Heated Exchange Between Obama and Brewer

[Run To State]

“He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So.”

 

Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: “That he didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”…

 

She said the president brought up the book.

 

 

Link

 

About the Obama passage in Brewer’s book that has the president "angry".

 

“It was though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee,” the governor wrote, calling his tone “patronizing.”

 

“He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me,” Brewer wrote.

 

Questioned about the different description, the governor said she did not lie.

 

“I mean, we weren’t yelling at one another, screaming at one another,” she said.

 

“But it was a pretty one-sided conversation,” Brewer said. “He was, I believe, condescending. And he was lecturing me about what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.”

 

Link

[PurplePride92]

Your excerpt paints a different picture than how I took it.

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/jan-brewer-obama_n_1232367.html?ref=politics

 

 

"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.

"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."

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."

[All Tell]

Oh goodness she attacked the ego.

[doomer]

Ignorance and arrogance often walk hand in hand.

[PurplePride92]

Oh goodness she attacked the ego.

 

 

So it's fine for Governors to openly disrespect the POTUS in public or is it because you don't like the ego?

[PurplePride92]

Ignorance and arrogance often walk hand in hand.

 

He seems to have a valid reason to be upset with her....however.....she claims he was being condescending yet the picture shows her clearly with her finger in his face.

[Voice of Reason]

Ignorance and arrogance often walk hand in hand.

 

I agree. Governor Brewer's. I know very little about her but this raises a huge red flag for me on her.

[rockmom]

I agree. Governor Brewer's. I know very little about her but this raises a huge red flag for me on her.

 

I'll have to go back and find some other quotes, but she seems to be indignant a lot.

[jericho]

Gov. Brewer vs. First Lady Michell Obama

 

The desert warrior vs. sleeveless vacationer

Pay Per view

Proceeds go to reducing the debt.

[PurplePride92]

Gov. Brewer vs. First Lady Michell Obama

 

The desert warrior vs. sleeveless vacationer

Pay Per view

Proceeds go to reducing the debt.

 

 

Okay. Now this is funny. :lol: :lol:

 

 

Well done, mountain ref. For once...well done. :lol:

[rockmom]

Is it just me, or does Brewer actually look like she's the one giving Obama the what-for....not the other way around....in that pic?

[75center]

Can't argue with her on this:

 

"I thought we probably would've talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down."

 

I would have thought so also.

[formerkywrestler]

How would our opinions differ if this picture was reversed and Obama had his finger pointed at her?

[PurplePride92]

How would our opinions differ if this picture was reversed and Obama had his finger pointed at her?

 

 

I would honestly say that he is overstepping his boundaries. I don't want to see the President sticking his fingers in anyone's face let alone a governor of a state. Behind closed doors? Go for what you know. Publicly? I don't want to see elected officials engaging in open disrespect such as this. People fight over fingers getting stuck in a face like that.

[PurplePride92]

Can't argue with her on this:

 

"I thought we probably would've talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down."

 

I would have thought so also.

 

 

Maybe. Does that excuse openly disrespecting the POTUS the way she did?