Retired professional basketball player and aspiring politician, 'Sir' Charles Barkley, was arrested in Arizona yesterday morning on charges of DUI. The arresting officers found and impounded a handgun they found in the vehicle; however, it wasn't the gun that was loaded and ready to go.

Barkley told cops he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to get some oral sex; well he didn't put it as politely as that, what he actually said was, "I was gonna drive around the corner and get a b**w job."

This is the guy who has announced that he will be running for Governor of Alabama in 2014.

We've been clamoring for honesty in politics yet, somehow...

TMZ