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OBAMA ROUNDUP: Senator criticized for saying 'sweetie'; wins mock election at movie premiere; considers new theme song.
*Barack Obama is catching flack for referring periodically to females as "sweetie."
The Democratic presidential nominee has apologized to reporter Peggy Agar of Michigan's WXYZ for using the term when she questioned him at a Chrysler car plant in Detroit. Ms Agar told the Detroit News: "I've been called worse."
During his visit to the Chrysler LLC plant, Agar shouted out: "How are you going to help the American auto workers?"
Obama replied: "Hold on one second, sweetie, we'll do a press [session], thanks."
Later calling to apologize, the Illinois senator left a message stating: "That's a bad habit of mine. I do it sometimes with all kinds of people. I mean no disrespect and so I am duly chastened on that front.
"Feel free to call me back. I expect that my press team will be happy to try to make it up to you whenever we are in Detroit next."
Agar said the apology surprised her but she was more concerned he had not answered her question.
"People in Michigan have to make a decision about who they're going to vote for," she said. "He could take a second to say what he's going to do for them."
Obama had previously used the word to a factory worker in Pennsylvania in April, and to an enthusiastic supporter in Washington D.C. last week while leaving Congress.
*The New York Daily News is reporting that Obama won by a landslide in a mock election at Tuesday's premiere of "Recount," HBO's new film about the 2000 ballot battle in Florida.
But voters – which consisted of invited celebrities and movie critics, found themselves facing dimpled and hanging chads, as well as three of the five machines rendered inoperable after getting jammed. The voting machines were imported from Palm Beach County for the after-party at the Four Seasons restaurant to demonstrate the fiasco encountered by Florida voters during the 2000 presidential election.
"There's no doubt in my mind that this could happen again," said actor Kevin Spacey, who plays Ron Klain, the lawyer who ran Al Gore's recount fight. "Even if you went from a punch-card ballot to a punch-screen ballot, in which case, there's no paper trail. You couldn't do a recount. What was wrong with just checking a box?"
"Recount" premieres on HBO May 25.
*The Obama campaign says it may want to add the track "Future Calling" to its bank of theme songs, reports the New York Daily News.
The tune is from rising alternative rock group Phoenix Block, who are avid supporters of the Illinois senator. While a campaign insider said that their priority is to focus on conquering the primaries, they will negotiate the song for future use if Obama becomes the Democratic nominee.
Listen to song below:
"Future Calling" - Pheonix Block
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