Doug Lamborn Apologizes To Obama For Tar Baby Comments
Channel: joe schaffer
Date: 2011-08-02

http://breakingstorys.blogspot.com/2011/08/doug-lamborn-apologizes-to-obama-for.html -- Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn is coming under fire for his use of the term 'tar baby' to describe his feelings of being associated with President Obama.

He told the hosts, "Even if some people say, 'Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that, they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don't even want to have to be associated with him. It's like touching a tar baby and you get it, you're stuck, and you're a part of the problem now and you can't get away. I don't want that to happen to us, but if it does or not, he'll still get, properly so, the blame, because his policies for four years will have failed the American people."
On Monday afternoon, Lamborn spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen released the following statement:
"Congressman Lamborn regrets any misunderstanding. He simply meant to refer to a sticky situation or quagmire."