Obama can call me sweetie anytime he wants

[greenbriar]

this 41 year old woman would love it

[Triana]

1. Same here! n/t

[greenbriar]

2. I think I would swoon

like a teen

[Beregond2]

3. I nearly posted this myself,

but I thought I would resist being a gay stereotype just this once...

[cornermouse]

4. He can call me sweetie anytime he wants

to get kicked by a granny where it hurts the most.

[crimsonblue]

7. why do you hate Obama? Why do you hate America?

:P just jokin, sweetie. :yoiks:

[Gore1FL]

5. this 42 year old straight male

would love it.

[crimsonblue]

6. I'd be a little creeped out (but I'd think being called dude or bro would be sweet)...

but the fiancée just nodded when I asked her she would like it...

[AtomicKitten]

8. oh, me too!

:D

[AZBlue]

21. I KNEW I'd find you on this thread!

;)

[AtomicKitten]

23. ha! and I'm supposed to be working!

:hi:

[Marrah_G]

9. I think the issue was that this woman was at work

She was doing her job, beside her male counterparts. In that situation it is never okay unless you know the woman really well. Obama did the right thing and apologized. I think it was just a simple faux pas.

[peterbluepedro]

10. Not all women are Obama supporters from DU

DU is not representative of American women. Women here are an anomaly in that respect.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. How would you know?

You just registered today.

[Marrah_G]

24. It's not hard to figure out that not every woman is an Obama supporter on DU.......

If you registered an hour ago or 5 years ago, that's a pretty basic truth.

DU has never been representative of the general population.

Your post is puzzling.

[greenbriar]

14. and you know that in your all important 6 posts?

come back in 5 years and say that

[AllentownJake]

16. They disrupted poorly

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=220566

I wonder who they were?

[Darth_Kitten]

11. I want to be called by my name.

I don't think sweetie, honey, dear, are very endearing names called by people I don't even know.

[greenbriar]

15. I call my students sweetie and babe all the time

they like the personalization of it

of course they are 12, 13 and 14 years old

[Withywindle]

13. And I'd call him that right back...

I'm a Southerner by upbringing, I can make it sound right. (We call everyone "sweetie" so we don't have to remember all those names.)

Until January, and then it'll be "President Sweetie."

[goclark]

17. He can call me anything just so he calls me

:hug: ~ Sorry Michelle

Ms. goclark

Seriously, in our AA culture,calling someone Sweetie,in a friendly setting, is our nice way of saying "Hey You" or " I will now call on the Young lady in the Blue Dress."


It is not meant as a come on.

He is from Urban Chicago and his ear is trained to speak Ebonics/Black English as well as Harvard English.

No matter how many degrees we have, we speak two languages.

My 90 yr. old mother would totally understand these expressions, so would I and so would my 16 yr. old cousin......


Hey Pretty Mama!

Hey Sweet Thing

Hey Doll Baby

Hey Ms. Beyonce, you look mighty pretty today.

Young Lady, you are lookin' mighty fine this afternoon! You could be a peach on a vine!

In our culture we enjoy playing around with words/ greetings... I'll try to contact the campaign and tell them to let him know that some people are offended by "Sweetie." I can understand that there is a cultural difference.
:hug:

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. How about "my disciple"?

[AnnieBW]

19. It's like Baltimoreans calling someone "hon".

It's a polite way of saying "you".

[2rth2pwr]

20. I've heard something like that before, "it's only sexual harrassment if the guy

is ugly" or some such thing.

[AZBlue]

22. So would this 42 year old woman.