I missed this little bit of news back in February of 2007 … based on what we’ve been hearing from Obama, he wasn’t kidding about his “bad habit” of referring to women using inappropriate diminutives:

From Carla Marinucci: Notes on Obamamania:

Did Democratic presidential candidates — particularly Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — miss some opportunities this week to fire away at Sen. Barack Obama?

Maybe. Obama, speaking at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, raised eyebrows Monday at a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer when, as we reported, the Illinois Senator described his Democratic colleague from California as “a fighter, a leader, a charmer, a cutie.”

The remark “set off a lot of mumuring,” said one Democratic strategist in attendance, “among a lot of very strong powerful women around Boxer there who were offended.”

The descriptive of a powerful feminist senator raised “a strategic question: is (Obama) ready for prime time? You don’t call a U.S. senator a ‘cutie,’” said the strategist, whose take was echoed by others.

via Reclusive Leftist