2nd Mayor Says Obama ‘Wasn’t Tense At All’ During Brewer Encounter

[highplainsdem]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/2nd_mayor_says_obama_wasnt_tense_at_all_during_bre.php

Out of the three officials who met President Obama on an airport tarmac near Phoenix earlier this week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is now the only one who has characterized the president as anything other than cordial.

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But Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, who was standing just feet away from the president and the governor on Wednesday during their now-infamous encounter, told TPM that Obama seemed calm the whole time.

“He wasn’t tense at all,” Stanton said on Friday. “The guy’s a pro.”

Though Stanton declined to discuss exactly what the governor and president said to each other, he said Obama’s classic coolness was evident.

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[MarianJack]

1. President Obama is way too smart and sophisticated...

...to let a shrill little turd brain like brewer to get under his skin to the point that he'd show it publicly.

One of my first rules of engagement is that the first one who gets visibly pissed off loses. brewer lost.

PEACE!

[NBachers]

6. "a shrill little turd brain"

Described, distilled, and delivered. I like the way you write.

Obama's the guy with the shades and fedora, blowing out his cool sax number while the cops bust in to raid the place.

[MarianJack]

15. I like the visual.

For some reason, it reminded me of "Some Like It Hot", although Lemmon & Curtis didn't stay cool.

PEACE!

[Ken Burch]

18. I'd be thinking more of Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight. for some reason.

n/t.

[freshwest]

45. Whatever you're referrring to there, I'm glad I missed it, LOL

[mopinko]

7. exactly why he hasn't

kicked ass and taken names. i know we would all like that. but he is playing a long game that is starting to pay off.

i could never do it, tho. ever.

[MarianJack]

17. One of the few good lessons my father taught me was...

...that the first one who loses their cool loses.

The rethugs lost their cool the day that President Obama clinched the nomination in 2008.

PEACE!

[DCKit]

2. Jan Brewer is afflicted with Republicon Projection Disease? Who'd a thunk it? nt

[Thrill]

3. If the Governor was a Dem doing this to Bush

There would yells from the Republicans and the Media for resignation

[Ken Burch]

19. No...the Secret Service would've wrestled the Dem to the ground...

[ashling]

29. Careful,

I made a comment along these lines the other day and had my post removed without warning

[Roy Mandina]

42. If the gov. was a dem?

Are you just trying to get a laugh, or are you really that ignorant? NO PRESIDENT EVER WAS DISRESPECTED AS MUCH AS BUSH! I know you know that, so why the hypocrisy? No one can disagree with Obama without being called a racist. Go to Youtube and watch Brian Williams point his finger in Bush's face several times. Did you complain then? Of course not! You didn't even hear about it. Your theory is shot down. It's amazing how thin-skinned liberals are and at the same time so malicious and vicious.

[MGKrebs]

46. I did not realize Brian Williams was a governor.

You learn something every day.

edit: And I might add- even if it were true that criticism of Obama draws cries of racism, it sure doesn't seem to be stopping anybody.

[Thrill]

48. Reading is your Friend

Dumbass. Now go back and read what I posted.

[patrice]

4. Being tense would have been ENTIRELY out of character for him. Anyone who believes that just

doesn't know who they're talking about, or they are lying.

People really think they guy who made decisions on how to get Osama bin Laden would be intimidated by a light-weight like Brewer??? It IS to laugh!

[Cosmocat]

5. Thin skinned

this is a standard frame the right wing has applied to BO from day one.

NOTHING about these people include actual reality, they just spew their nonsense regardless.

[patrice]

10. They obscure their own weaknesses by ascribing them to others. Anyone needing

the same defense-mechanism agrees.

[annabanana]

12. They EXPOSE thier own weaknesses by ascribing them to others!. . .n/t

[MADem]

16. Yep--they have a 'projection' problem! nt

[arely staircase]

20. i used to think it was a strategy - acuse your opponent of what you are doing before

they point out that you are doing it. but, yeah, now i think it is psychological projection.

[demgrrrll]

28. The strategy was her saying she felt threatened. That was the back flip.

in my experience when a bully is caught, and she is a bully, they will say things like You are scaring me Im scared I feel
threatened. Takes the spot off her finger pointing.

[arely staircase]

39. i can't tell you how many times

i have caught a student bullying another only to have the bully turn on the tears when confronted - then return to the same behavior once the heat was off. those kids will probably be republicans.

[patrice]

34. Right, I guess I should have said that they TRY to obscure, but end up exposing themselves.

[freshwest]

25. This is the same guv who spread the headless bodies story as a dog whistle, just like this.

She's desperate for attention now and she knows the baggers would love to see her put Obama down. It's only going to happen in their minds, not real life. He's way past her league.

[patrice]

35. Limited bigots CAN'T even imagine what they don't perceive in others. nt

[Roy Mandina]

43. past her league?

How is Obama "past her league?" She hasn't borrowed trillions from the Chinese! She hasn't lost millions of jobs! Obama hasn't done one thing right. Every economic indicator is worse since he took office, THREE YEARS AGO!

[Roy Mandina]

44. past her league?

How is Obama "past her league?" She hasn't borrowed trillions from the Chinese! She hasn't lost millions of jobs! Obama hasn't done one thing right. Every economic indicator is worse since he took office, THREE YEARS AGO!

[MGKrebs]

47. Your boy George W is the one who dug the hole.

You do remember that this was the worst economic crisis since the depression, right?
Bush relaxed regulation of banks who then manipulated mortgages which caused the crash. It didn't help that at the same time he was cutting taxes AND fighting TWO wars all at the same time.

[Cali_Democrat]

40. LOL....well said

Obama is always cool as a cucumber. Nothing phases him.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. It's obvious: Jan Brewer has had way too frequent guzzles of the brew she brews.

[JI7]

9. he was probably trying hard not to laugh in her face

can't believe such a dumbshit is governor. but then we have had Arnold, Scott WAlker and all of these lower level officials saying stupid shit.

[patrice]

11. BTW, writing that out as a note does seem a bit frightened doesn't it?

Avoidant?

[Marnie]

13. It is nice of the mayor to not play politics with the issue.

Brewer needs to remember the POTUS, who ever they are can, include and exclude any one they want from getting within a mile of them.

What ever Brewer's issue, she abused Obama's hospitality, which shows just had tacky she is.

Oh, and Jan, next time you meet a real VIP wash and comb your hair, you are embarrassing the women of America.

I wonder what the SS guys would have done if she had actually poked him, remembering how closely they hovered over him during the meet and greet at the State of the Union? They didn't even trust the Congress persons to not take a shot at him.

[cgnick]

22. Yeah Jan do your hair and use some denture adhesive too. eom

[yellowcanine]

14. Of course he wasn't. That is apparent from the picture.

[quaker bill]

21. Gov. Brewer was and is no threat

neither intellectually nor in any power sense. That she even believes that she is big enough to cause tension is massive self flattery.

[cgnick]

23. She gave him a hand written letter.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/arizona-guv-jan-brewer-face-releases-private-note-gave-president-obama-tarmac-tiff-article-1.1012906?localLinksEnabled=false

A letter is good way to deliver a message when you have trouble mustering complete sentences.

[HipChick]

24. Who the hell can read that drivel? Looks like a schoolkid wrote it..

[lovemydog]

27. I couldn't read it either

Wish the ny daily news had transcribed it.

The entire thing looks like a lame publicity stunt concocted by Brewer.

[SoapBox]

26. She had "slipped from the spotlight" and needed a way to get herself back into the news...

She's a GOPathtic Party member and acts as such.

This was all bullshit and she knows it...she did this knowing that she would get a big boost from the Baggers, for supposedly giving Prez O grief.

Be seriously embarassed Arizona...seriously.

[Irishonly]

30. I am not surprised

at either President Obama's calmness or Brewer's wonderful job of being an uncouth idiot.

[fascisthunter]

31. the GOP has some real Head Cases

who else would champion their anti-populist/fascist agenda. You have to be nuts to ascribe to their way of thinking. The republican voters are fools.

[DFW]

32. Now THIS is cordiality, Brewer style:

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Thanks to TPM for this.

[99 Percent Sure]

33. "The guy's a pro."

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Heh.

[Initech]

36. Ha, I knew this story was fabricated.

GOP way of telling stories: just run to El Rushbo and he'll put a band aid on it and make everything better.

[Politicub]

37. Brewer just wants publicity for her book

I don't believe a word of her story. It doesn't make any sense.

[Odin2005]

38. Brewing was projecting.

[Beartracks]

41. Brewer sounds a bit high strung...

... perhaps prone to misinterpreting situations in order to feed... what? A victimized-conservative mindset?



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