Intro: "Let it now be said that, when it comes to expressing disapproval of the incumbent president of the United States, Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas did it with much more class - and, dare I say it, respect - than did Jan Brewer, the half-cracked yahoo governor of Arizona."
President Obama did not take so kindly to Arizona governor Jan Brewer's greeting at a Phoenix airport. (photo: Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP)
Jan Brewer, Classless Nitwit
26 January 12
et it now be said that, when it comes to expressing disapproval of the incumbent president of the United States, Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas did it with much more class - and, dare I say it, respect - than did Jan Brewer, the half-cracked yahoo governor of Arizona. Thomas just declined to show up for a photo-op. Brewer, last seen drifting off into the Phantom Zone at the beginning of a debate - and try to ignore her being called a "gladiator" by Diane Sawyer, a/k/a Nixon's Last Sucker - decided to create a photo-op of her own by jabbing (and jabbering) at the president as he arrived in Phoenix late Wednesday. The president engaged her for a while and then politely walked on, as we all try to do when confronted by crazy people at places like airports and bus terminals.
The wingnut-o-sphere is, of course, well over the freaking moon at all of this. And here's Mr. Murdoch's startlingly advertising-free little political fanzine, adding some background by believing everything written by Bobby Jindal. Maybe the president's wrong for confronting people who write what he believes are lies about him. ("Punching down," Howard Fineman called it last night, although at whom a president could "punch up" remains a mystery.) What I do know is that the Bruins should trade Tim Thomas to the Phoenix Coyotes immediately, so he can run for governor and give that great state the dignity it now lacks.
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NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake
I don't there are enough smart Arizonans to get rid of Brewer. I was blown away that they voted to keep her over just the immimgration thing. This woman is crazy and stupid and the voters kept her. They most likely would vote for her just because how she spoke to President. Stupid people are in office due to stupid voters voting them in office.
We have a wonderful, young Democratic Chairman who is dynamic and has a fabulous resume. I have high hopes for him to run for House or Senate and WIN. GOD willing, I hope.
I know what you are talking about, my wife have family in Arizona.
Anyway, I've had as much as I can stand and my wife and I are moving north. It's hard to leave a place where you were born and raised and where your family has been located since the 1770's.
This is your Heritage, fight to make it Unified and Stronger. Start meetings, show you are not radical but use your brain. It takes a first step to change the World. Be Proud of Where you are From.
We use words, link people and then wonder why there is racism and hate.
You are not helping "liberals" with your sophmoric monologue.
"We use words, link people and then wonder why there is racism and hate."
What don't you get or understand about that comment? KittatinyHawk's remarks don't come from uptightness, they come from maturity and higher intelligence. Can you say the same thing about your comments? "I think the image of obama biting of her finger is hilarious, but that;s just me."
I then made the observation that it seemed funny that those right wing complainers were still in Connecticut. What are they waiting for? Onmce they all go down there, they can secede from the USA and then the blue states can keep the money we have been redistributing to the red states with our federal tax dollars. I never heard another partisan peep from those 'job creators' the rest of the afternoon as their conversations moved on to golf for the remainder of the event.
This story appears to me to be unmitigated noise.
Doesn't matter what you think of the President, he's the President. It's the office, not the man or the politics.
Even George Bush Jr. is entitled to that protocol for the rest of his life, and I thought he was the worst President to serve in my lifetime. I would have been upset to see my favorite Democrat making a dumbass fool of himself or herself the way that woman did.
Aside from that, regardless of what i think about Brewer or Obama (I can't say much for wither of them), I STILL don't know what was said or how from the information released, or what body language her finger was expressing. It's just NOT THERE.
Ever hear of the Fundamental Attribution Error? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
She was showboating, and as a politician was well aware of the live cameras in their profile that would capture the image she hoped would help her political career and sell her book.
It's a shame the President didn't have a bucket of water nearby to end Arizona's gubernatorial crisis once and for all. That or a house to drop on her...
So, you know what was said, and how, and even what she was thinking, all based on a manipulated video with a selected photo inseerted in the middle, and the blather of the corporate news media which spins and lies constantly? Amazing!
How SHE spins it also taken as gospel -- even after Obama has said she deceptively spun the nature of the other meeting with her. Yet, Obama himself has said this was no big deal and blown out of proportion.
Meanwhile, the very real condemnation of Brewer for her atrocious exploitation and opression of immigrants, natives, and people of color for her political ends dies on the vine -- while people let themselves be manipulated by the non-issue manufactured by the media and the echo chamber.
Brewer looks good to her racist right wing base, and Obama is portrayed as the poor victim - and the facist empire marches on while the circus continues.
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves".
On publicity: "I Don't Care What They Say, as Long as They Spell My Name Right"
Does no one understand that game yet? If so, then why fall for it?
Try expressing that in court when you disagree with the judge.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mayor_seems_to_contradict_gov_brewers_story_on_oba.php
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mayor_seems_to_contradict_gov_brewers_story_on_oba.php
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_01/when_the_legend_becomes_fact_p035067.php
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The problem is, by Thursday this narrative was already shaky. Mayor Scott Smith, who accompanied Brewer on the tarmac, told Nick Martin that contra Brewer, Obama “simply began talking to the other two elected officials who were there to greet him.”
Then on Friday, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton (who was also on the tarmac) confirmed Smith’s story. Obama not only wasn’t “bristly”, per Dowd, “[h]e wasn’t tense at all.”
Why do I bother pointing this out? Particularly during Presidential campaigns, this nonsense so easily metastasizes into a factoid, Norman Mailer’s term for “an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.”
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I don't think so!
crude and frightening as a potential candidate for POTUS but your belittling, adolescent remarks and unnecessary crude language and remarks demonstrate you are unkind, crude and frightening as well.
What is your point or intention here? What are you trying to prove or convey to other people who read this post?
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake
dropping a house on another human being?
You say "our future is at stake". What kind of future would we have if people behave as you suggest? where is your compassion?
dropping a house on another human being?
You say "our future is at stake". What kind of future would we have if people behave as you suggest? where is your compassion?
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake, really at stake
Speaking of images, I look at the image of Gov. Brewer putting her finger in the President's face as one, and the other-the President and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in an embrace! They both speak volumes!!
The GOP/TP has a racial mix but it also threw Colin Powell under the bus when it suited them.
But the one thing I never can understand is where is the Patriotism the GOP/TP touts? We, as a Nation, are engaged in War and yet the GOP/TP constantly attacks the Commander-in-Ch ief. How do they think wars can be won when there is no solidarity on the home front?
No manners and no common sense, seems to me.
It's bad enough that I've sunk to responding to you. I won't AGAIN remind you that most of us have problems with Obama as well. That doesn't mean we're going to suddenly give up on our entire country and become even MORE conservative.
Your problem with Obama is simple. You're even more conservative than he is, and until you have a president as conservative as you, you'll throw temper tantrums. The real problem with Obama is that the county itself is more liberal than he is. Things are going to get a lot worse for you and your ideology over the next few elections.
Thats not true...what your saying about Obama actually applies more to republicans. When Bush was president the republicans walked around like he was their savior and now most of them are homeless. Keep spinning things Robt, whatever you got to tell yourself!
Try looking at what the President has promised and what has he done? How far did he stray from his message in 2008? Now he says once again that there will be "no more bailouts", whihc is what he said in 2008, guess what he gave more bailouts! He is tied to the rich and the evil George Soros (one of the major contributors to his campaign). Obama says..."I will not re-sign the Patriot Act" guess what... he did sign it! Then again he said that corporations should no longer run this country (2008) and yet took huge donations and gave rewards to those corporations that donated to his campaign. He says one thing, then does the other. Obama said he would veto the NDAA, guess what he signed it and gave up more of your civil liberties in the guise of security! In 2008 he said there shouldn't be any more bailouts and then once in office continued with the Republican ideolgy of "too big to fail". Obama is simply two faced...he says what we want to hear and then does the opposite. Look up the facts and vote on those facts, please!
Please! Not Fox News facts, those facts are mainly fiction. They have rewritten history so many times repubs dont know what they are even talking about LOL!
She is in with the cretins who are pushing privately owned prisons, OK if they house her!! She and Arapaio should both be run out of the state, it is filled with Right Wing crazies who won't play golf with a Democrat, no lie, that happens right in my community.
She is not worthy to breathe the same air as our wonderful President Obama.
But then some clown in Media gives these people credit for having the ability to write, no less a book.
Remember W did it also, cheney and all the other illiterates. It is free publicity they want, look at Palin...and you know what their books are not off the shelves.
Personally it is waste of trees, these are the books, ebooks should be. Bet that these ebooks wouldn't make a living on Ego Novels
She on the other hand if reading his face and breath, probably got even more pissed knowing he wanted to laugh.
We are all laughing for you OB
"Move that prisoner down to the first floor!" said Sheriff Arpaio condescendingly .
He has manners, sir GOP talk down, I believe for all the complaints, OB has the manners to talk to you.
You and Brewer may have GUTS, but you two sure don't have any intelligent. Drug dealers have GUTS, murderers have GUTS, etc. does this make them anymore right or necessary.
I see lots of white trash on welfare, in fact, welfare was started to help people in depression who had no income, mostly whites then.
Perhaps you can go to yur GOP and tell them to stop exporting these people into this Country....star t with Trump. He alone brought over ten thousand to Atlantic City, Sister. Grow up, get your facts straight.
Please do not tell us about Christianity, being a Human because it will not wash here. I believe in spay and neutering programs...not just for animals anymore!
Have you forgotten that Brewer and the rest of that crowd weren't a bit upset about immigration from Mexico until the private prisons started passing money around? Did you forget that the famous law was written by a private prison lobbyist? Doesn't that tell you something about where Brewer's intestinal fortitude comes from?
When a despot wants to distract his subjects from his own failings, he picks out a minority group to use as a scapegoat and gets the populace to focus on them instead of where their problems are coming from. This little trick has been the stock in trade of tyrants since time immemorial. The right wing puppet masters have gotten it down pat. First it was the blacks (Nixon's Southern strategy), then the feminists, and now the Hispanics. I don't credit Brewer with enough imagination and brains to think this up herself. She's just following the playbook that her puppet masters have given her.
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake, and they are idiots
Starting meetings, helping others. Can you imagine helping others might actually get some racism out of America.
Lots of good places in Ameirca, its the people who need to change how they live, how they act.
Funny how people of other colors, faiths etc will go to War for us, and then come here and have stones thrown at them by those they protected.
First, your racist name calling "wetback" shows the depth of your ignorance. No doubt you use the "N" word to describe OUR president.
Second, President Obama has tightened border security up more than has ever been done under any other president, yes including your hero Bush.
Third, President Obama and his administration have deported more illegal immigrants than any previous administration, yes, including Bush.
Fourth, your blatant racism and lack of facts per the usual GOP'er makes me ill, very, very ill.
Fifth, turn off all the caps use, it only serves to make you sound more ignorant than you are, which is going a stretch.
With pictures I see about this charade, I ask you all should review the lines of faces. This photo shows his usual taut face, good muscle tone. I see a look that looks like amusement wanting to break out but due to Manners, which this Black Man could teach us all, he is maintaing a look bemused. What is she saying was anyone there? She could be ranting about Politics, She could be ranting about the wash not getting done.
I know OB is watching to make sure her finger does not end up in his mouth I would wonder, where was that last. I believe this was just another Media need to blow something out of proportion.
Brewer is white trash, proven facts. Mostly she is a Major SetBack like many GOP/TP Women for Women Rights.
I have had more grey in my hair in past year from the Women in Office, Running for, disgracing Womanhood. they have made a mockery of our Triumphs, and makes me understand why the good ol boys think we should be chained to a porch. They are why Women's Rights to Choose is going downhill fast.
Well, we will pick up their mess throw it on their pile to be distributed in future. In the meantime, we have a lot of mending to do, and dusting off. Women like Gifford, Warren and Michele Obama give me strength to know we can change the World.
Sorry sometimes I rant to, I get fed up with White Trash
Larkrise, you and stonecutter have made some important points here.
Whether it's the Kochs, the Adelsons, the Pritzkers, or 500 other private, super-wealthy individuals, families or corporations with an agenda, Citizens United opened the floodgates. David Stockman, of all people, is absolutely right when he says the only way to stem this tsunami of cynical greed and pay-for-play is a constitutional amendment that will bottom-up restructure the role of money in politics. Getting such an amendment passed will be the political equivalent of climbing Mount Everest without oxygen, in your jockey shorts.
Our government pandered to wealthy agricultural interests by allowing this situation to continue for decades. Consumer prices were kept artificially low, agribusiness profits were artificially high, campaign contributions flowed from the agriculture industry to the enabling congressional representatives , and everyone was happy.
But now, when these workers ask our government to treat them and their children like human beings by allowing them access to schools, hospitals, and other social services, our country turns on them, vilifies them as “illegal aliens,” hurls racial epithets, and calls for electrified border fences.
For shame.
Jan "The Arizona Wall" Brewer is another political hemorhoid w/in the ass of U.S. politics. I know, rather harsh & not too constructive but it pales in comparison to Brewer's "Final Solution" of keeping out "undesirebles."
Do you have an opinion about the article, or are you exclusively the Net Police? We all had moms, we don't need another on these comment forums.
It doesn't take more than one look at the picture to realize Jan Brewer leaves a lot to be desired. Better luck next time, AZ!
I have reserved my opinion on Jan Brewer in lieu of reminding many of you when you are not talking or behaving as mature, decent, adults. You all have a point to make but why not do it with respect for others including those you oppose and why all the obscene language and careless logic when drawing your conclusions. I have no desire or time to be your MOM. I am a NATIONAL EDUCATOR and POLITICAL ACTIVIST and if you want to or intend to become proactive in the campaign you need to make your arguments more effective and plausible. Thank you for writing, RoyBig. Being forthright is an admirable quality. P.S. Jan Brewer leaves a lot to be desired. So go after the issues and her lack of leadership qualifications. FGS: Don't injure her physically or laugh about biting her finger off, (not you, other posters). Is that what FDR or JFK would expect or want from his supporters?
http://www.huf fingtonpost.com /2010/06/02/a rizona-gov-jan- brewer-cl_n_59 8053.html
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