Outgoing Arizona Gov. Brewer calls Obama a "failed president"

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, stepping down after six years in office
where she was a perpetual thorn in the side of the Obama
administration, is leaving with a parting shot -- calling
President Obama a "failed president."

"He's been a very big disappointment to me," Brewer told Fox
News in an interview. "I think he has done things that certainly
we would never have expected any president to do -- by executive
order and because he says so."

Brewer has spent the last few years locked in legal battles with
the Obama administration and others, largely over provisions in
her state's strict immigration bill, SB1070.

Multiple times, the federal courts have rejected provisions in
the bill as unconstitutional. Even this week, just days before
leaving office, a federal court rejected Brewer's effort to deny
driver's licenses to young undocumented immigrants known as
"dreamers."

Brewer said her biggest disappointment during her tenure was not
getting the Arizona-Mexico border secured -- though she tried
with SB1070, which would have made it a crime for immigrants to
be in Arizona without the proper papers, before that too was
struck down.

Brewer, in the interview, rejected the criticism of those who
have called her a racist for supporting the bill.

"Those of us born and raised in the southwest are not racists,"
she insisted. "Those people are our neighbors. We go to church
with us. Their children go to school. They marry into our
families. This has nothing to do with racism. The bottom line is
the rule of law and what it is doing to our country."

As Brewer and her allies struggle to preserve the state's strict
immigration measures, Obama is charging ahead with his own
immigration policies, via executive action, to suspend
deportations and give work permits to potentially millions of
illegal immigrants.

Brewer is not letting up on her criticism of the president.

The governor made headlines in January 2012, when cameras caught
her wagging a finger in the president's face on an airport
tarmac.

Does she regret it?

"No, not really," she said. "He was not very nice to me that
day."

According to Brewer, the president had objected to her portrayal
of him as dismissive and patronizing in her book, "Scorpions for
Breakfast."

"He is very thin-skinned. He was very concerned about how I
portrayed him in my book," she said. "It was a truth-telling
book and we need our borders secure, and he walked away from me."

At the time, Obama downplayed the exchange, saying: "I think
it's always good publicity for a Republican if they're in an
argument with me. ... I think this is a classic example of
things getting blown out of proportion."

Brewer isn't a typical governor. She did not attend college and
worked as an apartment building superintendent, pumping toilets
and drains to put her husband through school. In 1982, she was
elected as a state representative. Later, she moved to the state
Senate and then Arizona secretary of state before taking the
governorship when Janet Napolitano left to become Obama's
secretary of homeland security.

As for her future, Brewer is a proven fundraiser and a good draw
on the speakers' circuit. It's likely some 2016 presidential
candidates will seek her support, allowing her to continue her
push for states' rights and laws limiting illegal immigration.

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