The whole thing is that he wasn't even calling someone a "tar baby". He was simply calling a complete cluster-fuck of a project a "tar baby", you know, a sticky situation. People need to get laid more....

I should have written that I know a lot about the Big Dig cuz my family is from Boston originally, and we paid a lot of visits to the area while that thing was being built, 30+ years. 30 years to build a damn road underground! And below sea level! Were they insane? it IS a tar baby!

“Exactly what color IS colored?!!” uttered by a large black woman in my senior poly sci class at long beach state (a long long time ago...) in response to a fellow students use of the word “colored” to refer to a black person or persons during some random class discussion. So, even in his attempt to be politically correct and socially responsible by using the term “colored” he still managed to offend one black woman with a equally large, hateful and dare I say, racist chip on her shoulder.
My response: “Well, I’d guess he means the same colored as in NAACP!” biatch!
We never saw her again…

This is all a bunch of nonsense dredged up by the professional race-baiters in our society. The fact is that the tar baby comes from one of the fables written by Uncle Rhemus. Uncle Rhemus was a black author of childrens fables. Actually he was writing what was handed down verbally in African societies. Yes, that's right - the Uncle Rhemus tales are African fables, and the tar baby was a sticky doll made up to catch oneof the characters - "brer rabbit" I think.

Romney use the term correctly - the race-baiting assholes will use any opportunity to smear a republican. (Romney's a republican only in the lightest use of the word.)

Remember the fellow who got slammed by these same assholes for using the word niggardly to describe a stingy budget a few years ago? He used the word properly too.

Bill Cosby is right - these dumbasses can't speak, are too stupid to write, and wouldn't know a proper definition if the dictionary hit them in the head. They obviously don't know their own folk lore either. Dumb fucks!

Thanks a mil, woodNfish. I had no idea; I too thought it was a bit of a slur, but nonetheless, what else could someone call a ROAD project (hello, roads are made out of tar, sorta) that is such a disaster? To learn that the reference has a valid literary history, that pisses me off even more!!!