MCCAIN USES RACIAL SLUR ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Per the Des Moines Register:

Cedar Falls, Ia. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain used the term "tar baby," which is sometimes associated with racist connotations, during a campaign stop in northern Iowa on Friday and immediately expressed regret.

The Arizona senator was answering a question during a Cedar Falls forum in front of 500 Republicans in Black Hawk County when he used the same words that drew criticism last year when uttered by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and White House spokesman Tony Snow.

"For me to stand here before all these people and say I'm going to declare divorces invalid because someone feels they weren't treated fairly in court, we are getting into a tar baby of enormous proportions," McCain said, explaining his position on the federal government's role in parental rights in custody cases.