is bammy an abfab fan or just condescending?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 12:58pm

who would even consider this an appropriate thing to say in a professional atmosphere? especially to a female reporter.
sweetie

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:24pm

Can't he be BOTH?

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:28pm

I don't know...I'm still trying to wrap my brain around an abfab reference from Papa.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:32pm

Where have you been? He's already said in his book that it was Patsy that introduced him to the nose candy.

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:36pm

Imagine that- it's neither.

"UPDATE: 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 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.""

So his term doesn't start for 8 months and he's already admitted two more mistakes than George Bush.

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:43pm

Ha. Awwww.

Momma Calvin would've slapped him, though. She once worked with a high school principal who called all the secretaries "sweetie," and she HATED that.

Now -- what if he called Sue Simmons sweetie?

[Namaste]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:46pm

I'm surprised he didn't blame this on one of his staffers!

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:48pm

Better yet, what if he had called Hillary 'sweetie'?

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:06pm

I have a pretty bad habit of that too--I'm always bustin' out a "honey," "shug," or "sweetie"--even on str8 guys!

It's a gay Southern thing for me...

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:22pm

I fall back on "Hon" much to the consternation of my almost all-female coworkers. "Has the mail come yet, Hon?"

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:29pm

I use "guuuuurrrrl" way too much as well...that's what happens when you're raised by Jackee Harry and Marla Gibbs.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:29pm

"Ms Agar said the apology surprised her but she was more concerned he had not answered her question."

Sorry, toots, it's a new kind of politics.

[robbiej]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:36pm

I use 'my dear' several thousand times a day to the other chicks in the secretarial pool!

And where did I pick up that habit? My mother!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:37pm

You know that Patsy did John McCain in a threeway with Ronald Reagan.

Updated On: 5/15/08 at 02:37 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:38pm

Where did you pick up "chicks," from Leo Gorcey?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:40pm

I think a lot of people do it, but it's really a know your audience kind of thing. I'd hope the future leader of free world would parse his thoughts more carefully with strangers before he "sweeties" then. But that's just me.

And let's face it - Obama could have skeletons the likes of R. Kelly is his closet and everyone would say how lucky that preteen was to be boffed by the future president!

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:42pm

Yep! Exactly what we'd say...

I'd rather the President call a reporter "sweetie" than to insinuate we plan to destroy an entire country if provoked.

But that's just me...I always pick the social slight over the genocide.

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:42pm

I would've thought Bubbles would have been more McCain's speed.

[robbiej]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:43pm

Only if it was a boy, Phyl!

And I got chicks from early lesbian pulp!

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:45pm

Early lesbian pulp...VIVID!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:57pm

"Obama apologized in a voicemail"

Miss Manners says that it is the height of insincerity when one leaves a voicemail apology. Dear Abby agrees. Ann Landers thinks it's OK for a politician, but never if one is breaking a marriage proposal.

He should have said "We'll get to your question in a minute wench".

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 3:03pm

"who would even consider this an appropriate thing to say in a professional atmosphere? especially to a female reporter. "

I hope you're not forgetting your guy Johnny Mack dropped the c bomb on his wife....

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 3:10pm

that's a lie. do you really believe he said that in front of reporters in '92 and they sat on it until now? it's a lie and a perticularly ugly one.

[lildogs]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 3:23pm

The American Politics Journal doesn't think so....

It's not a lie, you just don't like the way it makes your guy look--a guy with quite a history of colorful language.

It's not any more ugly than the lies you keep in circulation about Obama. Actually MUCH less venomous.
John and the C word

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/08 at 3:26pm

I would have just called her Crazy Eyes.