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Colorado GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn: Associating with Obama is 'Touching a Tar Baby'

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lostlakehiker8/01/2011 3:20:46 pm PDT

re: #4 Summer

But..I thought they said there’s no racism in the GOP…

I’m so…disillusioned.

It’s a damned shame what seems to have happened to the term “tar baby”, because what it always used to mean was, well, tar baby. As in the Uncle Remus stories. You hit it, and you achieve nothing but to get stuck. The Vietnam war was a tar baby.

And now, a beautiful phrase and metaphor, the creation of one of the best African-American writers in our history, Joel Chandler Harris,Uncle Remus according to Wikipedia is ruined.