May 14 at 6:41PM
Foolish Detroit News Lady Can't Take Barack Obama's Compliment
This just in via Wonkette: Hope-filled handsome man Barack Obama strolled through a Chrysler stamping plant in Detroit today, and a local girl reporter had the total balls to ask him what he was going to do to save autoworkers' jobs. (Seems like a weird time to ask such a question, no? Maybe she was on the rag.)
As for Obama's reply, well, we'll go with the phrase that's been coined: SweetieGate.
Listen, sweetie, when Barack Obama calls you sweetie, you just hush your pretty mouth and smile. Do you want Change, or do you not?
(For extra credit, watch the full WXYZ news clip here. Definitely on the rag!)
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The auto workers jobs wouldn't need "saving" if their unions hadn't pushed their salaries and benefits into unsustainable levels, forcing automakers to move factories overseas. If our cars and other products were not manufactured abroad the costs would have been pushed onto the consumers; a cost too high for most Americans. This combined with our lack of universal health care coverage and escalating health care costs has boxed Detroit into a corner, leaving less money to be spent on more fuel efficient cars.
A Pet name? Does that mean he has a Mistress? Isn't that what men do when they don't want to accidentally call the Wife the Mistress' name and vice versa. Wouldn't that be something to talk about.
Looks like someone has to go to sexual harrassment class if they want to be president. Don't they teach this in law 101~DUH!!
Too bad he didn't have enough sense to say something profound, like Sugar.
WXYZ got that question answered in an interview with Obama. It's on their web page (link above) under "Stephen & Obama"… the event mentioned above was a 'coverage' only event. Can you imagine what would happen if every reporter started blurting out questions,everywhere, willy nilly ?!? we'd get even more crap on TV than we already have ! Jeez lady, instead of asking the same question, which have been answered in every other Obama speech, why not ask something new at least? If you are going to jump the line then make it count. Something like, Mr Obama how are your tax incentives (which you have spoken about so often) apply to car manufacturers in Detroit, who only assemble cars and not really manufacture them ? and by virtue of the falling USD some economists are suggesting that manufacturing in the US will become competitive globally so are you going to keep supporting the "strong dollar" policy and actively help it to decline vs other currencies ? or even better… "Sir, we have been fighting a war in Iraq that is forcing us to inflate the USD, to decrease debt in absolute terms, but hey our exports are picking up… does this mean that to increase our exports, you will stay in Iraq ? make it count lady !! As for sweet(y/ie)… well calling mudslingers sweetie is a back handed compliment is it not so WXYZ !?! Something that a black, misogynistic, Latino hating, dyed blonde hair disdaining, single parent despising, man would say ! yes I'm not going to vote for him either now !!
She neglects to mention the fact that she's exactly one voice out of dozens in that place. How can people expect him to answer every single question from annoying reporters?
This lady is just making an issue out of it to get some attention. She's probably a Hillary supporter hoping this will be the miracle Hillary has been waiting for – sorry not even close!
If any other candidate had said this they'd be grilled over it. He *must* be the messiah of hope and world peace and jelly filled donuts for all mankind!
Sweetie???!!! Call out the political proctologists and get this on the news 24/7 right away! Let's make sure the media covers this important incident rather than the issues! BTW, I'd much rather have a president who has a habit of using sweetie than one who has a habit of calling his wife vulgar names. Might be a better story in why McCain, when asked a direct question about whether he did, in fact, call his wife those horrible names could not answer with a simple yes or no. Instead, the Baptist preacher asking the question was hauled off by the Secret Service.
Thanks darlin', you have a good day hon.