Yesterday Barack Obama called an elderly woman "sweetie"-

[rzemanfl]

so he did it AGAIN. Was there a big hue and cry around here about it like the first time?

[babylonsister]

1. I'd have NO problem with him calling me sweetie!

:D

[OhioChick]

9. Me, Neither.

;-)

[cliffordu]

28. I'm a 56 year old straight male and he can call ME sweetie, too!

Of course my wife would elbow me out of the way.....

Ah, the middle age mancrush....

[democracy1st]

36. rather him call someone sweetie rather than sourie LOL

LOL another fine post

[Bicoastal]

2. Sweetiegate has shut for good. But while not quite a Wrightgate, Fingergate is the new Snubgate.

Jesus Christ, where ya been?!

:sarcasm:

[dchill]

Why are we quibbling about any of these specks of lint...

when we're under

SNIPER FIRE!

:shrug:

[keep_it_real]

14. No, If you look at the video I don't think so

In fact Hill was just talking about Obama on the MSM and she put her finger to her face although it was not, the finger. But Obama is ALWAYS touching his face or his hair, it is the way he PAUSES before he makes his next statement.

And if he did . . . well it was just sweet, IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. OH NOES! ALERT THE MEDIA! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

OMG, this is HORRIBLE! His campaign is so TOTALLY OVER! I bet he wasn't even wearing his flag pin when he did it!

[dchill]

4. That's it then - he's TOAST!!!1!!

:shrug::sarcasm:

[IntravenousDemilo]

5. Maybe she was sweet. n/m

[rzemanfl]

24. She was, she was angry about her property taxes and Obama

gave a very thorough response explaining how the federal government could reduce financial pressures on local communities.

[BuyingThyme]

6. Actually, her real name was

Sweetie McCreampuff.

[keep_it_real]

7. He's such a flirt

[LSparkle]

8. Better than calling her a c*** ... like Grandpa McSame

[redqueen]

17. Just like with the word "cunt"... "sweetie" can be offensive!

If my friend playfully calls me a cunt... that's one thing. If someone on this board calls me a cunt to be nasty... that's another.

If a candidate you support calls you "sweetie"... that's probably not gonna be viewed as being a Bad Thing. But a smarmy stranger hitting on you, or some jerk trying to be condescending? Uh, no.

Context...

[LSparkle]

22. I call people "sweetie" all the time -- men and women -- it's kind of like

when men use the term "buddy" for their pals. I wouldn't mind a young man
calling me "sweetie" if I were her age ... but that's just me.

[redqueen]

23. Same here!

I call people sweetie, honey, etc.

But if I were to use the wrong tone of voice while doing it? Heh...

[IntravenousDemilo]

27. Funny, I found that out for myself.

I called a woman I was speaking to "sweetie" and she thought it was sexist. I told her, "Oh, I call everyone either 'sweetie' or 'fuckface' -- your choice."

[LeFleur1]

52. Choices

And that's exactly the choice men give women.
"You can be my sweetie...I rule."
"Or you can be fuckface...I rule."

[IntravenousDemilo]

53. Ah, but I apply it equally to men and women. n/m

[Warren Stupidity]

10. THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE!!!!1!!!!111

I CANT HELP SCREAMING HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS!!11!111

BUT HELP11111!!!!!!11!!!!

IS FINGERGATE OR BITTERGATE OR WRIGHTGATE OR TURBANGATE OR WEATHERGATE MORE IMPORTANT1111!!!!111?????

HELp!11!1111

[0007]

11. OMFG!! The lint lizards are running loose again.

[redqueen]

12. Sweetiegate was the dumbest crap ever.

[CreekDog]

16. well, how do you like sequels?

:rofl:

[MoJoWorkin]

13. Me neither---I am 63 year old white woman , and I would love it!

Because I understand where he is coming from when he says it. It is in NO WAY demeaning. While he didn't call me sweetie when I met and talked briefly with him in 2004, I wouldn't have minded if he had.

[keep_it_real]

15. You are sweet; God bless you and keep you

[Undercurrent]

18. LOL

I'm also a white woman of some years. 60 of them. I'm in no way offended when people call me dear, sweetie or m'am. I lived in the South for many years, and it's a common term of endearment, and respect used for us "old ladies". (Actually it's elitist to make fun of the way regular Southern folks talk! haha)

[rzemanfl]

20. I'm in the South now and the same age as you. Do you have

"grandbabies?" That's one I never heard before I moved here.

[pompano]

32. Women call men "sweetie"

down here in the South.

I was at the hardware store the other day for the 2 for 1 sale. Everything in the marked bucket was buy 1 get 1 free. They had Vienna sausages, shampoo and flyswatters all in the same bucket. I didn't know if you could mix and match items. I asked the woman behind the counter ringing me up if I could get 3 sausages and 1 flyswatter for the same price as 2 flyswatters and 2 shampoos.

She said "sure Sweetie"!

Standard vocabulary around the South...whats the big deal? It's just a kind word.

[rzemanfl]

42. I think you meant to respond to the OP. Your screen name

makes me hungry. I have to check the current market price on pompano, whenever I caught one in the past I called it "a fifteen dollar fish." After seven years of * that is probably outdated. I have an old book around here that remarks about pompano being expensive at a dollar a pound.

We hardly ever see flies around here, they tell me it is because picking up the garbage twice a week breaks their life cycle. We do get them when there is red tide though, because of the dead fish.

[pompano]

46. Screen name?

I picked up that nickname back in the 70's. Living here along the Gulf Coast I have caught my share of pompano. It's the only fish I could ever catch with any regularity, thus the name. I did alot of deep sea fishing and would get skunked once in a while but I have never been skunked on pompano. As far back as I can remember they have had pretty liberal bag limits but I would catch 2 or 3 and go home.

They are expensive. It is such a mild tasting fish. The fish doesn't taste real fishy. Tourists and locals alike love pompano. Alot of times if one was to walk down the beach in late afternoon and catch a pompano fisherman 1/2 drunk and 1/2 sunburnt more times than not he'll/she'll give ya handful of pompano so he/she ain't got to go home and be bothered with cleaning them.

But, you are right. If you buy them in a fish market the price is high as a Georgia Pine.

:hi:

[rzemanfl]

47. Where are you catching them? I seldom catch pompano on the

beaches here (Clearwater/Dunedin).

[pompano]

54. Yea

(Pensacola, FWB, Destin). Get ya a small sand flea net (bait stores have them) catch you some sandfleas, throw out past the first sand bars late afternoon or early morning. You'll catch them out there schooling up.

Also they have jigs that work pretty good but you'll have to work to work the jig. Anything white or light pink color (shrimp colored) small artificial bait will work.

The trick is finding them schooling around. Look for birds diving and interrupted water patterns.

Be sure and check your local bag limits.
Good luck! Good eating.

[rzemanfl]

56. I have a sand flea rake, but I hear the nets are better- I will have

to pick one up and learn how to use it. At least around here the trouble with sand fleas as bait is that the ladyfish love 'em. The beach here is such that you can't "throw out past the first sandbar" without wading quite a distance. I think by the time I wade in with the first pompano (I am too much of a coward to have a stringer near me when I am in the water) the school has moved.

Thanks for the tip. I fished the beach today, it was wavy and windy, I didn't catch much. As I was leaving a guy caught a Redfish about 22 inches long in his cast net when he was trying to catch greenbacks for bait. Go figure.

[TexasLady]

19. I want him to call ME sweetie-PIE

It's cuter.
:D

[americanstranger]

33. I call my wife sweetie-pie.

Because she is one. :D

- as

[BlooInBloo]

21. Sweetiegate!!!

[Raine]

25. He can call me "sweetie" anytime

it's better than some names I've been called. :P

[la la]

26. Personally--

I hate to be called 'sweetie'---I think after the preteen years, it should be a banned word!

no, really---I get the feeling that people are being very condescending when they call me sweetie----especially if I don't know those people! I am NOT their 'sweetie'!

[RBInMaine]

29. Oh for Christ sake, give us a break! This is a waste of space.

[rzemanfl]

38. Seriously, the first time he said it, it was a big deal here. I could

care less and didn't expect 22 responses. It's just that as soon as I heard him say it again I thought about the posts here that claimed he was "sexist" for saying it some days ago. At least my post was short, unlike many here these days.

[rzemanfl]

39. Self-delete. Dupe. n/t

[Bensthename]

30. Oh God Noooooo.. He lost my vote.. I want my $300 dollars back.

:crazy:

[Texasgal]

31. Oh GOOD GAWD!

Is it too much to ask for you to FOCUS?

Sweetie? Are you f'ing kidding me?

[rzemanfl]

40. Please see response #38. I must say though, that I am glad

sweetie-gate is over so that people can get back to excoriating Obama for anything anyone he knows may have said when they hit their thumb with a hammer. I love the smell of triviality in the morning. :sarcasm:

I just spell-checked this and suggest you type "sweetiegate" into a message without the hyphen and then run spell check.

[Cha]

34. I want to call him

President Sweetie!

[NC_Nurse]

35. I am a nurse from the South, I call EVERYONE Sweetie. I still say Ma'am and

Sir too. Once in a while we'll get someone who "ain't from 'round here" who gets offended or put off by it.
For the most part, I think most people find it friendly and comforting. For those who don't, I try to let
them know it's just me...I'm just as God made me. Or the Devil, maybe. ;-)

[SaveAmerica]

37. OH NO!!! I wish he'd start calling people some of the names used around here.

[Vinca]

41. When you back to the top of the list of faux scandals,

sweetie-gate isn't there. Maybe I missed something overnight and you're already back at sweetie-gate. It's hard to keep up. The repetition of faux scandals is like hamsters on a wheel.

[TragedyandHope]

43. BREAKING SCANDAL: 95% of sweeties support Obama

[Political Heretic]

44. He can call me sweetie any time he wants.

[ScarletSniper]

45. I call people sweetie all the time..young and old and I'm in my 40's..it's a southern thing for me

Thanks for posting, Sweetie

[whatchamacallit]

48. Was she pissed? Cuz if not, you shouldn't be either

lame.

[EFerrari]

49. Where is the line forming?

lol

[bunnies]

50. And Hillary called the bartender "Dear"

So what? More faux outrage? :eyes:

[yourguide]

51. If anyone cares on this board cares enough to turn this into sweetie-gate

May I remind the HRC supporters she linked obama to HAMAS in a national debatewhich is bullshit.

[QC]

55. Did he joke about his peepee vibrating? n/t

[Toucano]

57. I want to live in a world where people can use terms of endearment with strangers.

It's a better world, frankly.

The over intellectualized concept that it's pejorative creates a sterile, cold, heartless society.

I can tell the difference between affection and debasement, endearment and harassment.

[CK dexter]

58. The very idea is paradoxical: a term of endearment for those you're not endeared to?

A diminuitive can be debasing, even when used positively and affectionately. It indicates an adult-child relation, which really is demeaning, even if meant harmlessly. I think we make too big a deal about it sometimes--and this "sweetie" case is pretty trivial.

But we really are better off without this practice--I think it's a vestige of an outdated worldview, in which people are easily designated as fully vs. less fully responsible full-fledged human beings (so that, e.g., diminutives were used for children, the elderly, women, servants, and minorities--oh, and also pets).

[Toucano]

62. You are completely wrong.

How sad.

When you use a term of endearment with a stranger you are expressing a HOPE and WISH that they will find you endearing. It is not paradoxical at all. It's beautiful and HUMAN.

It is only pejorative when intended to be pejorative. Can't you distinguish the two? Americans are obsessed with their fucked up language.

I am so glad I live in a world where people commonly call each other darling, love, dear, honey, doll, sugar, etc. with affection and respect, never considering it debasing.

Your logic suggests that talking to you like you're a child is an insult, when in reality, a child is the most valued thing in the universe. You are being put on a pedestal, being compared to something wonderful and precious.

Considering you have created a society where children have to be frisked for guns in order to go to school, I'd say you're doing a great job. Keep on fulfilling with your Orwellian dream.

Better off without this practice? Hardly.

[intaglio]

59. Was it Hillary? - Sorry low blow

Where I live "My Bird" or "M'Ansum" is often used even if you don't like the person. Up in the NW "Love" (pron. Looove) is pretty universal as long as you are not actually fighting.

[SKKY]

60. I'm a 37 year old veteran, straight male...

...and BO can call me Jennifer if it will help him win the election.

[EFerrari]

61. LOL!

:rofl: