and the Republicans are making a case, 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 was going to be used against him but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.“
Via Left Coast Rebel, via memeorandum
[...] The Lonely Conservative isn’t asking questions. She’s explaining: Dan Rather tried to explain something we all know – Obama is an ineffective leader….But for me the only thing that coms to mind when hearing Obama and watermelon mentioned in the same breath is watermelon Marxism, which is green on the outside and red on the inside. [...]
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