Barbour: Sorry for Obama remark

Republican heavyweight Haley Barbour apologized Tuesday night for a recent controversial remark that some have called racist.

“While I would love for [New Jersey Gov. Chris] Christie to put a hot poker to Obama’s butt,” Barbour said last week at a closed-door American Crossroads fundraiser in Tampa, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. “I thought he did what he was supposed to do.”

“I apologize to anyone who feels my comment had connotations that I did not intend,” Barbour said in a statement provided to POLITICO. “As a Republican, I would have liked to see Chris Christie put the heat on Obama — but for the audience of independents he did the right thing. In any case, it’s critical that we all keep our comments free of extremes or anything that could be misinterpreted.”

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Puttin a fire to someone's butt is now racist?

For God's sake, people are going freakin insane.

That may be why the Republican Party has such a disconnect with blacks. They don't "get" what offends blacks and think it's stupid.

Raees wrote: That may be why the Republican Party has such a disconnect with blacks. They don't "get" what offends blacks and think it's stupid.

Please explain to me how metaphorically having your ass on fire to get you to speed up is in any way racist. I believe that sitting on a hot poker would get any skin tone to react quickly. Ever sat down next to a campfire on a rock that was a little to close to the fire? Ever warmed your buns while you were camping and maybe got the seat just a bit too hot?

Please tell me how any of that is racist in any way.

It's in the article.

How is that racist? IT may have been stupid (in a political sense) but how is that fricking racist? This race card is pissing me off.

Talk issues and think the best of your fellow Americans in the sense that they care about the countyr. Realize that this is politics and your guy is going to say stupid things too. This is not about race.

Is this racist. Are you going to call out your own party?

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Do I care? No Do I think he is stupid yes.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ndard.html

For those not following the latest entry in the long line of vice presidential nincompoopery, on Tuesday Joe Biden appeared in Virginia before a group of supporters, a number of them African-American, and said this of Republican Mitt Romney: “He is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. He is going to put y'all back in chains." Who knows what Biden was thinking? (the vice president surely doesn’t). Was he just carried away in a speech? Was this part of an intricate plan to link the Republican candidate to racism? Does Biden really believe Romney, who once claimed (falsely) that his father marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., plans to bring back slavery? Does Joe Biden, an attorney with an ego as big as his mouth, actually believe a president could reinstate slavery if he wanted to? It doesn’t matter. Whatever his motivations, he’ll emerge from this brouhaha unscathed. Because he is a Democrat.


I am telling you, you cannot win this race game because I can keep this up through the election.

Raees wrote: It's in the article.

That's just plain stupid. I could take any remark you make and play the 'six degrees separation from slavery' game to make you a racist.

Damn liberals can't seem to get their mind off the color of the president's skin, that's why they focus so hard on attaching racist label to everything. Maybe if they'd quit being so intensely aware of the color of someone's skin, and focus more on their character and actions we could make some progress and address a few issues.

Raees wrote: That may be why the Republican Party has such a disconnect with blacks. They don't "get" what offends blacks and think it's stupid.

Are you saying you know what offends African Americans? They are all different. I ask my friends about this stuff. And my African american friends don't care. They are just my friends. And they don't need cheerleaders helping them out because they are being mistreated. that is not what my African American friends think. Yours may be different.

If you are not a democrat, you are a racist.
If you disagree with lj, archer, raees, ss, stds. you are a racist.
If you think this country is on the road to hell, you are a racist.

This is why the country is so divided, people on this board as well as certain public figures that Want it that way.