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Why are the Republican leaders in this country so farkin' disrespectful??
"Arizona Governor Jan Brewer traded words with President Obama after she greeted him at a Phoenix airport Wednesday.
"Brewer and Obama "spoke intensely for a few minutes" after he landed at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, according to a White House pool report. At one point, the GOP governor shook her finger at the president.
"He was a little disturbed about my book," Brewer told a reporter after the incident, referring to her political memoir, "Scorpions for Breakfast." In the book, Brewer depicted Obama as "patronizing" during an earlier meeting."
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The last time Obama met with Brewer was June 2010, when the Arizona governor visited the Oval Office for a private, 30-minute encounter the White House called a "good meeting." At the time, Brewer said the meeting was "very cordial," but in her book she said Obama had been "condescending."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/jan-brewer-obama_n_1232367.html

notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)csziggy
(34,189 posts)These Repukes need to get a few lessons in how to treat a sitting President - and in basic manners. They all act as though they were raised in a barn. Didn't their mothers ever treat them how to be polite? It's not that hard to be polite but get your point across.
progressiveinaction
(150 posts)One thing I will say, I never once saw disrespect here or anywhere else towards bush.
Even though we disagreed with stupid dumbass chimpy it was always done so in a respectful manner. Seriously can anyone think of even one time he was disrespected here? Didn't think so.
Fucking classless rethuglicans.
aptal
(304 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)GoCubsGo
(33,419 posts)Any sane, intelligent person would be disturbed by her whack-o book.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)trueblue2007
(18,380 posts)how dare someone shove their finger, hand, fist whatever in the president's face.
Brewer is an ASS and a horrible person
BiggJawn
(23,051 posts)Wouldn't be surprised. Emboldened by Gingrich, I predict the "N-Word" will be getting slung around by the ReTHUGlicans before November.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)




SHOCKED, I am.
gulliver
(13,342 posts)Pisces
(5,860 posts)the opposition is disgusting.
stevedeshazer
(21,653 posts)No offense to old people with wrinkles or actual battleaxes.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Code for "uppity Negro", I'm quite confident in this case.
No points for bothering to come to the airport - looks like she had a motive.
Mariana
(15,301 posts)Condescending = Uppity.
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Toucano
(11,583 posts)It's hard not to be condescending when you're talking to a moron like Governor Brewer.
I doubt anyone important will fault Obama for that.
Serial Mom
(2,256 posts)Somebody should grab that finger when she points it in the face of the president.
ellisonz
(27,765 posts)She has all the attributes of a scorpion
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PavePusher
(15,374 posts)Let's not go there, eh? Shaking a finger at someone does not equate to violence, nor does it deserve violent retaliation.
LeftinOH
(5,454 posts)pinboy3niner
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MineralMan
(148,427 posts)Ms. Brewer: That is the President of The United States. You are the governor of a small western state that is the home to the most moronic Sheriff on the planet. Your state is a joke around the world. Listen. Don't talk.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,817 posts)including elected officials whom should know better has been nothing short of appalling.
Please refresh my memory: As much as many out and out hated how Bush wound up (P)resident, as well as his policies and how he conducted himself as POTUS, was there this level of hatred and venom spewed against him. Were Democratic office-holders this disrespectful towards Bush?
Thankfully, President Obama probably anticipated all of this and is pretty thick-skinned. I'm not sure I could handle it.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Doing it out in the open, she knew a good photo would come of it, and bingo--Brewer already has the poster/slogan/commercial for her next campaign
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,817 posts)as well
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)when you need 'em? "I thought that finger was loaded, sir!"
bluedeminredstate
(3,322 posts)And who is BUYING them? Callista Gingrich is rewriting American history for profit, Jim DeMint was just flogging his book a couple weeks ago (and Jon Stewart was the only one who challenged his nonsense), every teabagger politician has a screed, and Mitt Romney wrote a snoozer too.
Who is the customer that plunks down up to 28 bucks for that crap? Can you think of anything less riveting than Jan Brewer's autobiography?
treestar
(82,383 posts)Is all I can think of. Indeed. Who would want to read her autobiography? I wouldn't read my own governor's. Really.
librechik
(30,801 posts)form Amazon site: "Broadside Books is a pioneering new imprint of HarperCollins that specializes in conservative non-fiction writing, spanning the full range of serious right-of-center thought and opinion."
Thanks, Harper Collins. Because there aren't enough craven publishers for the Tea Party's garbage out there already
Bake
(21,977 posts)Witch.
Bake
treestar
(82,383 posts)What a weirdo!
MineralMan
(148,427 posts)It's not polite to point at people. My mother taught me that.
aptal
(304 posts)maybe he can call in Seal Team 6 to deal with her.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Just take a look at her writings, her speeches.
Jan Brewer is a White Supremacist.
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)Whites come from monkey's just like everyone else. We are equal, and these racists are living in a fantasy world. No one is supreme, only idiots that are insecure believe that crap.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)That's the five nines - which in IT terms meant if 1 year represented 100% of your DNA, the .001% would represent 2 minutes.
Uncle Joe
(60,603 posts)The President was gracious and aware in not demeaning himself and the office to her level.
Thanks for the thread, powergirl.