Sin City Mayor Says Obama’s Vegas Dis Ain’t Worth Craps

earmark for…”a $50 million museum dedicated to the history of organized crime.”
I’m laughing and crying at the same time.
What a great sentence!

So I see, tonight is time to roll out the craps on Obama and his administration. I doubt it’s a coincidental roll of the dice that the report on the Southern Senators preceded this.

Ah, Mayor,
Obama didn’t say for EVERYONE not to travel to Vegas. He said that companies that took TARP $$$ shouldn’t take employees to vegas. I think thats a pretty important distinction. Why in gods name would he owe you an apology for that?

Oscar Goodman, the Sin City Mayor wants shady CEOs to gamble away taxpayer’s money and wants to build a Museum in the memory of his beloved mobsters. He has no shame in asking for the President of USA to apologize and let Oscar Goodman gobble up taxpayers hard earned dollars through gambling.
He needs to come up for better ways to attract visitors to his city. Otherwise, he should not be elected for any position anymore.
Mark Anderson

Mayor Goodman is just upset that Obama has a better plan than his friends in Vegas for getting all of the American people’s money. He could have just stolen it all and spent it on a long list of worthless radical leftist projects like Obama just did.

This Mayor is delusional, an apology, for being truthful about these Banking Executives, using our hard earn money to gamble or party it away like it were dirt sifting away to the ground harmlessly. He was talking to the folk who are being award on taxpayers dimes! Everybody need to be up in arms about these Executives, who shouldn’t be rewarding themselves for years!

The mayor is right.Sorry if you disagree. Las Vegas has a lot more to offer than slots and shows. They have huge meeting rooms with the latest technologies available for meetings. Everything is open 24/7 so if you need printouts or whatnot you can get it. The airport is accessible all the time for private and public planes. The wait service and hotel employees are professional and polite. Not full of disgruntled people who arent paid enough in the big cities who tend to have a chip on thier shoulders. I dont live in Nevada,but if my president dissed my hometown discouraged people to utilize the things that were created to encourage business professionals to go to Nevada, yes that is offensive on all levels. Mr.Obama should always choose his words more carefully. His arrogance and irrational thought processes show when he does not have his prepared teleprompter answers and he definitely comes across as crass and disingenuous.

What the . . . the President didn’t dis Las Vegas, fer gossake. He simply called attention to the disconnect inherent in taking a big $ handout and frivolously spending it.
Take a chill pill, Goodman.
IMO, there are LOTS of reasons to chastise President Obama, but this’n is just plain stupid.

Goodman is obviously being a bit of a promoter here, but Obama does need to learn to be careful now that he is President. What he says is heard ’round the world.
Yesterday he said disparaging things about Japan and Bangladesh. Today he didn’t take a chance to praise McDonalds, a good employer who is actually a success during these difficult times.
He has to learn as President, there is almost no such thing as an off-hand comment.

People, these weren’t “banking executives” who were going to Vegas… it was an award to top sales people. Obama’s populist BS deprived employees of something they earned, and he keeps rubbing salt in the wounds for a few populist political points.

I wonder if anyone has noticed how badly Obama stutters if he doesn’t have the use of his teleprompter? Another thing, I have noticed about Obama, rules that we all have to abide by, don’t seem to apply to him and those close around him, must be some of that good ole boy Chicago thing right?

That was the funniest thing I have read all week

Get real Dude… Do you understand that our President is trying to get America rolling again. Be a part of the solution do not be a part of the problem.

ctay said: “The mayor is right.Sorry if you disagree. Las Vegas has a lot more to offer than slots and shows.”
Yes, let’s not forget the hookers and drive-thru wedding chapels.

Actually, Las Vegas is a great place to live.

What’s even more offensive is Obama says this as his Democrat congress is meeting at a luxury resort instead of just staying in Washington D.C. And Obama takes Air Force One for the 10 minute flight to get there??? Talk about a different set of rules for the ruling elite!

Jake, that was a REAL TOUGH question you asked Obama at his MOnday night prime time “news conference”. I have never seen nor heard a more insane bunch of so called journalists with two bit “don’t offend the Messiah” questions.
I heard left winger Ed Schultz got your chair.

The Obama’s are now hosting Wednesday night “Cocktail Parties” for the rich & influential in DC in OUR White House.
This should offend every American.

For being the mostest smartest prezident ever…this guy sure is one dumb SOB.
When the big bad evil bank execs don’t go to Las Vegas, who does Obama thing gets hurt? It’s the maids, busboys, waiters, valets, taxi drivers in Las Vegas who get hurt by losing out on tips from the big bad evil banking execs.
Isn’t Obama supposed to be a champion of the little guy? What a tool.

OMG. What idiots. Can’t people see the comment “You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime” is actually a compliment to Las Vegas and the Super Bowl!!??? Ok. I’ll spell it out for you: It means that a trip to Vegas or the Super Bowl is a luxury and that these jokers can’t be taking luxury trips ON THE TAXPAYER’S DIME. THAT is the point. Oscar Goodman should be issuing an apology for being an idiot. Or for trying to use the President as free marketing for people to come to Vegas.

The real story here is that POTUS is seen as justifiably telling private citizens where they should hold celebrations and how extravagant it should be? Is this what the role of POTUS is? This mentality is apparently backed by the view that TARP means Gov’t can behave as a major stock holder in private companies. If TARP makes Gov’t a stock holder with all privelages that you or I would have if we were a major stock holder then TARP is bad policy and contrary to the premise of a gov’t presiding over a free, constitutional republic!

Obama carried Nevada thanks to Vegas. The whole state is almsot entirely red except Vegas. You got DUPED!!!
That’s change you can believe in

“It means that a trip to Vegas or the Super Bowl is a luxury and that these jokers can’t be taking luxury trips ON THE TAXPAYER’S DIME.”
This policy should work both ways, if we are concerning ourselves about “taxpayer money”. If you work for the government you should be taking boondoggles and and agencies shouldn’t be attending or scheduling boondoggles in Las Vegas, Hawaii, Disney,..you get the picture. If you live in a glass house, be careful who you throw rocks at, or is this another example of BHO’s duplicitous rhetoric of “do as I say, not as I do”.

I suppose it is too late for UNITE HERE (a union representing some 450,000 foodservice and hotel workers nationwide, including Local 226 of the Culinary Workers Union the Las Vegas-based chapter that represents some 60,000 people employed in Nevada’s casinos) to rescind its endorsement of Barack Obama for president?

haha, some of you people make me laugh because what you say is pathetic. WHY are you people bashing Obama rather than people who have stolen your money and are using it irresponsibly once again. I agree with “outraged by people’s selfishness”. and hey if you see this, don’t worry, i’m outraged too.
How come you people aren’t bitchiin about how Bush and his monkeys are the reason WHY over 3 MILLION are out of jobs. THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE WERE TOO GREEDY AND DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP. How come you right wingers didn’t complain about Bush taking small trips on jets? the billions he gave out to banks and corporations who did not deserve a cent? how about the fact that bush used his daddy to get him out of serving the country? i understand Obama didn’t serve in the military either, but at least he served his community.
how about how he cheated in his second election in florida? yeah republicans, keep talking crap on Obama who’s only been in office for a month and has done more in that month than bush has in 8 years. the thing he’s done? he’s cared about lower and middle class citizens.
if you’re going to criticize the perks of being president, you should of started a long time ago. MAYBE, Obama did use tax money for his party, maybe he paid for it himself. BAILED OUT COMPANIES USE TAX MONEY TO DO ALL OF THIS STUPID CRAP WHEN THEY DID NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE. HOW CAN YOU HONOR TOP EMPLOYEES AND GIVE THEM BONUSES WHEN THEIR COMPANY ALMOST BECAME NONEXISTENT??

great.. when is the government going to take responsbility? yeah like that would happen.. Like always they will blame this that in the other person.. While entertaining whoever on a private jet… If a bank entertains someone to get business how is that wrong? I guess it’s wrong unless it’s on a commercial jet, to a library.

Though Mayor Goodman seems to be appreciated by the majority of his fellow Las Vegas citizens as “brutally honest”, he should spend more time worrying about his city’s economy rather than taking offense at President Obama’s speech.
The heads of the SuperBowl haven’t gone runningand complaining to the press like spoiled teenage girls suddenly deprived of their text-messaging minutes like Mayor Goodman has.
We’re canceling our company’s outing to Las Vegas if this is the kind of vapid showmanship the city’s Mayor engages in.

The president don’t owe this guy NOTHIN’. Executives from companies getting federal bailout funds SHOULDN’T be going on corporate trips to Las Vegas or events such as the Super Bowl, and it’s outrageous for the mayor of Las Vegas to think they should. Obama wants to cut off Las Vegas’ biggest source of income. Oh no! That can’t HAPPEN?!?!

Dear Las Vegas,
The world already knows about the Las Vegas modus-operandi. When reference is made to “The Nevada Gaming Commission” it’s made to sound like some kind of “holy alliance”. “The Nevada Gaming Commission” is nothing more than the legal head of gambling tyranny and gambling greed in Nevada. If a gambler counts cards, he’s labeled a crook and tossed out. (I guess he should be dreaming about prostitutes and free breakfasts.) If he wins by ANY method besides “LUCK”, he’s labeled a crook, and we both know luck hardly ever happens. (What a COINCiDENCE!!)
The Casinos are in business to make a profit, you say. Go ahead, and make a profit, unless you’re talking about making it with our “government decision makers” and our tax dollars.
In that case, nobody owes you an apology or even a clarification, especially the President.
honestly,
S. Daniels
WV

This is the reason why i feel hopeless some times about our future.If Mr Goldman was a middle class American was he going to spend the little money he could save, in SIN CITY or invest in a college education Fund for his kids.
the time of selfishness and immediate gratification brought us where we are now.
Think about our childrens future Not what SIN CITY and the LUCIPHERS there can make

First of all OBAMA does not owe Goodman an apology he was making a statement. It was true to what OBAMA was saying anyway. It is the tax payer’s money the people who actually wake up every single day and work hard. Unlike Mayor Goodman who gets all the luxuries to life he is not worried about tax payers he is worried about his self only.

In my opinion, I think Obama’s suggestion to our countrymen that we shouldn’t go to Las Vegas now is because of the recession. With the crisis that’s been going on for more than a year now, I really think it’s hard for someone to crawl back up the top without sacrificing some things. As for Vegas’ tourism, I don’t see how will their tourism will drop since it seems that they’re not running out of visitors. They haved the foreigners to count on, for example. Doctors, lawyers, dentists – include them too.