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GOP Rep Compares President Obama to a "Tar Baby"
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Who said it? In before "not racism".
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GOP Representative Dough Lamborn from Colorado
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oh
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Even if he was not even a bit racist... What non-racist person still uses the term "tar-baby"....
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I told y'all the "white man" ain't !!**.......... And no that doesn't mean white people.
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Baby killer is more like it.
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In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact. The tar baby is a trap that should be avoided.
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WHAT? I've never heard anyone call a white person a tar baby in the manner your suggesting? There's a 100 ways to call something a sticky situation and that ain't 1
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^^^Well after reading 'iwantakazoole's meaning of it, could Lamborn have not came up with any other word? I mean, based
on reading that quote, he knew full well what he was saying.
on reading that quote, he knew full well what he was saying.
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lol you always trollin....
cj863
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and this is from an elected official
America never ceases to amaze me.
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Originally Posted by CJ863
and this is from an elected officialAmerica never ceases to amaze me.
Downright crazy.
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Exactly.
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disagreeing = trolling? i wasn't even saying that he wasn't being racist, i just copied that from the tar baby wikipedia page, so apparently someone's using it that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby
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Nobody uses it that way.
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I stand corrected, didn't even know about that history of the word.
Never heard it used in that context before. I'm more familiar with this connotation:
Never heard it used in that context before. I'm more familiar with this connotation:
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someone in this thread is mad.
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Dude was out of line. No matter how he ment it he should not have never used those words. He thought he was slick.
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How do you not "even want to be associated" with the President of your nation though?
What kind of language and emotion is that coming from a Congressman?
What kind of language and emotion is that coming from a Congressman?
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Zoozle isn't lying.
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Doesn't matter if he meant it in that way.... The fact that the President is black.. And "tar baby" has been widely used as a racial term, and most people associate it with a racist term... Should have been enough for the congressman to want to not use those words...
I.e. like Pat Buchannan who said in a recent argument about the debt ceiling "****skins".. He was I hope talking about racoons (his track record leaves a little to the imagination) but a little proof read from anyone could see how that would be of bad taste, even if it is obvious he is talking about racoons http://www.amconmag.com/b.../the-day-of-the-hobbits/
I.e. like Pat Buchannan who said in a recent argument about the debt ceiling "****skins".. He was I hope talking about racoons (his track record leaves a little to the imagination) but a little proof read from anyone could see how that would be of bad taste, even if it is obvious he is talking about racoons http://www.amconmag.com/b.../the-day-of-the-hobbits/
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its just the world we live in, if it can be strung into a racist term, it can, and will have the meaning that the person might be using for the word ignored.
