I've been a little too busy at work lately and haven't kept up my posting.
But there's one news item that I want to go back to that happened a couple of weeks ago. It's when Arizona governor Jan Brewer apparently got into it a bit with President Obama on the tarmac in Phoenix.
The truth is that I know nearly nothing about Governor Brewer. I know she's the Governor and I know she's a woman and that's it. I have no idea what her political persuasion is or what party she is affiliated with. And I really don't care.
But from reading news reports she was pretty upset with the President over what she perceived as some less than cordial treatment in a previous Oval office meeting. At least that was the way she described it in a book she published. Apparently the President didn't care much about what she had written and in their meeting on the tarmac he let her know that.
I don't know who is right or wrong in the dust-up but one item that really seemed to ring true with me was the Governor's description in news reports about the Oval office meeting:
"I felt a little bit like I was being lectured to, and I was a little kid in a classroom, if you will, and he was this wise professor and I was this little kid, and this little kid knows what the problem is and I felt minimized to say the least."
That rang true to me because that is exactly the way I feel when I watch the President's speeches and interviews. And that's been true for me for some time. So I think I can understand why the Governor feels that way.
Maybe it's only my perception instead of reality. But it's my reality. It offends me so much that I don't watch him anymore unless it's a special situation like his 60 Minutes interview after the Bin Laden killing (which I give him credit for a very gutsy decision).
Full disclosure: that wasn't an issue for me with his predecessor because Bush III didn't have the communication skills to convince anyone that he was as smart or smarter than they were. Of course Ronald Reagan was the Presidential master communicator. He could make everyone from foreign leaders to the man on street to think they were listening to their friendly grandfather speak.
I think that the President could benefit from changing his tone. If he gets rid of the attitude I think he can win re-election fairly easy over what appears at this time to be some rather weak opponents.
And I'm not even speaking as a wise professor.
January 31, 2012 in
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God help us if Obama wins again - say goodby to the USA as the baby boomers know it.
Posted by: Katherine at Jan 31, 2012 1:08:18 PM
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