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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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