If Obama walked on water yesterday...

[WilliamPitt]

...some here would say it's because he can't swim.

Truth.

[spanone]

1. eugene robinson said it best....

Obama could cure world hunger and they would accuse him of promoting obesity.

[cynatnite]

2. If he cured breast cancer, they'd probably accuse him of sexual harrassment. n/t

[pscot]

3. No politician walks on water

Not yesterday, not in my lifetime. Just because he does the right thing once in a while doesn't sanctify him.

[WeekendWarrior]

4. It's an expression. Get over yourself. nt

[pscot]

35. Please see post # 5

[FarLeftFist]

7. Sanctify him for what?! Jeez, some ppl really did think he was the messiah, huh?

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Do you know the difference between literal and figurative speech? I realize for some....

the glass is always half empty. That must really suck. I'm sorry.

[WilliamPitt]

11. (facepalm)

[arthritisR_US]

42. thanks Will, you beat me to it :-) n/t

[uponit7771]

13. so full of hate the forest becomes non existant

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Not Big On Metaphor, I See

Should consider getting with that tried and true rhetorical technique. Has some power.
GAC

[Gore1FL]

30. If the water is less than 0 degrees C, anyone can. n/t

[AnotherMcIntosh]

45. I'ld still like to see Rush try it.

[jobycom]

5. True, but the flipside is that some would claim he walked on water...

while he stood in an ankle deep puddle.

Some just like to get it right, though. Congratulate him on his waterwalking skills, but point out when he's just playing in the mud, too.

[polichick]

6. Good response!

[Skip Intro]

47. +100

[Zorra]

8. Rats! I totally missed the walking on water thing.

But the wine was absolutely fabulous.

[Bruce Wayne]

10. Ugh, no. It tastes like shoe leather.

Keep your laws off my body and your feet out of my wine.

[Zorra]

16. WTF?

I've been a radical gone beyond liberal LGBT feminist, and what some might call a pagan, most of my life.

I'm about the last person on the planet that would ever consider restricting your natural rights, or of trampling your grapes.

[Speck Tater]

12. I first heard that when it was said about Reagan

when he was running for Pres.

[WilliamPitt]

14. I think it is either originally by Truman

or about him.

[gateley]

19. I think LBJ used it, too. Why not? It works! :-) nt

[nolabear]

27. Funny, the first time I heard it was from Jesse Jackson.

Made me laugh.

[MADem]

50. LBJ is quoted as saying it about himself...

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425696/bio

[madamesilverspurs]

15. LBJ

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim”. - Lyndon B. Johnson


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[WilliamPitt]

17. Bingo

Thanks.

[SCantiGOP]

31. first time I remember it

it was Jesse Jackson telling the story on himself: Someone's hat blew off in a canoe, he got out and walked over and retrieved it, and the next day the headline was "Jesse Jackson can't swim."

[jobycom]

33. Who knows? It might even be the origin of the whole Jesus story.

Someone told a joke, someone else wrote it down as literal, soon it's recorded in a Gospel...

[Politicalboi]

18. Obama would take all the

Credit too. Like the water had nothing to do with it.

[emulatorloo]

21. Not sure I understand your post. Are you saying Obama is "taking all the credit"?

Seems like an odd way to spin:

"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,"

Obama is pretty clear he didn't arrive to this conclusion on his own. He credits lots of people for showing him the light.

[Bake]

22. I think it was a joking reference to the "taking credit for bin Laden" controversy.

Bake

[emulatorloo]

24. LOL, that makes sense

[emulatorloo]

20. Yep, that's the way it is.

[rustydog]

23. Amen that!

[rug]

25. What would the rest say?

[malaise]

26. Well said

Rec

[H2O Man]

28. ...or that it was ice.

[Scurrilous]

32. Yep.

[Number23]

34. You know it. Everyone else does too.

[JonLP24]

36. What is this specifically in reference too?

Every time I see these general statements, I often wonder what is the example the OP has in mind. If there are many examples, what is the latest example?

I think knowing would be helpful otherwise these threads just go up in flames.

[seabeyond]

38. kick... nt

[aikoaiko]

39. That's funny. Can I borrow it?

[grantcart]

40. Thanks for the unlock.

[WilliamPitt]

41. I find it utterly mind-boggling that this thread got locked

Pssssssst...I was defending the President.

The DEMOCRATIC president.

On DEMOCRATIC Underground.



Thanks for the unlock...but really? Really??

[Shining Jack]

46. Some people need neurons transplant ASAP.

[NNN0LHI]

43. I thought this divisive thread was locked?

That Will Pitt guy must have some pull around here.

And no I don't really think this thread is divisive either.

Anyone who can't deal with this kind of truth should go somewhere else.

Don

[AnotherMcIntosh]

44. And if he closed Gitmo and prosecuted Cheney and Bush,

they would claim that he was trying to be divisive.

[krispos42]

48. Tangentally related

[arely staircase]

49. and then post something from the weekly standard to back them up, get allerted on

and then not removed by a jury because we liberals want to be fair.