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Monday, May 18, 2009 | 2:02 p.m.
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Gov. Jim Gibbons said today that President Obama has denied his request to meet with him in Las Vegas later this month.
The governor had sent the president a letter last month saying he wanted to discuss the economic difficulties facing the state's tourism industry. Gibbons said today that he was notified Obama won't meet with him while the president is in Las Vegas on May 26 for a fundraiser for Sen. Harry Reid.
"I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this administration," Gibbons said in a prepared statement. "President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments."
Gibbons is referring to comments Obama made earlier this year regarding business trips to Las Vegas by companies receiving federal bailout money.
"This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada," Gibbons said.
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"President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments." ????
Wake up ZERO, he does not want to meet with YOU! Very few would waste their time and energy to meet with you. This has nothing to do with his care for those in Las Vegas or Nevada being out of work.
You played games with the stimulus money - said you did not want it and then took it. You are the one who brought negative change to Nevada, you have lied to us over and over again.
Resign please.
What about your lack of leadership Mr. Governor? Or eight years of Mr. Bush? I'd say that probably has more to do with "struggling families [...]." How convenient to sabotage any good-will with your back-handed invitation to the president.
Can someone remind who this Jim Gibbons is?
I thought sum zero only met with cocktail waitresses, when he was not texting his girlfriends on state time.
Have to say he is the most entertaining gov. in the country. Rather listen to him that watch the Grand old Opera.
He really is a country song. And a bad one at that.
Yes Mr. Gibbons, even though the president has things like fundraisers and meetings with heads of states and the economy of this whole country and not to mention the world on his plate. He'll take time out of his busy schedule and meeet with you to discuss the ineptness with which you run your state.
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Seriously, is Gibbons joking? What rational politician would want the tarnished image of being in the same room as this guy?
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Gibbons has no credibility as a governor or even as a human. He is an embarrasment to the State of Nevada; how he was elected is anyones' guess.
If anything, the President shows good taste and common sense in not meeting with Gibbons. Gibbons makes Blago look like a rank amateur.
Gibbons is an idiot who will not be reelected.
Reid and Ensign are puppets and worthless to the State of Nevada. They have both proven this during the last year.
Vote out all incumbents; and keep doing it until somebody, Dem or Rep or Lib or Pinko Commie shows up with both a brain and a backbone and provides both representation and leadership.
B. Hussein Obama badmouths Vegas... 400 conventions cancel... and all you people want to do is whine about Gibbons? How stupid are you? Obama for Change... that's what he told us. He suckered us all. Yeah.. things have changed alright. Now unemployment is twice as high... casinos and homebuilders have cut way back... and the stimulus money? Calif got 40 times what we got. Where was Harry to help out Nevada then? Harry was in the room when the money was doled out... and Nevada finished in last place. Again. Thanks to Harry. Yeah... Obama... thanks for the Change.
mywallet, it is not right people spend money on gambling instead of putting it on the table, and keeping a roof over their head. In bad times, everyone suffers. You talk like Nevada is the only state suffering, and it's bussiness's. Our unemployment is hight and deficit out of control, because we ended up in a war that cost us billions/ the war based on a lie to boot by Bush administration. We were in a recessionw when Obasma took over, and it always gets worse before it gets better in a recession. You finished last because of the kind of Governor you have running things. If you want improvement, than vote in a good Governor and someone out to help your state, instead of lineing his pockets and showing off with Los Vegas show girls. He's the one that gave Vegas it's bad name, and acting like a sex cad to boot.
Yes, the President would not meet with such a person. He will meet with Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers. They appearred together this weekend to launch a better understanding of the Palestinians. The equate the Palestinian cause with the apartheid movement.
He loved meeting with Rod Blegoavich prior to his arrest. He has no problem meeting with Jack Murtha, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangle, or any other thief that is stealing in office.
The President's standards are very high. You have to have d after your name or bring money.
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Gibbons is a joke as most can see from the comments on this page. Also, I had the great fortune to be at a high $ golf event (during the election) and heard Ensign talking to super-rich developers telling them how Sarah Palin is great and smart and that her only problem is that she doesn't get enough exposure. My state's party leaders (I'm a republican) have lost all my respect and support. My party is responsible for financial calamity and dogmatic non-responsiveness. Reid is no saint but I will take his prolific politicking over Republican ineptness any day, and my voting card will be proof.
How's that tunnel vision working for you in your own life neiman1?
Yes, the President would not meet with such a person. He will meet with Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers. They appearred together this weekend to launch a better understanding of the Palestinians. The equate the Palestinian cause with the apartheid movement.
He loved meeting with Rod Blegoavich prior to his arrest. He has no problem meeting with Jack Murtha, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangle, or any other thief that is stealing in office.
The President's standards are very high. You have to have d after your name or bring money.
What a joke. Just offer him money, or hate the USA, or kill a cop or two. He will show up.
Props to our President. YEAH RIGHT! This clown wants to come to Las Vegas for money when he told us our metro area of over 2 MILLION people that we weren't fit to visit. He is taking food out of our mouths and ruining our economy when he opens his mouth.
Who needs that from our so-called leadership?
President Obama, don't bother. Go beg money from ACORN.
Well DUH! You guys have both Harry Reid and this guy. Must be proud. I can't believe Obama promised above his pay grade and isn't delivering on anything but the easy stuff.
What exactly does the governor want from the president? More money that he will refuse anyway? A french-kiss? A round of nude golf? I mean - how far is this governor willing to go to make himself more foolish.
It is past time to start a recall on this governor. It is more than apparent he has no clue. In my lifetime, other than Nixon, he has the worst public relations advise of any politician. Gibbons makes George W. look like an Oxford intellectual.
Hey... maybe the governor's next plan is to attack Idaho - get some of that potato(e) crop, eh?
Obama has quadrupled the deficit, is destroying the dollar and has shown repeatedly he has no interest in stimulating BUSINESS, just the growth of government. Those of you who think he's going to help you better get ready for a long wait.
Under Bush, for all his bungling, we did have a few good years of growth. As an economic leader, Obama is the worst in history.
The party is over. I suggest you learn Mandarin and begin wooing the Chinese to your city.
What hypocrisy?
It's sad that a fundraiser comes first. It's sad that the ones who gave Obama the most money come first. (The banks, General Electric, UAW PAC groups.) He gave them bailouts in the exact order of most to least money given to him. Our industry, the casinos, did not donate large amounts of money towards his campaign, so we come last on the list. He will not visit Gibbons because he is the most partisan president since F.D.R. He will have nothing to do with the other side of the isle. He campaigned in the center but went far far left. That is why his approval rating went to the gutter. (3rd lowest in 100 years at the 100 day mark.)
This is the promblem in this country! The people are so filled with apathy in this country they would vote for anyone! You elected a person that has not met the requirements to become president in this country, let alone knows what he is doing except destroying the moral fabric of the U.S. and now it shows that the " usurper " in the oval office only meets with those that " rubber stamp " his agenda. Even though he ( Obama ) is not in the same party as Gibbons he should at least talk to the man about the economic situation here in Nevada but I guess that is not his role as a " president of all the people ". Come to think of it, what is his role?
I'm surprised it took Neiman so long to respond. I guess the baseball card and comics shop had good stuff today!
Gibbons is worthless and a disgrace to our state. Obama was right, struggling corporations shouldn't come here and blow taxpayer money.
Wait, I'm getting a text. It's Sum Zero Gov. Gibbons!
Did everyone forget Gibbons original "Invitation"? He sent a normal, polite letter to the Whitehouse asking to discuss economic policies, but the press release about him sending the letter was a snarky - whiney "you're ruining our economy" idiotic whine-fest.
Gibbons is only trying to score PR points ( note the deja-vu snarky-ness in this press release too ). If you think Gibbons is really upset that Obama is attending a fundraiser instead of meeting him, congratulations, you've just become his political tools.
Our president singled us out as the place Americans should not visit in our economic situation. He did not only make a statement about bailed out corporations.
He should not single out our city. It's just more food off your plate.
Our mayor also made this statement to Obama.
"Mr. President, I understand the enormous burden you carry in dealing with the worst economy since the Great Depression," Goodman writes. "I also understand the need for accountability, but your comments are harmful to the meetings and convention industry as a whole and Las Vegas specifically."
Hey Kids,
Thank you for voting for hope and change. Obama has mortgaged your future so I don't have to suffer. He has spent $2 tirllion of money you have yet to pay in taxes.
You future is fvcked. You are SUCKERS!
Hope that hopey and changey works out for you when you are paying 50% in federal taxes every year.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
Gibbons is a joke. If you Republican dimwits want to take his side, go right ahead. This guy's going to get creamed in the next election.
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For the tunnel heads out there, Gov. Gibbons has money on the table from the stimulus package that he's not accepting. For him to cry about Obama not meeting with him is cowardly.
Obama isn't ruining our state. The Potato(e) head is, and he's been doing it a lot longer. When you don't have good roads anymore and you have to stay home with the kids because the schools are closed, you'll know who to thank.
Clearly many of your Obama-ites are bitter that he cost you jobs and convention business. Although Gibby was brutal with those comments, many ring TRUE and the upsets you.
What happened to the Obama that convinced you of CHANGE and how he could turn things around? I don't see it, do you?
Several of these postings say VOTE OUT Gibby. But, who exactly do you want? The Dems all want to vote in a candidate that will RAISE YOUR TAXES!!! Is that what you want? Less money in your pocket?
I am from Louisiana, but I have visited Nevada on vacation a few times. All I will say is for all of you attacking your governor for making a legitimate complaint: you DESERVE what you are getting. I am not planning on visiting Nevada anytime soon if ever again. My decision has nothing to do with the President's comments (I just don't like NV), but I am sure that a lot of companies/organizations have decided against conferences in your area thanks in part to Obama's words! Yet you guys attack your governor for complaining about this! Unbelievable...have fun going bankrupt.
@tannsummers
I think I understand the economy and recent history enough to realize most people around the nation lost their jobs before Obama was even elected.
@p1r8z0r
I don't think you understand that President Obama's suggestion that people not travel to Las Vegas will cost your area even MORE jobs.
Seriously? Have you anti-Obama dolts even read what his "hate Vegas" comments were?
"You can't take a trip to Las Vegas or down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime."
You'd think the teabaggers would be against management of a company who received bailout money coming to Las Vegas to party. I know I am.
So a comment complaining about a couple TAX PAYER BAILED OUT BANKS spending taxpayer money to hold junkets in Las Vegas caused Las Vegas' woes? Really? The fact that we're in the worst recession since the depression has nothing to do with it? Surely all those private companies were just , umm, scared of being picked on by Obama and only then did they cancel. Yeah, that's the ticket...
Geesh, you ditto heads will do anything to pin it all on Obama. This is all a PR stunt, and you're all Ditto'ing it out on cue.
Anyone that is still dumb enough to support Obama after he has destroyed us financially, is no different than the inmate that chops the rope off his soap in the community shower. Enjoy!!!
Gibbons is right about negative economic change. Obama is taking over banks, having CEOs fired, taking over auto companies, and spending this country into bankruptcy. The way coutries usually pay back such massive debt is by inflating the currency, meaning everyone will lose purchasing power. And don't believe this talk about how our children will have to pay-they will, for sure, but it will happen to a lot of us in our lifetimes. Obama so far has been a total disaster. Yet so many still blindly support him.
WOW. To be a Gibby Apologist AND an Obama Hater all in one is a VERY SPECIAL combination. Those of you posting here that possess that VERY SPECIAL
mindset must be TRULY, AMAZINGLY, SPECIAL. CAN YOU SAY SPECIAL? Sure, I knew you could.
President Obama chooses not to meet with him, Gym Gibbens acts offended. How freaking hilarious is that?
Finally people are starting to understand what was exposed during the campaign, but drumed out by 'yes we can' and that is, 'no, he can't'. A super far left community organizer socialist. Yah, Yah, I know you libs are saying, just neo con talking points. Well guys, add it up. Wake up..look around. He's slick...slicker than Clinton, and playing you all. Now he's agreeing with Bush on the war, on the pictures, on Gitmo, and when you were all upset with Bush's 480Billon Budget, how about 3 Tril. Come on guys,
you all can't be this dumb. Take the emotion out and see him for what he is.
@CaptJack
You are the dolt. If the federal government gives millions of dollars "no strings attached" to corporations (which President Obama and the US Congress did BTW), they can spend it on whatever they like! All Obama's comments concerning Las Vegas did was to discourage people from traveling there. I am hoping some of those corporations come down South for some meetings/conferences we need the money.
Here come the DrudgeReport loons.
Watch the neocons outrage laced with lies. No wonder Gallup polls show the GOP losing ground in EVERY demographic but one.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118528/GOP-Lo...
People were upset about Bush last $3.1 trillion budget, that still did not include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That $480 bil you're so smugly touting was Bushs last yearly Budget DEFICIT number (again, with the wars being paid for by supplementals).
TARP was also Bushs baby, and if you really think cutting spending during a huge recession will help you may want to read up on economics a little more. We're in a huge mess here and the only coherent argument the far-right can come up with is calling Obama a socialist because he's doing things many left and right wing economists said need to be done.
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This is so pathetic! Here's the deal. My husband's company, who DID NOT (yes, DID NOT) receive a bailout or needs a bailout, canceled their rather large convention in Vegas to avoid being singled out by this administration. Canceled it and this is a heathy company that has turned an evil, evil profit. Do you realize how much revenue this would have brought to your city? Do you? Do you realize how many people this affects in your city? Just for a moment, think.
Here are the cold hard facts: Obama is NOT going to pay for your house or car, he isn't going to pay for your gas or find you a job. He can care less about you. He doesn't care about you. He wants power and unfortunately there are too many people out there willing to turn it over to the government. Government owes me this, government owes me that. What a joke. No one owes anyone anything.
So, when your taxes go up, places start to close and people are out of jobs - thank Obama for his statement about not going to Vegas. Realize that healthy companies (those evil, evil companies that actually provide for the economy - how evil they are!) are canceling their conventions and meetings in Vegas b/c they don't want to be on the 11 p.m. news are evil. Yet, it's considered high fashion when the First Lady wears $450 shoes to feed the homeless.
Trickle down poverty, ain't it grand?
Wake up! Wake up before it's too late.
Shush up and eat your LOSER sandwiches Gibbons/Bush/Neocon Philosophy apologists. It was the brilliant thinking of you and your kind that got us all into this economic hellhole in the first place. If Gibbons wants to see President Obama he can go buy a ticket (isn't that the American way?)
Inept Jim Gibbons + scared, greedy, fundamentalist, racist Republican following =
New Governor for Nevada. Hooray!
"This is so pathetic! Here's the deal. My husband's company, who DID NOT (yes, DID NOT) receive a bailout or needs a bailout, canceled their rather large convention in Vegas to avoid being singled out by this administration."
Bwahaha!!
Sorry to say, but if that's the real reason, your company are idiots. Seeing his whole statement was about frivolous spending of the Taxpayers dime, it had nothing to do with them. Did they have a Super Bowl party that they canceled because Obama might put the on the news too?
Get a life Gov. Jim Gibbons. President Obama was right when he opposed companies using federal bailout money from coming to Las Vegas for conferences and to "party." As a tax payer and a City official I believe the the President made a very good political call. Americans are fed up with companies receiving federal dollars to keep them financially afloat, their problems caused by their fiscal mismanagement. People losing their jobs do not want to see mid-level management and high level CEO's staying in five star hotels, all fianced by federal tax dollars.
Gov. Gibbons is playing to his local constituency because he knows that "all politlics are local." May be he should subscribe to national publications to understand the national outrage on this issue.
Gordon:
You are the loon! It is your city and state that is going down the tubes-not mine! In Louisiana our unemployment rate is still below 6% and everywhere you go houses are still being built and selling...how is it out there in NV? Trust me it is not only the national recession that has hurt your state, if that were the case every other place would be doing just as bad. I live in the New Orleans area and close to the casinos on the MS Gulf Coast so I understand what it is like to live in an area that depends on tourism. We too are suffering, but not like Nevada I assure you. Our governor is a Republican who turned down some of the stimulus money from the federal government too yet we are okay....my point is the President's comments have hurt your state whether you admit it or not.
According to that nifty new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll released today, Gibbons is the least-liked and least-respected politician in the state.
Who could blame Obama for not meeting with a catastrophe-on-two-legs like Gibbons?
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Let me get this straight.
The Bush administration gave 1.2 TRILLION dollars of our tax money to the wealthiest 2% of Americans and cost us another 2 TRILLION of our tax dollars (and over 4,000 young American lives) to wage war against a country who didn't attack us and wasn't building nuclear bombs.
That comes to 3.2 TRILLION (not to mention the billions in crooked contracts to Dick Cheney's buddies) - most of it down an Iraqi toilet.
But when President Obama gives a tax break to the other 98% of us and spends $700 Billion on America and Americans - that's bad?
Wake up, Red States!
It's time to stop hating black Presidents and Northerners long enough to figure out who is really fleecing you.
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@nexnics
"...and if you really think cutting spending during a huge recession will help you may want to read up on economics a little more."
You are the one who needs to educate yourself when it comes to economic matters. Blindly following the advice of misguided Keynesian economists only perpetuates the problems.
Once a recession is underway, Keynesian-monetarist type stimulation: cheap money, accelerating the money supply, etc., can only make things worse...
the government cannot inflate out of it; government can only delay recovery, not hasten it.
The rush to "comprehensive health care" smells rotten. Why the rush? Obama said last week because the "stars are aligned" we must move forward quickly on the health care bill. (Rubbish).
Or is it because Senator Kennedy, for whom the bill may be named, is at death's doorstep (and we know the Obama Propaganda machine takes advantage of every crisis, including death).
Senator Bacchus who is heading the "health care reform study committee" is excluding several points of view from the panel. Obama wants the panel to spend less than a month studying the issue.
Lyndon Johnson gave us the GREAT SOCIETY, the centerpiece of which was Medicare, which is on the brink of bankruptcy. How many programs will we accept from the Democrats which end in ruins....the Great Society also destroyed the black middle class and helped wreck family unit system. If we can't afford Medicare how can we afford an expanded program?
Secretary Sebelius is totally unqualified to head up the health care administration, she was a mediocre governor and she has a compromised moral character, but most important NO working experience in the health care field. And she will be assisted by Budget Director Orszag who has previewed his ideas which will actually limit health care, rather than providing health care. This is a think-tank wonk with no practical (in the health care business - actually running one) working experience. He is also a health care abuser (had his DNA tested to see how much caffeine he can consume)
Tarp 2 and 3: Unfathomable
Stimulus: No immediate impact, payments to the dead, $8 billion to ACORN, Millions to pave 1/4 mile of road. And on a daily basis we are finding it is a major boondoggle. (But nobody read it so, what can one expect)
Administration starts banana republic like investigations for the former administration, trash our intelligence service and resources with release of documents , then seemingly reverse themselves on the issue of photos.
Administration releases confidential information and sics ACORN funded "Working Families Committee" members on homes of AIG employees, then denigrates and sics the media on people with opinions that are opposite of theirs (Cramer, Limbaugh, and other).
Obama quadruples debt left by Bush Administration, then May 14 lectures country that the debt is unsustainable!
Yes indeed, 100 plus days so far of Wreck and Ruin.
Two things:
Maybe Obama's schedule was already locked in with other commitments.
Secondly, Gibbons, a Republican, was trying to take over the news cycle from Reid, a Democrat, when the President came to town to do a fund raiser for Reid. I'm sure that the Governor of Nevada can afford a flight to D.C. and I'm sure that the President would talk to him. Gibbons was trying to take over the news.
And one more thing. How would you feel about your tax dollars being used to pay for fat cat corporate execs to get $3 million dollar week-ends--------if they were doing it in Los Angeles instead of Las Vegas? The President never said that Las Vegas was bad. He said that corporations shouldn't spend a few million of tax payer's money having a week-end there or anywhere else. Fewer businesses and individuals are going anywhere for fun because they don't know if they'll be getting their paycheck next month. And for those who think it's unfair that California got more stimulus money, even though your governor doesn't want to accept what came his way, check out this map showing how each county in the country has been affected by the recession.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/speci...
California has been hit hard all over. They also have 37 million people compared to less than 2.6 million in Nevada. Did you think every state would get the same regardless of population? The state of California also sends a whole lot more money to the federal government. They have more people. Duh.
Bush is being blamed because, umm, the recession started under him and all. All that's being done now are being done in response to this. This Huge Recession. Neocons like to trot out that what Obama is doing is because he's a 'Socialist', 'Marxist', or whatever the pet name of the week is. Not because we've lost like 4 million jobs, banks were about to collapse en'masse, housing collapsed, etc... This "stimulous" ( is that some kinda new necon pet name? "Stimulousy" or something. Hardy har har. ) is supposed to help fix the recession, not because Obama got all giddy about building roads, or funding unemployment like the dittoheads like to portray it as. We're in a Huge Recession with massive job losses and massive wealth lost. The states are going to have a smaller tax base, and the stimulus is designed to help cover that, while trying to create new jobs too ( plus that whole 'largest middle class tax cut in history' thing which is like half the stimulus money ).
The Far-Right wants to redirect it all onto Obama, forgetting that all this bailout crap ( that trust me, no one likes ) is because of Bush's recession.
Mr. Obama has proven to be another disastrous, unethical, deceitful Politician from the corrupt Democratic Party.
He has lied about earmarks, lied about lobbyists, lied about presidential signing statements, lied about bows to Kings, lied about tax cuts, lied about Rendition, lied about interrogation technique loopholes, etc.
He even lied about the claims of a Catepillar CEO...
Mr. Obama has exploited an economic crisis, to engage in massive deficit spending, on the level that is completely irresponsible, all to empower his own political Party.
It is a known DNC Party swindle in the USA, pushing a form of populism, dividing all Americans, enabling a wasteful - oppressive form of collectivism, only to aid the Democratic Party. Mr. Obama actually compared those working in the Banking and Mortgage Industries to 'suicide bombers'. It is the most irresponsible form of leadership we see today.
This is the same Presidential Candidate that ran on debasing the noble efforts to fight for liberty and empower the formerly oppressed for pure political gain. It made no difference that his choice for Vice President and Secretary of State (including nearly all of the Democratic Party), voted for the Mission in Iraq.
It is no surprise this Liar named Obama is hypocritically traveling on taxpayer money to Vegas, to raise funds for more unethical political games, while he tells everyone else they should cut back.
Simply pathetic, but the same old DNC 'con'.
Reminds one of Hillary "dodging sniper fire"...
Democratic Partisans seem to lie with such ease.
No wonder, every place they have governed ends up with the same disastrous failure, with massive deficits, obscene taxation, growing unemployment, greatly raising the cost of living for all, encouraging corruption in government, etc.
Ah, finally even the marginally clueless are awakening to the disaster that is El Odumbo. Mr. Spock without the intellect. Dumb-as-a-rock Barack. Next time watch out who you vote for. Your candidate may be reckless in his comments and ruthless in is appetite for power.
Feedback from PA. You guys in NV should be proud that your governor is standing up to a Washington that is out of control and a president who is drunk with the power he got from the backs of hard working middle class America tax payers. This president wants change in the tax system, a change that will create more dependence on government control of your lives. More government means higher taxes. Higher taxes means more money taken out of your pay. Want to see where this country is headed econmically? Just look at your neighbor, California. They are broke. Why? They are irogent and very hostile to business. CA has people like Paxman who are total idiots for pushing an agenda that has been killing the American jobs in that state. Business health and growth means jobs, paychecks. This president doesn't have a clue when it comes to running a business. How do you think his socialist government party will run the health care business if your Dirty Harry Reid gets his way? Finally...I find it interesting and very plausible to think that Dirty Harry and this president have a team of their minions, community organizers and their ilk, sending in comments to these editorials all across the country, flooding these comment boards to pro-Obama posts. Hey they probably get $5 of our tax money for every post. This is an administration of corruption and anything will go. Coming to NV to raise cash for Dirty Harry Reid and not meeting with the NV governor, just because he is a strong Republican voice, really shows that Obama had no intent to stop partisan politics. Like has been shared here earlier, this president does not represent the people as he was elected to do. How many voters in NV are added to the millions who now have "buyers remorse?" Hey, little less than four years to go and we can vote someone in to repair the damage and clean up the mess before it gets worse!
@sodrama
So it's better to employ Hoover'nomics, and cut spending and taxes and eventually everybody will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and we be fine then?
Inflation will be a problem eventually yes, but so far it hasn't and the republican near term fix being bandied about is to cut the deficit NOW and lower taxes on the richest so that prosperity will trickle down on all of us.
Um yeah, call me when you get something that doesn't, like, actually suck.
"So it's better to employ Hoover'nomics, and cut spending and taxes and eventually everybody will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and we be fine then?"
Hoover actually ran up the biggest deficits ever send to that point in time.
He also raised taxes and not cut them.
He created a massive make-work programs.
FDR slammed Hoover for running up the deficits.
It is soooo funny you making fun of Hoover.
Obama's economnic plan matches up to Hoover's plan fairly well including anti-trade policies.
Nexnecis?
The Mortgage poison, which created the economic crisis we see today, was produced mostly by the Democratic Party's exploitation of quasi Governmental Agencies like Fanny and Freddie, going back to the 1990's providing very poor investments to those who simply could not afford mortgages.
There was some good intent involved, but mostly it was peddling influence for votes, and overtime these toxic loans were resold - repackaged - rebundled repeatedly, creating a Global poison which corrupted our markets.
The Democratic Party not only denied the problems involved over the years of this folly, they blocked the Bush Administration's attempts for 8 years to reform it. Even the sitting President, Mr. Obama, filibustered sound efforts to reform the disaster created in the Mortgage Industry by the Democratic Party while he was Senator.
The Bush Administration led the Nation to great economic prosperity after 9-11, including record unemployment lows nearing historic 4%.
I will welcome the same with the Obama Administration, unfortunately, like FDR, he is so far provided disastrous policies which worsen the economic climate for all. Having lived in a number of Socialist - collectivist examples overseas, I know these to be far more oppressive. Mr. Obama is pushing the same failure. Massive Governmental spending, combined with overt taxation efforts, will only kill opportunity, crush freedoms, cement economic classes, build waste - dependency, raise the cost of living (which hurts the poor most of all), ruin growth and incentive, etc. We have seen it time and again.
In New Jersey alone, the Democratic Party's leadership has been a disaster, and now we see the same failed policies pushed on the National Level.
It is regretful, but even more so, is the Democratic Partisans conception of the positive Liberation of over 25 million formerly oppressed Iraqi People. This is a great positive for the world, and it is quite telling to see how partisan some have become, to try to deny this reality. Now, a free Democracy is working with the Free West, to defeat Radical Militants in the heart of the Middle East, and Saddam is no longer rewarding PLO suicide bombers.
We are watching the return of the Carter Malaise, in areas of Governmental growth, waste, taxation, and even in areas of appeasement.
The recipe will again be utter failure...
@Nexnecis
"Um yeah, call me when you get something that doesn't, like, actually suck."
Call me whenever your trickle up economics "like" works.
So.... all you Monday Morning quarterbacks, considering the mess that you would have been thrown in, what would your plan of action be and how would you fix the mess you had been thrown in?
Well, with all due respect, let face the facts gibbons. you did go to school, you did graduate from school. you are a leader, you have the power as a governor, so why are you wait'n for barack to come up there and solve your problems. if he said change is gonna come, it will take months and even years. so what your complaints abt . you really aint smart. i do not see the difference between george and you. you seriously need help. all republicans need help. you are all confused and senseless. all yu think abt is your party and yourself. i call that selfish brats. think twice before yu criticize.
Now your just making up stuff.
Hoovers response to the Depression was to balance the budget and raise taxes ( my 'lower taxes' was what todays republicans want, sorry I didn't make that more clear ) and rely on Volunteerism (ye ole boot strap stuff), and his public works stuff came in too little, too late to have any effect. FDR's New Deal helped create some jobs till he tried to balance the budget in 37-38 and we had another collapse.
Funnily enough, WW2 finally got us out of the depression by... Massive spending vs GDP that would make anyone blush, nationalising businesses out the ying-yang , and then solving the deficit by taxing the top income earners at 90% after the war.
Still not seeing how todays republicans have any plan to actually fix things without going all Hoover ( Cut spending!), and making it worse by continuing Bush failed Tax Cuts for the Rich.
CA is going broke? What do you think will happen? The federal gov will probably bail them out and start running CA just like they are running the banks.
We are spending way too much time pointing fingers at political parties. Don't you realize that there are bigger things taking place here? While we are distracted blaming and pointing fingers at each other because of the economy, the government is methodically taking away our freedom. Our freedom is more important than money. I really dont think our country will ever be the same again. We are sliding down a slippery slope. The citizens of the US will be so broken, they will accept any kind of government. (Hint: socialism, dictatorship)
By the way, we need to remember all of this spending comes from the US borrowing from China!
Wow, thanks to Drudge we get to have people from PA (Go Pens) tell us what a strong voice our governor is. I wouldn't want to walk across the street to see our governor, let alone come from Washington to see this waste of an office.
"The Impostor" Oobama has ticked off the Tourism Industry, along with about seventy percent of the rest of the world. He has just begun to ruin America; he's on a socialist agenda like no other. Here in Texas, we've just indicted him for FRAUD and TREASON. It won't be long till he has to answer for his crimes. Stay tuned, my friends!! Citizens Grand Juries are springing up all across America! Google it!
Mark Christopher Frimmel
"Tea Party '09"
Fort Worth, Texas
Nevada has a governor who refuses to raise taxes and insists that government agencies live within the confines of the budget. This is a fiscally responsible policy.
Are you able to say that Obama has been responsible with your money in his short time in office?
There are numerous serious issues on hand right now in this country. If attacking a politicians personal life are what's important to you, I would politely ask you to refrain from voting in the future.
To qoute the President:
Earlier this year, the President told an audience in Elkhart, Indiana, "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."
How can he therefore justify flying to Vegas on the Tax payers dime for his own fund raiser. The hypocracy is astounding. How could he justify his prior flight to CO for a one day speech for one of his new programs and this political fund raiser?
Never mind his hypocracy on this matter as far as "Carbon emissions". He could have saved all that jet fuel and the pollution it produced to fly him to and from these little junkets while yelling at small businesses and manufacturers that they have to cut thier fuel consumption producing things and making our economy run. We obviously have to do what he says and not what he does.
Why are we paying money to the federal government? Clearly they do not represent us.
"This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada," Gibbons said.
Well ain't that the pot calling the kettle black?
Jim Gibbons releases a highly partisan statement slamming Obama. There are a hundred ways he could have sounded a more conciliatory tone using more adult language in an attempt to coax Obama into helping, but instead he lashes out in attack. Now Obama really won't be in the mood to help. No wonder Gibbons is failing Nevada residents, he acts like a child instead of leading by example. Bad move by Jim that voters will remember.
Its sad that so many comments here are so infantile, as if they were debating whose team is ahead, or blaming Bush for all the ills of the world. The facts are that Obama quadrupled an already bad deficit, and promised no earmarks, then passed a budget with 9000 of them. His word means nothing, and his actions will have disastrous long term consequences for our country.
Jim Gibbons has an IQ of about 30-maybe lower.
Apparently there are too many authors with the aspirations of earning the title "too smart, by half". Yeah, Bush this, Bush that, Bush-Bush, Blah, cocktail waitresses, blah, uuh, some micro-penis comment, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. Until now I thought Obama was the best at speaking for an hour without saying anything. Gibbons' comments are long overdue. This should have come from our most powerful representative in the federal government, but instead Reid had to take care of the Democrat party before Nevada. Obama's treatment of Nevada is more than hypocrisy, this is a direct insult to all Nevadans. He's killing our industries with his idiotic comments and then he expects donations from those people whose jobs he helped to eliminate. Since when does Obama or any President get to dictate how a company spends it's money? But, but, but, they're getting taxpayer money... well Obama destroyed his own argument when he pushed through the stimulus bill. "Spending IS stimulus". That's what Obama told his critics. Okay then, well when banks spend money that's also stimulus. You think that stimulus happens only when Obama's doing the spending? You can't have it both ways Mr. President and if you don't like the way a bank or some corporation plans to spend taxpayers' money, then DON'T OFFER IT.
You're the President not the KING. There's nothing magical about a company receiving tax money in the law. If Obama can take over a company because it received tax dollars then he can do it when it receives tax credit, or favorable legislation, or whatever and whenever he feels like it. WAKE UP EVERYONE!
By the way "gold1020", I'd like to compare your IQ scores with Jim Gibbons'.
My guess is that it's about 10-maybe lower.
Hey, vinnieinvegas, thanks for cluing me in.
I didn't know about the drudge link; It was like walking into a wrong room here. Where did all these "SPECIAL THINKERS" come from? Matt Drudge sent them!
Miserable lot, I say.
Misery loves company, I guess.
Obama better 'change' something soon. So far, he's stolen another trillion from the taxpayers to give to bankers, flubbed his very first act as President (to competently recite the Oath), killed civilians in Pakistan (adding another theatre to our wars), and pulled no troops out of anywhere. On top of that, he wants more troops in Afghanistan. Did Bush really leave or is he in black-face now? George Wallace said it best, "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, Patriot Act, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, Wikipedia and Facebook, warrant-less wiretapping and opening private mail. They are both guilty of treason.
Clean them all out (except Ron Paul) and save this great nation.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov't Will and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookD...
Wake up! Republican or Democrat.. if you live in Las Vegas or State of Nevada.. Obama's comments 'You can't just go to Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime' caused the cancellation of 400 Conventions and cost the State $100 Million in non-gaming revenue. (http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1...)
Where's the outrage? Seriously? Nevada GOP and Dems.. where's the outrage? Doesn't anyone care about the most expensive words by a president in Nevada's history? $100 Million.. that's not even including the lost gaming revenue.
Wreckless and Irresponsible.. and yet he has the gall to come here for a 'Fundraiser' for Reid.. who already has $5 Million in his campaign warchest for 2010 and no credible Republican challenger yet.
Unbelievable!
OBAMA -- The first foreign born president of the United States.
THEY ALL SUCK! These days its all about grabbing a spot at the public trough. From Gov PotatoHead to President Hussein. How did we allow all this to happen. Think the rest of the world may be laughing at us?
Tell me this has just been a bad dream!
Didn't read all the comments here, but from the few I read I can't imagine how Mr. Gibbons won the election in Nevada. But he did, so live with it. He as a Govenor has every right to expect the President to meet with him, when he wants to. There are 100 Senators, too many Congressmen/women to count, but only 50 Govenors which has to mean something in the pecking order of politics.
He is your Govenor, by whatever margin it was. You made him what he is, so live with it.
Well, the gambling capital of the world. Some foolish people voted for Obama and some ACORN folks added a few extra votes to help Obama. The gamble paid off and the folks in Nevada won. Suffer the consequences of your actions. If your state needs more money, just take your new rail system, go to Ca. and ask that governor for more money. Harry Ried will take care of you.
Maybe the Governor of Nevada needs to deny entry to O-Boy since he is an illegal alien and hates Nevada so much. If his motorcade enters the state detain them all and check their legal status.
Wild Bill
Governor Gibbons - don't feel that Barak and Harry are bringing negative economic change only to Nevada. When they are finished 4 years from now, the other 49 states are going to be getting it as well.
Barry's goal is to destroy a capitalist economy, and give any wealth that is left to those who are lazy and slothful. What will be left is a third-world country. He will do this even in the face of evidence that socialism fails everywhere it is tried. He is a twisted person, and Gov. Gibbons is absolutely correct in calling him on it. See www.cafepress.com/endthestate for help.
Will all the Acorn commentators please stand up!!! Only a bunch of clowns like you who are getting paid to contribute to these articles can seriously defend the empty suit pretender in the White House. But guess what? If you really think those of us who run the businesses that employ the people and pay all of the taxes are going to roll over so Nobama the nationalist socialist and his cronies can rob us blind and and run the country into the ground, then you had better think again. The opposition is growing by leaps and bounds daily and there will be a revolt before it is too late. The response by Governor Gibbon to Nobama's meddling in the private economy is only one example and I am glad he stood up to the Emperor Nobama. I hope the people of LV block Nobama's motorcade, paid for by us the taxpayers, to give Dingy Harry an even worse name and prevent him from raising more money for his socialist party and his campaign. Go governor! You have done what others are thinking.
Barack Obama didn't ruin your economy, George W Bush did. President Obama suggested to AIG that it didn't look good to party in Vegas while needing taxpayer bailout money and 99.9% of tax paying Americans agree. If Mr. Gibbons needs President Obama to explain this fact to him he's way to stupid to be Governor.
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Who will the next Ronald Reagan be? Please God Help us, we need a real leader. Not some community activist, Socialist, unAmerican Traitor that wasn't even born it the US leading our Country.
8 years of Bush were delightful minus the terrorists ruining our day. Bush took the fight to them. Obama's inviting them to come here.
Now 22 months of Obama are disgusting. We get lectured by losers. He flys everywhere with an entire entourage of losers and gets nothing.
And you want to re-elect loser Reid. If you do you deserve what you get. Your governor is right, Obama is wrong. Send somebody to D.C. that knows how to lead not follow lackeys.
Can't blame Bush for anything happening now, it's all Obamas problem and he's making things worse. Yesterday 177,000 auto workers just lost their jobs because of him. Bush wasn't even on the radar screen on that one.
Mr. teleprompter-in-chief needs to be let go. Biden is worse than he is. Mr. Loose lips Inc.
Tourism is down, I wonder why? Stimulus really helped that didn't it? Nope! Some people will remain clueless forever.
Aren't liberal democrats wonderful, look at the mess they're making and even they can't see it.
It's hard to know where to start with a response to all of this jumbled, incoherent, fact-free diatribes from the liberals, but I'll give it a try.
I will not name those who said the comments, but they know who they are.
1. Pseudo war? Under what rock have you been living? Please tell me how many terrorist attacks on the US have occurred since 9/11/01? And how many have been averted? I know the answer to this, and if you did only a modicum of independent research, you would, too. You are aware that the 9/11 hijackers trained in Iraq at Salman Pac, aren't you? That they specifically trained on how to take over aircraft with plastic weapons, etc? Oh, that's right, you only get your information from CNN and NBC.
2. $5.2 billion to ACORN is $5.2 billion too much. This is an organization dedicated to stealing elections by any means possible, and now will be overseeing the census, complete with all the attendant fraud they executed in the last two presidential elections. While we are at it, $5.2 billion is a lot of money, but only seems small when viewed in light of the record deficit Obama has engineered. You are aware that Obama's deficit is already larger than the total of all the deficits of ALL the presidents before him, don't you?
3. As far as looking at our economic situation, we should look at both what led to this and what is being done now. As to what led to this, we must start with the law enacted under Jimmy Carter and expanded under Bill Clinton that forced banks and mortgage companies to lend to people who could not afford it. The subprime lending instruments were the only way that this mandate could be carried out. Of course, you already knew that. And I'm sure you already knew that the Democrats (can you say Franklin Raines) that were in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and took over $100 million dollars in salary while bankrupting them, were Barney Frank's and Chris Dodd's hand-picked friends. And I'm sure you are aware that the three times that Bush tried to tighten regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi blocked it, claiming there was no problem at all. And I'm sure you know that the economic crisis was primarily due to the defaults in the subprime instruments. Did Bush spend too much? Absolutely. But at least he never claimed he could spend his way out of debt.
All of those blaming Bush for this mess are simply showing their lack of knowledge.
If they read the Constitution, they would find that the President doesn't have the power to spend a single dime. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives.
Who was in charge of the House for the last two years of the Bush Administration?
The Democrats headed up by the liar Pelosi.
In concert with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank there was a crisis brewing, and it came to a head late last year.
Democrats love to spend other people's money, and the State of Minnesota is a prime example.
Obama is now talking about Nationalized Health Care.
Will someone please tell me which of the 18 powers granted to the Federal Government authorizes them to do that. Check out Article I, Section 8 where all of the powers are listed. Now look at the Tenth Amendment and try to understand that it says.
You silly people bitch, moan and complain. You spew half truths and out right lies on both sides. When is perfectly clear that most of you have no idea what you are talking about. Indeed a lot of you are just regurgitating what you hear on your respective media programs. I understand that some of you are just venting your fustration about the economy. Some of you are dealing with racial issues brought to the surface by the election of a mixed race president. And some of you are just plain nucking futs! But what I don't understand is the unreasonable belief that you think you can change each others minds here. You are so entrenched in your own miopic view you see nothing but what you want to see. Those of you who hate the current president will do so even if he brought this country all the prosperity in the world. I didn't vote for Mr. Obama but I understand that in this world you don't always get what you want, but you make the best of what you have. I learned that at a very early age. A pity that a lot of you grown men and women have yet to.
WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
I thought republicans wanted less intrusion from the federal government. Well, be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.
Cry me a river mr. gibbons, you're on your own.
Nobama - you're an idiot. Bringing up acorn labels you as a brain dead stoolie - it's an old schtick that didn't work in the elections, and has even less effect now.
Another point on your keeping us safe diatribe. All those words are moot - the bush admin failed to keep us safe when it mattered most - 9/11/2001. They were warned and they neglected the warnings.
Funny, that you see no blame to be placed on the republican ideology and fast spending republican presidents. You do know that the last 3 republican presidents amassed 90% of the debt right? Right? Or did rush fail to mention that pesky fact. Sorry skippy, your lame arguments do't work outside the limbaugh echo chamber - the rest of us have live brain cells and don't fall for such hooey.
Don't sling insults when all you've got are limbaugh talking points.
DrudeReport links...cue up the constitutionalists and economists who all seemingly got their MBAs on Jan. 20, 2009. Simply amazing how many people all of a sudden know everything about everything. Well...except for any actual solutions. The funniest part is the sudden, newfound ability for neoncons to be clairvoyant and declare exactly is going to happen the next 4 years. If only they could have put their clairvoyant talent to use a few years earlier. There must've been a Hannity-OReilly marathon on Fox or something.
And once again, cons struggle to construct any type of factual argument without wrapping everything around 3rd grade euphemisms, nicknames and race baiting comments. Stay classy cons!
I can't believe I voted for Gibbons! He is a complete nitwit. I won't make that mistake again!!!
Bama, and his army of buffoons have no idea of what they are doing to harm the country, nor do they care. They all remind me of the huge group of clowns in a circus climbing out of the little car. Thank God I can say, for the next three years plus" I didn't vote for those clowns. Pelosi though is worse, she is more the slime ball type that runs the crooked midway games. What kinds of idiots would defend these buffoons?
neiman1 more stupidity from you. Obama or anyone would meet someone who has something intelligent to say. Gibbons is dead weight and has been the joke of the country for months now. You of course continue to make the most stupid,juvenile statements ever.The village idiot need only look at Obamas popularity and then at Gibbons, case closed. Is it any wonder only 1 in 5 now claim to be Republicans after your hero Bush and now the idiot Gibbons along with a host of other nit wits who now count on Rush and Newt to save their day. Get over yourself and grow up.
Judy more lies from a sore loser,now go away. Las Vegas ruined Las Vegas along with no oversight of financial institutions,deregulation of everything possible and corporate greed. Vegas was dead on the vine before Obama. Get over yourself. Bush sure did a lot to help ruin Vegas and the country. Judy get alife.
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Wow. Is this what the Drudge & freeper sites are like these days?
Yikes.
Oh poor, poor Jimmy. the President didn't sit bolt upright and jump to his call for a meeting. Imagine the nerve of an American President who is dealing with a recession/depression, 2 maybe 3 wars, a health care crisis, a housing market that has crashed, world wide waring factions that are growing in leaps and bounds, a past administration that has committed War Crimes, a public that is sick of torture and then there is that pesky ole "war on terror".
Imagine that, Obama didn't jump for Jimmy...
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Another thing that shows how full of it Barack Hussein Obama is. The only people President B.O. wants to are the people that suck the life out of society. Screw the working man and middle class with its unemployment continuing to skyrocket, no no no no, lets give government healthcare to illegal aliens cortousy of the US taxpayer, lets give people money that can't pay their mortgages because they could never have afforded it the first place, lets print another trillion dollars, we can get the money from China anyway, who cares if our kids are born with $30,000 in debt thanks to the policies of Barack Insane Obama. Obama -- Rewarding failure one day at a time. The guy spent more money his first 3 months in office than the cost of the entire Iraq war - keep borrowing the money B.O., keep printing away - who cares if inflation and unemployment are set to skyrocket. As long as we have MSNBC and our task of bloggers that comes on and attacks anyone that disagrees with President Body Odor, we will make it through the next 4 years no problem -
So, "leetalias"; all this started when ... January 20, 2009? January 21, 2009?
LMAO. To you and the other dittoheads: please keep posting. I need the laugh this morning.
It's disgusting. Americans have become a bunch of whiney, entitlement-minded drones that are more interested in seeing what they can obtain from other people's efforts than what they can achieve through their own. That's why our position as a leading world economic power is going down the drain. Union B.S., government jobs created by increasing taxes (zero sum game), etc. I guess it's too hard these days to put in the effort to become successful, so let's just take from those that have achieved success and then we'll be successful too, right? Isn't that what Obama said on the campaign trail? Watch what happens when cap and trade and the new "tax haven" corporate tax policies are implemented. Nice political spin on that last one - all that'll happen is we'll put our domestic corporations at an even greater disadvantage when compared with foreign businesses and incentivize them to move entire operations outside the U.S. to "Obama-proof" them.
The Left praises Obama for talking to our country's enemies while bashing the armed forces, the intelligence community and even his own country (on foreign soil!). He'll hug Hugo Chavez, appease Fidel Castro, cower before Putin, "talk" to Ahmadinejad without preconditions, favors Palestinian militants over Israeli democracy, but he won't talk to Gibbons - an American governor whose state is in financial stress? The reason is simple: Gibbons is a political opponent. The "new tone" that Obama talks about is only for those who pose no real threat to the Democrats' grip on power, like foreign governments. To meet with Gibbons would be a tacit admission that his careless words cost real money to the people of Nevada. He'd much rather apologize for other people than himself. Hypocrites! You are so full of Bush-hate that you can't see straight. The snake in the grass will bite you in the end.
OMG - the Prez tells the world NOT to go to Vegas, but travels there to raise piggy $$$ for Harry Reid, yet he refuses to meet with the governor!
If the governor wore a turban BO would be there in a heartbeat, bowing and scraping.
Nevada, you're DOOMED.
OMG - the Prez tells the world NOT to go to Vegas, but travels there to raise piggy $$$ for Harry Reid, yet he refuses to meet with the governor!
If the governor wore a turban BO would be there in a heartbeat, bowing and scraping to his Muslim masters.
Nevada, you're DOOMED.
Wow, lots of messages - plenty of heat but little light. The point was made that at a time when Blago was the Guv Barry met with him. Well, that tells you something - Blago was a decent gov compared to the incumbent criminals and crooks in Carson City. Resign Jimbo. Give Vegas a chance!
Obama working with the other side. Just wondering when this is going to happen??? About 6 months from election to try to fool the sheep again that he is bi partisan . This man is the most partisan president we have ever had by far. Look at how he and his party have treated the other 49% that did not vote for him. As he said in February "I won I am going to do what I want, get used to it" Can anyone say Narcissist, look it up if you don't know what it means. And no I am not a republican! Go LIBERTERIANS
Let that be a lesson to you Nevada. Red states don't fare well, purple states fare little better. If you want to be in the emperor's good graces, solid blue is the only color to be. All others shall suffer his wrath.
Would any rational person today want to meet with Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, or Pol Pot? No. Barak Obama is as evil as any of those four, as only four months have shown. You say, no way! Those men endorsed the murder of millions of people. I say, Obama is overseeing the murder of innocent human beings in the wombs of their mothers every day--hundreds of thousands yearly.
OMG ... from under what rock did you crawl, "tex"? Keep posting; I'll keep laughing. (BTW, get back to me when you gain the capacity to become pregnant. THEN and ONLY then will you have anything to say about it. Have a nice day.)
I can't believe the onslaught of ignorant, illiterate dittoheads continues. The SUN staff must be LTAO.
It looks like this story was posted on FreeRepublic's site. No wonder the whackadoodles are out in full force.
Drudge linked this story. So get ready for the deluge of brain dead red neck in bred retards to start posting lies and nonsense.
Don't you clowns have some moonshine to brew or pig to chase or sister to molest?
So Obama states that corporations and banks receiving bail out money shouldn't be going to Vegas and you have a problem with that? Stupid Republicans
Jim Gibbons wants Obama to come to Carson City when Gibbons won't even show up there. Why? Does Gibbons want to show the POTUS his new girl friend, Mrs. SomebodyElse'sWife?
I really can't think of any good reason for Obama to visit with Gibbons. Gibbons is anti-education, anti-business and anti-development. Why else would he whack all our kids? No business will come here because they would have an under-educated workforce. It's a sell-the gold, starve the kids, no-tax free-for-all for the casinos. Dumb people, salty sand and sunlight are the only things happening in Nevada. Just the way Jim and Patrick want it.
For all of you that voted Obooma in office will be pounding your head on the ground asking yourself why was i mislead right around 2015! we will all be broke,and the laughing stock of the world! If you think the depression in the 20s was bad, YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET!!!
HERE CUMS DEM IRRADIATED TERMATOS!!! EV'RYBUDDY RUN!!! AAAIGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Gibbons might be a horrible gov. but he's the only one we have, and the President should make a little time to show the state of Nevada some respect. After all, we know what kind of company Obama is used to keeping, and let's just say he's very friendly with people far slimier than Gibbons.
Patricia,
You were way out of line responding to Tex that way! You don't think that men should have the right to protest the death of human life just because they dont carry babies. You must be one of those feminest type.
How frustrating!
Obama doesn't like cheaters
He told all you half-wits what he was going to do. And he's just getting started. When he's finished, you will be living in just another third world hell hole. Probably wondering what happened.
You voted for change.
Actually, "fromthesouth" (kinda says it all) I had every right to respond to him and to anyone as I did.
Further, UNITED STATES LAW says abortion is NOT murder. If your faith precludes such a belief, you are entitled to that belief and to your opinion. Simple, isn't it?
You are NOT FREE, however, to demand that NO ONE ELSE can have an abortion or hold a different opinion than yours. Simple, isn't it?
If you don't believe in abortion, THEN DON'T HAVE ONE.
Simple, isn't it?
B. HUSSEIN OBAMA, the first communist dictator of the U.S., has damaged Las Vegas with a few words more than any other person in Las Vegas history. Over 111,000 people have cancelled their Las Vegas trip since which has caused damages of an estimated quarter billion dollars to our LV economy and thousands of jobs have already been lost in Las Vegas. The arrogant Obama doesn't care about Las Vegas and its residents, no matter if you're Democrat or a Republican. This Hussein Obama has the audacity to come to our town to aid the failing senator Harry Reid -- who BTW won't be re-elected -- to raise money from you. But as arrogant as this punk Obama is, he doesn't even want to meet with our Governor, meaning Obama can't face the music as we in Nevada aren't fooled/deceived by his "smooth" talk.
If you're a Nevadan and a Democrat, you should leave this political mess/party immediately as it damages our economy and all of our Las Vegan well being. It's disgusting the damage this communist Obama regime has already caused. This guy needs to be impeached. In fact, why are we Nevadans paying our federal tax dollars to this weird government in D.C.? ... when we don't even need those blood suckers as we would do very well by ourselves as an independent Republic. Let's make Nevada #1 in the world.
I hope, Obama gets the message that he isn't welcome in our town.
PatriciaLV,
The laws regarding murder and abortion are a little bipolar. On one hand it is perfectly legal to murder a viable fetus by ripping it out of a pregnant woman in what can only be described as an incredibly violent act. For some reason it's not considered murder, but if you killed a pregnant woman you will be charged with 2 counts of murder. Quite funny how that works.
gd person, "Obama doesn't like cheaters."
You weren't referring to tax cheaters, I presume.
How sad that the man "Jugears" of change won't meet for a few minutes with a governor trying to do right for his state. The housing problem alone should be enough to cause Nobama to have the meeting. Arrogance is a Washington disease that effects and affects many--Jugears will find it to be a long term malady.
The next time some person said President Obama "inherited this recession", repeat these facts:
1) 80% of the stock market decline has occured since the election, more than 60% since the current President taking office.
2) the day after the election, the Dow lost 5%, the day of the current President took office, the Dow lost 5%, the day the stimulas bill was signed, the Dow lost 5%. the market (i.e. those who bet on the country's financial future) has soundly shouted a Bronx cheer regarding the President's policies.
3) over 80 million Americans have 401(K)accounts. once they understand why their wealth was destroyed, Congress and the President will suffer.
4) what specific policies did the current President "inherit" that caused the decline? Of those policies, such as TARP, how did Senator Obama vote/?
If I was teh governah I would be like Yo Obama it is time to discuss the economic difficulties facing our tourism industry! And if he said no I would hunt him down like an animal headlock TNT piledriver hiz azz fire a machine gun in the air Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Patricia,
and you put all your faith in the US government? hmmm....
Patricia,
do you have a problem with my "fromthesouth" username?
dldavis1502, Are you impaired or have you been on Mars. The Dow fell becuase of failed banks,brokerages,insurance corps,due to no oversight from the Bush administration. In 2002 Bush asked congress to help find ways for ways for people who could not afford homes to be able to buy them,in 2004 Grennspan asked Wall Street to come up with programs to do the same thing henseforth subprime mortgages. both Bush and Greenspan did the beckoning of their financial backers banks,brokerages, and insurance corps, without any oversight. Leading Lauriet professors of economics warned of the market crash. Everything stocks,homes,commercial property was overvalued thus the crash.
To say that Obama caused this depression in his first one hundred days is stupidity.He inherited it from a lying president and his adminsitration who bankrupted America with his lying war. Think before you post.
He doesn't want to meet with you because you're a flippin' idiot! Haven't you heard that you're irrelevant? Resigning is the most patriotic thing you can do for NV.
"fromthesouth" .... no problem with the name; as I stated (and thought it was quite clear) it just says it all about you.
Please post the exact place where I indicated I "put all [my] faith in the US government".
"hmmm" indeed. You might want to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
fromthesouth: Patricia always finds at least one person on whatever the thread is to be rude to and try and put them on defensive.. personally I ignore him/her.
It think it's a shame that Obama, finds it's OK to waste the taxpayer's money to fly into Vegas for a fundraiser for Harry...tsk tsk.. Sounds a bit hypocritical to me. That man sure can blow through other people's money..
Jim Gibbons.. yes he is a big loser, but he is the only Governor we have.. Obama is going to to be here on the taxpayers dime regardless. I think the least he can do is find a few minutes to discuss Nevada's issues with him. After all, we paid his way to Vegas, we ARE the taxpayers..
Thank undergod "Linda in Vegas" has warned the world about little ol' me! I know I feel better already. LOL.
Did you bother to read the thread or do you just assume? (My guess: the latter.)
The main problem with you americans are, you hang on every word of every news broadcast and mistake it for truth. I am a White South African that admires the judicial system of America. I am also a democrat. I admire Obama's spirit, honesty and intelligence. We can speculate all we want about why he didn't want to meet with Gov. Gibbons. But the simple fact is... The whole world is in recession and we will be for some time. Its like beating on a army general mid battle and critisize him for every mistake he makes without knowing what the outcome will be and before the war is even close to over. The whole world is struggling in this recession, but there are still people that stop moaning and start working that deservedly keep their jobs because they are actually worth keeping on. Unemployment exists solely because most Americans are lazy people that think the world owes them something. Much like the black race in South Africa. Apartheid has been over for 15 years. I mean, get over yourself. Obama at least has a plan. Not sit around and wait for someone else to step in. We all know that predictions are exactly that and should not be taken as truths. We here in South Africa admire the US democracy, because unlike us, you can actually do something to get rid of the idiots. We are stuck with uneducated presidents that murdered people in their younger days. Bet you didn't know the great Nelson Mandela murdered people. And I just want to set another thing straight. South Africa is probably more evolved than most of the US. So stop coming here expecting to see wild animals walking about.