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Title: President tar baby
Post by: Tucker on August 02, 2011, 06:56:06 AM
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bigdarryl (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Aug-02-11 06:26 AM
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RACIST!! rethug Congressman calls the President a TAR BABY
   
Another Klansman in the Congress that's all I have to say his apology is NOT accepted by me http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/01/congressman-lambo...

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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Aug-02-11 06:32 AM
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1. Where is the call for his resignation?
   
These clowns keep getting by with shit like this with a simple apology? Meanwhile a Democrat is forced to resign from office for personal actions that affect him and his wife.

Only reply so far. Don't know how long it will get, but has potential.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: AprilRazz on August 02, 2011, 06:58:59 AM
I am going to go all DUmmy here and ask if this shows up in a legitimate news source.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: VivisMom on August 02, 2011, 07:15:43 AM
I am going to go all DUmmy here and ask if this shows up in a legitimate news source.

I wouldn't call CNN legit, but they're better than Raw Story.

Dat's Wasis! (http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/01/congressman-calls-obama-a-tar-baby/)
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on August 02, 2011, 07:55:56 AM
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“Even if some people say, well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that, they will hold the President responsible,” said Lamborn said Friday during an interview on a Denver radio station. “Now I don’t want to even have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know… you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get away.”
I get what he is trying to say and do not think he meant to use "tar baby" with its racial meaning. He would have been better off to say:

"It’s like touching a pile of shit and you get, you get it, you know… you stink and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get the smell completely away.”
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: Tucker on August 02, 2011, 08:03:50 AM
I get what he is trying to say and do not think he meant to use "tar baby" with its racial meaning. He would have been better off to say:

"It’s like touching a pile of shit and you get, you get it, you know… you stink and you are part of the problem now and you can’t get the smell completely away.”

Sounds like he meant to say "Tar paper."
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: Rufus2010 on August 02, 2011, 08:38:49 AM
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bigdarryl (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Aug-02-11 06:26 AM
Original message
RACIST!! rethug Congressman calls the President a TAR BABY
   
Another Klansman in the Congress that's all I have to say his apology is NOT accepted by me http://www.rawstory.com/r...1/08/01/congressman-lambo...

isn't the KKK a part of the DNC... DUmbass. :bird:
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 02, 2011, 08:48:28 AM
Sounds like he meant to say "Tar paper."

No, tar paper isn't particularly sticky anyway.  I think he meant what he said, and it is apt...used in the sense of the actual Song of the South B'rer Rabbit story, not the perjorative use of the term against Black people.  It's not like the analogy has never been used in Washington before, either, it's historically been a rather commonly applied to ugly messes that just pull the participants in deeper.  Given the hypersensitivity to race the Dems keep foisting on the public, though, it's better to stick with talking about quicksand or the LaBrea Tar Pits if you want to draw the analogy as long as the Annointed One is President.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: NHSparky on August 02, 2011, 09:22:04 AM
IOW, if someone NEEDS to be offended, they'll find something to be offended over, whether it means anything or not.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: RWKindaGuy on August 02, 2011, 10:06:07 AM
IOW, if someone NEEDS to be offended, they'll find something to be offended over, whether it means anything or not.

We have a winner.  H5 for you.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: AllosaursRus on August 02, 2011, 12:22:26 PM
I don't get how they come up with callin' the pres a Tar baby. Looks to me like he's talkin' about the mess our congress critters and the Bummer refuse to clean up!

Stooooopid ****in' DUmmies!
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: DLR Pyro on August 02, 2011, 12:36:02 PM
From Merriam-Webster Online:
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tar baby noun

Definition of TAR BABY
: something from which it is nearly impossible to extricate oneself

Origin of TAR BABY
from the tar baby that trapped Brer Rabbit in an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris
First Known Use: circa 1910
 

merriam-webster online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tar%20baby)

This is similar to all the hoopla over the word "niggardly" about 10 years back.  liberals being offended over a word they don't even know the origins or meaning of.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: Tucker on August 02, 2011, 12:46:11 PM
I don't get how they come up with callin' the pres a Tar baby. Looks to me like he's talkin' about the mess our congress critters and the Bummer refuse to clean up!

Stooooopid ****in' DUmmies!

From post 7. It should be self explanatory.

Quote from: NHSparky on Today at 10:22:04 am
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IOW, if someone NEEDS to be offended, they'll find something to be offended over, whether it means anything or not.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: AllosaursRus on August 02, 2011, 02:09:28 PM
From post 7. It should be self explanatory.

Quote from: NHSparky on Today at 10:22:04 am

I know...... I just wanted to make sure the DUmmie lurkers could read it themselves!

Specially the "stooooopid" part! hehehehe!
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 02, 2011, 05:28:07 PM
Has anyone complained about the muslim reneging on his pledge to shut down Club Gitmo?
Half the DUmp would explode.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: ChuckJ on August 02, 2011, 06:21:29 PM
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bigwillq   (1000+ posts)             Tue Aug-02-11 11:30 AM
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7. Don't you think it's a little disrespectful
   
to call him "O" instead of the President or Mr. President or President Obama?

This is rich.

From DU: Nicknames for George W. Bush

Bushitler
Chimp
Dim Son

Click here for the entire list. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x136)
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: jukin on August 02, 2011, 07:33:12 PM
IIRC, some black city council DUde got all upset when YT called the proposed budget a 'Black Hole.'

The one thing that all the hyperbole of the left has done is anesthetize normal and civilized people to their derogatory name calling.

Call me a racist.  I do not care.

Call me a terrorist.  I do not care.

I do not care.

I do not care.

I do not care.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: Chris_ on August 02, 2011, 07:36:13 PM
That would be Los Angeles, another memorable shithole of liberal governance.
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: thundley4 on August 02, 2011, 07:45:22 PM
That would be Los Angeles, another memorable shithole of liberal governance.

Nope, Texas (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380143,00.html) .
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: Chris_ on August 02, 2011, 07:47:15 PM
Sorry, wrong group of idiots.  The one I was thinking of wanted to change all the computers in Los Angeles County so they didn't read master/slave.

'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/)
Title: Re: President tar baby
Post by: debk on August 02, 2011, 07:56:24 PM
Regardless of it's true meaning, "tar baby" was used as a derogatory term for black children, years and years ago.

It is not a common phrase in today's conversation, nor has it been in several decades. I'm old enough to remember hearing a black child referred to as a "tar baby", but I don't think I've heard that term in the last 40 years of being an adult.

It was a very poor choice of words, particularly with the preceding sentence being that the Congress Critter said he didn't want to be associated with Obama.

His mouth moved faster than his brain...and that's all there is to it. What he did succeed in doing was give the Dems one more reason for frothing at the mouth and the opportunity to scream "racist". As if they don't find reason enough.

He's an idiot. Is that enough to kick him out of Congress? Who knows. If being an idiot was enough of a reason to kick a Congress Critter out, we could save time and just go ahead and kick them all out.

Why are these guys - regardless of political party, occupation (thinking Arnold and Tiger, here) - who are just idiots, so damn successful? Or at least they are until their idiocy spins out of control.