Yeah, this guy is going to wear really well for another six months. Let’s see, he’s insulted white working class voters, lectured pro-choice forces on about how they don’t understand the moral choices of abortion, and now for the second time, he’s called a woman he doesn’t know “sweetie.” I’d say not only is Obama not asking for my vote, he’s going out of his way to make sure he doesn’t get it.
Update: Per the comments below, Obama has apologized. In doing so, he claimed that he calls “all kinds of people” sweetie. By people, I’m betting he means women. Because he sure wouldn’t call Mike Tyson “sweetie.” Also, while I saw the link in some comments somewhere, this apparently or originated with Taylor Marsh. So h/t to her.
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Curdled my stomach, listening to his sexist arrogance
Oh my.
That, along with the, what was it, if I give you a kiss will you wear my pin?
Sucks.
Sweetie my ass
What a fraud.
"Hold on one second, sweetie?"
Eesh.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Sad thing is
A lot of his female supporters(the young ones who haven’t been truly schooled in Sexism 101) probably eat it up.
Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!
so dumb of him--
esp considering all that’s gone before.
This is probably part of his trying for white men too, i bet.
Hey, it could have been worse. He could have said "babe."
I love this job!
Here's the link for the "wear my button for a kiss" encounter:
http://thepage.time.com/obama-pool-repor…
Hey! New button:
Sweeties for Obama!
Not.
She's only mad because she's --
let’s say it all together now — a racist!
Why so offended?
Don’t you love it when we treat you as if you’re a child? Next you’ll tell me you get all “upset” if a male co-worker smacks you on the ass after a job well done. What? We do it in friendship. Friendship!
Now, let us men handle this nomination “contest” won’t you? Don’t you worry that little pretty head of yours. Obama won’t.
he'll pinch an ass next, or make a
construction-worker type remark (“accidentally” picked up reporters, of course) about some beautiful woman somewhere.
Oh, man
That reporter sounds *pissed* about being dismissed like that.
He apologized...
He left a voicemail on her phone…
“”Hi Peggy. This is Barack Obama. I’m calling to apologize on two fronts. One was you didn’t get your question answered and I apologize. I thought that we had set up interviews with all the local stations. I guess we got it with your station but you weren’t the reporter that got the interview. And so, I broke my word. I apologize for that and I will make up for it.
“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. 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.”
Awwww. His press team will try to make it up to her. Awwww.
Somehow
I don’t think he really does it with all kinds of people. I can’t see him calling Mike Tyson sweetie. When he says all kinds of people, he means all kinds of women.
Somebody ought to ...
Vote for this arrogant, incurious, sexist jerk?
NOT. ONE. CHANCE. IN. HELL. OR. TEXAS.
Oh, he’s a real pilgrim, this Barack Obama.
Got a link, wasabi
on that apology? I’d like to add an update.
exactly--
i’d like him to use it towards the people in all those bars and factories and things he’s now doing photo ops at—let’s see how that goes over.
Link to reporter's station's site -- had audio link in it.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?cont…
Wha?
Where did you see this?
He has a bad habit of being patronizing
It’s a snob thing only elites understand.
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“A true friend stabs you from the front” -Oscar Wilde
yeah, I'm really gonna come crawling back
Screw You!
happily immune to all religious indoctrination
Um,
it wasn’t only that he called her sweetie, it was that he used sweetie to enhance the dismissive tone he was taking with her.
I think this just might be where the shimmer of possibility that I would ever vote for him has finally disappeared.
"Periodically"
Considering Obama’s past remarks about how Clinton tends to lash out “periodically” when she’s feeling low to boost her appeal or self-esteem, I’m guessing there’s going to be plenty of Democratic women on the same “cycle” come November.
their "claws" won't hit the lever
for Obama? ; >
(one of his other sexist cracks)
Hee
Good one!
Any betrayal of Obama by women will of course only prove one thing: they’re psychotic. Already I hear cries of “I won’t be ignored!”
Ha!
This guy can’t stop himself. There is no way he hangs on through the summer.
Racism vs. Sexism
All this leads me back to a very contentious “discussion” my spouse and I had at the beginning of this two-candidate race for the nomination: Which societal ill is more insidious—sexism or racism. Which one is more entrenched? In which one are we making the fastest strides—legally, religiously, socially—toward resolving the issues. And if we were to address one of those by selecting a presidential nominee, who deserves to go first? (Assuming rather simplistically that only racism OR misogyny would be addressed—both in the s symbolism of the campaign and in the eventual policies of the Democratic president.)
Didn't Obama leave a message on Hillary's cell phone
to congratulate her on her win in WVa?
He’ll be tweeting his messages next.
Why "Sweetie" Doesn't Matter
He’s wearing the flag pin, now that he’s finally made it to Michigan.
"Is Obama's Cynicism Enough"
— http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/1…
very related.