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OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV
Wed Jan 25 2012 18:33:56 ET
www.drudgereport.com
POOL REPORT
President Obama arrived in Phoenix at 3:15 pm local time, finding the chilly weather of Iowa giving way to sunny skies and temperatures in the high 60s.
He stepped off Air Force One at 3:28 pm and was greeted by Gov. Jan Brewer. She handed him a handwritten letter in an envelope and they spoke intensely for a few minutes. At one point, she pointed her finger at him.
Afterwards, your pooler spoke with the governor.
"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."
On the letter, she said it was personal letter asking him to sit down with her to discuss the "Arizona comeback."
She said she "reiterated an invitation that I've extended to him before with regards to coming to arizona and going to the border with me." She said she would take him to lunch.
"We've had a remarkable comeback here and I want to share that with him."
She said the president brought up the book.
"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. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country."
It was clear from the moment they greeted one another that this would not be a run-of-the-mill encounter between the president and a local official. At one point, she was pointing her finger at him and at another, they were talking at the same time, seemingly over each other.
He appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking, and she confirmed that by saying she didn't finish her sentence.
When Brewer spoke with your pooler, the AP and an NBC producer for several minutes afterwards, she appeared a bit flustered and taken aback by the conversation. Asked if she was, that's when Brewer said, "I'll regroup."
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pointing your finger in the face of the prez.
lmfao..
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Obama is such a thin skinned little prick. He pulled the same shit with jindal over his book.
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pointing your finger in the face of the prez.
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Obama deserves it. He sued the state and ran F & F out of there. This communist wretch deserves zero respect.
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Brewer says Obama took her to task for her book during trip to Arizona
fox ^ | 1/25/12 | ap
MESA, Ariz. – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says President Obama complained to her about how she depicted him in her book.
It happened when Obama landed in Air Force One Wednesday at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, where Brewer met him on the tarmac.
Reporters observed the two leaders in intense conversation.
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Drudge has a story about Obama getting off of Air Force One in Arizona, greeting Republican governor Jan Brewer, and immediately giving her a piece of his mind. Evidently our president did not appreciate something Brewer wrote about him. According to the pool report, they had a testy exchange from which the president walked away as Brewer was still speaking.
Sound familiar? Bobby Jindal got the same treatment when Obama came to visit Louisiana and the governor met him on the tarmac. Jindal would later recount in his book:
I was expecting words of concern about the oil spill, worry about the pending ecological disaster, and words of confidence about how the federal government was here to help. Or perhaps he was going to vent about BP’s slow response. But no, the president was upset about something else. And he wanted to talk about, well, food stamps. Actually, he wanted to talk about a letter that my administration had sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a day earlier.
The letter was rudimentary, bureaucratic, and ordinary. . . . We were simply asking the federal government to authorize food stamps for those who were now unemployed because of the oil spill. Governors regularly make these sorts of requests to the federal government when facing disaster.
But somehow, for some reason, President Obama had personalized this. And he was upset.
There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad because of the letter. “Careful,” he said to me, “this is going to get bad for everyone.”
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She was just on Greta. LMFAO. Obama is such an immature delusional bitch. She owned him.
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He allows himself to get his ass kicked by women left and right. Which is why he is so obsessed with power.
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Jan Brewer on Tarmac Face Off: Obama "Tense...Thin-Skinned" (AUDIO)
Stand With Arizona ^ | 01-26-2012 | John Hill
Posted on January 26, 2012 12:10:25 AM EST by montag813
A few hours after she was bizarrely confronted by Barack Obama on the airport tarmac, Gov. Jan Brewer went on KFYI's Mike Broomhead Show to give us the details on what happened as the President faced off with the Arizona governor - generating national headlines and derailing his post-State of the Union message.
Brewer was stunned as Obama dispensed with the pleasantries and immediately scolded Brewer for her portrayal of their frosty, July 2010 Oval Office meeting in her memoir, Scorpions for Breakfast.
Brewer said Obama was "uh, a little tense". She said she tried to show respect but that Obama acted "thin-skinned", and complained about how she described their earlier meeting, in which Brewer made clear how little time she was given to speak, and how Obama condescendingly lectured her about immigration reform, and did not want to hear about border violence and the costs of illegal aliens to Arizona.
Here is the full audio, well worth a listen
Interestingly, this was not the first time that Obama acted so petulantly on an airport tarmac. After the BP oil spill, Obama gave Gov. Bobby Jindal a similar treatment, as the Weekly Standard details tonight.
Gov. Brewer, you did us proud today. You showed respect, but when offered none in return, you did not back down. Well done!
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I'm having a hard time believing it played out the way Brewer said it did. I have doubts that Obama ran off the plane and started bitching about her book lol... She probably asked him about it and that's when he probably said he read excerpts. Also most of the pictures of them on the tarmac show them both smiling hand happy. They pick this one picture that looks confrontational and only from Brewer, not Obama. And Fox runs with it and Brewer goes along with it? Smells funny to me... Plus, it wouldn't be the first time she acted like a crazy bitch.
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He did the same thing to jindal.
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Obama is trying so hard to come off as a badass. It isn't working.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books/ref=zg_bsms_nav_mov_1_mov
LOL!!!!
Thugbama is helping her sales.
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LOL. Blacks went 88% for Mondale - F A I L
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Obama: Do Not Criticize Me. Ever.
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. · 8 hours ago
This is a shot of the scene in Phoenix yesterday afternoon when Gov. Jan Brewer greeted President Barack Obama as he stepped off Air Force One.
She handed him a handwritten letter that led to an "intense" discussion for a few minutes. The pool report explains that President Obama was extremely upset about her treatment of him in her book Scorpions for Breakfast. She did not anticipate being berated and was mildly perturbed by the encounter, which included President Obama walking away from her while she was mid-sentence. Classy!
Jonathan V. Last at the Weekly Standard notes that this is becoming something of a pattern. When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal greeted the president on the tarmac, he received similar treatment:
I was expecting words of concern about the oil spill, worry about the pending ecological disaster, and words of confidence about how the federal government was here to help. Or perhaps he was going to vent about BP’s slow response. But no, the president was upset about something else. And he wanted to talk about, well, food stamps. Actually, he wanted to talk about a letter that my administration had sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a day earlier.
The letter was rudimentary, bureaucratic, and ordinary. . . . We were simply asking the federal government to authorize food stamps for those who were now unemployed because of the oil spill. Governors regularly make these sorts of requests to the federal government when facing disaster.
But somehow, for some reason, President Obama had personalized this. And he was upset.
There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad because of the letter. “Careful,” he said to me, “this is going to get bad for everyone.”
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Obama-Do-Not-Criticize-Me.-Ever
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McCain backs Brewer in tarmac tiff, calls Obama 'prickly'
L.A. Times ^ | Jan. 26, 2012 | Christi Parsons
Reporting from Las Vegas— President Obama is spending the day in Las Vegas and Colorado trying to sell his vision for America's energy future, but he's going to have to work to overshadow the buzz around his personal clash with the Arizona governor the day before.
On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came to the defense of Gov. Jan. Brewer in a conversation with Fox Business Network, where he suggested that President Obama can be a little abrasive.
"Apparently Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president," McCain said Thursday morning. "It is very well-known he has a prickly personality and I think it has been displayed in both of those cases."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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McCain backs Brewer in tarmac tiff, calls Obama 'prickly'
L.A. Times ^ | Jan. 26, 2012 | Christi Parsons
Reporting from Las Vegas— President Obama is spending the day in Las Vegas and Colorado trying to sell his vision for America's energy future, but he's going to have to work to overshadow the buzz around his personal clash with the Arizona governor the day before.
On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came to the defense of Gov. Jan. Brewer in a conversation with Fox Business Network, where he suggested that President Obama can be a little abrasive.
"Apparently Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president," McCain said Thursday morning. "It is very well-known he has a prickly personality and I think it has been displayed in both of those cases."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
You'd think the most powerful man in the world would be a little more secure.
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McCain backs Brewer in tarmac tiff, calls Obama 'prickly'
L.A. Times ^ | Jan. 26, 2012 | Christi Parsons
Reporting from Las Vegas— President Obama is spending the day in Las Vegas and Colorado trying to sell his vision for America's energy future, but he's going to have to work to overshadow the buzz around his personal clash with the Arizona governor the day before.
On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came to the defense of Gov. Jan. Brewer in a conversation with Fox Business Network, where he suggested that President Obama can be a little abrasive.
"Apparently Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president," McCain said Thursday morning. "It is very well-known he has a prickly personality and I think it has been displayed in both of those cases."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
November 12, 2010
Jindal Book: Obama An Arrogant Phony
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal uses a new book to portray President Barack Obama as disconnected from the Gulf oil spill, charging that he was more focused on the political aftermath than the actual impact of the crisis.
Jindal recounts a pair of private conversations with the president that paint him as consumed with how his actions were being perceived.
On Obama's first trip to Louisiana after the disaster, the governor describes how the president took him aside on the tarmac after arriving to complain about a letter that Jindal had sent to the administration requesting authorization for food stamps for those who had lost their jobs because of the spill.
http://nation.foxnews.com/bobby-jindal/2010/11/12/jindal-book-obama-arrogant-phony
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Brewer's book sales soar after altercation with Obama
YumaSun ^ | 1/26/12 | Howard Fischer
Posted on January 27, 2012 12:14:13 AM EST by Ballygrl
Brewer's book sales soar after altercation with Obama January 26, 2012 9:06 PM BY HOWARD FISCHER - CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
PHOENIX — It's debatable whether arguing with the president of the United States is a bad move politically.
But it appears it can be financially beneficial.
On Wednesday, sales “Scorpions for Breakfast'' were tepid. Amazon.com, where Gov. Jan Brewer has been marketing her political screed on border security, federalism and the “liberal media,'' reported that sales ranked it No. 343,222 of all the titles on its list.
By Thursday morning, though, it had skyrocketed to No. 56. And by early Thursday evening it had made it all the way to No. 10 on the best-seller list.
No other book on Amazon's list increased its sales by such a large percentage in the past 24 hours.
That sudden demand to see what Brewer wrote coincides with the highly publicized on-the-tarmac confrontation Wednesday between the governor and the president as he stepped off Air Force One to make a speech in Arizona.
When Brewer handed him a note asking for a meeting, the president took the opportunity to complain to the governor that he felt a bit burned after the last time they met nearly two years ago.
According to the White House, the president described that conversation as “a cordial discussion in the Oval Office.'' Brewer's recollection — at least as told in her 228-page book — was quite different.
“It was as though President Obama thought he would lecture me and I would learn at his knee,'' the governor wrote. “He was patronizing.''
Brewer told Capitol Media Services on Thursday she was surprised by the president's decision to confront her over the book, which has been on the shelves since early November.
Their brief airport conversation ended, Brewer said, when the president walked off while she was in mid-sentence. But that was not before a photo of the two of them nearly toe to toe, with Brewer pointing her finger at the president's face, went viral.
That generated extensive nationwide coverage about the dispute. More to the point, it shined a spotlight on the book, with many video news reports even including screen shots of its cover, complete with a photo of Brewer with her hand over her heart.
The White House, clearly surprised over all the publicity, is trying to downplay not only the whole incident but also discourage further news stories.
“I really assume you guys have more important issues to cover,'' press secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling with the president on Thursday as he continues his multi-state tour.
But the story continues to develop on its own. Even Sen. John McCain added fuel Thursday with a comment that what happened at the airport on confirms that the president “has a prickly personality.''
And the governor herself is doing nothing to quell the publicity. In fact, she has been fanning the flames a bit, telling Capitol Media Services on Thursday the president is “a little thin-skinned and a little oversensitive.''
Brewer laughed off a question of whether she engineered the whole incident to bolster book sales.
“We could have never been this successful at it.” Anyway, the governor said, it was the president who brought up the subject of the book, not her.
“It's unfortunate we couldn't have talked about jobs and the economy,'' Brewer said of her brief time with the president at the airport, saying Obama was more focused on how he was portrayed in the book. “But if he wanted to talk about my book, I think it's sad that he didn't want to talk about the issue the book is about,'' meaning border security.
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Arizona tarmac tiff trips Obama campaign
Governor carries her own message
By Dave Boyer
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The Washington Times
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer makes a point to President Obama upon his arrival Wednesday at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Mrs. Brewer said he took issue with a passage in her book that described an encounter in an unflattering manner. (Associated Press)Ads by GoogleForm an LLC in Minutes
Obama chose an unusual way to begin the campaign year in Arizona, where he hopes to reverse Democrats’ losing streak — by getting into a highly public confrontation with the state’s Republican governor.
Mr. Obama’s encounter with Gov. Jan Brewer at the airport in Mesa, where she was photographed wagging her right index finger at the president, captured their tense relationship over immigration, border security and federal gun-running.
Mr. Obama is trying to become the second Democrat to win Arizona since Harry S. Truman in 1948. President Bill Clinton won the state in 1996.
“The slim opportunity he might have had just disappeared,” said Tom Morrissey, the state’s Republican Party chairman. “I don’t think he helped himself. I think he stepped in it.”
Images of the encounter — and the competing statements issued by the White House and the governor - overshadowed media coverage of Mr. Obama’s intent for the visit: to build on policies and election-year themes of his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Arizona pollster Michael O'Neil said Mr. Obama’s chances of winning the state aren’t great, and the episode with the governor probably won’t change many minds.
“It’s playing out along partisan lines,” Mr. O'Neil said. “The Republican base absolutely loves it. Democrats are appalled.”
Mrs. Brewer greeted the president as he disembarked Air Force One. She handed him a letter inviting him to discuss the state’s economy and to visit the Mexican border with her. The dialogue went south from there.
Mrs. Brewer said the president brought up her recent political memoir, which includes the governor’s unflattering account of their White House meeting nearly two years ago that accuses the president of being “patronizing” and “condescending.”
“He was a little tense,” she told Phoenix talk-radio host Mike Broomhead. “He said he had read the excerpt, and he didn’t think I was very cordial. He was somewhat thin-skinned and a little tense, to say the least.”
Mrs. Brewer said she was trying to be “gracious” and didn’t remember pointing a finger at the president. She said Mr. Obama walked away while she was still talking to him.
“I was just shocked by his sternness of it all,” the governor said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed coverage of the encounter as “political theater,” but added that Mr. Obama did tell Mrs. Brewer that her book’s characterization of their meeting was inaccurate. The White House said separately that Mr. Obama would be happy to meet with the governor again.
Public reaction has been mixed. The radio host told Mrs. Brewer, “You are getting high-fives from every one of our listeners.” Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini wrote that the governor “should be embarrassed.”
On the governor’s Facebook page, more than 35,000 people “liked” her account of the confrontation. Posted comments included one from a woman who called the governor “disrespectful” and another from a man who said Mr. Obama “ran away … because he didn’t have a Teleprompter.”
Republican Matt Salmon, a former congressman running in Arizona for an open House seat, said he thought Mr. Obama provoked the encounter.
“I think what President Obama did was bait her,” Mr. Salmon said. “He probably wanted to look tough. Our governor is no slouch. And she’s very expressive with her hands when she talks.”
The state’s relationship with the federal government has been every bit as tense as the airport meeting. Mrs. Brewer has challenged the president’s decision to withdraw National Guardsmen from the Mexican border. In 2010, she signed what was at the time the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown, a law the Obama administration is challenging in federal court.
In addition, the Justice Department is under fire for its handling of the failed Fast and Furious gun-running operation into Mexico, and for its civil rights probe of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Mr. Salmon said of the president, “Here’s a guy who has sued the state of Arizona over our immigration laws. He’s clearly picked a fight.”
The Obama campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Republicans say the administration’s record on border security, immigration and the environment doesn’t bode well for Democratic Senate and House candidates this year.
“I can only hope [Mr. Obama] thinks Arizona is in play and spends a ton of money here,” Mr. Salmon said. “He’s going to waste it.”
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November 12, 2010
Jindal Book: Obama An Arrogant Phony
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal uses a new book to portray President Barack Obama as disconnected from the Gulf oil spill, charging that he was more focused on the political aftermath than the actual impact of the crisis.
Jindal recounts a pair of private conversations with the president that paint him as consumed with how his actions were being perceived.
On Obama's first trip to Louisiana after the disaster, the governor describes how the president took him aside on the tarmac after arriving to complain about a letter that Jindal had sent to the administration requesting authorization for food stamps for those who had lost their jobs because of the spill.
http://nation.foxnews.com/bobby-jindal/2010/11/12/jindal-book-obama-arrogant-phony
When Hurricane Gustav struck LA, Jindal called Obama to have federal intervention and he obliged the request. However the following year, when Jindal delivered the rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union, he basically gave him an FU for the help and said that the government should stay out of states businesses in diasters like Hurricane Katrina.
That's why Obama blasted Jindal through the wall when they met.
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/when-youre-the-president-you-get-a-little-extra-respect-bill-maher-panel-battle-over-brewer-obama-confrontation/
holy fu#k i didn't think palin had a sister,i think she might be as dumb as palin
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/when-youre-the-president-you-get-a-little-extra-respect-bill-maher-panel-battle-over-brewer-obama-confrontation/
holy fu#k i didn't think palin had a sister,i think she might be as dumb as palin
What a surprise Bill Maher and more of his stupid bullshit, respect is earned.
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:o. More ghetoobama alinsky tacticts.
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When Hurricane Gustav struck LA, Jindal called Obama to have federal intervention and he obliged the request. However the following year, when Jindal delivered the rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union, he basically gave him an FU for the help and said that the government should stay out of states businesses in diasters like Hurricane Katrina.
That's why Obama blasted Jindal through the wall when they met.
Or maybe Obama "blasted" Jindal because Obama is an arrogant, hypersensitive, insecure baby.
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What a surprise Bill Maher and more of his stupid bullshit, respect is earned.
When you are voted in as President of the United States, you earned the respect.
It goes with the office.
How many times did people do this to Bush? I remember an Iraqi threw a shoe at him, but how many politicians just out and out disrespected the office?
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When you are voted in as President of the United States, you earned the respect.
It goes with the office.
How many times did people do this to Bush? I remember an Iraqi threw a shoe at him, but how many politicians just out and out disrespected the office?
just like pat buchanan said it's the dumbing down of the repub party,they see nothing wrong with this
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Jesse Jackson Says Gov. Brewer ‘Gave President Obama the Finger’
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Posted on January 29, 2012 5:53:36 AM EST by Sub-Driver
Jesse Jackson Says Gov. Brewer ‘Gave President Obama the Finger’ By Mike Bates Created 01/28/2012 - 9:37pm
It was a routine Saturday morning at Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH forum, broadcast nationally on the Word Network. He was all over the map. Jackson trashed Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney. He warned that enterprises such as black funeral homes and black insurance companies are “under attack.” He condemned a proposed change in Grammy Award classifications. Jackson also spoke out against Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who, he said, “did the ultimate insult. She put her finger in his (President Barack Obama) face.” Jackson wants people to call and complain (video here):
Also, while it’s on my mind, Gov. Janice K. Brewer, the finger person. Gov. Janice K. Brewer, who gave President Obama the finger, governor of Arizona, call 1 800 253 0883. Keep that line real busy. 1 800 253 0883. We’ll give you the number later a little later today and this week on the email number of her press secretary. We want to keep Arizona. . . until she can put her hands in her pocket and have some good. . . do you know how insulting it is to put your finger in somebody’s face? Try it with the cameras rolling, she knew the cameras.
She knew what she was doing. She was telling him off. She was cutting him down to his size. She must never get away with that. Even George Wallace did not put his finger in Dr. King’s face. Say, enough is enough.
Being the pious, innocent, saintly man he is, perhaps the Most Rev. Jackson deserves a pass. Maybe he doesn’t actually know the difference between giving someone the finger and waving one’s finger in another person’s face. But does he really consider the latter to be “the ultimate insult”? For a man who’s referred to Jews as “Hymies,” said in the last campaign that “Barack’s been talking down to black people” and that he would like to cut Obama's testicles out, and admitted to, as a young waiter, having spit into the food of white customers he didn’t like, Jackson has a remarkable notion of what comprises the ultimate insult.
Naturally, Jackson’s blunder will be ignored by the mainstream media. He’s always given a pass. But the very next time “the black view” is needed on a story, he’ll be front and center and ready for his close-up.
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Al Sharpton: Jan Brewer Incident Is More Race-Related Disrespect For President Obama
Mediate ^ | 01/28/2012 | Tommy Christopher
Posted on January 28, 2012 11:12:49 PM EST by SeekAndFind
On Thursday night’s Politics Nation, host Al Sharpton called out Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer‘s disrespectful conduct toward President Obama during their tarmac tussle, connecting it to a pattern of such contemptuous behavior by Republican leaders. Sirius XM radio host Joe Madison gave it a name, saying that there are people “who cannot stand the fact that this is an african-american who is now one of the most powerful individuals on the planet.”
RELATED: Drama Clubbed: Jan Brewer Says ‘I Felt A Little Bit Threatened’ By President Obama
Rev. Al opened the segment by calling Gov. Brewer’s finger-pointing “unacceptable” and “disrespectful,” noting “but she’s not apologizing.”
He played video of Brewer recounting the incident to reporters, calling the President “thin-skinned,” and saying she “felt a little bit threatened.”
To his credit, Rev. Sharpton is one of the few commentators to key in on the racial subtext of Brewer’s remarks. “Thin skinned? You felt threatened?” he said. “What does that even mean, you felt threatened? By the President of the United States? This is yet another example of disrespect and delegitimatizing this president.”
RELATED: Why Won’t Black People Let Newt Gingrich Help Them?
Rev. Al then played a fairly comprehensive rundown of clips that featured prominent Republicans behaving disrespectfully toward the President, including Rep. Joe Wilson‘s infamous “You lie!” moment. Speaking of lying, Sharpton also noted Gov. Brewer’s dueling descriptions of her 2010 meeting with the President, which was the genesis of the tarmac dispute.
“So Governor Brewer,” Rev. Sharpton said, “when were you telling the truth? When you just walked out of the meeting and told the press in front of the White House, with a smile on your face, how it was cordial and how the tone was very good, positive, or when you wrote a book saying it was condescending, and he was lecturing you?”
He also characterized Brewer’s handing of a letter to the President as political grandstanding. That letter centers around what sounds like an invitation for the President to be lectured by Brewer, to learn at her knee, if you will. “I’d love an opportunity to share with you how we’ve been able to turn Arizona around with hard choices that turned out to be the right ones,” it reads.
Joe Madison weighed in by pointing out that even a small child knows it is disrespectful to point in someone’s face, and related some suggestions he got from his radio audience, including bending back her finger, to having the Secret Service jack Brewer up. “I give the President of the United States credit for doing what?” Madison said. “Walking away.”
Madison also told Rev. Al to add to his dis list Newt Gingrich’s (and others) tendency to refer to the President simply as “Obama,” and Republicans’ demands to see the President’s grades. “Excuse me,” Madison said, “what 50-year-old-plus man has to provide his grades? What, getting elected as the president of the Harvard Review is not enough?”
He continued, “This is nothing more, and I’ll just say it straight up. There are some people, not all, in this country who cannot stand the fact that this is an African-American who is now one of the most powerful individuals on the planet. And there are those who cannot consciously and subconsciously handle it.”
“You know you’re not going to get a debate from me,” Rev. Al replied. “They brought race in. They put a race deck on the table. If you pull a card, it’s a race card because they set the deck.”
What you have to ask yourself is not whether Republican leaders have been disrespectful to this president, but whether they have done so in ways that white presidents have not had to deal with. The same holds true for liberal critics of the President, are they treating him as they would a white Democratic president?
This doesn’t have to mean that all of these folks hate black people. People like Gov. Brewer and Speaker Gingrich ought to ask themselves if they have succumbed to something more insidious, this tendency in white media culture (or as I call it, “media culture”) to promote, at best, informality with (and among) black people, the effect of which is to lower the inhibition to behave bluntly.
Here’s the clip, from MSNBC:
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO CLIP
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:o. More ghetoobama alinsky tacticts.
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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left."[4] He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.
In the course of nearly four decades of political organizing, Alinsky received much criticism, but also gained praise from many public figures. His organizing skills were focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America. In the 1950s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions of the African-American ghettos, beginning with Chicago's and later traveling to other ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and a dozen other "trouble spots".
His ideas were later adapted by some U.S. college students and other young organizers in the late 1960s and formed part of their strategies for organizing on campus and beyond.[5] Time magazine once wrote that "American democracy is being altered by Alinsky's ideas," and conservative author William F. Buckley said he was "very close to being an organizational genius.
In the 1930s, Alinsky organized the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago (made infamous by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle for the horrific working conditions in the Union Stock Yards). He went on to found the Industrial Areas Foundation while organizing the Woodlawn neighborhood, which trained organizers and assisted in the founding of community organizations around the country. In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published in 1971 one year before his death), he addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power. In the first chapter, opening paragraph of the book Alinsky writes, "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."[7] Alinsky did not join political organizations. When asked during an interview whether he ever considered becoming a Communist party member, he replied:
Not at any time. I've never joined any organization—not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism. One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.[4]
Nor did he have much respect for mainstream political leaders who tried to interfere with growing black–white unity during the difficult years of the Great Depression. In Alinsky's opinion, new voices and new values were being heard in the U.S., and "people began citing John Donne's 'No man is an island,'" he said. He observed that the hardship affecting all classes of the population was causing them to start "banding together to improve their lives," and discovering how much in common they really had with their fellow man.[4] He stated during an interview a few of the causes for his active organizing in black communities:
Negroes were being lynched regularly in the South as the first stirrings of black opposition began to be felt, and many of the white civil rights organizers and labor agitators who had started to work with them were tarred and feathered, castrated—or killed. Most Southern politicians were members of the Ku Klux Klan and had no compunction about boasting of it.[4]
Alinsky's tactics were often unorthodox. In Rules for Radicals Alinsky wrote, "[t]he job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'" According to Alinsky, "the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer's] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular invitation."[8] After organizing FIGHT (an acronym for Freedom, Independence, God, Honor, Today) in Rochester, New York, Alinsky once threatened to stage a "fart in" to disrupt the sensibilities of the city's establishment at a Rochester Philharmonic concert. FIGHT members were to consume large quantities of baked beans after which, according to author Nicholas von Hoffman, "FIGHT's increasingly gaseous music-loving members would hie themselves to the concert hall where they would sit expelling gaseous vapors with such noisy velocity as to compete with the woodwinds."[9] Satisfied with the reaction to his threat, Alinsky would later threaten a "piss in" at Chicago O'Hare Airport. Alinsky planned to arrange for large numbers of well dressed African Americans to occupy the urinals and toilets at O'Hare for as long as it took to bring the city to the bargaining table. According to Alinsky, once again the threat alone was sufficient to produce results.[9]
Alinsky described his plans in 1972 to begin to organize the white middle class across America, and the necessity of that project. He believed that what President Richard Nixon and Vice-President Spiro Agnew called "The Silent Majority" was living in frustration and despair, worried about their future, and ripe for a turn to radical social change, to become politically-active citizens. He feared the middle class could be driven to a right-wing viewpoint, "making them ripe for the plucking by some guy on horseback promising a return to the vanished verities of yesterday." His stated motive: "I love this goddamn country, and we're going to take it back."[4]
Alinsky's own words, from his 1946 "Reveille for Radicals",[10] capture his perspective, his motivation, and his style of engagement:
A People's Organization is a conflict group, [and] this must be openly and fully recognized. Its sole reason in coming into being is to wage war against all evils which cause suffering and unhappiness. A People’s Organization is the banding together of large numbers of men and women to fight for those rights which insure a decent way of life. . . .
A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war. It is a war against poverty, misery, delinquency, disease, injustice, hopelessness, despair, and unhappiness. They are basically the same issues for which nations have gone to war in almost every generation. . . . War is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play. . . .
A People's Organization lives in a world of hard reality. It lives in the midst of smashing forces, dashing struggles, sweeping cross-currents, ripping passions, conflict, confusion, seeming chaos, the hot and the cold, the squalor and the drama, which people prosaically refer to as life and students describe as 'society'.
Pacem in Terris Award, 1969
This guy obviously wasn't a communist or socialist....in fact William Buckley respected the guy. Sounds like this was a great person.
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LOL. Obama is such a freaking baby.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/jan-brewer-obama-tarmac_n_1785484.html
Ha ha ha. Liberals calling her crypt keeper.
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When you are voted in as President of the United States, you earned the respect.
It goes with the office.
How many times did people do this to Bush? I remember an Iraqi threw a shoe at him, but how many politicians just out and out disrespected the office?
Really? The office gets respect the man has to earn it
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Really? The office gets respect the man has to earn it
The office and the man are one and the same when it comes to the POTUS.
And people aren't disrespecting the man at these times, they are disrespecting the office.
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The office and the man are one and the same when it comes to the POTUS.
And people aren't disrespecting the man at these times, they are disrespecting the office.
At this point I really don't care. Obama has degraded the office and deserves to be treated accordingly.
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The office and the man are one and the same when it comes to the POTUS.
And people aren't disrespecting the man at these times, they are disrespecting the office.
Sorry but I see a distinct difference. The office is there long after what ever asshole happened to occupy it's bones have turned to dust.
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Sorry but I see a distinct difference. The office is there long after what ever asshole happened to occupy it's bones have turned to dust.
don't you get tired of having your dick in your mouth???