RATHER: When you talk about a triumph though. One, 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."
I'll admit my first reaction to that was along the lines of what I said on an episode of Garvey's Ghost TV But then re-reading the piece it is clear that Dan Rather is suggesting what Republicans may be saying given their previous rhetoric regarding Obama. The key statement being:
And a version of,
Sometimes that yellow thing walking isn't a duck.