Las Vegas Mayor to Obama: ‘Your Comments are Harmful’ to the City

Does this surprise anyone. Obama ran all over the world and Europe claiming America Sucks during his campaign.

The 2 of you knock the President so sports do you support President Bush’s Wall St Bankers hooking in Vegas with your tax dollars or not? That be the issue not whether or not you support this President because frankly your rants are not on point…not now not ever.

The Mayor is a buffoon. The President was specifically referring to Companies receiving bail out funds. This voter absolutely agrees Companies getting bailed out have NO business holding junkets with taxpayer money bet it in Las Vegas or anywhere else. Too damn bad if that hurts biz in Vegas.

I need to search and find a picture of Goodman to see if he looks as stupid as he sounds.

Am I understanding this correctly?
A mob lawyer turned mayor is worried about stereotypes about Las Vegas?

Barack Obama has been in office for THREE WEEKS!. Give the guy a break.He’s giving money to his friends and family? PLEASE show me the evidence to support those remarks.
And he can’t fly on a regular airplane because of security.

dream: “Did Obama happen to CRITICIZE the House Democrats for their recent luxury week-end — paid by us taxpayers — at the Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va.?”
Right, because paying for Amtrak fare to a $119 a night “luxury resort” located a couple hours from the office is JUST THE SAME as flying hundreds of miles to Las Vegas’s casino strip. This sort of mindless equivalency is why Republicans have been such abject failures at leadership. Think!

Why is the story even being repeated and expanded? It’s petty and basically meaningless.

um, didn’t the city put up a bunch of dough for the “what happens in vegas…” campaign? “come here to party…wait, no, we take that back. we’re a serious city.” i’m suuuuuure a lot of “important business” gets done in sin city; what with all the lavish offerings (restaurante, ultra lounges, bars, GAMBLING, etc.); however, let’s not take the president’s comments out of context for the purpose of marketing a new image via demands for a public apology. good grief oscar goodman…

“Ryan you are dead wrong. It WAS taxpapyer money, they paid for their own rooms only.”
If they paid for their rooms, what taxpayer money was used?
And how can I be dead wrong if they paid for their rooms?

Wow, people are downright mean. People were not this mean to GWB until he completely messed up the country. The posters here are acting as though everything bad in the world is Obama’s fault when the guy has only held office since January 20th! I say judge later and in the meantime let’s hope for all our sake’s that our new president can help us to get out of this recession.

So you all are ragging about the cost of using Air Force One (which is exactly what is designed for — the use of the President), but you say nothing about the nearly $400,000+ that the Bushes spend on CHINA (the kind you eat on) just TWO WEEKS BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE.

non sense talk about some important

This is ridiculous. This mayor is an idiot. If he had said partying in England, like the execs from AIG were, would the Prince say, “Hey, that will affect tourism.” Any execs who party anywhere on tax dollars after asking for a bailout should be ashamed. Anywhere. Obama didn’t say people shouldn’t party in Vegas. Just companies that really have no business doing that with our tax dollars. I think this mayor did more damage speaking up than shutting up, in my opinion.
Lisa Lindo
National Admin for CAN

Palin who? for what?

“… so sports do you support President Bush’s Wall St Bankers hooking in Vegas with your tax dollars or not?
Posted by: Mr. Green Jeans | Feb 11, 2009 2:46:31 PM
Mr. Green, the bailout bill which the bankers used for the money to go to Vegas was written by democrats not by President Bush. Also the rules under which the banks got into this situation were sponsered by democrats starting under Carter. Now instead of spending money that could add to the econemy they add a big part which wont even start in the first two years. The democrats added money that they know that they could not get passed on its own if they tried.

ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT SINCE I’VE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE I’M FEELING MUCH BETTER.
Wake me up in 4 years when the Messiah has ascended back to Heaven.

Curly: “Also the rules under which the banks got into this situation were sponsered by democrats starting under Carter.”
While the Republican’s “The Buck Stops Over There” mantra never fails to amuse, it just doesn’t line up to the reality that they held power for so much of the past two decades and yet bear no responsibility. That you aver that absurdity suggests you really have no credibility whatsoever.

I don’t care about Air Force One, but I do care about 1 trillion taxpayer dollars. I don’t want to see our country go through the same thing Japan went through in the 90′s. They kept printing money until they owed three times their national income. They just got out of it after ten years of depression. Spending printed money is not the answer anymore then Government jobs. The economy is what’s bad and that’s what we need to fix, that takes premanent jobs so people can spend money they know they can replace. Not temporay jobs that are gone in 6 months until we print more money and hand it out.

“While the Republican’s “The Buck Stops Over There” mantra never fails to amuse, it just doesn’t line up to the reality that they held power for so much of the past two decades and yet bear no responsibility”
Hey don’t mess with the cognitive dissonance of touting personal responsibility while never taking it one’s self!

Ryan C: “And the public definitely pays for Obama’s use of Air Force One”
So?”
Let them complain. If they weren’t whining about a modest working weekend trip, they’d notice that Congress meets in a lavish domed building located in a prime down town location that, if Congress wasn’t so egotistical, would be rented out for weddings and office parties.
They would bitterly bemoan the cost of Portapotties if Congress started meeting in a parking lot… As my toddler daughter has taught me, sometimes throwing a fit IS the only cause.

Oh…the mayor needs to get over it. It has NOTHING to do with his city. Las Vegas has a life of its own and will make it through the tough times. HOWEVER, the fact that companies are overspending taxpayer dollars by going there and not properly cutting back is wrong, unethical, and hopefully one day illegal. This is the kind of stuff that got us where we are now and kudos to the Pres for making light of it!

I had to look twice. Is this the Fox Channel web site??
1. While I don’t personally agree with the bailout, Obama’s 900 billion certainly can’t do any less good than W’s 700 billion. Where did it go? what did it do? How many jobs were saved? Are you now able to get a loan any easier than you could in November. 700 billion. Flushed down the toilet. Gone.
2. You claim that Obama has a really odd compilation of friends. Welfare recipients and billionaire bankers??? Must make for odd parties at the Obama house.
3. I’ve been to Kingsmill in Williamsburg in the dead of winter. It ain’t no picnic. It sure ain’t the Bellagio.
4. Other than the Virginia Lottery, there’s no gambling in Williamsburg. And I’m pretty sure all the hookers fly south for the winter.
5. Umm hello. He flies on Air Force One. He’s the President. It’s what he does.
You people need to get a grip. Give the man a chance, if he screws up, you can always run around chanting “told you so, told you so”. Even so, no matter what he does or how bad he is. Even if we out do Cuba as far as Communism, it can’t be as bad as the last 8 years.
W fact of the day. Did you know the last president spent more than 2 1/2 of his 8 years in office ON VACATION?? Look it up. Between Texas and Camp David, the man spent 977 days between the two places!! The average American won’t get that much vacation during their lifetime let alone in just 8 years. How can somebody work so little and screw up so much??

Frank W,
the Japanese experience did not work because their economy is very different from ours.
Our economy is driven by the consumer but the Japanes economy is nothing close to that. In this hard times it is only government that can afford to spend and so thats the best way forward.
90% of the jobs that will be created goes to the private sector.

mayor of Las Vegas is trying to make news out of nothing. got some press and thats what he wanted. dont be manipulated.
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Why do some in the press give this joker attention?

>>>> Wake me up in 4 years when the Messiah has ascended back to Heaven.
If by “messiah,” you mean anyone who has actually agrees to try to do something to improve this country’s economic lot, feel free to use the word. I’ve just never heard it used in that context before.
As for waking you, I doubt after the last eight years, there is little that could wake you period.

“Well, I also don’t know how members of Congress can excuse granting themselves a pay raise when — according to Obama — we are headed for “catastrophe,” economically speaking.”
The House has moved to block the COLA (Cost of living adjustment raises) in 2010. The last time the COLA was blocked was 2007.
The Senate has to do so separately.

For a city that markets itself with a slogan, “What goes on here, stays here,” the Mayor seems to be talking out both sides of his mouth.

Hey Norm – how can you spend money on “tax cuts”?
Don’t be so blind, read the “stimulus” package before you so blindly follow Mr. Obama’s “plan”.
I sure hope you’re not expecting a “stimulus” check, he cut those out.

For those who constantly want to bash ex-presidents, get your facts straight. The $700 billion bailout was passed by a democratic controlled congress. Presidents don’t write or pass legislation.

Swift move mayor. Insult the President and by extension alienate his supporters. If you’re goal was to promote tourism, you failed.

Congress will skip the pay raise NEXT year (for 2010), but …
“Last month [Jan. 2009], members of Congress received a 2.8 percent pay raise, boosting their salaries to $174,000. The raises go into effect every January, unless they vote to reject it.”

Curly, where is Moe and Larry?
How wonderful of you to give me a civics lesson sport. Love folks who use selective memory and incomplete history to make a point as sharp as their own head.
The bailout was requested by none other than W, Paulson and Bernake…are you familar with those names sport? Some of us would prefer to forget them but we cannot.

Oh please…Our new president hasn’t even been in office 2 months, and has inherited an enormous, nearly unprecedented economic challenge, and this stupid, myopic criticism coming from the LV mayor is ridiculous. The point is, private (non-government) enterprises have asked for taxpayer money, claiming they need it to survive. We as taxpayers are not normally obligated to fund these companies. Since we are agreeing to bail them out, it’s logical that our president (and many taxpayers) would view expensive retreats and big bonuses as inappropriate, wasteful expenditures by companies claiming to be on the edge of ruin. Big bonuses are payment for great performance and shouldn’t be paid to company officers when a company is asking for a bailout. I am self-employed, and if I have a good year, I take a big vacation–and if I have a bad year, I don’t expect to still take a big vacation and buy a new wardrobe. It seems that Obama expects accountability and responsibility if he’s promising private companies taxpayer’s money–and I have no complaints about that. These are for many people disastrous economic times. I hope the LV mayor can stop being so short-sighted and wake up to that fact, and the bigger message–You don’t carry on with business as usual, big spending as usual when you are asking for public assistance, whether you are an individual or a company.

My apologies for mis-keying “politcian” as “politicion” – in case anyone was bothered.

All these comments really only shows that the only people who can call themselves “Americans” are probably the moderates. The rest are just Republicans or Democrats. Sad that this is what the United States of America have become. Devided WE stand.

Ramm
You are right you do not have an MBA, nor even at this late date an understanding of what happened and when. You are right you are probably better off the grid.

Health care provisions should NOT be part of the stimulus legislation. We need to think long and hard about such changes and not be threatened with catastrophe so as to scare us into making decisions that will cause the DEATHS OF AMERICANS.
Yes, I am indeed shouting at the top of my lungs.
People will die under this stimulus bill that otherwise would have lived.

I think Obama accidently forgot to mention during his new stump speeches–that 75% of us do not want banks nationalized.
Ouch…And Schumer thinks we don’t care.

Ive been to kingsmill, my parents own a timeshare through fair share or interval international
it is not a “luxury resort and spa” my parents income has never exceeded 70 000
in a year combined
when you say luxury resort and spa I imagine something outside of a construction workers price range
the resort is nice don’t get me wrong
but its a pile of condos with a small clubhouse where you can play pool and a pool where you can play swimming
as far as I know there is no spa but I haven’t been there in a couple years.
when I say condos I hope you picture hotel rooms cause thats what ours was like when we went

What the mayor doesn’t seem to realize is that when these bank executives go on a junket to Las Vegas, they stay in the penthouses at the most expensive hotels with all the luxuries money can buy. It isn’t a 3-day weekend economy deal most people go on. To use the taxpayers money to wine and dine themselves in luxury playgrounds while they are laying off employees and cutting wages is inexcuseable. The President very obviously was not referring to these people going to Vegas for business meetings but for “fun and costly games”. I think, we the people, know the difference.

I just love it when some posters, here, assume because I am against some of the current wasteful spending that I approved of the obscene waste of spending in Iraq.
I didn’t … and I don’t.
So, go suck on a lemon.

Furthermore . . .
Obama didn’t just fly in from Mars on inauguration day … he had been IN the U.S. senate for FOUR YEARS when all of this was happening … but he did NOTHING to alert others to the developing crisis or to deal with the impending “catastrophe” (as he is so wont to call it now). But Obama was silent on the crisis for all of his FOUR YEARS in the U.S. senate.
Obama didn’t want to have responsibility for anything, so he kept a low profile in the U.S. senate and did and said NOTHING.
Obama can say he inherited this mess, but he cannot say he wasn’t in a position to do anything about it — he was in the freakin’ senate for the past FOUR YEARS.
Obama has been “enabled” enough — it is time, right now, to start holding him accountable for his actions, inactions, and especially his fear-mongering and his anger at us for not bending to his will without complaint or question.

What a sensitive nation we have become! Mr. Mayor, we need jobs and our banks sound. Budgets are drained and many have no jobs left. Why do we have to holiday anywhere at this time on the tax payers back? Companies that are sound will still and have a right to visit your fine city. Companies that are on the tax payers dollar should be protecting their employees and foregoing these trips. And what is more sir, you know that!!

This mayor is total moron, and he apparently thinks corporations SHOULD be using tax money to go to Vegas.
Idiot.

My wife and I are in Las Vegas right now and so are members of Federal Government (VA for one)… they are having a “convention/meeting” here now. One person said it was the 1st time in 20 years with the VA that she’d gotten to go on one of these.
My only disagreement with Obama is that if the people that take Government money shouldn’t take junkets on Taxpayer money neither should the government.

Las Vegas has workers here, too, that rely on convention business. No one has seemed to notice that Las Vegas has been taking conventions away from Chicago, Obama’s city. Is Obama redirecting business back to Chicago?
One Smart Guy.

Unbelievable – first of all the TARP money wasn’t supposed to go to banks which needed it but rather to healthy banks to add liquidity. That was back when we thought both Citi and BofA were healthy. Wells Fargo isn’t planning trips while laying people off – as far as I have heard they haven’t been laying people off. Thirdly, the so called junket wasn’t for executives, it was for the worker-bees who man the phones in the mortgage offices and fix the computers – they earned the trip through a recognition system that has been in place within the company for 20 years and from what I’ve heard they weren’t staying in the penthouse. It’s maddening to read garbage jounalism but even more frustrating when intelligent thinking people buy into that junk. Did anyone ever tell you not to believe everything you read?

Since we’re writing letters now:
Dear Mayor Goodman,
As a citizen of (insert expletive of choice here) Las Vegas who owns a home that is worth less than what I paid for it one year ago, sends my children to a struggling public school system that also is rated as one of the poorest in the country, is married to someone directly affected by the budget cuts slicing salaries up for state employees, who also works with the little guys that own businesses all over Las Vegas ( thus my business is directly affected because they are all struggling), and just happens to also pay taxes…I would just like to point out that I believe you have bigger issues concerning you besides sitting down to write a post it note, yet alone two page letters.
Obama was asking for accountability and responsibility from those standing in the bread line asking for a hand out to save their rears! (Are you really that much of an idiot, or was this just an attempt to save a burned out political career as you bide your time?)You’re not winning my vote, might I add, nor would you ever.
I work with businesses every day that can’t get the money they need to do business because the banks have all but shut down on them ( we’re talking about people with credit here!) These business owners, and the people doing business with them,( I realize this includes some of those people that are losing their jobs in the casinos) generate far more revenue for the state than any one time junket on my dime ever will.
We live here 24/7, 365 days a year. We go to movies, and bowl at those casinos because we have to, there is virtually no where else to go to engage in leisure activities. We bet on games in the sports books, drink at the bars, and eat at the restaurants. We spend money in the shops, and in the slot machines. We shop locally and put money back into the pockets of the community, as well as big business ( the kind of big business that dominates the strip) Our families and friends make up a good portion of the tourism industry when they come to visit US and throw money in both directions as well. There are nearly 2,000,000 people living and spending money in Las Vegas every day! WE bring people here. WE spend money here. WE keep this city alive, and WE will find a way to survive. It’s NOT ALL JUST CONVENTIONS! One or two big whales pales in comparison to an ocean of fish and one companies junket, or two corporate meetings here and there(when they are robbing from Peter and not paying Paul, anyway) is not going to bankrupt Las Vegas or send us into a tail spin. If this is what will be…it would have been anyway…need I go back to the whale/fish analogy for you?
Sure, it feels a bit like a rumbling empty tumble consuming itself to hear “LAS VEGAS” come out of President Obamas mouth, like the dirty word we keep asking to be…because coming out of the feast that was 2004-2006, right now it feels like barron third world desert famine, and when starving, a grain of rice seems worth fighting to death for! Really, let’s step back a moment and really assess a bad situation…because in comparison to other places in the world…we’re not that bad off just yet. ( However this kind of knee jerk reaction and failure to focus on long term solutions and the reality of the issue, will put us in more dire straits, surely) But it’s not going to fulfill the rumbling tummy, Mr. Mayor!
As far as I’m concerned Wells Fargo (or anyone else for that matter) shouldn’t be spending my money ANYWHERE (my feelings about this extend toward the government as well)! They should be working toward getting our credit lines opened back up and be responsible and accountable to “we the people” that are bailing them out…just as they ask their debtors to be responsible and accountable for monies they lend. The way I see it…THEY ARE MY DEBTOR NOW! I want an agreement for repayment, and responsibility with my collateral (taxes) just as they do, and I want consequences when they default on that agreement!
Las Vegas was in trouble long before this! Bad decisions by greedy business men/or women…and Mayor Goodman, I would say you are at the top of that list (let’s be honest with ourselves about this! We are all in the positions we’re in… mostly because we spent money we didn’t have on that in which we did not need) So what happens now? The bottom falls out and we all suffer! So what do we do? We’re going to have to tighten the buckle up a bit. Time to run a bit leaner and meaner. Excess no longer makes sense, Mayor Goodman! For me, for you, for us, for “them”! It’s global and it’s coming down on all of us from Las Vegas to small town Iowa. How selfish and narcissistic of you to fixate on and exploit the mention of our city when it was simply used as an example for a much larger principle!
Our tax dollars are being given to those who didn’t know how to handle themselves appropriately in the first place…why should I think giving them more money is going to “stimulate” the second time around, and save us all, when all it did the first time around was “enable”? I don’t! Especially when it’s being spent on EXCESS!
Let’s get to the heart of the matter and ask for your accountability and responsibility to Las Vegas’ current economic conditions. Isn’t it high time Las Vegas diversify a bit? If we fail, it’s because our leaders (you, Jim Gibbons, for example) failed by not coming up with a better plan, or asking for a better plan from it’s people, and not investing in the future of Las Vegas and Nevada, and counting on the “old stand by” to keep coming through (Two things here 1. what financial planner would ever recommend that all investment funds be dumped in stocks and expect this to yield generous returns over time? and 2. There is a little something to Darwinism and evolution that can be applied toward business and the economy). Time to focus on the real issues, and come up with solutions, rather than fixating on things that in the scheme of things are counterproductive and really don’t matter anyway. I’m tired of it and I want action! I want to see what you are going to do for us! I want to see what you’re tightening up on to ensure the future for my family…for energy, for education, for industry beyond tourism? I don’t give two squats about the fact that Obama used our cities name like it was an expletive! Because right now, Mr. Mayor…I use expletives when I talk about our city, and you, and Jim Gibbons. Shut up and do something that matters! In an effort to displace the fault, all you did was shine a big bright spotlight right back on you… Mr. Mayor…I think you owe the people of Las Vegas immediate action…

Mr. Goodman, the people of Las Vegas should fire you for engaging in “child-like behaviors. We know where and what Las Vegas…and why is it that your city has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country? You has “misrepresented as Mayor”. If that general comment about people wasting taxpayers money hurt your city, then what has helped it in the past?

When bonehead remarks happen in Vegas, they should stay in Vegas.

I really can’t believe how ill-educated you people are.
Obama seems not to understand how economies work. He has certainly signed Las Vegas’ death warrant and–since he has never actually been in business himself–doesn’t understand what a conference or convention is about. I happen to have worked AT hotel properties handling the conference/convention business–and later worked WITH investment bankers who conference here. They are not at the spa, the shows, the gaming tables. They are at work–and they work very nearly 24 hours a day, even while they are here. They are now spending a lot more money in San Francisco–where room rates BURY current Las Vegas room rates. It is just these simple facts that so many of you are unfamiliar with that stuns me. Just the usual, uneducated, mantra-repeating stuff I hear from the news media. Since you have no idea what you’re talking about, I can feel pretty confident that you also voted for this irresponsible, naive boy whom you also know nothing about… stay home. Las Vegas won’t miss you.

The companies getting bailout money should be required by President Obama to hold all of their business meetings in Las Vegas, the city which is the most economical and the most conducive to holding efficient business meetings and conventions, with 130,000 hotel rooms and thousands of restaurants within a few miles of dozens of huge convention facilities and hundreds of meeting rooms. With reduced room rates because of the economy, and because Las Vegas hotels can afford to have lower room rates because of casino revenues, Las Vegas is a bargain, and Las Vegas is the only city where all corporations should be allowed to plan their meetings and conventions.
When I was delivering newspapers 35 years ago, the newspaper company had a party every year for delivery carriers and gave them free pizza and soda pop. The carriers who sold the most newspaper subscriptions were awarded prizes. The top prize was a trip to Disneyland. As a result the newspaper increased their circulation and were able to charge more for advertising. When I was an outside sales rep selling plumbing supplies to wholesalers 25 years ago, the owner of the small manufacturer rep firm that employed me, required me to take customers out to lunch every day, and we payed for lunches for engineers that did specs. That was how we made our products known to buyers, and that was the lifeblood of the company. If taxpayer money is being used to get these companies on their feet, we better hope that these companies are doing the kinds of things that attract customers and reward productive employees, or all of these companies will fail and the taxpayer money is gone. Is this still a capitalist country, or are we in Communist Cuba?

you forgot the “t” in travel…
“The assumption that all meetings, event and incentive travel are wasteful is wrong. Now more than ever, we need businesses to ravel and hold meetings and events.

I agree with Mayor Goodman. Thank goodness he has the gumption to stand up and say what we all want to say. Thank you, Mayor Goodman, for standing up!
Our economy is an aggregate with many components depending on each other component. For example when fuel costs rose, the cost of food rose. The deplorable fear speech of our new administration is driving the businesses and citizens of our country to take drastic reactionary measures. For example the Obama “dis” on Las Vegas. When will the president exercise dignity and self-control and begin to act like the president? His inexperience shows with inept and unappropriate comments.
Nevada businesses have been on hiring freezes and now are cutting management salaries and teminating workers. A presidential comment is normally taken very seriously. Our dear president is inexperienced but charismatic. I don’t believe he intended to damage a struggling Nevada economy where foreclosures are at epic proportions. Oh,that’s right, aid and comfort will follow the catastrophic comments in the form of aid to struggling homeowners. If tourism increased, values would rise. Having help with a $200,000 mortgage on a home with an appraised value of $100,000 is just stupid. Give me bandaid when I need a tournecut. How about the $13 a week tax relief? And I can do what with that?
The housing/banking problem was created by the same legistive philosophy under Bill Clinton. Now the “change” administration can “change” problems it has created for itself. My heroes!
Still waiting for an apology. I think everyone who possibly can should head for Las Vegas now.

Bryan, after reading your post, I feel a response is warranted. First of all, the President NEVER requested business not hold conventions in LV and NEVER requested people not go there. The President was saying that these banks who have come to the government asking for taxpayer money should not take taxpayer money and spend it on junkets and bonuses because that is not what that money is for. Furthermore, your overall assertions about the President are completely false, but this is America and you are entitled to your opinion. However, I think you crossed a line by saying “shame on you” to people who didn’t vote the way you believed. I would never say that to Bush voters nor think it because, again, this is America and we are allowed to disagree. I also happen to be a resident of Washington State and I didn’t agree with the law that banned internet gambling but I also recall it passed by wide margins in the statehouse with little attention paid to until after it became law (BTW: Jim McDermott is a US Congressman and would have had little to nothing to do with its passage).
Since you asked how McCain and Palin look right now, I will tell you. He is out of touch with reality (saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong the same day Lehman Bros. files for Bankruptcy) with a reputation as having a violent temper (something we REALLY don’t need right now). She is someone who thought a Canadian radio DJ was a foreign head of state until she was told the truth, implicated in a report for “abuse of office,” and not being able to answer simple questions from the press.
I wish you success in your sports handicapping business, it sounds like you are already quite good at it.

I am glad to read that some people do get it. No where did Obama say not to visit Vegas, Goodman doesn’t apparently hear very well but atleast there are those few who do. So No Obama does not owe him anything.

Maybe if the President would have taken care of the big boys getting big pay-off before he threw tax payer money at banks and ins companies who had not record of being good honest business men, he might not have to be defending himself now. God help us all!

ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID IS THE MAYOR OF LAS VEGAS NEEDS TO BE OUT OF OFFICE!! Las Vegas = Corruption. This Mayor is just looking for a reason to hate Obama and we all know why. The fact that he gets upset over words that are used for the good of people should tell you what kind of man this so-called mayor is. I do not know anyone in Vegas that like this mayor except for the strippers and prostitutes that get money from him.

Oh, for crying out loud, somebody please tell that guy to quit whining. I don’t feel from the statement that Obama was trying to attack Vegas directly. He also made a comment about the Superbowl to and in another story he said something about buying a boat. So maybe the football players and boat salesmen should be complaining to. His point was telling people to use common sense, and think before you spend. He wasn’t telling people not to ever go to Vegas, he was simply saying have your obligations covered before you have fun! I seriously doubt Obamas comment is going to have any adverse affects on the tourism of Vegas. It might change my mind though knowing the mayor is a whiny little girl. Get over yourself.

I Know I will likely get blasted for saying this but I feel two things need to be pointed out. One being that love or hate him. Obama has inherited an inceredable mess and is doing his best when the president really dosen’t have the power poeple think our government is set up to pervent that. The second thing is that Vagas has pretty much set it’s self up for this, Los Vagas is know as Sin City for a reason and has only encouraged this sentiment.(What happens in Vagas, Stays in Vagas?) They should expect to be use as an example of excess.

This is the stupidest criticsm of Obama I’ve heard yet. Does the mayor or anyone else lobbing stinkbombs honestly think anyone listening to Obama’s analogy about corporations playing fast and loose with federal bailout money (and not about individuals spending their own money) thinks it was a slight at the city’s convention and tourism trade? PUH-LEEZE! Sorry Vegas, if your well-deserved reputation for corruption and sleeze is a little too uncomfortable for you to withstand criticism for, cast the blame no further than your own politicians. Maybe if you cleaned the ear blax out of your ears you could stop pretending the big bad scary black president is out to steal your stuff. Losers.

Hardy har har.
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword. President Obama’s mouth (the same thing that got him elected) is going to be his own downfall.
For all you liberal, “progressive”, chip-eating couch potatoes waiting for Obiden to bring you your rent check, you need to take into account that Obama made a similar “Vegas” reference a year ago and caused companies to move their meetings, conferences, and conventions AWAY from Vegas (which relies heavily on such business). Obama’s words are not accidental, though often misinformed and surprisingly ignorant. Do you remember the New Haven police “acting stupidly?” Do you remember, “Health care negotiations need to be on C-Span?” You liberal morons! President Bush was a mental thespian next to this elitist jamoke!
I nominate Homer Simpson as the new White House press secretary (which would be a HUGE step up from Robert Gibbs) to say “DOH!” every time Obama, Biden, or their cabinet/staff say ANYTHING on camera or on tape.
Jake Tapper, keep up the great work. You’re old school (for you liberal wackjobs, that’s a COMPLIMENT!).

Obama had a great point when he was sayin students need to save their money, but why to mention Vegas.?? he had mentioned Las Vegas before and it sounds like he’s hating on us… thanks to his comments our hotel industry has recieved many cancelations. Microsoft was going to have a convention in this city and they cancelled it because it “looked bad” for the company. If someone is goin to spend money they will spend it even hangin out a Saturday with some friends not only in Vegas….. He is a great president, but he needs to stop usin this city to make his comparisons…

I find it tragic in these tough economic times that as the president attempt to present sound spending judgement to the american population that the Mayor of Las Vegas turns comments into a mud slinging political circus. So much for being the bigger man, What has occurred here is nothing short of a short sided child’s tantrum. I would have been much more benificial to try a more positive attitude in order to portray Las Vegas in the positive light it deserves. Instead the Mayor has set himself as the bitter spokesperson that most will think of when they think of Vegas.
Times are tough all over the U.S. and the world. Most are struggling to make a means to support their family and their community. This includes Las Vegas, I turn around for Vegas is a win for all, a huge boost in the economy. I would like to see it booming again and represent a positive turn in our nations economy. That being said I can not be part of supporting a city that has a Mayor takeing such a negative standpoint toward our president as he attempt to guide us out of these “darker” times. I have canceled my reservations (both business and pleasure) to Vegas (next month and those trips thereafter) and decided to go to San Fran instead. When the Mayor decides to stop pouting and jump on the, “Let’s work together to get through this” bandwagon I’ll return to visiting the great city of Las Vegas. I wish all luck within the limits, I urge residents to ask the Mayor to reconsider his arrogant and short sided economic viewpoint. Vegas is part of the United States so buck up buttercup and join us in working toward a solution.
Respectfully,
~Solarn

Any one with a brain can tell that this controversial “Las Vegas” comment has nothing to do with that particular city. It is only symbolic of a vacation destination. His point, which should be evident to all thinking people, is that we all need to be more prudent with how we spend our money. While passing through the Las Vegas airport a few years ago on the way to a family reunion, I met a woman in the rest room who told me she had to go back home because she had lost nearly $5,000 and she didn’t have any more money to spend on gambling. I cringed when I thought of how long it took me to save half that for my trip. This is the kind of devil-may-care attitude that is contributing to our huge personal debt and personal irresponsibility. If the President wants to remind us of being more…dare I say…conservative with our finances, I say “God bless him”.

I find if comical that one of the most fiscallly irresponble entities (the US Government) preaches fiscal responsibility to others. It’s laughable. Does the President know what our national debt is right now? There is nothing wrong with spending money, it stimulates the economy. People just need to spend withing their means and not overextend themselves.

SERBIA