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Obama Makes Nice With 'Sweetie' Reporter

Posted Jun 3, 08 4:36 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama again did penance for calling a Michigan TV reporter “sweetie,” giving an eight-minute interview yesterday to Peggy Agar, three weeks after causing an uproar by using that term of endearment in brushing off a question she asked. At the time, the candidate apologized for his “bad habit” in a voicemail message, WXYZ-TV reports.

When asked by Agar about the earlier interchange, Obama said: “If it had been a guy I would have called him ‘buddy’ … the main thing I felt guilty about was not having answered your question.” The Democratic front-runner also, as promised, answered Agar's original question concerning autoworkers.

Sources WXYZ.com, Associated Press

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