GROW UP – AT 8:39 A.M. ET:  Someone once wrote of Harry Truman that "he did the biggest things in the biggest ways and the littlest things in the littlest ways."

It was those big things we remember, which is why Harry is now regarded as a great or near-great president.

But Obama does Truman one better.  Obama does both the biggest things and the littlest things in the littlest ways.  I mean, do you get this one, from Fox?

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer had what was described as an intense encounter on the tarmac after the president arrived in the Grand Canyon state on Wednesday.

Brewer greeted the president as he arrived off Air Force One, as governors often do when the president visits a state, and handed him a letter that she described as a “welcome” note to the state, and an invitation to talk about a comeback for her state.

"He immediately took umbrage, if you will with my book, 'Scorpions for Breakfast,' and was somewhat disgruntled, if you will, by the way he was portrayed," Brewer later told Fox News in an interview with Greta Van Susteren. "He's very thin-skinned."

And...

Reporters who witnessed the exchange Wednesday more closely described that the two spoke “intensely” and chatted longer than the typical meet and greet on the runway. The pool report also says Brewer was pointing her finger at him at one point and they seemed to also being talking over one another in another instance. Obama also appears to be walking away from her while they were still talking, and she later said she didn’t finish her sentence in the exchange.

COMMENT:  This is what's on Obama's mind?  He doesn't like the way he was portrayed?  So he confronts a governor on the tarmac? 

The president of the United States has risen to the level of a student government leader.  Maybe that's progress.

January 26,  2012