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Gov. Jan Brewer And President Obama Have ‘Intense’ Discussion On Arizona Tarmac

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Air Force One landed in Phoenix, Arizona today, and was greeted by the governor of that state. The exchange between President Obama and Governor Jan Brewer quickly went from being a friendly greeting to something reporters described as an “intense” exchange, however, and the photo coming out of that encounter proves it: the President and Gov. Brewer seem to disagree on whether her new book was respectful enough to the President.

RELATED: The Lady Doth Protest: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Tells Morning Joe ‘We’re Not Racist’

According to the White House pool report, the governor and President “spoke intensely for a few minutes. At one point, she pointed her finger at him.” When asked about the exchange, Brewer said the President was “disturbed about my book,” and that she tried to explain 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.” The conflict, she continued, was due to the fact that the President did not feel that he had been treated “cordially.” Gov. Brewer noted to reporters that the President left the conversation mid-sentence and assured them that she would “re-group.”

Reporters excepted, we may never know the exact contents of the conversation and, as the President’s visit moves along, tensions may assuage. But for now, there’s this picture, which one can imagine can’t possibly escape making a cameo in elections ads in the future.

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  • Anonymous

    Obama: “But Jan… sunscreen takes just seconds to put on. Why are you so against it?”

  • Gloves RipRock Donahue

    Jan Brewer is an American heroine, standing up to a jackass who dared to have his puppet, Eric Holder sue one of the United States of America.

  • http://twitter.com/Agonzo1 anthonybgonzalez

    I’m a conservative, won’t ever vote for Obama, but that wench is crossing the line. 

  • Gloves RipRock Donahue

    The thin skinned community agitator pulled the same crud on Governor Bobby Jindal.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/thou-shalt-not-write-bad-things-about-obama_618603.html

  • Anonymous

    Cue Greg The Stalker !!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Obama should take action on her. And make a example on her. She can not act like that out in the open like that. If he doesn’t and let her get away with it. Then he looks like a punk

  • Anonymous

    I have all the respect in the world for the office of the Presiden????????  Not when you’re waving your finger!!!!!   Typical drama from the GOP!!!!!! They’ve turned the political scene into a bad episode of Jerry Springer!!!   ASSSCLOWNS!!!! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7IZ4V3NDXJUNGN5HRCXKVVCKIU PaulK

    She looks like a threat to the Prez in the photo op — I’m wishin’ the Secret Service would have spread eagled that vicious wench on the tarmac.

  • Anonymous

    No, actually he was the little drama queen who got off the plane and started bitching at her about her stupid book that no one had ever heard of until now.  He did the same thing to Bobby Jindal during the BP oil spill.  

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/thou-shalt-not-write-bad-things-about-obama_618603.html

  • Anonymous

    Too late.

  • Henry Wood

    You’re right, Gloves.

    Jan Brewer is on heroin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8

  • Henry Wood

    Cue the idiot who never has anything to say!!!

    *DRRRINK!*

  • Anonymous

    So I guess you bought into her little stunt.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The regressives have turned disrespect into sport. This act will earn her points amongst that nasty clan.

  • Anonymous

    Jan,  I can barely contain myself.  You disrespectful @&%!&.  The bible states if it offense, puck it out.  Your finger deeply offends me!!!!!  You know what should happen.  You make me want to go back to the sixty.  I don’t respect you either.  It will take a lot of praying for me to let your action settle in my soul.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t give a crap about the half-senile Jan Brewer, but how was she crossing the line?  Because she didn’t kowtow when Obama started whining at her about her book?  He was the one who (as is his habit) decided to punch down.  Whether you’re the president, a king, a CEO or anyone else in authority, respect is earned.  You don’t deserve respect when you, as the supposedly higher ranking official, take offense at some comment in a year-old book no one had ever heard of and then bitch about it in public.  

    I hope Romney and Gingrich are taking careful notes of this encounter.  It is a good reminder of how highly Obama thinks of himself and how thin-skinned he is.  It is his kryptonite.

  • Henry Wood

    Don’t you mean Piyush Jindal? I guess “Bobby” plays better in Redneckistan.

  • Gloves RipRock Donahue

    Obama works for us.
    He’s not royalty.
    He’s not a king.
    He’s not above the the law.
    He’s an employee.

  • Anonymous

    “I can bearly contain myself.”  

    Really?  Reading an article on the internet about people you don’t know and probably will never meet disturbed you that much?  You need to get a dog or go play outside.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    true

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Jan Brewer the overtanned BITCH!

  • Anonymous

    Like all those Dems who don’t even bother to meet and greet the President when he comes to their States.
    In North Carolina, only Sen. Kay Hagan, who isn’t up for reelection until 2014, and veteran Rep. Mel Watt, who represents a majority black seat, appeared with the president. The state’s other six Democratic House members took a pass, offering a variety of excuses.
    In Pennsylvania, where Obama visited Pittsburgh,the story was much the same — no members of Congress to be found. Though two of southwestern Pennsylvania’s three Democratic congressmen greeted the president on the airport tarmac, neither of them attended any of the public events Obama held, choosing instead to return to Washington.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Classic!!

  • Anonymous

    Jan Brewer = Leatherface

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Jan “Stone Face” Brewer should show more respect to the President and take that finger she’s wagging and shove it right up her …

  • Anonymous

    Jan Brewer looks like she takes heroin alright.

  • News Of The World

    Brewer is just another Arizona politician embarrassing their state.  Good on President Obama for leaving her stammering mid-sentence.  Oh and nice job on your book being #64,293 on Amazon.  LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    Thin skinned community agitator > the letherfaced racist bitch

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Just shows how thin skinned Obama is that he has to react to what she wrote in a book that few read. This man is not a leader and needs to be replaced.

  • vermontdave

    The President might recieve more respect if he removed the stick that has taken up permanent residence in his….. !!

  • Anonymous

    She’s just a racist.  She’d never point a finger at a white president. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Born/802903253 Mark Born

    and you’re a kool aid puppet drinking obama supporter

  • Anonymous

    M
    Michael Jablonski
    260 Brighton Road, NE
    Atlanta, Georgia 30309
    michael.jablonski@comcast.com

    RE: Georgia Presidential Preference Primary Hearings

    Dear Mr. Jablonski:

    I received your letter expressing your concerns with the manner in which the Office of State Administrative Hearings (“OSAH”) has handled the candidate challenges involving your client and advising me that you and your client will “suspend” participation in the administrative proceeding. While I regret that you do not feel that the proceedings are appropriate, my referral of this matter to an administrative law judge at OSAH was in keeping with Georgia law, and specifically O.C.G.A. § 21-2-5.

    As you are aware, OSAH Rule 616-1-2-.17 cited in your letter only applies to parties to a hearing. As the referring agency, the Secretary of State’s Office is not a party to the candidate challenge hearings scheduled for tomorrow. To the extent a request to withdraw the case referral is procedurally available, I do not believe such a request would be judicious given the hearing is set for tomorrow morning.

    In following the procedures set forth in the Georgia Election Code, I expect the administrative law judge to report his findings to me after his full consideration of the evidence and law. Upon receipt of the report, I will fully and fairly review the entire record and initial decision of the administrative law judge. Anything you and your client place in the record in response to the challenge will be beneficial to my review of the initial decision; however, if you and your client choose to suspend your participation in the OSAH proceedings, please understand that you do so at your own peril.

    I certainly appreciate you contacting me about your concerns, and thank you for your attention to this
    matter.

    Sincerely,
    Brian P. Kemp
    Georgia Secretary of State 
    ichael Jablonski
    260 Brighton Road, NE
    Atlanta, Georgia 30309
    michael.jablonski@comcast.com

    This is posted on the net in response to the Obama letter. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    First, if your going to make a point using a source it is customary to include the link.       Since you did not, here it is…
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66677_Page2.htmlThe article you used to construct these two summaries also includes contrary evidence that you omitted.  That is disingenuous use of a source.Second, “Like all those Dems” attempts to equate shaking your finger in the President’s face and then describing him as “thin skinned” with not showing up to greet him.  These two things are not “like” each other at all.  

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    First, if your going to make a point using a source it is customary to include the link.       Since you did not, here it is…
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66677_Page2.htmlThe article you used to construct these two summaries also includes contrary evidence that you omitted.  That is disingenuous use of a source.Second, “Like all those Dems” attempts to equate shaking your finger in the President’s face and then describing him as “thin skinned” with not showing up to greet him.  These two things are not “like” each other at all.  

  • Anonymous

    And you live in a trailer and bang your cousin.

  • Anonymous

    Are you out of your mind? He is just another citizen that been elected to office. He does not deserve the respect because he has not earned it. I would not even address him as sir due to the damage he has done to this country. 

  • Anonymous

    Georgia Presidential Preference Primary Hearings

    Dear Mr. Jablonski:

    I received your letter expressing your concerns with the manner in which the Office of State Administrative Hearings (“OSAH”) has handled the candidate challenges involving your client and advising me that you and your client will “suspend” participation in the administrative proceeding. While I regret that you do not feel that the proceedings are appropriate, my referral of this matter to an administrative law judge at OSAH was in keeping with Georgia law, and specifically O.C.G.A. § 21-2-5.

    As you are aware, OSAH Rule 616-1-2-.17 cited in your letter only applies to parties to a hearing. As the referring agency, the Secretary of State’s Office is not a party to the candidate challenge hearings scheduled for tomorrow. To the extent a request to withdraw the case referral is procedurally available, I do not believe such a request would be judicious given the hearing is set for tomorrow morning.

    In following the procedures set forth in the Georgia Election Code, I expect the administrative law judge to report his findings to me after his full consideration of the evidence and law. Upon receipt of the report, I will fully and fairly review the entire record and initial decision of the administrative law judge. Anything you and your client place in the record in response to the challenge will be beneficial to my review of the initial decision; however, if you and your client choose to suspend your participation in the OSAH proceedings, please understand that you do so at your own peril.

    I certainly appreciate you contacting me about your concerns, and thank you for your attention to this
    matter.

    Sincerely,
    Brian P. Kemp
    Georgia Secretary of State 

  • Anonymous

    Cue Jester who isn’t intelligent enough to actually debate anyone so he just stops by and says “DRINK” whenever the RepubliCONS get destroyed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Amazing how you Obamaites through the racist card around. I can’t even imagine how much it will be used when Obama is voted out of office next year because of his incompetence.

  • Anonymous

    LOL @ Piyush Bobby.  What a fool that guy was.

  • Anonymous

    With people like Jan Brewer, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and all these other clowns, Obama will have no problem getting re-elected.  Watch the Democrats get a supermajority in both chambers of congress as well.  Republicans are now a 3rd party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    That old teabagger clown made a fool of herself as usual. What an embarrassment for Arizona.

  • Anonymous

    LOL @ Piyush Bobby.  What a fool that guy was.

  • Anonymous

    I’d bet this is nothing, compared to how Michelle, Valerie and Mother Robinson treat him in private!

  • Anonymous

    I assume you are being facetious, and/or cynical?

    Niccolo Machiavelli once asked:  ”Is it better for a leader to be loved, or feared?”  

    Ordinarily, I relate that question to foreign policy, however, such may be germane to National internal policy, lately?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Jan Brewer is an American who appears to be on heroin and is a complete jackass who stared like a wrinkled puppet at the leader of the United States of America.

  • Anonymous

    And this has what to do with the article above about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama?

  • Ben Dover

    Jan: “Smell my finger, Mr. President!”

    President Obama “Get this woman some baby wipes and Vagisil”

  • Anonymous

    It’s now Bobby Jingo, a Loosianna native passing himself off as a “redbone.”

  • Anonymous

    http://emptysuit.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/democrats-avoid-obama-lack-of-political-liability/
    Wrong again. As far as waving the finger I didn’t know you were privy to the conversation. Maybe THE PRESIDENT didn’t need to get into a pissing match with the Governor over some book she wrote that nobody read.
    Somebody needs to be the adult in the room but after seeing what happened with him and Paul Ryan in front of Ryan’s peers I guess the president just needed to express himself. Ryan took it like a man and I guess Brewer didn’t.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently we’re all on board about her heroin use but that video of her is just sad.  Arizona must be sadly lacking for gubernatorial candidates.

  • barbara clemen

    The very real threat, is Obama cannot tolerate criticism. He is a thin skinned, not black skinned man. This is the crux of the story. 

  • Anonymous

    Almost surprised  you posted this news, but even more surprised you chose to  exclude the part of the story where Obama did the same thing to Jindal during the BP oil spill disaster, with him getting off air force one and instead of expressing support or empathy (remember that from Senator Obama?)  he lit into the governor for having the nerve to request assistance from the federal government, ticked off it might make him look bad if he didn’t agree to help, and threatened to retaliate by making the governor look bad.   

    This President is either refusing to meet with other representatives of government or uses Chicago style politics to try to bully them.  Please please please calender show November 2012 :)

  • huffnnoccupyn

    I was going to suggest hot tea and honey for her gravelly voice, but I like better Obama’s prescription for it.

  • Anonymous

     It is NEVER acceptable to be disrespectful, undignified or ill mannered.  Governor Brewers behavior was wrong and it is inexcusable. Also,  I continue to be amazed at how many people refer to President Obama as Obama.  Those who do that are saying  loud and clear that they are disrespectful and ill manner, s symptom of very low self esteem.  

  • Anonymous

    Brewer speaks truth to power! Bravo Ms Brewer. Nice balls.

  • Anonymous

    Typical sexist democrat comment!

  • Anonymous

    NO!

    I read the link you posted and QUENIE is, on balance, accurate in her comment, hence YOU LOSE.

    You came across as pedantic and condescending to fill the factual hole in you post, which is a tactic I am sure you picked up in some left wing, bomb throwing journal such as “Rules for Radicals.”

    Being a Lefty is similar to being a magician:  ”Look over here at the pretty girl while I deceive you and rob a Nation of its birthright?”  

    Case in point…

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Wait till tomorrow, and thanks for reminding me, I’ll go add it to my cart now.

  • Anonymous

    OK, I understand your political stance but Brewer’s no wench, she’s more of a hag or a witch.

  • Anonymous

    This is more important than a spat between politicians and most people miss the news as they on watch the lane brain media. It is my duty to keep people informed.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:11 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Gov. Jan Brewer And President Obama Have ‘Intense’ Discussion On Arizona Tarmac

    Disqus generic email template

    sid_id wrote, in response to without_hate:
    And this has what to do with the article above about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama? Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Do you want an order of fries with that?

  • Anonymous

    You’re right James, he should have shown her his strong pimp hand.

  • Anonymous

    Your name is absolute rubbish, it should be without_thought.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    All you do is insult. Act like a decent human being.

  • Anonymous

    Then why do there ignorant ass republicans want the President to review their stupid books?

  • Anonymous

    One who is without brains can type. I am so surprised that is an amazing remedial school you attended. I did not know one could be trained who ability to think straight is so impaired.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:28 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Gov. Jan Brewer And President Obama Have ‘Intense’ Discussion On Arizona Tarmac

    Disqus generic email template

    Tedderman wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Your name is absolute rubbish, it should be without_thought.
    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    You might want to check your righteous indignation.  The reporting, backed up by the same thing happening with numerous others, is the President was being an a-hole.  He isn’t King.  He is the President, the decider as Bush once referred to himself (to much mocking by liberals as I presume you are), he has every right to control his time and to be stern and to not feel compelled to ‘stand there and take it’, but he HAS NO RIGHT to act like a dictator and threaten those who don’t kiss is behind.    

  • Anonymous

    I just bought her book from iTunes store, it was just published a couple months ago, I bet tomorrow will be its best sales day yet.

  • Anonymous

    Yes she would and she’d say, “now you listen to me sonny, I ordered the Poligrip in the green box(still wagging the gnarled finger)and you brought me the blue box, now I’m giving you an extra quarter tip, take this back and get me the blue box.”

  • Anonymous

    Yes you did, and for the second time no less, good for you.  But it’s still not germane to this thread.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Brewer and the rest of the Fox tea-nut brigade continue to be the laughingstock of the country. Their uncouth and boorish behavior is being duly noted by the public.

  • Anonymous

    “Pedantic” and “condescending” are not ad hominem you FOOLE!

    Furthermore, where you draw your inspiration is an objective and reasoned conclusion, NOT a personal attack on my part.  However, as my insight seems to have annoyed you so: 

    “Thou dost protest too much, me thinks?”

    Touche’  Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    I think what she really needs is some Zyprexa. To treat the Alzheimer’s psychotic episodes she appears to be having with more frequency.

  • Anonymous

    Sure it is. Obama is presence on the tarmac as a Representative of the United States and he is refusing to appear in a court of law. Any where he is talked about, ever time there is a photo of him it is a relevant information.
    One can not allow Obama to present himself as a King or God. He is just a man with a job. He is not very good at his job either.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:41 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Gov. Jan Brewer And President Obama Have ‘Intense’ Discussion On Arizona Tarmac

    Disqus generic email template

    Tedderman wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Yes you did, and for the second time no less, good for you.  But it’s still not germane to this thread. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Hey Gloves,

    If a pig looses its voice, does that mean its “disgruntled?”

    Ouch!

  • Anonymous

    “In accordance with the prophecy.”  Right?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “Wrong again.”
    - How can I be “wrong” when I didn’t challenge the fact that some Democrats have decided to avoid meeting with Obama? Please re-read the above exchange if you don’t understand.
    “As far as waving the finger”
    - It was described by the press and documented photographically.
    “Maybe THE PRESIDENT didn’t need to get into a pissing match with the Governor”
    - The Governor is photographed with her finger in his face and then took to the media to describe him as “thin-skinned”. All evidence is of her instigation… what you so artfully describe as a “pissing-contest” has only one person “dropping trou”

  • Anonymous

    Are we teaching definitions again?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Bigot!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1517624880 Raeann Thomas

    Uh, how do you drink a puppet?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    If you added together the IQ of Brewer, Angle, Palin, and O’Donnell they still wouldn’t equal half of President Obama.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Typical of being the stepper he is, if Obama deems that he can’t extract something of his benefit from someone, then he has no use for them and treats them like dirt.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Quiet or she’ll break out the ALL CAPS on you!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    I don’t even know why Blacks get upset about Obama these days since his skin color is looking orange for some reason. I can understand Umpa Loompas getting upset though. Does Obama have hepatitis or some other disease that is causing his skin tone to look so unhealthy?

  • Anonymous

    Maybe QUENIA will let you get away with this, but, I won’t!

    You cited a Link you claimed, at least, balanced out your two positions, at best, proved your point.  Effectively, whether or not Dems or Repubs are now predisposed to skipping meetings with the President.

    Ergo, your assertion: “How can I be wrong when I didn’t challenge the fact”

    What is the “Link”? Legerdemain, or, simple deception on your part?  Lenin would be so proud of his contemporary protege!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    You were doing fine, all you had to do was thrust the sword home.  GREG’s argumentation skills are weak.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    First, if your going to make a point using a source it is customary to include the link. Since you did not, here it is…
    http://www.politico.com/news/s...
    The article you used to construct these two summaries also includes contrary evidence that you omitted.  That is disingenuous use of a source

    I showed you the link. Wasn’t the link you used to discredit me. Whatever Greg, keep looking in the mirror and fanning yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry about it bro, Obama will take it out on the Republican nominee.

  • Henry Wood

    Who’s the bigot, George Soetero?

  • Anonymous

    He has every right to bash her book you moron.  He’s the president of the United States.  I know you Republicans couldn’t care less about America, but have some respect you traitors.  

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Here is what made Obama pee in his panties today:

    Brewer’s new book also contains a confession of sorts: She
    didn’t exactly give the public the whole story last year after her
    meeting with Obama.
    On emerging from the White House, the governor said she had “a
    very cordial discussion of what’s taking place in Arizona and
    dealing with the security of our border and illegal immigration
    into the state of Arizona and into America.”
    Her book, however, paints a far different description.
    “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.”
    Brewer said, though, she decided to hold her tongue — at least
    at time.
    “It is because I was promised that he would get back with me,
    get in contact with me within two weeks, and I would have a
    report,” she said.
    “And I thought that after our conversation that, possibly, there
    was hope,” Brewer said. “Maybe I was naive.”

    Now, ask yourself, did the way thin skinned Obama behave today give credence to this account of his poor behavior, or did it refute it?

  • Anonymous

    Apparently, yes!

    Too many mistake objective observation coupled with a proper phrase or word, as ad hominem. But I am quite certain you know this?

    Furthermore, GREG uses feigned injury as an escape tactic. Some opponents deserve no quarter, he is one.

    Ouch!

  • Anonymous

    Since you claim this President “does not deserve the respect, because he has not earned it,” just how do you, a purveyor of hate make your claim with this non sequitor.

    In addition, your inference that I am of dubious intelligence seems at odds with the evidence.

  • Anonymous

    Indulge me, allow me to ask you a question:

    What is America’s economic philosophy?

    Is it Capitalism, free enterprise or, Socialism, and redistribution of wealth?

    Would You consider Washington and Jefferson “traitors,” as they were great believers in “free enterprise?”

    Lets see what kind of nonsense you can come up with?

    Purveyor

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “I showed you the link. Wasn’t the link you used to discredit me.”
    – The article provided is the first page of a two page Politico article copied without attribution on a WordPress blog.

    Your poor use of sources is secondary to the fact that instances of Democrats refusing to greet the President (last year) are nothing “like” the behavior of Governor Brewer. The weakness of your sourcing is no doubt connected to your logical failure in terms of broad skill deficit… but fundamentally your choice of direction on this was the biggest error.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, thanks for clearing that up???????

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    I’m sorry…I meant Xenophobe!

  • Anonymous

    Feigned injury in written form? You must mean his delicate offenses have been offended, right?

    Yeah, I have been down the path of teaching to distinguish between legit criticism and ad hom… But there’s no teaching so of em’…

  • Anonymous

    Feigned injury in written form? You must mean his delicate offenses have been offended, right?

    Yeah, I have been down the path of teaching to distinguish between legit criticism and ad hom… But there’s no teaching so of em’…

  • Anonymous

    Feigned injury in written form? You must mean his delicate offenses have been offended, right?

    Yeah, I have been down the path of teaching to distinguish between legit criticism and ad hom… But there’s no teaching so of em’…

  • http://twitter.com/Agonzo1 anthonybgonzalez

    If that was a guy there’d be SS on her for being so aggressive.  Romney and Gingrich are terrible candidates btw. 

  • Anonymous

    Almost poetic…

  • Anonymous

    Almost poetic…

  • Anonymous

    Feigned injury in written form? You must mean his delicate offenses have been offended, right?

    Yeah, I have been down the path of teaching to distinguish between legit criticism and ad hom… But there’s no teaching so of em’…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    1.  Governor Brewer presented two different descriptions of the meeting.  
    2.  The first description, occurring just after the meeting, described the meeting as “very cordial”.
    3.  The second description, coming later in her book, described the meeting as “patronizing”.
    4.  Governor Brewer was photographed with her finger pointing at President Obama.
    5.  Governor Brewer then described the president as “thin skinned” to media.

    Your Question:  ”Now, ask yourself, did the way thin skinned Obama behave today give credence to this account of his poor behavior, or did it refute it?”

    Perhaps you should answer it…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Lol!

  • Anonymous

    My apologies on the link.

  • Anonymous

    Bush also said over and over again just how HARD it was to be President. Can’t please all the people all the time. President Obama Pleases many more people than any Republican presidential hopeful you have.

  • Anonymous

    James,

    As I recall, you made some reasonable posts in the past?  Respectfully, re-think this one?

    Just what would he look like if did react, or over react?  I understand your immediate inclination or anger, but…

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Long time no see my well traveled friend.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Sexist democrat POS!

  • Anonymous

    Barack probably walk away saying thank God I’m not married to the bitch.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    No need. Cheers!

  • Anonymous

    Hello how are you? I been trying to avoid the daily battles with liberals and concentrate on serious works. They get to me sometimes.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:36 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Gov. Jan Brewer And President Obama Have ‘Intense’ Discussion On Arizona Tarmac

    Disqus generic email template

    purveyor1 wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Long time no see my well traveled friend.

    Purveyor
    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    The difference is he ONLY pleases liberal Democrats.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    You can’t even be honest with yourself, yet you present yourself as being so altruistic. I don’t have time for your stupid, dishonest games. Your act is tiresome and beyond worn out.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Have you seen his wife?

  • Anonymous

    It is what you want it to be but I believe Marx was right about how capitalism would destroy its self.  The “occupy movement” is  the beginning of the proletariat rising up against the Bourgeoisie.  The owners(the wealthy) and controllers(business)by their very success are in fact breeding the resentment that is driving today’s unrest.

    As slave owners, the founding fathers in effect perfected the capitalist system.  How but with free labor can one most maximize profit?  The system which has developed in the last three decades
    has kept wages for the workers flat but grown the profits of the owners exponentially.  The resulting imbalance is the battle we will see waged over the next ten months and beyond.

    Americans will decide whether they want subsist on the scraps offered by the broken system we now have or they decide to go another direction.  My belief is they won’t have a clue what’s at stake and the mixed bag results in November will prove we are stuck with a broken system.  The big winner in the election will again be “Citizen’s United.”

  • Anonymous

    There goes Purveyor, Touche’ing himself again.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I provided a series of facts from your post. The facts are that Governor Brewer changed her story and just recently logged two seperate public acts of disrespect toward the president. I point these things out because they call into question the blame you look to lay at the Presidents feet. Your response? Words like, “stupid”, “dishonest” and “tiresome”. If my response is so stupid and dishonest prove it. Insults don’t win arguments in the real world.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VBGKD5RXVMFQ27RE4DB55KYA2Q Lester

    WHY DO YOU HATE THIS BLACK PRESIDENT SO MUCH! BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. I AM A SERVICEMEN TWO TOUR OF DUTIE UNDER MR BUSH I DIDN’T HATE HIM. OR HIS FATHER I SERVED PROUDLY UNDER THEM. WE LOST ALOT OF GOOD MEN UNDER THESE PRESIDENT.  WHY DO YOU CALL SOMEONE A JACKASS . THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA NOT THE UNITED OF STATE OF WHITE NOT THE UNITED STATE OF BLACK OR ANY OTHER COLOR. I UNDERSTAND WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT HERE IN AMERICA HATE. HISTORY IS COMING BACK FROM THE 60,70, 80, .BUT I UNDERSTAND YOUR HATE IS WHAT KEEP PEOPLE IN CHECK .   

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He is the Ignatius J Riley of Mediaite.

  • ozonator

    Obama: “Boiled puppy?, Are you seriously eating baby dogs?

    Brewer: “It’s best with Looter Limbaugh’s iced t and tastes like a cross between bald eagle and free-ranged Mexican or Yankee placenta!” 

  • barbara clemen

    She has respect for the office of President, not the occupier. Respect is earned.

    Aside from  first mulatto to achieve Presidency, he has accomplished nothing of value to our Republic.

  • Anonymous

     To me its no big deal. Two politicians having a argument on the runway. Probably should do it in private, but stuff happens.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    So you think Brewer showed up on the tarmac just so she could get into in an argument with Obama? And you’re disputing that Obama complained about the book passage?

    I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and saying, no you don’t believe that. You’re just playing intellectually lazy and boring games because you’re a partisan.

  • Levi

    Thanks for your service . STFU . : )

  • Anonymous

    once again, you went very deep…

  • Anonymous

    The Georgia court holds no jurisdiction over the President.  The source of the complaint, Orly Taitz, has had her every claim against the President thrown out and been fined $20,000 for her frivolous claims. Give up, he’s the President you birfer.

  • Anonymous

    you’ve been reported – time to leave and reinvent yourself.

  • Anonymous

    I give you credit for you candor.  With a few specific exceptions, I agree, we are indeed engaged a war of philosophy, or worse, a war of factions that will result in tribalism.

    Just don’t be too sure of a Socialist-Progressive victory as this is just the latest attempt by the left to steal America’s birthright!  Hopefully, this time, none of you will survive to rise up again.

    Purveyor

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Did I say that she arrived to argue with him? No. Governor Brewer was in attendance in her formal capacity as Governor.

    Based on the article you provided above, the President would most logically mention the book passage. She changed her description. She initially labeled the meeting as “cordial” and then cast the meeting in a negative light when sending her memory to print. Why would he ignore this?

    She is documented as poking her finger in his face. She called him “thin-skinned” to the media. You blame the event on Obama despite all of this.

    Ironically, you aim to reinforce the thin skin meme while resorting to insult when I outlined your own facts and demonstrated the misalignment of you conclusion. The result is unimpressive. Try harder. Cheers!

  • Anonymous

    Since the only option afforded me is “Like” I will instead utilize my own reply.  But I have to admit your last line made me laugh, good night.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s married to the bitch who hates America.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s not forget that Obama is HALF white!  Yet we all seem to assume that the black half dominates as if such has a stronger pull on his psyche?

    I am not chastising anyone here as I am just as guilty, but the fact remains, we refer to Obama as “Black?”

    How much Indian Blood does it take to put an American Indian on the Tribal roles?  Is there a true dominance or is it simply fashionable?

    I am half Scotch and half German and neither dominates!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Of course he has the right to bash her book.  Just as we have the right to call him a whiny thin-skinned d-bag for doing so.  Obama is not Jesus, and opposition to – or mockery of – Obama is not anything close to treason.

  • Henry Wood

    His name is Piyush.  It’s a perfectly good name, better than Willard or Newton.  What bothers you about it, George?

  • Henry Wood

    Stay classy.

  • Henry Wood

    “Aside from  first mulatto to achieve Presidency,”

    Racist?  Nah…they aren’t racist.

  • Hout Bosques

    I think we should all resist the temptation to descend to using ad hominem attacks, no matter how accurate or earned:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDkYZWeeVg 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7K7RLYO56MVJBWAHNRIRBDMYHQ Steve

    test

  • Hout Bosques

    Or – she’s standing there with her mouth agape saying nothing at all, just making creaking noises; after all, it’s not as if there isn’t any precedent:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6DHEEzbfLc 

    Anyway, muchos gracias to Governor Brewer in assisting the Obama 2012 campaign in its efforts to nail down Hispanic votes.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Teabagger moron

  • barbara clemen

    I don’t typically think about skin color, it’s not my first inclination. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7K7RLYO56MVJBWAHNRIRBDMYHQ Steve

    Ah, I was gonna comment but this political discourse is so effing boring. I don’t hate Obama, I just wish he would go the eff away. I’m a conservative but sadly, none of our GOP guys are any better. Quibbling, sniveling, ego-maniacal Newt, and “oh dear, he’s just too darn rich to be president & can’t connect with the po-folk” (according to Liberal, OWS types, et al) Romney. Too bad BHO is such a good community organizer to be pres. He might have been a good domestic subversive (a la Tim McVeigh) if only he’d had some military training. Well, other than on the streets of Chicago, or was that Blogo? hmm? At any rate, they are all self-interested crooks, and our empire is doomed. See you in the Caymans! CIAO! oops! I went ahead & made a comment anyway…sigh…

  • barbara clemen

    Purveyor, when I read the story, and added it to other knowledge I possess of this behavior, I don’t even think of skin color… it’s his reactions.

    I’m Sioux, Cherokee, Scots, I do not identify myself as such, I’m American.

    I, unlike thin skinned Obama , can and do accept criticism when warranted. 

  • barbara clemen

    Loved, by far. Only a tyrant would have just cause for fears sake.

  • barbara clemen

    He used his charisma, And race, though he is Mulatto.  He emphases his color to negate any and all criticisms, whether policy making, or any other so called reforms.

    He seeks to divide this Nation, and uses his skin tone to accomplish this end.

  • barbara clemen

    I’m sorry, that was funny Purveyor……LMAO.

  • barbara clemen

    In Arizona, it’s a given with tan, the” bitch”, is opinion only, which carries no weight.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    Teabagger? You left-wingers still haven’t quit with the petty ad-hominems? 

  • barbara clemen

    Gloves, hi! So many were not taught that WE ARE the Gov.’t, they do serve at our whim.

    There is so much despondency out there in America. Why?  We control our destiny if we unite behind one goal. Get the damn politicians out of our lives, an restore to limited Gov.’t, and Constitution.

    Pretty basic.

  • barbara clemen

    Hhahahahaha

    Humor, always welcome!

  • barbara clemen

    Your wrong, Greg. Purveyor provokes thoughtful dialog, an exchange of ideas….in short, he forces you to think.

    Apply it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    Here’s Obama putting his finger in the face of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

    http://lorla.com/wp-content/uploads/obama_harper_nuclear_summit.jpg

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7K7RLYO56MVJBWAHNRIRBDMYHQ Steve

    Purveyor, you kick much ass here, Mon Frere! But I never did like that Machiavelli chap. To me, that question is like asking the innocent guy: “so when did you stop beating your wife?” Is he half-white or is he half-black? I mean, does he care? I don’t think Guv Jan isn’t quite “Driving Miss Daisy” but if he’s pres, he’s “expected” to be the one to take the moral high-road, or so I thought. (whew, it’s late. sorry to ramble…)

  • Anonymous

    I really wish I could be in the room on election day when she is told that Obama carried Arizona.

  • Anonymous

    She loves America, but it sounds like you don’t.

  • barbara clemen

    Quenia, what Paul Ryan endured in chambers, was an act of class.

    Jan Brewer, is Governor.  Frankly with the ‘stonewalling,” deception, and unconstitutional strong arming this man has pressed upon her, and the citizens, would rise my ire also…I say:  ”Bravo!”

    She showed him she possesses a set also.

  • barbara clemen

    You resort to the base retort?  Because you were bested in fact.
    This substantiates your superciliousness.
    You attempted, (poorly I might add) to bury Quenia in feces.

  • Henry Wood

    All he had to do to piss you off is to have brown skin, as is obvious from your comment. 

    I guess that did divide the nation, into rabid racist lunatics and decent human beings.

    FYI, those of us born before 1890 no longer use the term “mulatto.”

  • Henry Wood

    And purveryor of horsecrap endorses birtherism.  What an intellectual!

  • http://twitter.com/dry_oatmeal dry oatmeal

    That’s okay, she’s a well-publicized old fruitcake. Barry, you just gotta nod your head and smile and walk away slowly but casually.

    By the way, here’s an excerpt from her book:

    “It was though President…

    …Obama thought he could…

    (awkward laughter)

    …lecture me, and…

    …I would…”

    She’s Ronnie Reagan in drag. http://youtu.be/xUPKKbmWMZ8

  • http://twitter.com/dry_oatmeal dry oatmeal

    Hilarious. Conservatives have gone so far off the deep right end, they think true-blue liberals are happy with him. If it weren’t for the (D) next to his name, and you weren’t so propagandized by the Tea wackos, you’d love him as the moderately conservative president that he is.

  • barbara clemen

    I’m not going to get in a pissing contest with you. You insist on defining him. Obama insists on defining himself. His whole Presidency is defined by race.

    I’m 1/2 Indian, Scots…American. You haven’t a clue when I look at another American, all I see is skin color. You don’t “know” me, period.
    sstfu

  • barbara clemen

    No he does not! A bully, or egomaniac, confronts in public, for usually the object of their ire, will back down. Public displays of this kind are form of intimidation.
    Someone forgot to tell , Jan.

    Privately, he may form his own opinion. 

    As President he is no less than ourselves, for he is an employee. He serves at our behest. He is not King, nor Dictator to force a retraction.
    Best he remember that in future dealings with Americans.
    For we hired him (not I), and we can fire him.

    The rest of your post is not worthy of reply. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7K7RLYO56MVJBWAHNRIRBDMYHQ Steve

    So, because you say it with conviction, and use the perennially handy
    “hijacked by wackos” stock-in-trade all encompassing uninformative
    phrase, and you admittedly (now don’t you deny it, you delicious
    breakfast staple, you) LOVE him (ew, weird, like Jim Jones, or Elvis
    worship) and you believe him to be “moderately conservative” (as in
    “this is the message I have received from the star-child of the
    Annunaki” hijacked by aliens, perhaps?) makes it all seem so very true? WOW! I think we’re BOTH in the deep end, of the happy farm true-blue liberal shit-pile…
     

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7K7RLYO56MVJBWAHNRIRBDMYHQ Steve

    Really? How does he please them? Massage oil & anal beads? Ok, now we’re talking!
     

  • barbara clemen

    Everybody in America has an equal chance at success. When I’ve worked this hard to attain my goals, through my own efforts, I owe you nothing for my efforts. A job, benefits, yes. For the competition is fierce (Capitalism), I have to compete against others who strive to better themselves.                                                                     

    We as citizens, developed apathy, trusting those we elected to serve the best interests of America, when in fact, they serve their own interests, power accrued  through greed, position, and 
    a need to control.
    For power corrupts absolutely, those that were morally bankrupt from the onset.

    My contention is: Lay waste to the offenders who perpetuate this downward cycle. By legitimate means, use the power of the Constitution / Bill of Rights to revert back to a free enterprise system, where no corruption can be attained if we follow it strictly.

    Think of it, no Gov.’t to “take” in all it’s varied hidden, and obvious forms, except where allocated for defense of our Nation, or upkeep.
    No one to pit citizen against citizen, using class warfare, or other forms of manipulation, to achieve their nefarious goals.

    Privatize education, it’s cheaper, of better quality. Eliminate positions that teach hate, instead of degrees.

    You have a multitude of offenders who have not America at it’s heart. They seek to marginalize a uniqueness found nowhere else in history.
    Why allow them to win?

     

  • barbara clemen

    I believe you hold that title already, Tedderman

    Childish..

  • barbara clemen

    Absolutely, that last.

  • barbara clemen

    NO!  It’s being perpetuated by this President, and like minded individuals, who know how to manipulate people to achieve their own ends.

  • barbara clemen

    It’s his sole stock in trade, Gloves. He perfects it with a ready affability. And a manipulative personality.

    Smiles

  • Anonymous

    Watch Bobby Jindals rebuttal to the State of the Union 3 years ago (2009).  Heralded by many as one the worst speeches of all time.  A total disgrace and the end of Bobby Jindals relevance…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Oh, ouch:)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3T2CB3IARM5F76NGDD53AC6454 easmachine

    Arizona is the New Old South Africa in the making. They would rather Turn AZ into a Police State, than experience the demographic inevitability of Mexicans eroding their power to be racist without consequence.

     Brewer looks like a Plantation mistress dressing down an uppity servant and I’m sure that’s the image she wanted to relay to her white supremacist supporters. Bravo Ho. You look very enlightened, I hope your book sells like aunt jemima hotcakes.

  • Anonymous

    The very thinned skinned Barry Soetoro.  A legend in his own mind.  Without doubt the most arrogant person in any room.  I trust him about as far as I could throw him.  Speaking of throwing, we’ll throw him out in 2012, back to the faculty lounge with his arrogant elitists.  They all speak the same language.  Hate. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3T2CB3IARM5F76NGDD53AC6454 easmachine

    Arizona is becoming the New Old South Africa. Brewer is far too willing to turn AZ into a Police State rather than experience the inevitable loss of demographic power to  brown skinned people. She and her ilk are less small d democrats than small w white supremacists. 

    Doesn’t she look like a Plantation Mistress dressing down an uppity servant? I’m sure that’s the image she wanted to portray-Don’t be surprised to see this picture on T-shirts.

  • Anonymous

    What the heck is “birtherism?”

    I think, I know what you are referring too, but that’s not good enough, please explain your accusation/assertion so that I may properly address?  (If, I so choose)

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    STEVE,

    A thoughtful reply, well done.

    Personally, I have always found Machiavelli’s question powerful in its implications.  ”City State” Italy, after the decline and fall of the Roman empire was in a constant state of flux, (war) within and without, Italy.  

    Still, as I noted, I tend to use the quote regarding a discussion on foreign policy, not internal politics, BUT!  A plurality of America’s agree that America should be more pro active, (threatening) regarding international relations.

    Furthermore, and that was partially my point, Obama seems to be getting “heavy handed” with his domestic powers.  Do you agree?  As for Ms. Brewer, she needed to stand up to the man, in fact, we all do.  Hopefully, within the confines and parameters of our Constitution and laws?

    Lastly, the Roman Jurist Cicero once wrote about the importance of “respect,” in any relationship.  Perhaps, Machiavelli was expounding on Cicero’s thought?

    Purveyor

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    She’s an utter and complete moron who hasn’t a clue about governance and a shameless fear-mongering xenophobe. Remember the severed heads littering the desert floor lie?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Who?

  • Centrist79

    Funny how she changed her story about the original meeting with the President to perhaps sell more books.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    He’s kreepy and he’s kooky,
    Mysterious and ooky ….

  • http://aconservativeteacher.blogspot.com aconservativeteacher

    It isn’t shocking that the biggest racists are actually the progressive liberal Democrats commenting on here- they are the group that fought for slavery, that pushed for Jim Crow, and that stood in the way of Civil Rights legislation. And today they are the group that wants minorities to be dependent on government handouts, never straying off the intellectual reservation and questioning their views and policies, and displaying intolerence and hatred for any person of color who is a conservative, Republican, or just a ‘not liberal Democrat’.

    Conservatives and Republicans are the true party for minorities and the oppressed, fighting for those individuals to earn property, be free, and protect their lives and the lives of their unborn.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You wouldn’t say that if President Obama were white.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    How vile and wretched.

  • Anonymous

    SHe is not the only one who has had these kinds of interactions with hehimself.  Apparently, governing is not important to Obama, books are…and if you don’t swear allegiance to him nd claim he is the One, the best, then you are yelled at.  Afterall, we are all his subjects, in his mind, and we must cow-tow/bow to him.  It is what is he used to with a sychophantic media; good thing the good Governor knows that it is not her job to cowtow/bow to himself.

    What a thin skin manchild.

  • Anonymous

    Ooooh, that would show him a thing or two, would it not, sir?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You know Tollbooth Perry in Texas did exactly the same thing on the tarmac at Austin Bergstrom International Airport two years ago. Prepared letter in hand. Didn’t have the cajones to pass it to President Obama.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I flagged you.

  • Anonymous

    Woo Hoo !! I Have Me Very Own Stalker !!

  • expatpatriot

    This really is a she said-she said sort of thing. The fact that Brewer has doubled down on her earlier report doesn’t lend it greater credibility.

    I realize that wingers follow the rule that if you say something three times, that makes it true, but that really doesn’t work with anyone else.

    And let’s be real: the impulse to patronize and condescend to this foolish woman would be irresistible to a saint.

  • Anonymous

    I guess I’m older than you, but when I was young my father taught me that EVERYONE is worthy of my respect until they prove otherwise. The attitude that someone is unworthy of your respect until they earn it is un-christian, un-american, and un-educated. The way I heard it (not from Brewer’s people) she started off by asking him for something (a meeting). He responded that the last time they met, she mischaracterized it (in her book) for personal gain and political capital. I wouldn’t have given her the time of day, but President Obama, being more gracious than me, at least gave her the chance to be civil. She asked for a favor ( the opportunity to meet privately), he said thanks but no thanks, not in public, but privately on the tarmac where she bushwhacked him. In fact, it was so private that you wouldn’t even know about it if she hadn’t run to the press and whined, like the low class, racist, drunk she is.

  • expatpatriot

    That wasn’t sexist. If the poster had added in Perry, it wouldn’t have affected the score at all.

  • expatpatriot

    Behavior for which you have only the evidence of some low-rent pol flogging a book.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I respectfully disagree.

    Ad hominem must be answered with ad hominem, because if unchallenged ignorant onlookers tend to side with the initial aggressor because they are perceived as strong

    sad but true

    Plus, you’re kind of misusing “ad hominem”

    Ad hominem is when you avoid responding to someone’s assertion by attacking them or their demographic personally.

    For example, if Newt says Birth Control causes more pregnancies than abstinence.

    You might respond with an ad hominem rebuttal, such as, “You’re just saying that because you’re a Catholic”

    It doesn’t have to be an insult.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    First, I was not bested in fact and I dare you to prove otherwise. Second, “Disqus Tweek” is what I write when the comment system Disqus begins to act up, or “tweek” in the parlance of the time. You got your facts wrong and then insulted me… Very Governor Brewer like.

  • expatpatriot

    Your guys made up the term. Hire a consultant next time. For now, wear the clothes you had tailored.

  • expatpatriot

    It is your duty to keep people informed.

    Erm . . . OK, I guess.

    Thanks, can I get a skinny flat white with that?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Let me be kind. Very different things force you and I to think.

    Purveyor, or “Smegma” as he likes to be called, is little more than a barely literate troll who repeats the same lines of attack with almost robotic frequency. Such behavior forces nothing but avoidance amongst the wise.

  • Pablo

    Right on time!

    *BURRRRP*

  • Pablo

    Who, other than you, says his legal name bothers anyone?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    “I’ve realized the older I get ,just how little I really know.”… is a perfect description for you!!

  • Anonymous

    Barbara -

    You make so many foolish statements in your little diatribe, I’ll try to help educate you.

    1. Everybody in America has an equal chance at success. 

    Try telling that to a kid on the Pine Ridge Reservation, living in a shack with no heat, no running water, poor schools, and not many prospects. The only choice he MAY have is to leave his family behind and hope for the best. The culture of poverty isn’t as easy to break for him as it is for someone like you.

    2. For power corrupts absolutely, those that were morally bankrupt from the onset.

    I guess you’re trying to reference Lord Acton’s quote, “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Doesn’t really apply here, because those you accuse of being morally bankrupt don’t exactly have “absolute power”.

    3. By legitimate means, use the power of the Constitution / Bill of Rights to revert back to a free enterprise system, where no corruption can be attained if we follow it strictly.

    I don’t even know where to start with this one. The Constitution/Bill of Rights is no cure-all for corruption. Most corruption, particularly the kind you reference, is sanctioned by the Constitution. From slavery to Citizens United, despots and liars like T Jefferson have bent the Constitution to their needs to steal and cheat in their efforts to profit from our free enterprise system.

    4. Think of it, no Gov.’t to “take” in all it’s varied hidden, and obvious forms, except where allocated for defense of our Nation, or upkeep.

    So you don’t believe we should fund the EPA, or SS, or NASA, or Nat’l Parks, because they don’t speak to defense or upkeep? Welcome to North Korea! They don’t spend any money on anything but defense and upkeep too!

    5. Private education is cheaper and better? Where is your proof, and how, exactly would that work on the aforementioned Pine Ridge Reservation? How about the backwoods of Alabama or West Virginia? You say everyone has an equal chance at success, but if all schools were private, yours would certainly be “more equal” than those who live in desperate poverty! Thats why a little Socialism ain’t such a bad thing. Thats why its been going on in the US since waaaay back in the 1600′s.This may be scary for you, but I’ll throw it out there anyway:  “The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed”

    Given your statement about “laying waste” to the offenders, I’m sure you’ll find the part about all races and every creed a little scary, but it’s served us pretty well up until know!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    George, you are definitely “Clueless!!”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Checkmate!!

  • Anonymous

    Wait…
    “In Pennsylvania, where Obama visited Pittsburgh,the story was much the same — no members of Congress to be found. Though two of southwestern Pennsylvania’s three Democratic congressmen greeted the president on the airport tarmac…”

    So no members of Congress to be found, but 66% of the Democratic Congressmen met him on the tarmac?? Do you even read, much less comprehend what you write? 

    And why is that obligatory anyway? IF they want/need a photo-op they can be there. If they have other things to do, go do them! Honeybadger don’t care, honeybadger dont give a shit!

  • Anonymous

    purveyor’s dishonest. He accuses Greg of “using deception to rob a nation of it’s birthright”, then claims he didn’t insult anyone. 

  • Anonymous

    Ignatius J Reilly! Love it!! 

    You have a valve??

  • Anonymous

    barbara is working very hard to replace Michelle-In-Utah here.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, it must be a coincidence, or maybe an intern, the governor’s office has been cleaning up Arizona’s problems.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    My pyloric valve is a constant source of trouble. It closes when presented with offence to proper geometry and theology.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KH2PT2JID5PHDHL4DDBLMBUWXY Sonya

    He is not black. He is neither genetically fully black or white. He is only half black, the other half is white.  You do not seem to understand that or the fact that people can DISLIKE (which is not HATE) him for other reasons than his genetic makeup.  You only want to see him as “black” because it supports your selfish racist agenda. 
    People like you can’t seem to understand that ANY compassionate, moral, selfless, caring HUMAN BEING (no matter their genetic make up) can understand your “plight”, your “problems”, your “hardships”, your “life”.  They DO NOT have to be the same “race” as you to understand that. You just want someone who will agree with you and give you what you want. Any HUMUAN BEING can have empathy if they choose to do so.  It is racist to think otherwise.  It is racist to point out race.  You and not the “other” people are the ones who have a problem with race.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    My pyloric valve is a constant source of trouble. It closes when presented with offence to proper geometry and theology.

  • Jardino

    I can hardly wait until Obama debates Romney or “anyone but Romney.” Obama will be the cool guy and the con will will be the hot head. Should be great theatre. MOBABA!

  • SoThere

    It’s a term leftist drag out when they have nothing.

  • Anonymous

    L.A.M.E.

    Shouldn’t you be in class ?  lol

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Speaking of “stalking”… Your dedication to that work is admirable. My employment situation is different. The nature of my work evolved.

  • Anonymous

    Warrant this – the postings you have done on mediaite indicate you are an older conservative female. Kind of like Tina. You espouse patriarchal values, gross disrespect for Obama and anything he does.

    Thank goodness the young in this nation do not align with your thinking. Your values and POV are a fading relic.

    And for all of your bluster, your side has sh*t candidates, batsh*t governors and a values platform to rival the best of the hypocrites.

  • Anonymous

    And today they are the conservative southern whites who switched their allegience to the republican party after Johnson signed the Civil Rights bill into law.

  • Anonymous

    As with the hate monger, your comment makes no sense Barbra.  The point of these blogs is for those of us with something to say regarding the article, to give our opinions.  Yours is, as you so appropriately pointed out, childish.

  • Anonymous

    I hereby recind my earlier claim that Barbra is childish and instead point out she is in fact…..nuts.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the church ladies are back.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    whatever

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    tee hee hee

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Blind lemming

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    The attitude that someone is unworthy of your respect until they earn it is un-christian, un-american, and un-educated.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv4KQbDaCfM

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    “It gives even your supporters pause, they start questioning whether you
    are not strong enough to be your own person. I think it could backfire
    and make you look weaker,” said Hosmer. “If there’s damage done for
    2012, it’s done, especially for Claire McCaskill. If the vote comes down
    to who was for Obama and who was against him, she’s going to lose.”
    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66677_Page2.html#ixzz1kaJxHPPUDid they change the man behind the sock, or do you get worse with each passing day?

  • Anonymous

    b/c someone makes a quip about a person’s physical appearance (in this case leatherface Brewer) you label their ideology? sort of a leap there don’t you think? If I say Sarah Palin is a pretty woman it doesn’t change the fact I know she’s also a dumbass. 

  • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003403557493 Sally_A_Miller

    Obama shows no respect for Governors who disagree with him.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You can’t even be honest with yourself,

  • Anonymous

    I suppose u respected  GEORGE ? Why some white people so angry about the so called shape the country is in ?,Where were all of u when Bush was president?………..Oh you were on board with him……….u peopkle r funny

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Palin still needs money

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You are disgusting

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    “It gives even your supporters pause, they start questioning whether you
    are not strong enough to be your own person. I think it could backfire
    and make you look weaker,” said Hosmer. “If there’s damage done for
    2012, it’s done, especially for Claire McCaskill. If the vote comes down
    to who was for Obama and who was against him, she’s going to lose.”
    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66677_Page2.html#ixzz1kaJxHPPUDid they change the man behind the sock, or do you get worse with each passing day?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    barbara clemen,
    She has respect for the office of President, not the occupier. Respect is earned.

    Aside from  first mulatto to achieve Presidency, he has accomplished nothing of value to our Republic.
    Like Reply
    10 hours ago

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    barbara clemen, 
    I don’t typically think about skin color, it’s not my first inclination.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dolf-Fenster/100000420267385 Dolf Fenster

    Obviously, not a conservative history teacher…

  • Anonymous

    I just think Obama must be thin skinned and petulant to confront this very respected governor. If you remember, he pulled the same crap with Jindal and Perry. A very small man.

  • Anonymous

    I see. You don’t like not having to worry about Osama Bin Laden now? You don’t like that if you are a U.S. citizen and are kidnapped abroad, if the military has enough actionable evidence, the President will authorize your rescue? You don’t like that the President has good enough relationships with the Pentagon, our military leaders, and his former competitor (Sec. Clinton) that the U.S. is making very good progress abroad with regard to terrorism as well as international economic cooperation?  You don’t like that instead of the economy tanking very badly as several countries in Europe did, that our recession has been kept from becoming a full-blown depression under his watch, and our economy now shows signs of recovery? What exactly is the “damage” to this country that you mention?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    makes me want to move to arizona and vote for her!

  • Anonymous

    Even with “context,” I can’t make out your point? Also, your “sock puppet” comment is trite, could you please be a bit more original? I suffered through Marx’ books, your comments are equally as tedious.

    Anyway, after enough thought, it occurs to me how much Obama and his administration have become similar to Socialist Governments, of history. Obama has reached a point where he really doesn’t care what or how the public views his policies. Obama is unapologetic and accepts casualties with little concern, even aplomb.

    Starting with his economic and medical policies, then moving on to “czars,” who were/are delegated authority that Obama does not have the power to grant. (“delegata non delegata”) So too, we saw the stimulus package and now more government agencies, Solyndra, Eric Holder and the BLack Panthers, plus selling guns to bad guys, etc… It has gone on and on and only now, finally, does a female Governor stand up to the man. Good for her!

    Depending on viewpoint, Obama is a strong competent leader, or, a man unapologetically abridging the Constitution? Obama may be “thin skinned” when it comes to relatively obscure books, but, Obama is as fearless a Lenin when initiating a Socialist revolution!

    (Note: Like it or not, Liberal or Conservative, at least Candidate Newt Gingrich is exposing the contra-Constitutional actions of Obama.) Personally, I find the Constitution a compelling treatise and where America should look to solve our current problems. The Founder’s were prescient men and included just about everything we need within that document.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Even with “context,” I can’t make out your point? Also, your “sock puppet” comment is trite, could you please be a bit more original? I suffered through Marx’ books, your comments are equally as tedious.

    Anyway, after enough thought, it occurs to me how much Obama and his administration have become similar to Socialist Governments, of history. Obama has reached a point where he really doesn’t care what or how the public views his policies. Obama is unapologetic and accepts casualties with little concern, even aplomb.

    Starting with his economic and medical policies, then moving on to “czars,” who were/are delegated authority that Obama does not have the power to grant. (“delegata non delegata”) So too, we saw the stimulus package and now more government agencies, Solyndra, Eric Holder and the BLack Panthers, plus selling guns to bad guys, etc… It has gone on and on and only now, finally, does a female Governor stand up to the man. Good for her!

    Depending on viewpoint, Obama is a strong competent leader, or, a man unapologetically abridging the Constitution? Obama may be “thin skinned” when it comes to relatively obscure books, but, Obama is as fearless a Lenin when initiating a Socialist revolution!

    (Note: Like it or not, Liberal or Conservative, at least Candidate Newt Gingrich is exposing the contra-Constitutional actions of Obama.) Personally, I find the Constitution a compelling treatise and where America should look to solve our current problems. The Founder’s were prescient men and included just about everything we need within that document.

    Purveyor

  • barbara clemen

    He has no respect for Anybody’s opinion that differs from his own. Even the Secret Service say he is condescending, rude, and arrogant. 

  • Anonymous

    I suggest that America and our leadership could, at least, use a little respect, at most some fear from certain Nations?

    Stalin, Mao and North Korea all knew we lacked the resolve during the Korean war and look what happened?  Had Stalin or Mao had even the slightest fear of America, and our wherewithal, the conclusion of the Korean War would have looked differently.

    “He who hesitates is lost”

    Purveyor

  • barbara clemen

    Manchild is an apt description of this arrogant president, who forgets : he is just an employee.

  • Anonymous

    well put!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Les-White/100000174466738 Les White

     Ms. Brewer is the only one out there ‘whining”….no class.  The President is doing exactly what he should — remaining quiet and letting the bitch run her mouth.  It’s fairly obvious, she was looking for a fight, and now she’s milking it.

    Pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    Respect for someone as a human being? Obviously yes.  Respect for someone simply because they hold a particular position?  Hell no.

  • Ryan Frederick

    i would have love to see Jan Brewer just slap Obama all over that tarmac!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    Stay classy!

  • barbara clemen

    Verbally. Az., has a right to feel disgust with his Dictatorial tactics.

    Someone forgot to tell Jan, she should acquiesce. I applaud her moxie. LOL

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    Does this acquiesce require the use of soda water?

  • barbara clemen

    Sure. I think.

  • barbara clemen

    My step father,and his brothers, agree. Instilling constructive “fear” to tyrannical nations, serves a higher purpose, in that it serves as a check in nefarious ambitions, by these murderous thugs.

    When you factor in America’s role as the “peace keeper” for all other Allied Countries, it’s important we maintain a unified front, serving as the “check” against tyranny.

    Respect is needed as a constant.

  • Ryan Frederick

    i could see Obama saying “don’t you know that i am a God how dare you make me look like a fool!”

  • AliveStillKickin

    Obama is just pissed and took it out on Brewer because he authored in another FAIL:

    Ener1, Battery Maker, Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
    Ener1 Inc., the owner of a company that received a $118 million U.S.
    Energy Department grant to make electric-car batteries, filed for
    bankruptcy protection after defaulting on bond debt amid heavy
    competition from Asia.
         Ener1, based in New York, makes lithium-ion
    batteries for plug-in electric cars, which were scrutinized by federal
    auto- safety officials after a General Motors Co. Chevrolet Volt caught
    fire, people familiar with the probe said in November. A two-month
    federal safety investigation cleared the Volt of danger, and GM is
    beginning a marketing effort to tout the car as safe and innovative.

         Under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus
    package, the Energy Department awarded grants in an attempt to create a
    U.S. electric-car industry. Ener1’s EnerDel unit, based in Indianapolis,
     was the grant recipient and has received about $55 million of its grant
     so far.
    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/ener1-battery-maker-seeks-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection.html
    Another classic fail by the King of Fail. Barack Hussein Obama.
    Chevy Volt….LOL!!

  • barbara clemen

    Obama is a legend in his own mind, what do you bet he tries to retaliate in some way?
    He’s “The One” who cheers the loudest.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IVT7ETRSKRS2D5MV64P74EJTVY UNCLE

    Hate brings on fear and bulling,but if it is who yor are,well now we know , maybe when we disagree with our employer, family, friend, COMMANDER AND CHIEF maybe we should kick down the door and give him a peace of our mine. VERY SAD   

  • AliveStillKickin

    BREWER: I’m sorry, Mr. President, but Obamacare doesn’t include coverage for enemas so I am going to have to slap the sh*t out of you.

  • barbara clemen

     Avoidswork ,Your cowardice at not allowing a reply to your assessment of character, gross misinterpretation of this Nations majority held values, places You and your post on par with Obama’s….disrespectful.

    Your endorsement  of professors indoctrinating our youth with lies, propaganda, and revisionist history, is an indication of your low intelligence, and advocacy of Anarchy.

    You are part of the problem keeping them stupid, you are beneath contempt.

     Your Avatar places your values for all to see…worthless, shiftless, non productive to growth…whether that be mentally, is left up to you.

  • Anonymous

    She not only “mischaracterized” the last time they met when she changed the story in her book, but she lied this time, too, about the meeting on the tarmac.

    TWO other witnesses, one a Republican official, contradicted what she was blabbering about to all the TV stations including the always-eager-to-slam-the-President Fox News.http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mayor_seems_to_contradict_gov_brewers_story_on_oba.php http://www.kpho.com/story/16612027/mayor-stanton-on-brewer-obama-exchange 

  • Anonymous

    Just because he’s the 53%-majority-elected leader of 320 million people, a regular “citizen that been elected to office”, you would blame him for the egregious malfeasance of the leader of the 47%. 

    Oh, that’s right, you right wingers don’t even believe he’s another “citizen”. Your own disrespect makes about as much sense as the business about birth certificates, or imagining a 19 year old pregnant woman would spend thousands of dollars she doesn’t have and cannot borrow flying in her 9th month with many stops and layovers halfway across the world to give birth, then fly right back halfway across the world to get a birth certificate from a Honolulu hospital.

  • Anonymous

    Barbara,
    Avoidswork does not control the reply button. That is strictly up to Disqus and Mediaite. There are ways around it though. Open his profile, find the post you want to replay too, and click the link, that will put it at the top of page one, with a reply button, but out of context.

  • Anonymous

    Wish she had poked that finger in his eye!  The son of a whore deserves no respect and will never get a tad of it from me!  Obama is a pathetic person, arrogant, narcisist, a liar, corrupt to the bone, racist, a closet homosexual, and certainly not a natural born citizen and is not qualified to sit in the Oval Office!  He should be allowed to stay on at the White House, for a job he is more qualified for, perhaps cleaning the White House toilets!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    As a part time Arizona resident, I always thought that, based on her television and personal appearances, Jan was an alcoholic. You should be able to find several barely coherent clips of her on You Tube (flavored with a soupcon of rage).

  • Anonymous

    Remember that article I wrote about how to defeat Islam? I sent it to you a month ago. That was the main point, its time America used a little coercion instead of always being “Mr. Nice Guy?”

    Its hard for us as Americans, we are so prosperous, we want to share and help everyone and it backfires on us!

    Purveyor

  • barbara clemen

    Thank you very much for the tip, Todd.

  • barbara clemen

    Please explain why you posted as you did to Quenia, if it was a
    Disqus Tweek.

    I rest my case.  You lied. 

  • barbara clemen

    After reading your post for the second time, you still haven’t a salient point to make?
    What Is your point in this post?

  • barbara clemen

    That article was “dead on”,there are ways to maintain our largess and address the blustering of dictators. It’s about time we used a little ingenuity, “carry a big stick”,and apply some of that muscle to stop and make them rethink their strategy of dominance, whether abroad or on the home front.
    Then “kick them to the curb”, setting an example they are not soon to forget.

  • barbara clemen

    The only retraction to the above post is rely button is not his to control.
    I stand firm on the rest of this post.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/V4JADTVGGTC6IYAGLCEHMKWYAA Kem

    Mr. Born, I think your personal attack of a person who is merely voicing an opinion of a public figure (and whom you know nothing about). Is rather rude, and unnecessary. We are all entitled to our political opinions, and should have the right to voice them without this type of attack.  You really should apologize.

  • Anonymous

    Asshole, I have met Both!!!!!!!! I think it would be better for me to get something to protect myself other than a dog.

  • Anonymous

    Good for you. And I flagged Michelle Obama for stating that she had NEVER been proud of the US before 2008.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I don’t understand your question.

  • http://twitter.com/dry_oatmeal dry oatmeal

    Wow, that’s some poem there, Yeats.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3T2CB3IARM5F76NGDD53AC6454 easmachine

     If you are a teacher, I hope you don’t teach this misinformed idiocy to your students.

     The same party that fought against black peoples’ civil rights and voting rights is the party of Jesse Helms Strom Thurmond Barry Goldwater Michelle Bachmann (Black People were better off during slavery)And Ron Paul(who still wouldn’t support civil rights) just to name a few.

     No wonder people have such a low opinion of teachers.Unless Lying has become the new teaching.

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