 McCain: Brewer fight shows Obama’s ‘prickly personality’ 
 
 By Daniel Strauss - 
 
 Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) seemed unsurprised by President Obama’s reported tense exchange with Arizona Gov. I think it’s a very legitimate concern.” 
 
 Obama got into an argument on the tarmac with Brewer after Air Force One landed in Arizona on Wednesday. “The president 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,” the White House said in a statement. Doug Luzader of Fox News summarized the logical speculation nicely Thursday morning when he stressed that we don’t know what they said, but that “it looks like she’s giving him the business.” 
 
 Luzader’s colleagues, unsurprisingly, aren’t leaving it at that. From the summary reports we’ve heard, the disagreeable part of the conversation between Brewer and Obama concerned a book in which she said he had treated her condescendingly during a meeting at the White House. She says he was annoyed and that she told him sorry, that’s how she felt. Both sides tried to downplay the idea this was some sort of major verbal food fight. As I write this, her Amazon ranking is #177. “But after a few minutes, the president’s tone got serious – and condescending.” 
 
 You can see what’s going on here.
– John McCain thinks President Obama's tarmac spat with Arizona's Jan Brewer is proof that he's got a "prickly personality." He told Fox today that Obama got into a similar tiff with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, notes the Hill. "It is very well-known (that Obama) has a prickly personality, and I think it has been displayed in both of those cases.” At Forbes, John McQuaid says the encounter could pay off for Brewer because in these days of declining political decorum, "spats are good for business." Indeed, sales of Brewer's book, Scorpions for Breakfast, already are doing better, notes Mediaite. According to Amazon's stats, it's the second-fastest mover on the charts in the last 24 hours. It was ranked at No. 56 about 2pm EST, up from 177 when McQuaid wrote his Forbes post this morning. At the Daily News, David Hinckley loves that there's no video of the encounter, a rarity these days, which makes it kind of fun to "fill in the blanks."