Today's reason to lift my house off its foundation and transport it North, placing it 10 feet inside the Canadian border.
From CNN's Ticker.
Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland was unaware a word he used to describe Barack and Michelle Obama on Thursday carries racial overtones, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN.Westmoreland, who represents Georgia's third district, described the Obamas as "uppity" when asked by reporters in Washington to compare Repubican vice presidential canidate Sarah Palin with the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate.
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said, according to the Capitol Hill Newspaper the Hill.
Westmoreland's spokesman, Brian Robinson, insisted the congressman did not know the word has been used with a racially derogatory intent against African-Americans.
"Sure, he can run for President. But does he have to be so -- I don't know -- militant about it? You know? I mean, I interact with African Americans every day. In my kitchen, in my elevator, in the part of Atlanta I drive through to get to work... but there's just something about an African American talking all that Harvard Talk. I just don't know."
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