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The least that any governor owes any president is respect.

It’s more than that. The least any PERSON owes any other person is respect.

Imagine what Republicans would have said if what occured at the Mesa airport between Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama had taken place between Gov. Janet Napolitano and President George W. Bush.

Can you imagine the explosions of rhetoric from our U.S. Senators and our Republicans in the House if there was a photograph of Napolitano wagging a finger at Bush?

The condemnation would have been overwhelming.

And justified.

The governor wasn’t at the airport greeting the president on behalf of herself. She was there representing ALL of us. Right, left and middle. Young and old. Men and women.

A simple “Welcome to Arizona, let me know if there’s anything we can do for you,” would have sufficed.

A lecture, an argument, a confrontation of any kind shows disrespect for the office. Not just for the person who holds it.

The governor should be embarrassed.

We all might have different views on politics. But we know good manners, and bad ones, when we see them.

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Arizona Republic columnist EJ MONTINI, regarding governor Jan Brewer’s disgraceful, impolitic behavior to the President yesterday.

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Yep.

Gottdambit THIS. 

I’m happy this newspaper is taking their governor to task.

She owes not just President Obama a personal apology,  but she owes the White House an apology and the People of Arizona one as well, for embarrassing them like that

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Damn, I’m surprised an AZ reporter actually wrote something on the side of this POTUS.  I’m sure dude is fired-ass-fired now for saying we need to actually RESPECT the darkie in the Oval Office.

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All of this shit. It really goes to show that no matter how far we go in life, and no matter how much respect we are actually due, or actually earn if you want to look at it that way, we will likely never, ever get it. Not really.

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Nope. A Black man makes it to POTUS after 500 years of Black people being treated like sub-human shit, and still only gets to be treated like a second-class citizen at best.

The fucked up thing is, he gets more respect outside of the country than in the one he’s leading! And white people love to say that “it’s not because he’s Black, it’s because of his policies”. Then explain why Bush got so much respect despite his policies getting us into this shithole in the first place? If you said so much as a single word against Bush you were deemed unpatriotic. Yes, in his latter days as POTUS, he was lampooned a lot, but during his two terms, when he was fucking everything up, nobody treated him with nearly as much disrespect as Obama got both before and after he became POTUS.

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No one, NO ONE, would have dared to wag a finger at Bush, even at the height of his unpopularity, because that is simply something you DO NOT DO.  But if the person in the White House isn’t, y’know, WHITE, we are apparently no longer expected to respect the occupant of a 223 year old office.

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