GOP Congressman: President Obama Playing 'Race Bait Games' with Arizona Immigration Law

May 14, 2010 2:17 PM

On the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday evening, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, suggested that President Obama has racial bias.

The comments came in the context of President Obama’s objection to Arizona’s new immigration law. The White House had no comment.

King -- who has a history of making rather highly critical remarks about Mr. Obama -- said “the President of the United States says, ‘Here's what could happen under Arizona law if a mother and her daughter are going out to get some ice cream, somebody can come along and say, Where are your papers?’ Anybody remember that?... The President of the United States made it political. And he's the man that ordered a Justice Department investigation of Arizona? And he alleges--the President alleges--that it's race-based and racially motivated when the law itself specifically prohibits that from happening.â€