The senator said he hoped it wouldn’t be viewed as a racial remark. He argued that he was trying to say that it wouldn’t make sense for him to have a role in something left to the courts.
Last summer, a top McCain rival, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, apologized for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project in Boston as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser in Ames, Iowa.
The term dates to the 19th century Uncle Remus stories, referring to a doll made of tar that traps Br'er Rabbit. It has become known as a way of describing a sticky mess and has been used as a derogatory term for a black person.
3 comments:
Foot-in-mouth disease.... it's an epidemic!
There was a time when I actually liked McCain but then he just kept opening his mouth. How the hell can anyone not know tar baby is a racial epithet?
I think he's at least telling the truth on one level--he *does* regret saying it, or at least being heard...
*hug* to you.
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