Rep. Lamborn apologizes for ‘tar baby’ remark on Obama policies?

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Colorado Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn apologized Monday night for saying during a Friday appearance on a Denver radio program that embracing President Barack Obama’s policies is like “touching a tar baby.”

Lamborn made the comment on KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman program in reference to the President’s budget priorities.

“Even if some people say, ‘Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that,’ they will hold the President responsible,” Lamborn said. “Now, I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get it, you’re stuck, and you’re a part of the problem now and you can’t get away. I don’t want that to happen to us, but if it does or not, he’ll still get, properly so, the blame because his policies for four years will have failed the American people.”

The term “tar baby” is widely regarded as a racial slur.

This is not the first time a member of Congress has come under fire for using the term “tar baby.” In 2009 North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx faced severe criticism for using the term in reference to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

“I thought about just a common sense way to describe this to people: the Democrats have a tar baby on their hands and they simply can’t get away from it,” she said then. “They are stuck on this problem.”

http://news.yahoo.com/rep-lamborn-apologizes-tar-baby-remark-obama-policies-142402350.html

The term "Tar Baby" was used heavily to describe a Black baby before the Civil Rights Act.

Why not use the word "Sticky" or any other words???? Why use a racist laced word??

Who was he trying to pander to????
 
Well. Hm...I haven't heard those quotes. But to answer your question, I would speculate that using the term is a way to pander to the racists/supremacists who really believe that ethnic minorities are inferior to people of white European descent-and doing so with the minimum political damage possible.

Look at the actual wording of the apologies:

“Congressman Lamborn regrets any misunderstanding. He simply meant to refer to a sticky situation or quagmire,” she wrote in an email statement.

This is not the first time a member of Congress has come under fire for using the term “tar baby.” In 2009 North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx faced severe criticism for using the term in reference to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

“I thought about just a common sense way to describe this to people: the Democrats have a tar baby on their hands and they simply can’t get away from it,” she said then. “They are stuck on this problem.”

Both of these apologies are disingenuous and at the same time-especially Virginia Foxx's apology- reinforce the slur and signal the racists that the 'problem' the Democrats have on their hands is Barack Obama and the reason he is a problem is because he is an African American.

It's very sad...but once the comment is out there it is out there and the politicians who said it basically just have to do what these two did-'oops, sorry, didn't mean it that way' and it is over for them.

I think that yes, they did mean it that way. This is not about being politically correct or overly sensitive. It's about using an old racial slur to send a message in a way the sender can distance him or herself from with minimum pain.
 
Democrats and Republicans are the same. Behind close doors Dems and Reps are always in agreement. To the rest of the world, they act like they are against each other. This creates the illusion there are two sides of ever issue. In reality, they are the same thing.

The Central Government, run by bureaucratic servants called Democrats and Republicans, know that there is a 11% approval rate of the government by the US citizens. This is unacceptable to the Dems and Reps. They need away to show there power. So creating a fear atmosphere, will get the citizens attention. This will also let them portray they are doing something for the citizens that cannot be done without the government. I't is a forced recognition of power in all its tyranny.

One of the rules of war when facing a stronger enemy is to divide and conquer, rather then to attack your enemies force as a whole. Knowing that citizens and there constitutional freedoms/rights are a thee governments greatest enemy, creating a diversionary tactic such as Republican and Democrat would divide the governments enemies "citizens + constitutional freedoms/rights" Once divided, the enemy is far easier to conquer. In this case, when we are divided, the Central Government can take away freedoms/rights, and implement tyrannous laws a lot easier than if we were united.

Vote for ANYONE else besides Democrats or Republicans. I't can be anyone ranging from a third party candidate to Mickey Mouse. Just don't vote for Democrats or Republicans. They were bought and paid for a long time ago by bureaucrats. When Dems or Reps are elected, they serve the interests of transnational corporations that paid for them to get elected, not the citizens. I't is the greatest acting out of a "good cop bad cop" scenario in history. Just remember. The Tea Party is the Republican Party.

"I'f your a multi-billion dollar transnational corporation and you pay for, 1 President + 435 Congressmen + 100 Senators + 9 Supreme Court Justices, then you have total power over 350,000,000+ citizens and all there resources."
 
Same way they use the words like "Thugs" "Urban" and label them as "Monkeys" like the lady in the OC in cali

Its to excite the racists in the GOP
 
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