Former Fla. lawmaker likened Obama to Curious George in Facebook post
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As she weighed in on the Roseanne Barr controversy, a former Republican state legislator from Broward County — who also served as a county campaign chairwoman for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign — likened former President Barack Obama to the cartoon character Curious George.
Susan Goldstein made her comments in a Facebook post, one of many she made in recent days as public debate has swirled around Barr's racist tweet about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett that if "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj."
Goldstein, reached by phone late Thursday afternoon, declined to talk to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "I'm sorry. I can't talk to you right now," she said and hung up the phone.
Shortly after midnight on Friday, Goldstein said on Twitter that her comments "were not intended to offend anyone. I understand much better, after hearing the heartfelt concerns from both sides, that my comments may have hurt some of my friends and for that I am sorry."
Her post, which was on Facebook on Thursday night but gone Friday morning, reads: "And I truly think Obama resembles the Curious George cartoon, who I think is an adorable character. Curious George that is. That is what my eyes see. And I am not racist, and there I not a mean spirited intent in my observation. But I can't say it. Double standard."
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Well as John Snow said.
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