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Obama Appears To Call Reporter "Sweetie"

Sort by Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008

An unusual video clip from Sen. Barack Obama's tour of the Chrysler Stamping Plant in Sterling Heights, MI today. A reporter tries to question Obama about helping automakers. "Hold on one second there, sweetie ," he says. The reporter's tag line: "This sweetie never did get an answer to that question."

Barack and me

Sort by Power Line (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

A female reporter in Michigan takes a page from Michael Moore's playbook. Barack Obama's response is one Moore would never get.

Let Him Call You Sweetheart

Sort by Swampland (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008

Maybe this whole "matinee idol" treatment has gone to Obama's head: To be totally honest, I did not get as worked up about this as, say, the Clinton campaign would like me to be. So I've been trying to imagine if -- as the HRC folks might argue -- it's equivalent to Hillary calling a black reporter "boy." Or if McCain saying the same thing would read the same way.

Tell Me He Did Not Really Say This

Sort by Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

A reporter asks Obama a question, and he tells her to hold on a second there, sweetie . Charming. (Transcript below the fold.) Better still, it's not the first time . While flirting with female factory workers in Allentown, he called one "sweetie," a paternalistic way to address a woman if there ever was one. It might have worked had he been trying to do his best imitation of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine,...

Obama will preen and eat waffles, but not answer questions

Sort by Red State (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008

Today in Michigan, via Marc Ambinder : Instead of answering a reporter's question, he calls her "sweetie" and says that he'll do a press avail, but, recalling a certain waffle incident, he never does . You see, he preens for the media rather than talk to them. Video after the jump.

Obama calls reporter "sweetie."

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Sweetie-gate

Sort by Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

Barack Obama has a “bad habit” of addressing “all kinds of people” as “Sweetie” in casual conversation, although he’s trying to quit . Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has apologized to WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar for calling her “sweetie” during a campaign stop Wednesday in Sterling Heights. Obama apologized in a voicemail he left on Agar’s cell phone at 3:16 p.m: “Hi Peggy. This...

I got your “sweetie” right here

Sort by feminist blogs (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

Maybe we should just be glad he doesn't call women bitches and hos, like his buddy Jay-Z. (via Corrente )

Don't you call me sweetheart

Sort by Feministing (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008

Like Cara, I don't respond well to "sweetie." Obama has apologized to the reporter : “Second apology is for using the word ’sweetie.’ That's a bad habit of mine. I do it sometimes with all kinds of people. I mean no disrespect and so I am duly chastened on that front.” Indeed, it appears to be a habit . Over at Broadsheet, Rebecca Traister explains why it doesn't matter that he "meant no disrespect,"...

What's so bad about "sweetie," anyway?

Sort by Salon.com (Free subscription) - 05/17/2008

Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama this week found himself under one of those unflattering spotlights -- the kind that shines on small utterances, making them appear brighter and bigger than they might otherwise have been -- when he called female reporter Peggy Agar "sweetie," after the reporter at Detroit's ABC-TV affiliate approached him during his visit to the Chrysler LLC plant...

His Royal Phoniness endorses Barack Obama

Sort by Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

Trying to help him out with working class white voters, perhaps? The AP reports (via Memeo): Democrat John Edwards is endorsing former rival Barack Obama, fresh signs of the party establishment embracing the likely nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy. Edwards was to appear with Obama in Grand Rapids, [...]

Barack Obama Calls A Reporter 'Sweetie'- So What?

Sort by Wake Up America (Free subscription) - 05/15/2008

Barack Obama was taking a tour of a Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Wednesday and a reporter, WXYZ's Peggy Agar, asked a question of Obama and he responded "Hold on one second, sweetie." YouTube URL for the video here . This created a buzz among reporters on the presidential campaign trail and was reported on by WXYZ as well different news organizations already and has being picked...

Note to Obama: No Arabic spoken in Afghanistan, & today's roundup

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Barack Obama Sweet Talks The Press

Sort by Below The Beltway (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008

I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.

Obama's Woman Problem (Video)

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