One would think by now that people in politics would know better than to use even the slightest racial slur when talking to the public; oh wait … this is the Republicans we are talking about here so then really it is no surprise that Representative Doug Lamborn put not one foot but both in his mouth the other day.

What else can you say when you equate working with the President of the United States to “touching a tar baby. Not only did he say it but it has been recorded for prosperity.

Click here to listen as Representative Lanborn alludes to Obama being a tar baby.

via Gawker

“Working with Obama is like touching a tar baby” says Republican representative is a post from: The Inquisitr

Sherri Goforth, an aide to state senator Diane Black, was given a “strong letter of reprimand” after embarrassing the GOP by sending a mass e-mail with a racist picture attached mocking President Barack Obama.

Following racist humor related debacles originating in Tennessee such as “Barack the Magic Negro,” Goforth forwarded a “historical keepsake photo” of all 44 US Presidents in a mass e-mail. Obama’s photo, however, was just a large pair of white eyes peering out from a black background. Stay classy, Tennessee!

Perhaps most troubling is the still-employed staffer’s attitude regarding the shameful action. From Nashville Is Talking:

When I asked her if she understood the controversial nature of the photo, Goforth would only say she felt very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list. When I gave her a second chance to address the controversial nature of the email, she again repeated that she only felt bad about sending it to the wrong list of people.

The Tennessee Democratic Party is calling for senior staffers to fire Goforth, saying in a press release:

“I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government email account, launched this bigoted attack on our president,” Forrester said. “Keeping her on the staff would send the message that this type of behavior is condoned by the Senate Republican Caucus.”

“Ms. Goforth does not seem to understand what she did wrong. She has apologized for ‘sending [the email] to the wrong list of people.’ I believe that any list of people would have recognized this email as offensive and hateful. The fact that a state employee would not understand that indicates that she is not fit for employment by the state of Tennessee.”

“We have hundreds of state employees facing the possibility of losing their jobs due to the budget deficit and no fault of their own. I think we could save at least one of those jobs by firing Sherri Goforth.”

Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail is a post from: The Inquisitr

Texas State Representative Betty Brown doesn’t like difficult to spell and pronounce Asian names, so she’s proposed a solution: Asians should change their names to ones that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”

You can’t make this stuff up:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Brown has so far ignored requests for her to apologize.

(via ThinkProgress)

Texas Rep says Asians should change names so they’re easier to spell is a post from: The Inquisitr