2nd Mayor Says Obama ‘Wasn’t Tense At All’ During Brewer Encounter
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/2nd_mayor_says_obama_wasnt_tense_at_all_during_bre.phpOut 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 wasnt tense at all, Stanton said on Friday. The guys a pro.
Though Stanton declined to discuss exactly what the governor and president said to each other, he said Obamas classic coolness was evident.
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MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...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
(17,001 posts)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
(10,237 posts)For some reason, it reminded me of "Some Like It Hot", although Lemmon & Curtis didn't stay cool.
PEACE!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)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
(10,237 posts)...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
(18,541 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)There would yells from the Republicans and the Media for resignation
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)I made a comment along these lines the other day and had my post removed without warning
Roy Mandina
(3 posts)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
(8,138 posts)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
(19,178 posts)Dumbass. Now go back and read what I posted.
patrice
(47,992 posts)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
(14,543 posts)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
(47,992 posts)the same defense-mechanism agrees.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)they point out that you are doing it. but, yeah, now i think it is psychological projection.
demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)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
(12,482 posts)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
(47,992 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)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
(47,992 posts)Roy Mandina
(3 posts)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
(3 posts)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
(8,138 posts)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
(30,439 posts)Obama is always cool as a cucumber. Nothing phases him.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)JI7
(89,174 posts)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
(47,992 posts)Avoidant?
Marnie
(844 posts)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
(59 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)quaker bill
(8,223 posts)neither intellectually nor in any power sense. That she even believes that she is big enough to cause tension is massive self flattery.
cgnick
(59 posts)A letter is good way to deliver a message when you have trouble mustering complete sentences.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Wish the ny daily news had transcribed it.
The entire thing looks like a lame publicity stunt concocted by Brewer.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)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
(3,344 posts)at either President Obama's calmness or Brewer's wonderful job of being an uncouth idiot.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)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
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Thanks to TPM for this.
99 Percent Sure
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Heh.
Initech
(99,914 posts)GOP way of telling stories: just run to El Rushbo and he'll put a band aid on it and make everything better.
Politicub
(12,163 posts)I don't believe a word of her story. It doesn't make any sense.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... perhaps prone to misinterpreting situations in order to feed... what? A victimized-conservative mindset?
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