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Obama on Vegas: 'I love this town'
The Hill ^
Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 12:51:01 PM by Sub-Driver
Obama on Vegas: 'I love this town' By Eric Zimmermann - 07/09/10 11:51 AM ET
President Barack Obama did his best to make nice with Las Vegas on Friday after a perceived snub of the city in 2009.
"Let me just say how nice it is to get out of Washington and come back to Las Vegas," Obama said while campaigning for Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the city.
"I love this town. Maybe not as much as my staff. For some reason, every time we come here, Air Force One is always a little more crowded. I have no idea why," he joked.
Obama angered Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman in 2009 by holding up the city as an example of excess.
"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," Obama warned executives of companies that received bailout funds.
Goodman demanded an apology, claiming Obama was tarnishing his city.
The president never apologized, and while Goodman says he doesn't "hold any grudges," he declined to meet with the president while he was in town, citing a scheduling conflict.
"I checked my schedule; it was full," Goodman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "I'm meeting with Wayne Newton at 5 — that has been set up for over a week."
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What a joke. His economic policies have about the same chance of working as throwing the dice.
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dems giving money to pals while throw debt on taxpayer/deficit
lets kick em out
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he's 100% correct... no fcking way shuld any CEO ever be blowing our $ in vegas.
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I don't see why Obama should/would have to apologize. He made a statement of truth. Excess when spending public money should not be tolerated. Las Vegas is the city of excess. No one goes there to have a 'cheap' holiday. You go because it's kick ass to gamble and drink and hang. It's all about excess and the mayor is a tool if he thinks it's 'tarnished' his city. What does he think it's a 'family' city now? Give me a break, you go to get away fro your kids and watch single moms dance for cash.
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So he chastises honest, hard-working American citizens in Vegas and applauds the foreign President of Mexico's verbal assault on this country's citizens. Interesting.
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dems giving money to pals while throw debt on taxpayer/deficit
lets kick em out
I almost spit my food out reading this.
Its like a daily comedy routine from this admn.
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he's 100% correct... no fcking way shuld any CEO ever be blowing our $ in vegas.
Obama, your hero, needs to SSSTTFFUUU with his lecturing as he is the most irresponsible PPOOMMFFSS spending money of all time.
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Obama, your hero, needs to SSSTTFFUUU with his lecturing as he is the most irresponsible PPOOMMFFSS spending money of all time.
ah, I see.
So romney can't lecture obama on obamacare? ;)
palin can't lecture obama on cap/trade? ;)
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ah, I see.
So romney can't lecture obama on obamacare? ;)
palin can't lecture obama on cap/trade? ;)
Couldnt resist could you?
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ah, I see.
So romney can't lecture obama on obamacare? ;)
palin can't lecture obama on cap/trade? ;)
240 - are you voting ZERO in 2012?
Sure sounds like it.
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bam bam ran out of apologies on his world tour of apologies, to other nations.
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bam bam ran out of apologies on his world tour of apologies, to other nations.
This admn is such a joke its not funny.
How anyone other than the deluded dolts can believe a damn thing coming from Obama is beyond me.
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i'm voting repub if they don't run a trashy overconfident moron.
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This is what happens when you put a man in office who never had a job.
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i'm voting repub if they don't run a trashy overconfident moron.
whats the diff you voted for an arrogant overconfident moron the last election? ;)
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whats the diff you voted for an arrogant overconfident moron the last election? ;)
Bob barr isn't a moron.
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lol
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Michelle Obama, daughters visiting Las Vegas
Associated Press ^ | March 28, 2012
Posted on March 28, 2012 10:10:37 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
LAS VEGAS (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha are visiting Las Vegas after stopping in South Dakota on a family trip.
A spokeswoman for McCarran International Airport confirmed that the first lady was expected to arrive in Las Vegas Wednesday night.
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he's 100% correct... no fcking way shuld any CEO ever be blowing our $ in vegas.
Yet obama blew money in Vegas at a glitzy fundraiser as the embassy was in flames and 4 americans were being murdered. Congrats on your hero bro.