GOP Congressman Apologizes for Calling Obama 'Boy' (that was quick)

ABC ^ | 4/14/08 | staff

[pissant]

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A Republican House member Monday sent a letter of apology to Sen. Barack Obama, after calling him "boy" and comparing him to a "snake oil salesman" in attacking his national security credentials at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Kentucky.

According to a Lexington Herald-Leader blog item, Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., said Saturday that he had recently participated in a "highly classified, national security simulation" with Obama, and said that exercise showed that Obama can't be trusted to make difficult decisions.

"I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button," Davis said. "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country."

The Obama campaign slammed the comments.

"It's hard to tell what is more outrageous -- Representative Davis' condescending and personal attack, or his absurd and offensive claim that Barack Obama is not prepared to defend America," said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman.

[cake_crumb]

"Time to separate the men from the young men................"

Might as well start calling them all "males".

Time to separate the mature makes from the immature, adolescent, pre-adolescent and possible she-males.

[cake_crumb]

"It was an *assinine* thing to say. There is no excuse for it."

Only if you are referring to the apology. In context, "boy" is just a colloquialism, not an epithet. Get over it.

[ncpatriot]

Yeah, I don’t care if someone calls me cracker or gringo or whatever. I just roll my eyes. If I were Black and called a name, I guess it would bother me - I’m not sure why though.

[pissant]

Ask George Allen the value of apologizing for off hand remarks that the left construes as racist.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Add “Hussein” to your list.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

That would be a terrific come-back but for the fact Mr. Davis doesn't think quickly on his feet. Come to think of it, he doesn't think, period. Anyone who takes a look at Davis, sees where he is from and that he is a Republican would be hard-pressed to think of his ham-fisted reference to Mr. Obama’s youth and inexperience as anything less than a racial slur, especially considering the difference in their ages is a mere three years. On what ring of Saturn is Mr. Davis? Somebody better have a long talk with these congress critters and tell them to get their heads out of their asses. This is not an election we can afford to lose. Hillary or Obama — I don't want either of their fingers near the “football,” and I want a keeper for McCain. I mean I want these politicians who can't see their country beyond the beltway supervised. They are f-ng nutz.

[cake_crumb]

"But like your example, it’s between people who know each other, and know no malice is meant by it."

No, Mr Shill, it isn't. I've lived in a lot of areas of this country, North and South of the Mason Dixon line. In NO AREA where it is in common usage is "boy" reserved for people who know each other. It is used for total strangers, enemies, acquaintances and relatives in the exact same way that that the less well known "girl" is.

[Crawdad]

I........get.......so........tired........

[beelzepug]

Ah’m sorry ‘bout that remahk, son. Perhmit me to kiss yo’ butt.

[DGHoodini]

Your expiriences are different from mine. But we’ll see the way this plays out.

Oh, and BTW, who am I supposed to be shilling for?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

ABC News, USA Today, the Associated Press, etc., etc.

Oh, yeah. They've definitely been "mentioning" it, FRiend.

[garbageguy]

Here’s something interesting: I am in Geoff’s district and also have a talk radio show in my hometown (Ashland, KY). Geoff was scheduled to be with me on Wednesday evening, and his press secretary just sent me a note saying that he was still planning on being on the show with me.

Should be interesting!

[garbageguy]

“Anyone who takes a look at Davis, sees where he is from and that he is a Republican would be hard-pressed to think of his ham-fisted reference to Mr. Obama’s youth and inexperience as anything less than a racial slur”

“Anyone”? I could see puke liberals that are entirely PC thinking that way, and what does “where he’s from” have anything to do with it?

Seems a little stereotypical of Kentuckians to me, unless I am reading it entirely wrong.

[freespirited]

But a RAT can call herself a GIRL. (The quote is from Hillary herself).

[Fresh Wind]

We have nothing to worry about. President Nobomba would never use “the button” anyway. He would surrender America without a single missile launch.

[PghBaldy]

One good thing about this comment: it reminds people of Obama’s blackness. The media will do the rest. Acting like a victim and demanding apologies makes him seem a prissy, preening fool. He is so stupid, he doesn’t realize he makes it worse. Now it will be at least fodder for the hypersensitive-race hustlers.

[Sig Sauer P220]

When it comes to political experience, Hussein still IS a boy.

[Sig Sauer P220]

I regretfully must apologize for my apology. Sheesh, whipped!!!

Another Imus moment.

[Old Sarge]

The congressman should have said, “I was referring to his youthful immaturity, not his race. His overreaction is simply evidence of the immaturity I was referring to, and the type of intimidation that substitutes for discussion on the Left.”

Name us two serving Congresscritters who can. You have ten minutes. Begin...

[Constitutions Grandchild]

You're reading me wrong. I'm no liberal, but I'm hard-pressed to defend the stupidest remark I've heard come out of a white man's mouth in decades. When you add the “insulated” urbanite mentality to the mix, there are few, if any, who would be shocked to hear the speaker was from a southern state. It's what they think they do down there — marry their cousins and sit around all day at the end of a fishing rod, scratching their crotches and spitting at nothing in particular. The jokes about tooth to tattoo ratio are EVERYWHERE. I can't think of anyone I know who hasn't uttered a remark about “crackers” from the north or south.

Local DJs here in St. Louis have this group of elected and to be elected officials as being part of a secret game show called, “Who Can Say the Stupidest Things”. This guy isn't running for POTUS, but he sure has ended what could have otherwise been a promising career (if only he had been raised under something other than a rock).