[DubaiSis]

I think it's so indicative of a problem that is simply not going away, no matter how many tokens they can trot forth. The fact of the matter is he saw no problem with his statement until he was really hard pressed about how wrong it was. "It's just what we used to call them" is no excuse for a professional politician. Yes, as stated above, I'm sure a lot of us (including me) have had something we said innocently enough pointed out to us as being intolerable in polite society. But once it's pointed out to you, the correct response is full on embarrassment. "Oh well, that's what my parents used to say" is not expressing embarrassment. And we should expect more of people whose job description is supposed to include diplomacy. What he said was not befitting an elected official and while the Latino population in his district might just write him off as out of touch, they should get more involved in making him be an ex-despicable politician.