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President Irked at Governor’s Show of Disrespect
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 27 Jan 2012 | John Semmens

Posted on 01/27/2012 8:27:59 PM PST by John Semmens

President Obama expressed his “profound disappointment and disgust” with what he labeled “an unacceptable display of disrespect” toward him from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R).

“Ms. Brewer has to come to terms with her rank in the pecking order,” Obama said. “She is, after all, merely a governor of a relatively small and unimportant state. Regardless of how she feels about me, it is inappropriate for her to seem to be publicly criticizing her nation’s president.”

The President’s ire was sparked by more than the highly visual face-off the two had on the tarmac of the Williams-Gateway Airport during Obama’s recent campaign visit to Arizona. Governor Brewer also has written a book–“Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border”–that the President contends “scurrilously defames and discredits me.”

Obama hinted that the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona for its effrontery of attempting to enforce federal immigration laws could be expanded to include charges against Brewer for “defamation of character.” “It’s one thing for the state to face a lawsuit, the Governor bears no personal liability no matter how the case is decided,” Attorney General Eric Holder pointed out. “But a finding of libel against her for what she wrote in her book could be financially crushing. The cost of a legal defense itself could be daunting.”

Holder denied that the President was conducting a vendetta against Brewer. “Governor Brewer isn’t more than a tiny blip on the President’s radar,” Holder said. “It’s the principle of the thing that matters. People must be disabused of the idea that they can vilify the President without facing dire personal consequences.”

A post-election Executive Order authorizing the removal of state officials whose actions endanger national security or serve to undermine the people’s confidence in the federal government is reportedly in the works. “Arizona’s Governor Brewer isn’t the only one who’s gotten out of line,” Press Secretary Jay Carney observed. “There are some elections officials in Georgia who’ve proven supremely irritating to the President.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...

http://constitutionclub.org/2012/01/27/semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-4/


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: brewer; disrespect; obama; satire
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1 posted on 01/27/2012 8:28:11 PM PST by John Semmens
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ping


2 posted on 01/27/2012 8:30:05 PM PST by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

Reads exactly like the copy from most of the alphabet channels last night...;-)


3 posted on 01/27/2012 8:31:47 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: John Semmens

Damn you, John.


4 posted on 01/27/2012 8:32:37 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: John Semmens

Wow, what a sack of ass douches.


5 posted on 01/27/2012 8:33:31 PM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (We were born citizens. Now we are subjects. Currently on the path to become serfs.)
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To: John Semmens
LOL, if he'd had his teleprompter, that's what he woulda said.
6 posted on 01/27/2012 8:37:14 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: John Semmens

Isn’t he the president who was going to bring the country together..now he is calling a whole state unimportant??? What a complete ass he is....a self important self aggrandizing king in his own mind...what a pathetic man..he dishomors the office of the President.


7 posted on 01/27/2012 8:37:21 PM PST by leenie312
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To: John Semmens
LOL, if he'd had his teleprompter, that's what he woulda said.
8 posted on 01/27/2012 8:37:32 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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shoot...I didn’t see it was satire..crap


9 posted on 01/27/2012 8:38:32 PM PST by leenie312
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To: John Semmens

It says, “semi-news/semi-satire”: I hope the latter but fear the former.


10 posted on 01/27/2012 8:38:40 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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O.K. I really need to not only look for the humor, but also know when it's written by John.......
11 posted on 01/27/2012 8:39:04 PM PST by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: John Semmens

Another good one John. Thanks for the ping.


12 posted on 01/27/2012 8:39:34 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: John Semmens

When did you move to nonfiction?


13 posted on 01/27/2012 8:39:43 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: John Semmens

LOL.. really does sound like what was on the abcdnc last night


14 posted on 01/27/2012 8:41:13 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: John Semmens
disrespect??? i got your disrespect right here...

15 posted on 01/27/2012 8:41:18 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: John Semmens

Got me! You’re good!


16 posted on 01/27/2012 8:41:38 PM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (We were born citizens. Now we are subjects. Currently on the path to become serfs.)
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“There are some elections officials in Georgia who’ve proven supremely irritating to the President.”

That one deserves a semi-news, semi-satire all its own! Endless possibilities with your clever mind.


17 posted on 01/27/2012 8:41:56 PM PST by EDINVA
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Nice work, John! You had me going right up to “...merely a governor of a relatively small and unimportant state.”


18 posted on 01/27/2012 8:47:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: John Semmens

LOL! It’s another one of those, “I can just hear Obama saying this!!” threads!


19 posted on 01/27/2012 8:48:46 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: John Semmens

I’m sorry she didn’t pee on his shoes!


20 posted on 01/27/2012 9:03:38 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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