i don't know whether the link above was intentionally linked to this story or not. since the comments are about "she" i have to assume the content updated. this is what i just read:
Quote:
CNN) – Barack Obama has personally apologized to a Michigan television reporter for referring to her as "sweetie" as she tried to ask a question. The comment came earlier Wednesday when WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar asked Obama at a campaign stop, “How are you going to help the American auto workers?”
Obama told Agar to "hold on, sweetie," and said he would address that issue with her later. Agar said she never got an answer to her question.
According to WXYZ, Obama personally left a voice message for Agar Wednesday afternoon, apologizing for both not answering the question and for calling her "sweetie."
"That's a bad habit of mine," Obama said in the message. "I do it sometimes with all kinds of people. I mean no disrespect and so I am duly chastened on that front.
"Feel free to call me back. I expect that my press team will be happy to try to make it up to you whenever we are in Detroit next," he added.
Obama also took some heat in Pennsylvania last month for referring to a factory worker as "sweetie."
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i've got to admit, this is a pretty goddamned big blemish, in my opinion. i have a range of hot button issues but if i were to have one big, round, shiny master button, this would be it.
it speaks volumes about a man when he speaks in such a diminishing way to a woman. i've got a serious problem with this.