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Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Will somebody tell President Barack Obama that we don’t appreciate his visits to this area? The traffic bottleneck is horrendous every time he comes. And we are supposed to be careful about our environment? Well, all that idling of cars adds carbon monoxide to the environment.
And Nevadans don’t gain a thing from the solar farms he visited, in my opinion, because all that fantastic power goes to California. Also, not only is he spending valuable money on his visits, but he is using valuable energy while he preaches that our country wants to cut back on fuel imports.
Last, but not least, he says the trip was not political in nature. Well, it sure sounds like it is. Only a fool would believe otherwise.
Mx. Candelaria:
If that is the best you have to persuade the coveted independent voters to support your candidate, your candidate will be waiting for his appointment in the hall outside the Oval office for another four years.
At this juncture, any solution would be a great improvement. Right now, don't even worry about the issues. Just concentrate on solutions. The issues can be invented later. Simply solutions.
Obama will do anything for a vote.
The trip backfired because gas prices are still going up.
Obama acknowledges We now produce LESS domestic oil then we did 9 years ago.
The solar plant only has a dozen workers
Obama has emphasized increasing oil production in Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and else where which is more expense to drill and ship and have no enviromental controls. Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline but now want to take credit for the southern portion which only needs States approval.
Vote for Romney at lest he will move the Yucca project to New Mexico
another pathetic letter published by the las vegas sun...
adds absolutely nothing to the discussion...
designed to incite...
hey brian greenspun...
your paper stinks...
it needs help buddy...
i would start by reassigning the letter to the editor editor...
if you think publishing letters like this will increase readership...
your paper is doomed...
At least Las Vegans will never have to worry about severe conservative Etch-A-Sketch Romney coming to town with a presidential entourage. Same goes for Moonbase Noot and the other GOP wanabees.
"And Nevadans don't gain a thing from the solar farms he visited, in my opinion, because all that fantastic power goes to California."
Excuse me, but California is a State too and Barack Obama is President of the United States. Would you feel better if he had gone to California and observed people using a three-prong plug?
Obama told us a few years ago you can't go to Las Vegas and blow money on the taxpayer's dime. It's okay for him to do though. I fear a second term when the whole family takes seperate vacations.
That solar plant employees like 20 people.
The government (your children will pay for it via the deficit credit card program) gave like some hundred million dollrs to get it up and running.
The government (your children via the same deficit credit card program) will continue to pay out dough because the price of solar energy is so high that taxpayers and power utility consumers dollars have to come into play to bring down the price of it.
But remember it employes 20 people which is less than what it takes to staff a McDonalds.
Whoohooo Obama...keep up the good work.
"Will somebody tell President Barack Obama that we don't appreciate his visits to this area?"
Let me get this straight.
You are basically saying the President cannot visit Nevada?
Who elected you in charge?
Dumb letter.
Unlike President Obama, severe conservative Mitt Romney is severely charisma challenged. Therefore, in an attempt to connect with the Joe Sixpack middle class voters who will decide the election, Romney hired a remodel lobbyist to help him win approval in La Jolla CA to build car elevators in his home there.
That's right, car elevators. After all, some of Mitt's best friends who own Nascar teams have car elevators, not to mention remodel lobbyists.
The point is that a multimillionaire who pays just 13.9% taxes on his $21.7 million income must be creative at finding ways to spend all that cash.
I for one agree with the author. How many borrowed millions of chineese money did it cost us for this campain stop.
Anything Obama does is a waste of time and money.
It would be okay to travel if only he governed once in awhile.
Blah, blah, blah.....
Well, if you don't like Pres. Obama coming here, then I think you would want NO President coming here.
Let's make Las Vegas & Nevada as a whole a Non-stop state. Meaning, no President shall EVER come here and visit, nor should they or ANY of the other candidates stop here and campaign.
That will teach them & us!!!!
""Will somebody tell President Barack Obama that we don't appreciate his visits to this area?"
Let me get this straight.
You are basically saying the President cannot visit Nevada?"
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Well Yes - stay in the WH and sign the jobs bill just passed by Congress
Look at it this way, Obummer visits Nevada a lot more than his lackey water-boy who claims he is from just down the road, does. Does Harry really know where Searchlight is??
I just find it funny that the community organizer flies in a plane that burns fossil fuels, yet he thinks someday it will burn solar power and wind energy...
The letter writer is absolutely correct. Didn't President Obama tell all Americans that they can't go to Las Vegas on the taxpayers' dime. So, why is he?
Carmine A. DiFazio
Mr. Candelaria - "Will somebody tell President Barack Obama that we don't appreciate his visits to this area"
Would you be saying the same if Bush visited?
It's stunning how out of synch with reality some will achieve due to thier bias or prejudice.
Mr. Reid, there is a difference between calling a person stupid, and saying a person's action (or letter) is stupid. Saying either one might result in a comment being removed, but it is much more likely that the former will be deemed a personal attack than the latter. The latter case is often a close call, though.
How ironic, SgtRock complaning about our children picking up the tab for solar power, but sides with deregulating the poisons industries will be allowed to dump in our water, soil and air. He sides with stripping the government of the Dept. of Education. He sides with having our younger people tranfer their futures to funds controlled by Wall St. privatizing Social Security. He sides with creating a voucher system in place of Medicare. He sides with drilling, boring and exploding more of the planet to extract fossil fuels.
That is the future our children and grandchildren will be left if this generation gives into gluttony, greed and the need for instant gratification.
Generally speaking, I think most Presidential trips such as this one are a waste (indeed, a misuse) of taxpayer money, regardless of who the President is. I doubt that giving a speech on-site is that much more effective than had a President used a setting at the White House.
Beyond that, if a President really wants to sell his idea to Congress, then having meetings with many members of Congress in the White House might be more efficient.
Back in the 30s FDR was well-known for his fireside chats. There is no reason for a President not to do the same today on a TV segment. I'm sure that either FOX or MSNBC would be happy to provide free air-time to a sitting President for such.
The practice of disguising campaign speeches and fund-raising trips as public policy events needs to stop. Members of both the Democrats and Republicans are guilty of this.
TEA, I believe it is "Madam Moderator."
Obama needs to do something with his time and he says he's running for re-election. So as long as he does minimal harm, let him go where he wants to.
Mr. Treager, as expressed, the comment was much more of a personal attack than an opinion. Comments like those are removed without regard to what political party the person referred to might be a member of or the person being a public or private figure.
You can see examples in this comment section where comments made by people of widely differing viewpoints have been removed.
dipstick,
I'm sure there are people who say the same thing whenever they see one of your comments removed, such as the one at 1:58PM today. :)
At least the moderator(s?) hits everyone equally, it seems.
Good news! Etch A Sketch Mitt will never be traveling to Sin City with a presidential entourage because his poll numbers are sinking faster than GW Bush's did after invading Iraq and not finding a mushroom cloud or the nonexistent WMD.
Seems that the more voters learn about Flip-Flop Mitt the less they can imagine his lifelike, almost human presence in the Oval Office.
TEA - "3/27/12...Health care act will ruin America...your statement 1240pm...my response 401pm"
Would you please clarify the debate? I'm not sure exactly what point you are trying to make.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-22...
Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House: BGOV Barometer
Yes Vernos, the 1% doing very well under Obama. The remainder have to deal with "skyrocketing" energy prices.
People talk like Oblamer himself pulled the trigger that got Bin Laden. What branch of the military was Oblamer in anyways, the Salvation Army ??
Vernos states; Would you be saying the same if Bush visited? Yes, lots of people complained when Bush visited Vegas so please fast forward to 2012 and realize that Bush isn't the president now.
Burritto.....
Thank God Bush or any other republican isn't
president now.
These crazy republicans have done enough damage
to our country.
President Obama is fixing the HUGE MESS that
republicans left our country in.
And these crazy republicans are STILL trying to
steal health care from Americans.
THESE REPUBLICAN FOOLS HAVE NO SHAME!
Esmael.......
Did you forget that it was your republican party
that destroyed our economy?
Our great President Obama is welcome here
anytime.
FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
"If SCOTUS does overturn Obamacare, right then, at that very moment that the cloud of uncertainty is lifted for business's."
Business's what? Do you mean businesses?
So Mr. Traeger's bought into the foolish cries of "uncertainty" from businesses.
What is more certain: a law that's already on the books, or the train wreck of legislation that would get past a divided House and Senate?
Mr. Traeger gets it backwards. Overturning Obamacare would increase uncertainty, not lower it. It would push the debate on health care right back into the legislative process. THAT would increase uncertainty.
But then, who actually believes the "uncertainty" red herring, anyway?
<<Obama told us a few years ago you can't go to Las Vegas and blow money on the taxpayer's dime>>
<<Didn't President Obama tell all Americans that they can't go to Las Vegas on the taxpayers' dime>>
@Rusty and Carmine:
GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!! IF you both are going to drag this dead, dead, dead horse into the conversation AGAIN, at least get it right.
"Carmine:
GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!! "
President 'dissed' LV and Nevadans to make a bad political point. He never apologized, never retracked. It's called holding polticians accountable and transparency for their words and deeds. President said it. He owns it, unless and until he says he was wrong and he's sorry. I never forget and never get over it UNLESS he apologizes for it.
Carmine A. DiFazio
Says "forgive" not forget. Requires "repentence" by the forgiven. Have to ask for it first. President hasn't.
Carmine A. DiFazio
Like Det&Dip ever got anything right. Are you waiting for taxpayer subsidies of 10G's before you buy your Volts? Just don't blow it in Vegas!
"Obama will always have his 33%. Because that is his base and you can't cure "stupid."
You know what 33% is code for don't ya? :) :)
YEEEEHAAAAA!!!!!
Hello rusty57:
I didn't realize until the post this morning that you made the point first about the President's words coming back to haunt him. I didn't read your post before posting the same. Had I read I would have wholeheatedly agreed with you rather than posting the same. Nice to see our minds traveling in similar directions.
Carmine A. DiFazio
Carmine, funny how Obama had insisted he has no control over gas prices on his trip here. Then he proposes eliminating tax breaks on oil companies which will...raise gasoline prices. Clueless. Then he proposes the money go to green energy companies. Which will raise your electricity prices. Will dumbocrats EVER be able to connect the dots?
Rusty57 et al:
Ben Bernanke, who was told his QE1 and QE2 would devalue the dollar and price gas higher due to the inflationary effect of the dollar, said recently the higher gas prices could derail the economic turnaround in the USA and Europe, our biggest export buyers. Americans overwhelmingly don't approve of the way President Obama is handling the gas price crisis. Our European allies probably hate us more than they already do for the rising gas prices.
I opine the President and his top advisors are desperate and are groping for straws while sinking in quicksand. Nov 2012 can't get here quick enough. Obama and his team have to go before the USA, dollar, and the Euro countries sink into oblivion.
Carmine A. DiFazio
Carmine........
It's you and your republican friends who are
desperate and groping for straws while sinking
in quicksand.
YES, 2012 can't get here quick enough, when rich,
greedy, heartless republicans will lose again.
The poll today has President Obama 11 points
ahead of Willard Romney.
Republicans will lose in a landslide.
The republican party of greed is DOA.
Americans will NEVER be fooled again.
LIVE BETTER/WORK UNION!
And if you don't believe the polls, you will
believe the election results in November.
The Ryan plan is WORSE than the Bush plan.
The only poll that matters is Nov 6. All the others don't.
Obama, Biden, Reid and Pelosi are history. All will retire from politics never to be seen or heard from again.
Make book on it.
Carmine A. DiFazio
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The Tea Party...
It's like watching a mean version of Hee Haw.
And just as entertaining.