A Scorpion for Breakfast
Obama feels Brewer's sting
Politico -- January 25
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: President Obama 'didn't feel I treated him cordially'
It was a tense moment on the tarmac. President Obama, alighting from the stairs of Air Force One in Phoenix this afternoon, was greeted by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who handed him an envelope and the two exchanged what appeared to be some heated sentiments. At one point, she pointed her finger at him. Asked afterward what happened, Brewer said, "He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast.
"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 the excerpt," she said, according to a pool report. "He didn't feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn't get my sentence finished. [...]
The pool reporter, POLITICO's Carrie Budoff Brown, said the scene was far from the norm. Aside from the pointing, they appeared to talk over each other and he appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking. [...]
"It was [as] though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee," she wrote, according to Capitol Media Services. "He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me."
 Gov. Brewer on the Mike Broomhead Show |
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