Mesa Mayor Contradicts Brewer Account Of Obama Meeting

Mesa, AZ Mayor Scott Smith says President Obama didn’t walk away from Governor Jan Brewer when they met on an airport tarmac, in contrast to what the governor claimed.

…the mayor said he was standing right next to the governor when the exchange took place and Obama didn’t seem to be in any kind of hurry to leave.

“There was no sense that he was running to or from anything,” Smith told TPM. In fact, he said, the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with Smith, who’s a Republican, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat.

It was “just the four of us,” Smith said. “Mayor Stanton and I had a decent talk with him.”

The portrayal of a calm, friendly president seems to at least partly contradict what Brewer has said about the encounter in numerous interviews since Wednesday afternoon. She described the president as “tense” and said he walked away from her while she was in mid-sentence. She told a Phoenix television station she felt “a little bit threatened” by the encounter.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.