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Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 | 6:59 p.m.
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- Democrats play their ace in the hole — Obama (10-20-2010)
- Sara Bareilles will be musical guest at Obama rally in Las Vegas (10-20-2010)
- Obama begins 2-day Vegas stay (7-8-2010)
- Michelle Obama visits Las Vegas; Red Rock restrictions in place (6-1-2010)
- Obama goes gloves off, head-on (1-14-2008)
A half hour before the doors opened, hundreds of people lined up around the block in anticipation of President Barack Obama’s rally for Sen. Harry Reid at Orr Williams Middle School.
While there were plenty of eager supporters for Obama and Reid lining the sidewalks of Algonquin Drive and Katie Avenue, one man was defending himself from a group of angry supporters.
“Well, I didn’t plan on seeing the president,” Greg Halvorson said while holding a Sharron Angle poster. “I just came down to exercise my First Amendment right as an American. It’s a passionate and fun election to participate in. I came down here to experience the hate of the left, as well.”
As Halvorson held his sign, the Obama and Reid supporters who surrounded him gave him a hard time. Some jokingly yelled, “Man up!” — a phrase Angle has used repeatedly toward Reid — but others were more strident.
“I’m going to wipe up the floor with you,” Kyung Egan yelled to Halvorson. “On your best day you’re not as smart as I am on my worst day.”
Judy Parker of Mesquite was calmer while debating with Halvorson about Angle’s stance on abortion.
“Sharron Angle is destroying this country. She has come out and said if you’re handed a lemon, you just got to make lemonade,” Parker said, referring to a statement Angle made about her opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape. “If my daughter or granddaughter got raped and pregnant, I’d take her clear across the country to get an abortion.”
While Halvorson stirred up the crowd with his sign, others, like 84-year-old Hubert Brown and his wife, Mildred Nolan, waited patiently to support the president and Reid.
“Obama’s doing the best he can,” Nolan said. “He’s just a marvel. Nothing seems to get him down. I know he has moments; he’s right in there trying to do everything.”
Brown, a World War II veteran and New York native, said he doesn’t like Sharron Angle because of positions she’s taken on privatizing Social Security and the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs.
“She wants to do away with everything that’s taken years to get,” Brown said.
Izzy Coutin, a Californian who has been following the Nevada Senate election, said Angle and the Tea Party frighten him because of their extreme views.
“It’s unfortunate that this country has so many fools,” Coutin said. “They like to think the Tea Party and extremism is the equivalent to patriotism. It’s frightening to me. It’s a scary thought.”
Farther down the line, Jim Reed said the key to victory for Democrats is for voters to show up at the polls.
“If they can get all these people to go vote, then that’s success for them. Because they’ll certainly vote the same way they voted in ’08,” Reed said.
Watching with a smile as the argument intensified between Halvorson, Parker and Egan, he said Halvorson had every right to be here.
“That’s called freedom of speech. I’ve done it with Republican groups before,” Reed said as he laughed. “It’s a kick.”
Nice guys, these Obama/Reid supporters...
The great part of this election is that we
Democrats out number republicans.
We will out-vote them every time.
republican ideology is 100% wrong.
President Obama and Harry Reid are the two
greatest men in our country.
VOTE HARRY REID.
I really wish I wasn't such a fool and was as smart as Izzy Coutin and Kyung Egan. I guess they are right... Trying to support people and legislation that is consistent with the Constitution is extreme and scary. At least trying to honor the Oath that I swore to protect the Constitution has become very scary in recent years. I am now labeled an extremist, racist, and terrorist threat for even bringing up the timeless document that was so brilliantly written by such great students of world history. They were human and had their flaws but they wrote a very sound and timeless document. Have any of these well educated geniuses even read and studied the Constitution that the people they support swore an Oath to protect? Their blind acceptance of their representatives words and goals at face value, and acceptance of their representatives blatant treasonous Oath breaking legislation is what scares me. Even scarier is that these people probably are very intelligent people that test very well in IQ tests yet they have so easily become sheep being led to slaughter by staying so blindly partisan. This chaos we are experiencing started many years ago. It got kicked into high gear during the Clinton administration, was perpetuated by the Constitution trampling Bush administration, and is finally being finished off by the Obama Administration. The touch down has been scored, ball has been spiked, and the minions are raiding the field doing the funky chicken end zone dance with their favorite team the OathBreakers. Sharon Angle is no prize either. Every time I hear her speak I can't help but think that the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. However, she at least seems to make an effort to make sure her positions on issues are in line with the Constitution.
The scariest thing of all to me is that we are not coming together as Americans. Instead we are allowing self serving politicians to distract us from focusing on the most serious issue of all... the state of the American Dollar! The American Dollar is on the verge of collapse, which means all the arguing along with things like Medicare, Social Security, Healthcare, and other programs will collapse as well. So, seems to me the arguing is the equivalent of arguing about what tune the band is playing on the Titanic as it goes down. But what do I know? I am just a dumb guy alone in the dinghy watching in tearful horror as my country gasps for its last breaths before going under...
Both sides need to wake up!
alien......
President Obama is a Constitutional Law
Professor with a 172 I.Q.
I'll stick with Obama.
You cannot forget that before Obama, the White House and the Republicans encouraged businesses to take their operations overseas. The "Core" of our problems is "jobs" that are no longer available "here in the USA" because of the policies of the "same People, the same Group" that helped "big Business" and not the "Middle Class, the working person."
Right now, the true measurement of "any company operating in the USA" and making a profit off "our dollars" is the offering of "Employment."
These companies that have benefitted because of the past administration policies and the fact that those companies calling themselves US companies are not offering employment, but making Huge Profits, are being supported by the same people who say "I want My Country Back". Go figure.
I belived in Las Vegas, I believed in Las Vegas companies that are offering employment to keep Las Vegas economy going. That is the measurment being used today. Talk is cheat, misleading and producing nothing but confusion. It is time to look after, and support, anything "LOCAL" that is supporting our community.
From the L.A. Times ===========================================================================================
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal workers without a green card.
2. 95% of murder warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in L.A. are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in L.A. are to illegal aliens on Medi-Cal - whose births were paid for by tax- payers.
5. Nearly all inmates in CA detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in L.A. County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in L.A. are most likely illegal aliens.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A. County - 5.1 million people speak English - 3.9 million speak Spanish. There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County.
11. Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking crops - but 29% are on welfare.
12. Over 70% of the U.S. annual population growth (over 90% in CA, FL, and NY) results from immigration.
13. 29% of inmates in federal prison are illegal aliens.
Had enough yet America? Hopefully so - because it's coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Progressive republicans in our government have allowed this for decades for cheap labor. Progressive democrats have done so for votes. Then people wonder why liberal lala-land is bankrupt. If you like these statistics - vote for a progressive. - P.S. ----- Harry Reid is a progressive democrat who has done nothing to stop illegal aliens from invading America. If you like what L.A. has become Nevada - re-elect Reid. By the end of his next term - Las Vegas will be a carbon copy of it...
I am an Hispanic Voter Nobody Tell Me or Suggest Me How To Vote It Is My Constitutional LEGAL Right.
I won't "misdirect" my vote. I won't vote "stupidly". I will vote to better the country not to destroy the country. I won't vote according to special interests. I will vote according to my conscience.
The lunacy of the left is on full display in this election cycle, from DC down to City Hall. Don't you love the statement of the lady from Mesquite, "Sharron Angle is destroying this country". Huh? Angle hasn't been in the Senate yet, like Reid has been for decades, so just how could she be destroying us? What has Reid been doing, watching the destruction, or CREATING IT?
To Longtimevegan: You say "talk is cheap, misleading and producing nothing but confusion". Uh, confusion for whom? An intelligent, inquisitive mind can sort out the baloney and see the truth in campaign rhetoric. Those who cannot do this, and are swayed by distortions and lies, should not be voting. And, yes, we should be involved in the affairs of our community, but not exclusively. The out-of-control central government, which is operating far outside its constitutional limits, mandates policies which affect everyone, right down to the smallest community. It's time for the People, the communities, the counties and the states to wrest control back from the feds. Hence, the Tea Party Movement.
Obama says that things could be worse...
Yes, and the economy has been getting worse since Obama took office and Harry Reid took over the Senate.
And Harry Reid is so proud to have Obama patronize him.
Harry Reid just doesn't understand that "ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID!"
Miller, Paladino, O'Donnell, etc. are going down the drain....the teaparty is over. The handfull of Jim deMinted Senators will be rejected by both Republicans and Democrats.
In fact, middle of the road Republican Senators will dominate: Grahm, Brown, Snow, Collins, etc.
Even Eric Cantor says they don't have the votes to repeal all of Obamacare.
Good idea teamster. Stick with the guy that is fully aware how flagrantly his policies violate the Constitution. Stick with the guy that knows clearly how flagrantly he is violating his Oath. Stick with the guy that is much smarter than you that knows the Constitution inside and out and is systematically undermining it with you not having a clue it is even happening due to your lack of understanding of the Constitution. Maybe if you understood half of what he does about the Constitution and the Federalist Papers you would understand the Constitution was put in place so that during times of crisis, like now, mob mentality would not rule and freedoms would not be sacrificed to solve immediate needs and problems. It is meant to prevent Representatives from using the chaos and hysteria created by crisis to suit their own opportunistic ends. But based on your user name I am sure my words are lost on you.
The Harry/Barry old bat-mobile got stuck in a ditch because it did not have an "R" for reverse.
LOL. Sorry. My bad Bob.
Line by line, you are apparently a VERY RACIST bigot. You said you quoted the L.A. times, WHERE AND WHEN?? Please take your racism to the deep south where they appreciate it! Don't worry, you won't have to wear a white hood, they walk around brazenly these days without them!
I am going elsewhere, things are getting too tough around here.
Maybe the teamster will show up and straighten a few people out...
The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014.
While it's too early to proclaim the demise of job-based coverage, corporate number crunchers are looking at options that could lead to major changes.
"The economics of dropping existing coverage is about to become very attractive to many employers, both public and private," said Gov. Phil Bredesen, D-Tenn.
THANKS HARRY, GREAT WORK