Dan Rather: Obama couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

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Below is a LexisNexis transcript.

Just an innocent Rather metaphor — but imagine if a conservative had said it.

The Chris Matthews Show Various Times NBC
March 7, 2010 Sunday

Mr. RATHER: But when you talk about a triumph, though, that—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 and 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 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.