‘With respect, Jan’
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has released the letter she handed to President Obama in Phoenix Thursday.
The letter says in part:
“You’ve arrived in a state at the forefront of America’s recovery — and her future,” she wrote. “We both love this great country, but we fundamentally disagree on how to best make America grow and prosper once again. I’d love an opportunity to share with you how we’ve been able to turn Arizona around with hard choices that turned out to be the right ones. And, of course, my offer to visit the border — and buy lunch — still stands.”
As has become typical when a red state governor gets into a confrontation with Obama, the state’s Democrats want Brewer to apologize for the finger-wagging rather than standing with the leaders and interests of their own state. Texas Democrats consistently stand with Obama and against the voters and leaders here, and that’s one reason Democrats can’t win anything significant. The AZ GOP should have an easy time depicting the state’s Democrats as out of touch with state after this. It’s possible though that Obama sparked the confrontation intentionally to court Hispanic voters angry with Brewer over Arizona’s immigration law. Liberal Jonathan Chait suspects as much, and so do I. Brewer wins with the GOP base for the confrontation, and Obama scores points with his base for taking a governor that they hate. Both have reasons to frame that now famous photo.
The state’s Democrats, here in Arizona, have been out in the locoweed patch.
The AP has already made the meme about one of “respect” for the office of the Presidency. Sad. Truly sad. I’m sorry it does not appear as the United States will ever be, in spirit, a unified country during our lifetimes, as the left will never allow anyone the same respect or courtesy they demand for themselves.
And which is sometimes demanded at the point of a lawbreakng mob.
Funny, I never saw AP making a big deal about “respect” for the Office of the President when it was any given Republican in office.
Incindentally, in my view the President’s actions are best explained as those of a Manichaean confronted by one of his opponents. Believing strongly in the wrongness of his foe, and unable to do anything much due to social constraints, he simply had no desire to, from his viewpoint, ‘tolerate’ the Governor, and when the moment came, chose not to do so.
You people are fools if you don’t think that some people have desired end states and intend to get there, over you if they have to (and perhaps preferred). What the President’s desired end state is, I don’t know, other than I doubt I would like it and I doubt he could run on it.
I would also buy “imperial narcisisist” vice manicheaean. Probably more likely.
Narcissist too.
Respect, hmm? That’s an interesting point of view. I was listening to an interview with Governor Brewer this morning. When asked what the first words she and Obama exchanged, she very honestly replied that he said “Hello, Jan”, and she said “Hello Mr. President”. Here Obama is speaking with a governor of a large, signficant state, the chief executive of her state. She respectfully calls him Mr. President, and he calls her “Jan”. So who is not showing respect?
This letter is confrontational? Only in the addled brains of Leftists (aka Democrats). If Obama made this confrontational, it was a decision to make the governor look bad. With the letter’s release, someone will have to eat some crow.
BTW wordygirl – Why aren’t the feminists attacking Barry O for disrespecting one of their own? Answer – because only Republicans deserve attack, never the Democrats.
– constructive treason. So big of him.
You can almost see the chart that they used to weigh the benefits of being childishly rude in public to the risk of losing a state they didn’t have a chance to win anyway.
The real decision must have been whether to shove her to the ground or not.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/brewer-s-dust-up-with-obama-sends-sales-of-her/article_67759f53-6753-55c9-b056-d045bbe837c8.html