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Title: Republican Racism: Working with Obama Like ‘Touching a Tar Baby’
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GAWKER
URL Source: http://gawker.com/5826656/republica ... obama-like-touching-a-tar-baby
Published: Aug 1, 2011
Author: GAWKER
Post Date: 2011-08-01 17:18:48 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 6125
Comments: 10
Rep. Doug Lamborn likened compromising with Obama to "touching a tar baby" on talk radio today. But he probably didn't mean to use the racially charged term in a racist way, right? There's no way he missed the lesson from John McCain's "tar baby" blunder, or Mitt Romney's "tar baby" blunder, or Tony Snow's "tar baby" blunder, right? Given the famed political correctness of Lamborn's district in Colorado Springs—home of sexually repressed meth head pastors and family-focused homophobes—I'm guessing this is all a big misunderstanding. Lamborn probably meant to say was "touching a star, maybe" or "clutching bizarre rabies." Linguistic interpretation is in the ear of the beholder, so if you think this is a racist, then probably you are the racist, so there.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
What's next? Calling anyone who DEMANDS the government quit spending beyond its means "racist?" When you leftists have to throw out the "racist" card, you've already lost the game...
That's not next. This has been happening for 5 decades. What's next is arresting those people under the Patriot Act as "right-wing" terrorists. Remember that the very first thing Janet Napolitono did when Obama took office was release a paper on dangerous "right-wingers" like ex-military and people who want to limit the size of government. This is what leftists always do -- arrest, jail, and finally murder anyone who could be a threat to their totalitarian plans. Fortunately, we still have a First Amendment and Second Amendment here (both hobbled by government tyrants, but still effective).
#10. To: jwpegler, Capitalist Eric (#8)
Remember that the very first thing Janet Napolitono did when Obama took office was release a paper on dangerous "right-wingers" like ex-military and people who want to limit the size of government. GOOD call. It's a-comin'.
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#8. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
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What's next? Calling anyone who DEMANDS the government quit spending beyond its means "racist?"
Replies to Comment # 8. What's next is arresting those people under the Patriot Act as "right-wing" terrorists.
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