Friday, January 27, 2012

Obama vs. Brewer and the Tiff on the Tarmac (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama once again proves that he is the thinnest-skinned commander-in-chief in United States history.

The tiff on the tarmac between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Obama captured national attention within minutes of the encounter. The president should have thought about his inability to handle even the slightest criticism before entering politics.

Gov. Brewer was surprised that Obama wanted to hop off the plane and launch into a mini-tirade about a rather mild comment made in her book, according to the Washington Post. There is probably little that the reasonable conservative and the far-left president have in common, but the juvenile hostility exhibited by the president is beneath his office. The photograph of Brewer with a finger pointed in the direction of the president garnered immense interest minutes after it was posted online. On Wednesday night, Brewer told Fox News journalist Greta Van Sustern that she frequently speaks with her hands and did not intentionally finger point at the president. In her book Brewer recalled a meeting where she felt President Obama patronized her and her views on immigration. The hyper-sensitive president apparently felt so disparaged by the mild remark that he could wait not longer to confront his accuser.

The president has as history of behaving like a petulant child when arriving in Republican territory. Within minutes of stepping out of Air Force One in Louisiana, Obama chastised Gov. Bobby Jindal for uttering an unflattering comment, according to The Weekly Standard. Jindal made the reasonable assumption that the president would want to discuss the oil spill disaster but was shocked to be rebuked for asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to allow food stamps for workers displaced because of the environmental disaster. Jindal maintains that Obama warned him to be careful with his comments because "this thing is going to get bad for everyone."

A career politician like Barack Obama cannot fathom the genuine concern public servants feel when faced with distraught citizens. Brewer wants to protect the citizens of Arizona from border crime and fiscal failure due to an overload on public services by illegal immigrants. Jindal was trying to help citizens who were still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, deal with the economic impact of the BP oil spill. The president's character will continue to be cast in a negative light until he learns how to use good manners with those who do not worship at his knee.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120126/pl_ac/10888883_obama_vs_brewer_and_the_tiff_on_the_tarmac

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