*This AP photo hit the Internet Wednesday evening, showing Arizona’s Republican governor Jan Brewer waving her finger in the face of the President as he landed in Phoenix. Then, the story behind the photo began to trickle out, with both sides offering a different takes of what led the governor to do what many are calling disrespectful and unprecedented. [Scroll down to watch the raw video.]
As the President descended the stairs of Air Force One at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Brewer handed Obama an envelope with a handwritten invitation to return to Arizona to meet her for lunch and to join her for a visit to the border. The two then “spoke intensely for a few minutes,” and appeared to be cutting each other off, according to White House pool reporters.
“He was a little disturbed about my book,” Brewer told a reporter after the incident, referring to her political memoir, “Scorpions for Breakfast.” Obama was objecting to Brewer’s description of a June 2010 meeting he and Brewer had at the White House, where she described Obama as lecturing her.
Brewer 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.”
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In a 2010 interview, she said of the White House meeting: “I felt a little bit like I was being lectured to, and I was a little kid in a classroom, if you will, and he was this wise professor and I was this little kid, and this little kid knows what the problem is and I felt minimized to say the least.”
On Wednesday, after the airport encounter, Brewer told reporters that Obama complained that she described him in her book as not treating her cordially.
“I said to him, you know, I have always respected the office of the president and that the book is what the book is. …I said that I was sorry that he felt that way. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here, and we’ll regroup.”
Meanwhile, the White House responded to the airport showdown yesterday by saying Obama would be glad to have another meeting with Gov. Brewer, but noted “after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book. The President looks forward to continuing taking steps to help Arizona’s economy grow.”
This isn’t the first time Obama and Brewer have disagreed. In October, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought on by Brewer that accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce immigration laws or maintain control of her state’s border with Mexico.
AZ problem is part of Obama Administration fault. Why did they ever appoint the Democratic Gov. to head Homeland Security? They should have left her in AZ then we wouldn’t be hearing from this crazy woman. She and her government in AZ has been a thorn in the Obama Administration.
if i was potus i woulda given this little racist old gangsta an upper cut that woulda landed underneath her jaw, thus knocking her bottom plate smack into her top plate therefore shattering both plates upon impact, then i woulda jumped around the tarmac with my fist raised in the air lick rocky balboa while she lay on the ground in a heap of dumb foundedness.
LOL @huey you know good and well the President can’t do that!!!! But it isn’t a bad ideal since all the disrespect he gets from some of these Republicans.
LMAO!!! That’s a skit for In Living Color! I can just see that now! Too FUNNY!
OMG … ROFLMAO
Huey, can you send your comment to Saturday Night Live or Jay Leno? That’ll be a hoot!! Make sure they compensate you for YOUR intellectual-comedic property. Then could I borrow about $100 ’cause I’m gonna add it to my contribution to Obama’s 2012 VICTORY party. I wish I could purcahase a case of Champale, if it’s still around. Then, I’ll show you how to do the “Funky Chicken” and the “Bootie Green.” LOL!! LOL!! Fanteeking
I bet Michelle would like to play tag with her. I’m disgusted by that photo.
Melody, she knew she could get away with that zhit! Had Michelle been there she’d woulda whupped that dishy-blonde hair! Fanteeking
@Melody, LOL! She probably would have given this winch the business. But as gracious and classy Michelle is, she would have just given her the eyebrow look as meaning do it again b%tch and see what happens.
I first came across this on MSNBC last night with Ed Shultz. He was in the middle of his discussion at the time, and talking how disrespectful Brewer was for cussing out the president.
So you mean no one even knows what actually went down. Even though we know it had to do with some disagreement about something in her book, unless you are able to hear the actual conversation, you really can’t say much beyond guessing. Like what was the tone of the conversation? Hand gestures and facial expressions can be deceiving. The best way to gauge the tone of a conversation is from the actual audio, where you can hear the expression in someone’s voice. For all we know, she and Obama may just be having a playful banter, and the hand gestures and facial expressions were just meant to add more drama. This is the same woman who tossed that birther bill when birtherism was at its peek, that was before Obama even pulled out his long form BC.
REDS, most sane people have already considered the fact that Brewer could’ve been talking about something totally different and did the finger for the camera.
More importantly, who does that? Who puts their finger in a President’s face?
Reds, you are the ONLY other person I have heard say this, besides me. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ERUDITENESS!
Reds–genius, the heffa done already told the press wtf happened. what more do u need knucklehead. its the old “emmitt till” syndrome, “i felt threatened by the president”. are u fucn kiddn me?? ARE U FUCN KIDDIN ME? this bytch is using the emmitt till syndrome on the got dayum president of the united states of amnisia. “i felt so violated! i thought he was going to pinch me”…”oh my, whats an old white heffer to do i say”
OK Mr. Huey. In what way is your assessment more accurate than mine?
I don’t know what went down, that’s why I’m reserving judgment.
But let’s look at what we have to work with.
From the Governor’s point of view,:
“I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president,” Brewer said. “The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So.”
Brewer said Obama told her “that he didn’t feel I had treated him cordially.”
“I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished,” Brewer said. “Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”
“He was somewhat thin-skinned and a little tense to say the least. I was trying to be very calm,”
More:
“The bottom line is the book is factual. The book is true. I want our borders secured. I want our nation protected. He wants amnesty. We’re never going to agree on that. So I don’t know why he was surprised by my book,” she said. “He evidently is and thin-skinned in regards to it.”
And as for the president:
The White House responded to the airport showdown yesterday by saying Obama would be glad to have another meeting with Gov. Brewer, but noted “after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book. The President looks forward to continuing taking steps to help Arizona’s economy grow.”
But of course, genius Huey, looking in his crystal ball, saw:
The old “emmitt till” syndrome, “i felt threatened by the president”. “i felt so violated! i thought he was going to pinch me”…”oh my, whats an old white heffer to do i say.”
Now I’m not saying that you are wrong. For all we know, those words could be going through her mind. Never mind the fact that the “standoff” was for many minutes, in full view of everyone, security included, with Brewer not willing to give an inch, waving her finger in what some would even consider a threatening manner. But with all of this, your assessment was that the governor of the great state of Arizona still felt threateaned by the half black president who does everything to pander to whites.
Amazing!
Your assessment, not mine.
Reds—i cant tell u one of those negro’s that has yet to have his n-word wake up call so u give cracka azz heffas the benefit of the fucn doubt, even after they spit in your face.what a looser.
Trust me when I say, her political career is FINISHED. If she wants the economy in Arizona to get better, she better reconsider her and Sheriff Joe’s obvious racist views towards Mexicans…pretty soon, it will be one of them taking her job…It seems like she was probably drunk out of her mind or she did this as a publicity stunt, but whatever the case, she ultimately disrespected the most powerful man on the planet and you can best believe, she will pay dearly for this stupid ass stunt. Huey, why even argue with REDS, until the President is brought up on charges for tax evasion, being gay, cheating on his wife, working undercover for Al Qaeda, not being born in Hawaii and lying on his Havard Law School application, nothing will satisy REDS.
futhur more, if she came out there with a “letter”, she was lookn for a fight, some camera time that would go viral and to try to play the pres. its racism fool. what they hel1 else do some of yall dumb azzez need to wake yo azzez up?
OK, it’s racism.
But the “emmitt till” syndrome?!
I’m scared of you, but I’m willing to pick a fight with you.
Your words, not mine.
whew….bro, i cant fathom how lost you are. i really wish there was such thing as “the drop squad” for fools like u and musbwhiteytoberightey…..yes, it what the he11 i said it is. the fucn emmit till syndrome. when women play the “im scared of the black boogie man” card. thats exactly what she did. she played that card, on the fucn president, in front of cameras to move along her racist azz agenda. but i dont expect u to understand. so this reply is more for the rest of the posters to read and expand on rather than me trying to help a negro who needs to be dropped.
I’m a little confused, how can she be both “threatening” and “scared.” It’s either or…
She meant to show Obama up by pointing her finger in his face
or
She wanted to show off for the camera by implying that the reason she pointed her finger is that she was afraid of him.
The latter really makes no sense because it would mean that she, a sitting governor, in the presence of the entire world, would feel “threatened.”
My exact point.
thats easy dumb azz, she was threatening going into the conversation to play to the camera, and then when she got some back draft from the media concerning her disrespect she played the “the negro was threatening me” card. any REAL black man knows this and has experienced it many times in their lives. whats so hard about this for your dumb enabling the white woman azz to understand. faceout, them crackas in arizona hate nuccas. dayum yall 2 some white azz nuccas. whew.
This pic does not dispaly playful banet anyone can see they are having a heated discussion. I love how this woman says she has RESPECT for the office of the President but, OBVIOUSLY!!! not when a black man is the Commander in Chief huh?? I bet anything Pres Obama was jsut showing her respect when the had a meeting at the WH she just wanted to interpret his tone etc in her own warped way because she has no respect for him in the first place and if he was lecturing her then So What!! Pres Obama had a right to tell her he did not like her potrayal of him in her book he is the POTUS Dammit!!! If Pres Obama had wagged his finger in her face all hell would of broken loose from the repubs, tea partyers, Slimy Herman Cain, Roomney, and especially that fat slob Gingrich. Bunch of idiots!!!
I don’t believe Obama has disputed Brewer’s assertion that she was confronted on the tarmac by Obama questioning her depiction of him in her book.
If that’s true, both of them are wrong.
OK, having a playful banter was maybe too much of an innocent way to put it. But the point I was trying to make, is that we really don’t know what the exact tone of the conversation was.
I think we can safely say that Brewer is more on the testy side. But if she was such a racist heffer, wanting to do in the black president so much, why would she miss out on that golden opportunity to sign the birther bill? She had every excuse to.
Obama and Brewer may be those two types of individuals whose personality will always clash. It’s easy for it to be interpreted as racism, and some of it may be, but I think’s not necessarily all that diabolical.
Maybe some of it has to do with her age, along with politics – playing to your base. She has to give this impression that she is always at odds with the president, and use every comment from him to start an argument
@Musbdherbs, I am sure if Obama said something about her assertion of him in the book, I am sure he didn’t do it in a hostile kind of way because that isn’t his personality. This lady had an agenda because she had that letter in her hand and we don’t know exactly what was said but that saying “a picture speaks louder than words” is a great description of what happen.
Whether it’s his personality or not, if he did ask her, it was inappropriate. Him being “nice” about it doesn’t really change that fact.
Why do you feel it was inappropriate? Regardless her actions were very inappropriate and it doesn’t have anything to do with the office, no person has the right to put their hands in another person’s face regardless of what was asked. Putting your hands in some people’s face is a good means of getting your Azz knocked out!!!!
Why do I feel that it was inappropriate for a President, in his state visit to a sitting governor, to come out the gate and question her about what she wrote in a damn book? Something that had absolutely nothing to do with his official presidential visit?
Do you really need me to answer that?
Please explain how questioning her about a book makes him “wrong.” I was unclear that when a politician visits a state that he can only speak about “scheduled” issues. I was unaware that “small” talk is off the table. I didn’t know that rude figure pointing is equal to asking someone about a book.
I said it was inappropriate. It would have been just as inappropriate had Brewer, upon greeting Obama on the tarmac, questioned him about his adminstrations characterization of her state (or at least her) as racist because of its immigration policy. Brewer would have been equally inappropriate.
Small talk isn’t off the table but there’s a time and place for that to happen. We can disagree over whether it should’ve happened upon the initial meeting or later on.
In case you’ve missed it, asking about the book was a confrontational move by Obama…as it would have been for Brewer.
Greetings -
Ref: Governor Brewer disrespecting President Obama
On wjla.com, one commenter called our President a traitor and another commenter called him “BOY.” Below are the responses that I posted on the subject site.
@No –
Greetings – You don’t KNOW that your comments are perverted? You called our Commander in Chief a “traitor.” No, you are the traitor – against humanity and the decency of class conduct. What you expressed is a poor reflection of character. Perhaps, you will come to KNOW that perverted thoughts, statements, and actions are representative of that which is pathetic. You expressed that our President has no business near the White House. Well, not only is he near the White House – he lives in it as the President of the USA. If that disturbs you that much…pick a flight…
@Oh I know what the problem is -
One of the problems is you and others who choose postures of no class thoughts, expressions, and conduct.
You “sound” like a frustrated and angry human specimen.
You expressed that you’re WHITE and you called our President “BOY.”
I’m Black, and fortunate to know that it makes bunches of sense to love people of all races and cultures. I love you too, but fully disagree with your plantation mentality. Clearly your expressions are perverted and representative of deception.
How wrong you are – BOY, are you wrong!
You know, I really can’t see Obama trying to start some shyt with this woman right off the plane with everyone watching. And that’s one of the reasons why I’m trying to tell people not to jump to conclusions and get taken in by all the media hype surrounding this.
I think Obama was being playful by bringing up the topic, and she might have taken it the wrong way. The actual tone is important. Maybe they both were not on the same tone. She took it in an offensive manner and he meant it in a light hearted manner. She’s an old woman, and some older folks may more easily take things out of context
Take a look at the pic. Obama had his hand on her and she is pointing her finger at him. Like one person getting it wrong and the other trying to calm her down and explain. That’s why she said he is thin skinned, when he was just trying to be funny by bringing it up.
I’m rather convinced that that’s how it went down. Obama made a tongue and cheek comment that she didn’t find amusing.
Wow!!!!! I see everyone has an opinion on this here is mine I don’t know what she is angry/.not angry/upset what ever the case this is how I feel Her finger has no business in the face of the the President of the United States and I am so sure that it would not have been there had it been any other sitting President.Are we all blind she would have NEVER greeted GWB like that even if he talked about her mama! The Office of the President is to be respected regardless of who is the a sitting President and these white folks are refusing to acknowledge that.Everytime these stupid people running for office against him mention his name they never say President Obama they just say Obama like the are addresing one of the guys it gets on my damn nerves.They will continue to disprespect him and that Office as long as he holds it. Now what I wish he had done was to grab her skinney finger and threatend to break it. Now I know Presidne Obama would never do that becuase he is a very even tempered man and he will kill you with his cham and his knowledge before he would ever do something like that! But as far as her sorry azz and the rest of this disrespectful people out here just doing and saying what they want just keep it up you never know when he may get tired and pull out a can of whup azz on ya! He is my President and as long as he is I will always RESPECT this man. Too bad many others can’t or won’t do the same. And I don’t care what the discussion was about SHE IS DEAD WRONG!!!!! IMO
The Secret Service should have slapped the piss out of that low-life white trash witch. This disrespect should not go unanswered. It’s time to organize some Regulators to ride on these tubobs who disrespect our President.
He should’ve kicked that bitch in her puzzy!
Yep!….for/on THIS POTUS?, ANYthing gooooes! FKn racist B.S. overload! And all while claaaaaaaiming to be SO fkn…”patriotic”! Now…if we treat OUR OWN President like this?, WTF should ANYone outsiiiiiide the borders, respect him OR…Us!? And let us NOT overlook the fact that “the IMAGE” of this shyt?, was WTF the mainstream media “chose” to flaunt, all over the fkn world!! See….even IF she was “not bytchin”, if they respected this man?, they would’ve chosen another shot. But?…here we go again!! Next I expect “Liz Trotter” to bring HUH IGnant azz back, to …”tell Us how SHE feels”! UNfknbeleeeeeevabllllllle! Hey?….FK ‘em! & FK “EM UP, “AGAIN”!!, in this upcoming election! Chuuuuuuch!/S.I.D.!!!
BTW…WTF was the “secret service”!?? If this bytch HADda “snapped”?, they would not.have been able to stop…SHYT! WTF is going “ON, in this bytch!!???? SMMFH!!
What?…she’s “White”, so she’s NOT a …”risk”! Some fkn “Rand Paul” B.S.!! THAT muthafkah wants “business class” travelers to not have to sir come, to the security checks we ALL have to go through,at the airports! Now….WTF do yall THINK “business class” is code for!?? Answer:?…WHITE men/people!!! Plain & muthaFKn simple!!! Umm….Fk him TOO!
But then again?, she IS from…Arizona! Where?…all lem STUpid azz farmers, who voted AGAINST the Latin immigrants “being here”?, now look at ALL their fkn crops ‘on the fkn ground, ROTING!!!!, B/c?, ain’t nobawdy there to ..”pick dat shyt”!! STUpid muthafkahs, I swear!!!!! MuthaFK ‘em, the “Gumps”! Moe Chuuuuuuch! Ps…… I’m Dun (said like Chris Brown!)
I find this photo very offensive. At the end of the day, it simply doesn’t look nice, AT ALL. If she wanted to shake her filthy finger in Barack Obama’s face, THEN SHE SHOULD’VE DONE IT IN PRIVATE!!!!
I have to agree with Don Cheadle, to wit, “I want to see a more GANGSTA Barack Obama!” He needs to blossom into a full-blown “gangsta” in his second term.
(I really want to kick this woman’s ass for this.)