SC Gubernatorial Candidate State Sen. Jake Knotts Apologizes for Calling President Obama & Rep. Nikki Haley "Ragheads"

SC Republican gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Jake Knotts apologizes for calling President Obama & state Rep. Nikki Haley "ragheads."

South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Jake Knotts has apologized for calling President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent "ragheads." Who would want someone who utters racial slurs as a governor or even a president? He said the remarks were meant as a joke. Really? Why do some politicians have to engage in name-calling to get their position across to the voters? Isn't that counterproductive because someone is bound be to offended? Why bother?

Knotts made his remark on an Internet political talk show, Pub Politics. Co-host Phil Bailey said Knotts said, "We've already got a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion."No audio was available because of a technical problem, Bailey said.

"If it had been recorded, the public would be able to hear firsthand that my 'raghead' comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest," Knotts said in his statement. "Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It's like local political version of Saturday Night Live, which is actually where the joke came from." Source: Fox News

I could think of a ton of other words he could have used to describe Barack Obama and Nikki Haley, whose parents are Indian immigrants, but raghead? Wow.