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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 932771" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]<a href="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/01/27/obama-cant-handle-the-truth-just-ask-gov-brewer/" target="_blank">Obama Can’t Handle the Truth (Just Ask Gov. Brewer)</a>[/h]President Barack Obama has a problem, a problem much bigger than his&nbsp; plummeting poll numbers among black voters, the ever-worsening housing&nbsp; market, or the chronically high national unemployment numbers. Although&nbsp; these are all bad and must be weighing down on him—whether he admits it&nbsp; or not—they are minor compared to his deeper problem, which is his&nbsp; inability to handle criticism, his inability to handle the truth.We first saw this when Obama was starting to run for president and he&nbsp; put reporters “on notice” regarding comments about the size of his ears.&nbsp; Since then we’ve seen it in the way he locks out reporters who ask hard&nbsp; questions and, most recently, in the way he appears to have lodged a&nbsp; complaint with Gov. Jan Brewer regarding her criticism of the way he has&nbsp; gone to war with Arizona to keep that state from defending its southern&nbsp; border.If you’ll recall, in December 2006, after New York Times’ reporter Maureen Dowd had written about how Obama’s “<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200612150012" target="_blank">ears </a>stick&nbsp; out,” Obama tracked her down at a speaking engagement and said: “I just&nbsp; want to put you on notice. I’m very sensitive,” adding, “I was teased&nbsp; relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.” (Rush Limbaugh was&nbsp; then criticized for seizing on that comment and warning people that it&nbsp; demonstrated Obama’s skin was too thin for the rigors of the presidency.&nbsp; And in retrospect, Limbaugh was right.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 932771, member: 12952"] [h=1][URL="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2012/01/27/obama-cant-handle-the-truth-just-ask-gov-brewer/"]Obama Can’t Handle the Truth (Just Ask Gov. Brewer)[/URL][/h]President Barack Obama has a problem, a problem much bigger than his plummeting poll numbers among black voters, the ever-worsening housing market, or the chronically high national unemployment numbers. Although these are all bad and must be weighing down on him—whether he admits it or not—they are minor compared to his deeper problem, which is his inability to handle criticism, his inability to handle the truth. We first saw this when Obama was starting to run for president and he put reporters “on notice” regarding comments about the size of his ears. Since then we’ve seen it in the way he locks out reporters who ask hard questions and, most recently, in the way he appears to have lodged a complaint with Gov. Jan Brewer regarding her criticism of the way he has gone to war with Arizona to keep that state from defending its southern border. If you’ll recall, in December 2006, after New York Times’ reporter Maureen Dowd had written about how Obama’s “[URL="http://mediamatters.org/research/200612150012"]ears [/URL]stick out,” Obama tracked her down at a speaking engagement and said: “I just want to put you on notice. I’m very sensitive,” adding, “I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.” (Rush Limbaugh was then criticized for seizing on that comment and warning people that it demonstrated Obama’s skin was too thin for the rigors of the presidency. And in retrospect, Limbaugh was right.) [/QUOTE]

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