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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP mayor contradicts Jan Brewers story
What a lying hag she is
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/mayor_seems_to_contradict_gov_brewers_story_on_oba.php?ref=fpb
President Obama didnt exactly walk away from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) during their disagreement on Wednesday on an airport tarmac near Phoenix, said one of the only people to witness the exchange up close. The president simply began talking to the other two elected officials who were there to greet him.
Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, Ariz., declined to say exactly what he heard Obama and Brewer talk about during their now-infamous tiff next to Air Force One.
But the mayor said he was standing right next to the governor when the exchange took place and Obama didnt seem to be in any kind of hurry to leave.
There was no sense that he was running to or from anything, Smith told TPM. In fact, he said, the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with Smith, whos a Republican, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat.
It was just the four of us, Smith said. Mayor Stanton and I had a decent talk with him.
The portrayal of a calm, friendly president seems to at least partly contradict what Brewer has said about the encounter in numerous interviews since Wednesday afternoon. She described the president as tense and said he walked away from her while she was in mid-sentence. She told a Phoenix television station she felt a little bit threatened by the encounter.
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GOP mayor contradicts Jan Brewers story (Original Post)
HipChick
Jan 2012
OP
She got her media tour out of it and pimped her book some more so it moved up in sales.
Pirate Smile
Jan 2012
#3
Brewer comes off as unstable, crazy bigoted piece of shit who i wonder how the fuck is Governor
JI7
Jan 2012
#8
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. Pathological liar and Republican Teabagger are pretty much interchangeable.
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)2. K&R
for some truth.
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)3. She got her media tour out of it and pimped her book some more so it moved up in sales.
She's disgusting.
Obamacare
(277 posts)4. I knew the bitch was lying
I hope the media picks up on this!
glinda
(14,807 posts)5. My guess is she is an alcoholic or a drug addict or both.
eShirl
(18,477 posts)13. Something not right with her, that's for sure.
NAO
(3,425 posts)6. I blame Obama for "the Grim Brewer"; he took our Democratic Govenor
Janet Napolatano and made her "director of homeland security".
We defaulted to that reptilian, opportunistic bigot, Brewer, who (for reasons unknown and unknowable) was Napalatano's vice-governor.
If he hadn't done that, there never would have been an HB-1070, and all the racism and hatred it spawned in Arizona and all over the US.
JI7
(89,237 posts)10. but people voted for her, and elected her to her own term in 2010
and we saw that horrible debate performance. it's not like we are just seeing what a crazy fuck she is now .
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)7. "Obama beheaded five victims in the desert!"
JI7
(89,237 posts)8. Brewer comes off as unstable, crazy bigoted piece of shit who i wonder how the fuck is Governor
Someone needs to get her some medication ASAP
upi402
(16,854 posts)9. Can you imagine if Obama did that to Bush?!?
The media would pop a vein.
niyad
(113,012 posts)11. ummm, jan, you little lying wretch, if obama was walking away from you, how was that threatening?
malaise
(268,639 posts)12. But but but she felt threatened
There was this tall black man who dares to be President of the USA so she felt threatened.
Fuck that stupid drunken racist ReTHUG scumbag.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)14. Video seems to confirm what the mayor says
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_19825731
A limo is frustratingly half in the way, so you don't see when the finger came out; but it's clear that Brewer was one of 3 people greeting Obama in a line, and he just moved on to the others, and then later walked to the crowd.
A limo is frustratingly half in the way, so you don't see when the finger came out; but it's clear that Brewer was one of 3 people greeting Obama in a line, and he just moved on to the others, and then later walked to the crowd.