Rep. Lamborn: Working With Obama Is like 'Touching a Tar Baby' (McCain, Congress)
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I'm sure he has no idea how that term is interpreted in 2011 despite McCain and Romney both being screwed by using the term in recent years.
True feeling always seem to slip out in soundbites.
I have no idea what a tar baby is or how it should be interpreted. Or whatever racial connotations you're asserting about the term.
I'm certain that the person in question was using the term to mean that it's frustrating (or something similar) to work with Obama.
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The phrase originally comes from the 19th-century Uncle Remus stories when the character Br’er Fox makes a “tar-baby,” a doll made of tar and turpentine, to entrap his nemesis Br’er Rabbit. The phrase came to stand for a “sticky situation” but later developed racial implications and is now often viewed as a slur towards African Americans.
People will spin anything to try to make whites and/or conservatives look racist.
I have no idea what a tar baby is or how it should be interpreted. Or whatever racial connotations you're asserting about the term.
I'm certain that the person in question was using the term to mean that it's frustrating (or something similar) to work with Obama.
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People will spin anything to try to make whites and/or conservatives look racist.
You and the congressmans lack of knowledge or pure ignorance show just how out of touch so many are with the mainstream. It's nothing to spin, "tar-baby" has been a racial slur for decades. In some households, that's not a big deal, using racial slurs is accepted as it probably is in this guys house.
While there are certainly some people who use the term with derogatory intent, I think it has largely passed out of the mainstream of American cultural literacy, and its use today probably more often reflects a lack of cultural literacy.
I've long had the sense that the term carries some sort of racial "baggage" but I've never read the stories and have never quite gotten the context.
You and the congressmans lack of knowledge or pure ignorance show just how out of touch so many are with the mainstream. It's nothing to spin, "tar-baby" has been a racial slur for decades. In some households, that's not a big deal, using racial slurs is accepted as it probably is in this guys house.
Maybe in liberal households where racism is used as an excuse for every shortcoming a person might have.
“Even if some people say, ‘Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that,’ they will hold the president responsible. 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,” Lamborn said Friday on the Caplis and Silverman Show on 630 KHOW talk radio.
Well, I didn't grow up in a "Liberal" household, and I've heard it.
Maybe it was just a racist household, I don't really care.
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