Obama Can’t Handle the Truth (Just Ask Gov. Brewer)

[Dementia_Madness]

President Barack Obama has a problem, a problem much bigger than his plummeting poll numbers among black voters, the ever-worsening housing market, or the chronically high national unemployment numbers. Although these are all bad and must be weighing down on him—whether he admits it or not—they are minor compared to his deeper problem, which is his inability to handle criticism, his inability to handle the truth.

in December 2006, after New York Times’ reporter Maureen Dowd had written about how Obama’s “ears stick out,” Obama tracked her down at a speaking engagement and said: “I just want to put you on notice. I’m very sensitive,” adding, “I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.”

April 2011 exchange that took place between Obama and Dallas news reporter Brad Watson, during an interview wherein Watson asked the president pointed, probing questions instead of the kind of light and fluffy stuff a CNN reporter asks when he or she gets the chance. For example, as the two sat face to face, Watson looked right at Obama and asked: “Why do you think you’re so unpopular in Texas?” And when Obama tried to make it look like he wasn’t that unpopular in Texas, saying he’d only lost in 2008 by a “few percentage points,” Watson countered: “Well, you lost by about 10%. 55 to 44.” And because Obama can’t handle criticism, he became noticeably bothered as the questions continued. When the short interview was over, an angry Obama whispered to Watson: “Let me finish my answers next time we do an interview.”

Speaking of thin-skinned, that’s the exact phrase Gov. Brewer used to describe Obama after he walked across the tarmac in Phoenix on Wednesday and greeted Brewer not with “hello” or “good to see you,” but with a complaint about how she’d described his efforts to deep-end Arizona’s S.B. 1070. He said he’d read the complaint in a passage from her book, “Scorpions for Breakfast.”

There Brewer wrote:

    [Obama] has repeatedly made fun of those of us who want to see the law enforced, saying we want a ‘moat’ with ‘alligators’ in it around our country. The reason he has resorted to these failed attempts at humor, I think, is that he supports a policy that is fundamentally undemocratic, and he knows it.

Said Brewer of the exchange: “He brought up my book and he was a little tense. He said he read the excerpt and didn’t think I was very cordial. I said we’d have to agree to disagree. He was a little thin-skinned and tense, to say the least.”

[NCVol]

Here's the account as it was reported with Dowd: 

Obama is very sensitive about his press. After his press conference, he headed toward New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and chided her -- in a kidding way -- for a comment in the 12th of 14 paragraphs in an Oct 21 column. She wrote that Obama's "ears stick out."

"I just want to put you on notice," he said.

"I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears."

Said Dowd, "We're trying to toughen you up.''

But whatever, the AZ account is misleading.  Obama was miffed that Brewer asked him for a meeting and the last time the two of them had a meeting, Brewer, in his view, lied about the nature of it.  At the time of the meeting, she was all smiles, and in the book whined about being lectured to and him being condescending.  Maybe she was being "nice" at the WH, and accurate in her book, but it was THAT account that was the issue, not the general disagreement on immigration policies.  He's deported record numbers every year - AZ and Brewer should be cheering that instead of complaining.

Good news for Brewer is being a perceived jerk towards the President is AWESOME for selling books!!  After the "tense exchange" her book went from 276,665 to 21 on Amazon. 

[Sasquatch]

But whatever, the AZ account is misleading Obama is the bestest ever. 

 

[Dementia_Madness]

Misleading? Let's see the article says that Obama basically holds petty grudges, you agree "Obama was miffed that Brewer asked him for a meeting and the last time the two of them had a meeting, Brewer, in his view, lied about the nature of it."

"He's deported record numbers every year - AZ and Brewer should be cheering that instead of complaining." Wow as IF that would make up for the Fed taking AZ to court to block it from enacting it's own immigration laws...once again you whittle away KEY elements in order to make things look much brighter and happy than they actually are.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/The-US-vs-Arizona-Fed-Sue-State-Over-Immigration-Law-97923959.html

[Sasquatch]

He's deported record numbers every year - AZ and Brewer should be cheering that instead of complaining.

I would imagine the illegals are seeking out the immigration officials so that they can get the hell out of here.  

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/28/3799513/improving-mexican-economy-draws.html

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/mexico-95049-mexicans-abroad.html

[NCVol]

Misleading? Let's see the article says that Obama basically holds petty grudges, you agree "Obama was miffed that Brewer asked him for a meeting and the last time the two of them had a meeting, Brewer, in his view, lied about the nature of it."

If it's true she's a liar and a political opportunist that will use any meeting with Obama to trash him to sell books, I wouldn't call that a "petty grudge."  Who knows who is right, but the article you quoted alleged it was over policy and that simply isn't what the uncontested accounts of the "tense meeting" suggest.  Obama, for his part, says it's a big brouhaha over nothing...  But being a whiny victim is good for wingnut book sales!!!   

"He's deported record numbers every year - AZ and Brewer should be cheering that instead of complaining." Wow as IF that would make up for the Fed taking AZ to court to block it from enacting it's own immigration laws...once again you whittle away KEY elements in order to make things look much brighter and happy than they actually are.

It's irrelevant I suppose that the courts have so far found large parts of the AZ law unconstitutional?  It's going to the SC, so we'll see soon enough, but the law raises pretty fundamental issues of state versus federal authority when it comes to immigration policies.  The argument is summed up in the bolded part of your comment - is immigration a STATE OR FEDERAL issue?  And if it's a combined responsibility, where are the lines drawn. 

Besides, the point is Obama has been tougher on the border than Bush ever dreamed of being, but the right wing crazies make it seem like on January 20, 2009, Obama pulled the border guard, dismantled ICE, and laid a red carpet out for the illegals so they'll vote democrat, when the fact is if you're an illegal, you've had more to fear from Obama than the several presidents preceding him. 

[MRM]

He has a think skin. He'll just sue you.

[NCVol]

You mean like Bush citing an 1800s era law to sue states' attorneys general to PREVENT them from regulating the blood sucking sub prime lenders who preyed on poor borrowers?    (true fact BTW). 

FWIW, you see who went on I think 37 shows to whine and cry    about how mean the President treated her  , and who said the incident was a big deal about nothing.  I think the one that went on 37 shows whining  and crying  was..... Brewer! 

Heck, there was a GOP mayor on that line and he said.... no big deal.  Cordial all around... 

[Dementia_Madness]

http://michellemalkin.com/

So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.

On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-”Toddlers and Tiaras”-style meltdown with Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer after landing in Phoenix for a post-State of the Union dog-and-pony show. As Brewer told pool reporters on the scene, Obama took umbrage at Brewer’s recent memoir. She minced no words on the cover: “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border.”

And she minced no words describing her impressions of Obama as they sparred over her state’s tough immigration enforcement law, which is now the subject of a Justice Department witch-hunt. Brewer called Obama “patronizing” and “condescending.” I’d say she was excruciatingly polite.

According to Brewer, “He was a little disturbed about my book. … I said to him 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 (an) excerpt.” In the shadow of Air Force One, Obama complained that Brewer hadn’t “treated him cordially” and then stalked off while she was responding mid-sentence.

Photogs captured the fracas on film. The civility police gasped at Brewer’s “disrespectful” finger-pointing. On cue, one progressive commentator insinuated the gesture was a “racist” jab tantamount to lynching.

As debate on Capitol Hill over the debt ceiling and spending sizzled, Obama bragged to reporters: “I’m not trying to poke at you guys. … I generally don’t watch what is said about me on cable. I generally don’t read what’s said about me even in The Hill (newspaper), so part of this job is having a thick skin and understanding that a lot of this stuff is not personal.”

Uh-huh. At least two other Republican governors — Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — have recounted similar presidential snit fits on the tarmac. He sulked over a letter Jindal wrote to the administration about food stamps for Gulf oil spill victims; he bolted after a half-minute meeting with Perry at an Austin airport over border security issues.

You know those “petty grievances” of “Washington politics” that Obama has long condemned? Now it can be told: He knows whereof he squawks.

[Shimmy]

She is a great big liar.  Now, had she accused him of sexual harassment, then she would be telling the truth.

[NCVol]

Republicans sure do like playing the poor little victim.     

It's kind of funny. 

Look who went on 53 TV and radio shows to complain about the incident...  and then ask yourself who has thin skin.  Everyone else there, democratic and republican mayors, said it was no big deal, Obama said it was no big deal, but whiny sniveling Gov. Brewer goes on 53 shows to whine and cry, she felt "threatened...'' poor baby, mean old Obama....   and sell books. 

Besides, if it was President Christie who left, say, Nancy Pelosi talking in mid sentence, you lemmings would be all "hell yeah, way to go Christie!!" 

This has got to be the stupidest thing in a long time, and that's a pretty high bar.  Why don't you all break out the TOTUS stuff again.  That's kind of fun.