We told you President Obama is a class act. In an interview with Diane Sawyer that will air this evening, the president said the media is blowing this whole thing out of proportion.

See what he had to say about Jan Brewer and her response to the encounter at Eurweb.com.

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In the past three, going on four years, you may have noticed something. President Obama can handle it. By it I mean everything his job as President of the United States entails and all the extra, unwarranted, latently or blatantly racist foolishness that goes with it.

Initially, I too became incensed when the President was openly disrespected. Listening to Rep. Joe Wilson call him a liar in the middle of his healthcare speech, watching as “birthers” and Donald Trump demanded that he produce his birth certificate after he was well into his first term, and seeing a protester interrupt his commencement speech at Notre Dame was enough to make my blood pressure rise. Not only would this have been disrespectful for any layperson to experience, but this inexcusable behavior was being directed at the President of the United States. A president the American people elected.

I couldn’t find solace in the situation until I read an article about the president and his mother in the New York Times. It was a very detailed piece, but the part that stuck out to me was this:

“After lunch, the group took a walk, with Barry running ahead. A flock of Indonesian children began lobbing rocks in his direction. They ducked behind a wall and shouted racial epithets. He seemed unfazed, dancing around as though playing dodge ball “with unseen players,” Bryant said. Ann [his mother] did not react. Assuming she must not have understood the words, Bryant offered to intervene. “No, he’s O.K.,” Ann said. “He’s used to it.”

Reading that paragraph was my “aha moment.” After that article, I came to understand, with calming clarity, that President Obama was meant for this. Not only was he meant for it, he is capable of handling the pressures, the criticisms, the racism and the outright disrespect that comes with it.

But notice I said he can handle it; I, on the other hand, cannot.

Even though I continuously refer to that paragraph to keep myself from popping a blood vessel, incidences like yesterday’s exchange on an Arizona tarmac send me spiraling down that dark hole.

I woke up this morning to news that yet another form of disrespect had been hurled at the president, this time from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.

The president and Brewer already have a rocky relationship because of a book she wrote. In it she says that the president lectured her when she met with him to discuss the Arizona immigration law in 2010.

Yet, Brewer asked to meet with him again and a white house official said: “He’d be glad to meet with her again, but did note that after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book.”

As far as we know there is no record of their conversation on the tarmac yesterday, but Brewer and reports mention that her book might have been the point of contention.

Fine, whatever. What gets me about the whole thing is what Brewer said to reporters:

“I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had, because I was there to welcome him.”

I don’t know about you but I’m not feeling how this image of Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer seemingly telling Obama off shortly after arriving in the Western state is headlining media news around the nation. For one, it seems that folks are getting a little too giddy about the fact that Obama appears to be disrespected by a subordinate. I also have an issue with the Governess thinking she can get away with sticking a finger in the President’s face in such a public way. You don’t have to be from the hood to know that putting a finger in someone’s face is the ultimate sign of disrespect.

Brewer’s confrontation was allegedly sparked by her sentiments on illegal immigration, which clashes with those of the President.

According to USA Today, Brewer told reporters that the President was “a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt.”

In her book, Brewer claims that during a meeting about illegal immigration in 2010, the President was patronizing and lectured her like a “kid in a classroom.”

Although Brewer has reacted to the above photo and has stated that she would never disrespect the President of The United States, the saying “a picture speaks a thousand words” rings true here. The Governor certainly needs to work on her body language because obviously there’s some subconscious ish going on right here.

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(CNN) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer made clear Tuesday she’s not worried about a potential legal challenge from the Obama administration over her state’s controversial immigration law. “We’ll meet you in court,” Brewer told CNN’ when asked how she would respond if President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice decided to challenge the law. “I have a pretty good record of winning in court.” The American Civil Liberties Union is currently leading a court challenge. Attorney General Eric Holder, who met with a delegation of police chiefs from Arizona and elsewhere this week to discuss the law, has yet to indicate whether the federal government would file a legal challenge.

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