Obama tangles with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer over immigration book
By David Nakamura

PHOENIX — President Obama is used to tangling with Republicans in Congress. Last Wednesday, he sparred with one on a tarmac.

Arriving in this Southwestern city on the second stop of his post-State of the Union tour, Obama descended the stairs of Air Force One and was greeted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who was among the local politicians waiting for him in a customary receiving line.

Such moments are designed photo ops designed to burnish the image of the president and the politicians. This time, it quickly turned into a dust-up in the desert.

Brewer attempted to hand Obama a letter, which she later told reporters was an invitation to sit down with her to discuss “Arizona’s comeback” and to tour the U.S.-Mexican border with her.

   Ugly Witch — Governor Jan Brewer [ READ MORE ABOUT JAN BREWER AND APARTHEID ARIZONA ]

“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another,” Brewer said later. “Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country.”

That’s when things went sour. Obama and Brewer engaged in what reporters described as an “intense exchange,” with the Republican governor pointing her finger at the president and the two appearing to talk over each other.

The exchange ended when Obama abruptly walked away as Brewer appeared to still be speaking, according to a summary provided by reporters in the press pool that shadows the president on his trips.

Asked about the conversation, Brewer told the reporters that Obama was “a little disturbed” about her book, “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure the Border.” [ READ MORE ] [ MORE HERE ]

De-legitimizing ‘Black’ Obama: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Says Obama ‘Threatened’ Her!

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Obama Gets into a Weird Argument With a Weird Governor – ‘Apartheid’ Arizona’s Jan Brewer (P1/2)

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Meanwhile, El Commandante Fidel Castro last week said — the GOP race for nomination “is idiocy, ignorance.” The Republican presidential race is “the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote in an opinion piece on las Wednesday.

Castro made his comments in his latest column of “reflections” on a Cuban government website, attacking the Republican candidates two days after their debate in Florida.

Castro was reponding to the comments that Romney and Newt Gingrich made about what they would do if he died.

Romney said he would “thank heavens” Castro had “returned to his maker,” while Gingrich said, “I don’t think Fidel’s going to meet his maker. I think he’s going to go to the other place.” — [ READ MORE ]

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Conservatives jumped and screamed with Joy yesterday when a right-wing federal judge Sharon Blackburn — upheld most of the provisions of the racist, racial profiling immigration law in Alabama. The law, which, among other things, makes it illegal to knowingly give an undocumented immigrant a ride, also requires schools to check students’ immigration status.

Alabama’s H.B. 56, is draconian, worse than those already passed by Apartheid Arizona, Georgia and Indiana. There are also provisions making it a crime for an undocumented immigrant to apply for or perform work, making it a crime to conceal or harbor an undocumented immigrant, and barring employers from failing to hire a U.S. citizen while employing an undocumented worker.

As explained in the video below, the law “drips with racism.”

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PLAYLIST: Apartheid Republican States in The U.S.

Fox Nation Screamed: “Holder Loses: Court Upholds Alabama Immigration Law,” while the hoodlums at WorldNet Daily exulted — STUPIDLY comparing opponents of the law to Civil War-era slave owners who opposed emancipation. [ READ MORE ] | WND’s Vox Day likened “Mass Invasion” Of U.S. By “Mexicans And Others” To Nazi Invasion Of Europe.

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Fox’s Megyn Kelly: Judge’s Ruling On Alabama Immigration Law “Is A Victory” For AL

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Currents’s Keith Olbermann labels — the College Republicans at UC Berkeley as WORSE; the heckler at President Obama’s fundraiser in Los Angeles as WORSER; and Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., as the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD for Sept. 27, 2011.

Joe Arpaio is the sheriff of Maricopa County in “Apartheid” Arizona. A filthy bigot and a racist anti-immigrant zealot. He’s also notorious for his harsh treatment of mostly Latino immigrants.

Arpaio also commands a “birther posse” “looking for President Obama’s birth certificate.”

In a recent interview with a local news station KNXV-TV of Phoenix, Arpaio was asked “why” he is “racist against Latinos.”

Apartheid Joe responded: “Well, I’m not going to get into my personal life, and grandkids and daughter in laws.”

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   By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
John McCain said there was ‘substantial evidence‘ linking wildfires in Arizona to illegal immigrants. The Arizona senator accuses Mexican immigrants of starting wildfires, but he is fanning the flames himself – of prejudice.

Does it surprise anyone that Arizona Senator John McCain has blamed undocumented immigrants for the wildfires in his state?

Hard economic times drives desperate people to do desperate things. Throw in the subject of immigration and a little bit of xenophobia … and shazzam! You have the recipe for a political ideology: blame the Mexicans! Send that recipe into Arizona and you have the perfect storm:

•   Uneducated and unable to find a [high-paying] job? Blame the Mexicans.

•   Social security and Medicare going broke? Yup, it’s the Mexicans.

•   Terrorism in the Middle East has you up at night? Blame the Mexicans for your insomnia, send troops and wall the US-Mexico border.

•   Crime, drug usage and communicable diseases on the rise? You know the answer.

Blaming Mexicans, or “illegal aliens”, is a tradition here; and in Georgia and Alabama, too … the whole country, really. Last year, McCain claimed that “illegal aliens” were intentionally causing accidents on freeways.

McCain’s charges read like comedy but here in Arizona, immigration is serious business – and so is scapegoating. It is [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio country, where racial profiling is American as apple pie. It is this state that gave us SB 1070 – based in large part on the unproven allegation that Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was killed by “illegal aliens”. Amazingly, another whopper was conjured up one week after SB 1070 was signed – that a Pinal County sheriff’s deputy had been shot by Mexican drug smugglers (the incident was self-inflicted). And two weeks before SB 1070 was set to go into effect, Governor Jan Brewer began to warn people about finding headless bodies in the Arizona desert. But the fantastical tales don’t end there: in this state, it’s not even that Mexican migrants are falsely blamed for real problems; they are also blamed for invented problems. Dana Milbank from the Washington Post writes about this:

“Border violence on the rise? Phoenix becoming the world’s No 2 kidnapping capital? Illegal immigrants responsible for most police killings? The majority of those crossing the border are drug mules? All wrong.”

Per the FBI, we know that the border region is safer than it was a decade ago, and that many of the safest US cities are along the US-Mexico border. But when it comes to fueling xenophobia in this country, facts never get in the way.

For example, Tucson’s highly successful Mexican American Studies programme is on the verge of being eliminated because our current attorney general, Tom Horne, has long maintained that the classes foment revolution (“Viva Che!”). A recent independent audit found all the charges against the programme to be false.

“Illegal aliens” causing Arizona wildfires? While the US Forest Service has made no such claim, McCain and his ideological supporters would have us accept his speculation as fact. What’s next? Blaming Mexicans for increased sun spot activity?

Reckless ‘Psycho Talk‘: 2008 Loser John McCain Blames Immigrants For Arizona Wildfires

Playlist: ‘Apartheid’ States in The U.S.

Playlist: American Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia

Playlist: American Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia — Immigrants For Sale

Aliens vs. Senator: Puppet John McCain blames illegal immigrants for starting the wildfires in Arizona, hiding his remote and taking his reading glasses.

“Sen. John McCain said today that he’s ‘not sure what all this controversy is about’ surrounding his unsubstantiated claim that illegal immigrants caused some of the wildfires raging across eastern Arizona.

Cochise Co. ‘Sheriff Larry Dever will tell you that the Monument Fire was started when the park, the forest was closed. So anyone who was in there is illegal,’ McCain said in an interview on ‘Good Morning America.’” — ABC.News

Racists have blamed undocumented workers for increasing crime rates, drug trafficking and crowded schools, but this is the first time anyone, let alone a respected politician, has blamed immigrants for wildfires.

McCain attempted to glibly dismiss the controversy by saying “The fire was started when the forest was closed. So anyone who was in there is illegal.” McCain is being disingenuous, he knows that he was referring to undocumented workers, and not to citizens who were camping illegally.

Pardon the pun, but McCain’s words are inflammatory and reprehensible. As a political leader McCain should be focusing his energy on helping the victims of the fire, instead of scapegoating hardworking and law-abiding undocumented workers.

I have my opinion, but I will leave it to my readers to decide if McCain is senile or a racist.

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Reckless ‘Psycho Talk‘: 2008 Loser John McCain Blames Immigrants For Arizona Wildfires

Playlist: ‘Apartheid’ States in The U.S.

Playlist: American Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia

Playlist: American Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia — Immigrants For Sale