"Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be, uh, President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans would make a case, and a lot of Independents will buy this argument, listen, he just hasn't been, I mean look at the health care bill, 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 and he's very articulate, this is what's going to be used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper and he lied down in traffic." - 3/7/10 - Disgraced ex-journalist Dan Rather speculating on what a failure to pass health care legislation would mean for Obama.
