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I'm a right leaning Centrist with Libertarian sympathies. I've never had a party affiliation. I've voted Democrat, Republican and Libertarian. I think the ideal political balance in government would be: Republican President with both houses of Congress being 45% Libertarian, 35% Republican, and 20% Democrat.
Is there a double standard for criticism of the use of the phrase "Tar Baby"? (see link for more)?
Exerpt from http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008740 :
The Boston Globe has used the term in at least two editorials, reports the Boston Herald's Victoria Buckingham: " In a 1994 editorial, the Globe described U.S. dealings with Iran as resembling a 'tar baby' and even articulated the term's assumed meaning in a 1998 editorial on China's censoring of the Internet: 'The Communist rulers of Beijing ended last year tangling with a tar baby. The tar baby--passive, sticky and invincible--was played by the Internet, which the leaders want to censor.' " (The Herald also referred to the Big Dig as a "tar baby" in a 2004 editorial.)
Molly Ivins wrote in October 2001, "It now looks, with 20-20 hindsight, as though he should have taken a few more deep breaths before smacking that tar-baby that is Afghanistan."
In a 2003 interview with the Boston Globe, John Kerry described 1992 hearings on missing soldiers in Vietnam as a political "tar baby."
No one got upset over these.
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