"If Obama walked on water, the GOP would say it's because he can't swim."

[WilliamPitt]

I'm not sure who originally came up with that line - it sounds like Truman or LBJ, but I can't remember - but I'm making it my own this week.

Any political conversation I get into, if I am confronted with any Obama-Fail bullshit, will feature that line.

Feel free to spread it around, use it as you please, it ain't mine, I just modified it for 21st century roadwork. ;)

[underpants]

1. The Republicans throw a fit threatening to take their ball and go home

problem is, it ain't their ball

[lonestarnot]

7. And what's more, they ain't (are not) getting it back!

[NOW tense]

2. I am taking that on tour. n/t

[Mika]

3. That sounds like a take-off of a decades old Miami-Herald/ Fidel Castro joke.

It goes like this...


When the Pope was visiting Cuba he and Fidel Castro went for a stroll on the Malecon. A sudden gust of wind blew the pontiff's hat off of his head far away onto the harbor waters. Fidel quickly jumped to action - walked across the water - and fetched the Pope's hat.

The next morning's Miami-Herald headline: CASTRO CAN'T SWIM.

:hi:

[jhain]

4. another for the act:

on Republicans:

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

[radfringe]

5. GOP = NOP (National Obstructionist Party)

NOP - the party of "NO - YOU CAN'T !!!!!"

[unblock]

6. nothing definitive, but here's the quote attributed to actor john turner

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/complain.html

[Gregorian]

8. And with a real media their message would be background chatter.

I woke up in the middle of the night and thought "Two world trade towers were brought down by terrorists during Bush's administration. And he sat there like a ragdoll while it happened." That is the truth. And yet that is not the media meme. So the messenger is the one we need to work on.

[Howler]

9. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

Now that was good no matter who said it first1!!!!

[BlooInBloo]

10. And the media would report that Obama is losing support among water-lovers.

[WilliamPitt]

11. .