An Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate is claiming he was only joking when he said he would buy a license to hunt President Obama. At a rally in Twin Falls on Tuesday, Rex Rammell was discussing hunting tags, when an audience member shouted a question about “Obama tags.” Rammell responded, “The Obama tags? We’d buy some of those.” Rammell says he sees no reason to apologize, because he was joking. Meanwhile, Republican Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins of Kansas is coming under fire for saying, “Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope.” Jenkins claims her comment was not a reference to someone who could challenge President Obama. The phrase “great white hope” is widely believed to have entered usage in the early twentieth century, when a black boxer named Jack Johnson captured the heavyweight title. Many whites reacted to Johnson’s achievement by trying to find a so-called “great white hope” who could beat him.