Obama Makes Nice With 'Sweetie' Reporter

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. (More Barack Obama stories.)