[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[Texas Eagle]

Sayonara, Haley. Too bad you can’t take your backstabbing butt-buddy, That Cochran, with you.

[GladesGuru]

Obama’s issues are not “Tar Babies, Obama is THE “Tar Baby”.

[caligatrux]

Republicans are such masochists. As soon as things start going their way, they have to start sabotaging everything.

[dfwgator]

"Tar Baby."

"Ofay."

[livius]

The idiots probably don’t realize that “tar baby” wasn’t referring to color, but about the fact that you can’t touch it without sticking to it or having it stick to you. I don’t particularly like Barbour, but he shouldn’t have apologized.

[petitfour]

I am offended that he apologized.

[ari-freedom]

What?

[Political Junkie Too]

This is such a non-issue. The only thing here is that tar is black.

This only became an issue in the first place because new George W. Bush press secretary Tony Snow used it in an early press conference, and it gave the MSM an opportunity to gin up a good ole' conservative bashing.

-PJ

[Dilbert San Diego]

How many people under about age 50 even know about a tar baby?

Since Disney has locked away the movie “Song of the South” for political correctness purposes, very few people younger than about 50 have ever seen the movie. It’s not available on home video. It has never been shown on the Disney Channel. Many young people today have no idea what tar baby refers to.

[Waryone]

Oh the irony Haley. One minute you’re smearing conservatives and TEA party Chris McDaniel with lies calling him a racist who will hurt blacks. The next minute your big mouth ID’s you as the real racist.

You keep running your lying lips Haley. Vengeance is the Lord’s and I would not be standing any where near you any time soon.

[central_va]

Maybe the term “asphalt infant” can replace tar baby....

[Altura Ct.]

as “tar babies”, a term some consider racially insensitive

Blah blah blah

[Smokin' Joe]

A tar baby is something that seemed attractive, but you just can't let go of, get rid of, and isn't so attractive after all.

It is an expression, and even was a candy iirc (licorice gummies). Nothing racist about it, really, unless someone decides that because tar is dark in color the expression is "racial", which would only trumpet their ignorance.

Pity people are denied the fundamental wisdoms found in Uncle Remus, they might come in handy--especially today.

[Steamburg]

“Eats Crow” sounds darn racist to me. Would they be talking birds of the dark feather persuasion or are they defaming a native American tribe? Kind of like the pot and the kettle.

[Servant of the Cross]

Please let this be the end of the MS Boss Hogg .... although what he did to Chris McDaniel and in the run-off should have done it too.

[marron]

They should be mad at Obama for making them look bad.

[Pollster1]

JACKSON, Miss.–Barbour referred to President Obama’s issues as “tar babies”, a term some consider racially insensitive since it refers to tar babies in Joel Chandler Harris’ “Uncle Remus” stories.

There were also friends in the Uncle Remus stories. Does that make the term "friends" racist? Liberals are so quick to play the race card and so stupid to take it seriously when that card is played.

[jch10]

Most of the country don’t know what a “tar baby” is.

[Yashcheritsiy]

But remember, folks, the Tea Partiers are the ones we have to worry about saying embarrassing things.