Rep. Lamborn refers to "tar baby" when speaking of Obama

[Keystone Phil]

And it's idiocy like this from the esteemed 50 Cent - http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/0811/Reps_tar_baby_remark_upsets_50_Cent.html - that reinforces the thought that the race card is so hilariously overplayed.

“I can't find a more disrespectful or ignorant way to describe the race or depiction of our president,” he wrote.


So now Lamborn was specifically talking about race already? Ok. Right. 

[J. J.]

I don't know if the guy is racist.......but it's clear he's stupid.

Ditto, and I've known people that have used it, in the same way, that got into just as much trouble over the term. (And no, it wasn't me.)

[specific_name]

Just like Congresswoman Jenkin's "white knight" comment back in 2009, I don't see anything wrong or racist about this.

I agree. And same for Trent Lott. What was so bad? He was trying to flatter a 100 year old man at his birthday party.

This story is a stupid non-issue, but what Trent Lott said was pretty terrible no matter how you slice it. There are plenty of ways to flatter a long serving Senator. Thurmond had a daughter with a black woman, who he always supported financially and apparently they were close in later years as she visited him often and his staff pretty much knew the truth. I think that speaks to the truth that Thurmond was a decent man and that he atoned for a lot of what he did/said earlier in his career. Plenty of things you could say that were positive without embracing the 1948 platform of the Dixiecrats; which is exactly what he did when he said that he was proud they won his state and that we wouldn't have our current problems if they had won the election.