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I emphatically agree. It is irritating as well as patronizing.

For annoying and condescending, John McCain's repetitive insertion of "my friends" is gettin' right up there the super-slow, super-enunciated, super-modulated delivery that Hillary Clinton contrived as with a speech coach early in her campaign.

This difference, however, is significant.

Hillary Clinton was using that frontal lobotomy tone in front of mixed-gender audiences.

John McCain calls us all, however insincerely, his friends.

Barack Obama calls only women 'sweetie,' I trust, and has no comparable endearment for men.

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