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President Barack Obama greets people after arriving at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 5:02 p.m.
President Barack Obama will visit UNLV next week, according to university and White House officials.
Obama is expected to be on campus June 7 for an "official event," a White House official said Wednesday. Other details of Obama's trip have not been released and it was not known if the event would be open to the public.
The last time the president was at the university was in July 2010, when he made a campaign stop for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who was facing a difficult midterm re-election fight.
This will be the third trip to the Las Vegas Valley this year for Obama, who is running for re-election this fall. Obama made an overnight visit in January and made a midday stopover in March. On both of those trips, the president promoted his administration’s energy policies.
Earlier this month, first lady Michelle Obama was in Las Vegas for a campaign fundraiser.
It was not immediately known what the focus of next week’s presidential visit would be.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, was in Las Vegas on Tuesday for a fundraiser and campaign stop.
Nevada is seen as one of the so-called "swing states" that are seen as key to winning the White House in November.
Romney calls it what it is - a fundraiser, and uses campaign dollars. Obama calls it "official business" so the taxpayers pay for his trip.
Official visit means Obama isn't paying for it and the taxpayers will... I am sure this has nothing to do with politics...
We don't want him or his entourage here, its costs us money and he takes away from our economy. In other words, he's poison and not welcomed here. He needs to go to California where liberals flourish and where he'd be appreciated.
someone please inform the president that his visits cause huge traffic problems for the serfs---we have enough aggravation with traffic in las vegas already---definitely a reason to vote against him.
Mr. Wiggin,
You should learn to use "I" instead of "We" in your posts.
You don't speak for everyone in this valley.
Holly Madison is trying to decide which outfit to wear in which to greet the President. The outfit that shows her cleavage or the outfit that shows her cleavage.
Always great to see Air Force Once come to Las Vegas. Mr Wiggin not withstanding
Another worthless trip for a worthless president.
Alright!!!
Welcome back, Mr. President.
Heretic...Wiggins...
you mad, bro???
gmag, not mad just over his cult of personality.
I wonder if coming to Vegas helps him add people to his kill list?
Of course President Obama is welcome to Las Vegas.
Don't pay attention to the usual crowd of haters that populate the LV Sun website.
One thing that will be certain is that Krolicki and Sandoval will trip over themselves to go suck up to Trump and Romney, but when President Obama comes to Las Vegas, they run and hide like jackals.
But then what do you expect from birthers?
Sorry, can't help drawing the parallel. It's guilt by association. Trump, Romney, Sandoval and Krolicki. All together. That makes all of them idiots birthers.
Anyways, Sandoval and Krolicki don't particpate in anything dealing with America. They won't even greet President Obama at the airport.
In her defense, and I absolutely detest her, Governor Brewer of Arizona, even though she played a horse's butt when she did it, she met President Obama at the airport in Phoenix.
Do you think either Sandoval or Krolicki will?
No.
They'd rather suck up to Trump and his lacky, the spineless Romney.
Shows the serious priorities of our stupid government here in Nevada.
Obama/Biden 2012! AND a Democratic Party majority in both the Senate and the House.
Hi vegaslee,
As far as I can tell Tim Wiggins barely speaks for himself and maybe a handful of the more delusional right wing posters. Delusions of grandeur?
Well aren't we lucky, OB has changed his mind about
LV. First He was Upset about the town and now he's
coming to town with his pockets open. His woman
likes the place also, she brings all her friends
and family here every chance she gets. Aren't us
tax payers lucky??
When Obama said not to spend money in Las Vegas, he was NOT putting Vegas down. We need to understand the message.
He was simply saying that people should be responsible with their finances. We know how we Americans spend more than we can afford. That is why we have this mess we are in now.
It's amazing how we can twists other people's words to serve our own purpose.
I think we need to grow up.
WELCOME AGAIN, PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
You are always welcome to our great city.
Please ignore the republican ignorance.
These republicans are too stupid to know any
better.
FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
By the looks of the Obama add on the upper right, y'all better learn to speak spangladesh.
Did anyone notice that Mitt Romney could not fill a room with more than a few hundred "supporters" even with Donald Trump promoting the event?
While President Obama garners THOUSANDS of supporters at his events?
BTW: Romney wins the Texas Republican Primary and Ron Paul and his little revolution is over - LOL!
So Omoron coming here for official business is a nice way of having my tax money pay for a campaign trip. You other left wing idiots are stooges.
I hear UNLV bought a bunch of CFL light bulbs at Home Depot. I think that's what he's going to talk about.
What's the over/under on fundraisers he'll attend while flying out here on the taxpayer dime?
I hope the Secret Service monitors local hate talk radio takes the appropriate action against the Birther Bigots and haters. Thank you Mr. President for bringing hope back to our state after the Trump birthers and bigots soiled our great state with their hate.
Mred: S.S. guys will be too busy chasing the hookers around to worry about some radio show...
Obozo will tell the students that they shouldn't worry about jobs or any other conventional matter because he's the smartest man in the universe and is well on his way to receiving a Nobel prize in economics. Afterall, it's always been about him. Everyone else is just a prop for his magnificence.
@ A Sad Teacher: I'm not in favor of anybody putting Las Vegas down. That goes for the President, Bill O'Rielly or anyone else. You being a teacher should realize words have meaning. The fact that after the Las Vegas comments were said, 1000's lost jobs and this city lost millions of dollars of revenue. Why not tell the conventioneers that cancelled trips here that they didn't understand the Presidents meaning. You of all people should understand the effects of someone in that position making those comments.
He's our President like it or not
Exactly Chuck. I am a teacher and I KNOW that words have meaning. We interpret what we hear based on our own frame of reference and nobody can change that.
My understanding of words is a little bit broader than most.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Colin, haters?? Review your own posts about members of the Tea Party.
I think thou doth protest too much!
Btw, Obama is absolutely worthless as POTUS. He may have been born in Hawaii but he acts like he was born with a silver spoon in his nose.
For all of the splitting hair folks who think Obama slammed Vegas, think about this, the slobbering media implied his derision and the cult of personality zombies followed suit and cancelled conventions and meetings.
Hard to understand the truth isnt it?
Shaffer, I speak clear for myself; we as in 70% of America can't stand your leader or anything else that has the word or meaning of a liberal in it.
Let there be no misunderstandings, the liberal breed under Obama has flourished and Americans are going to rise to the occasion and boot him and his kind out of office. He and his kind aren't welcomed in Nevada on my dime, I'm sick and tired of money I pay in taxes being used where it shouldn't be, liberals.
But not for liberals and their sick minds and their lazy pathetic ways, America wouldn't be so screwed up and we surely wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.
Good news for all Americans in Vegas. I am hoping to be invited and will like it even better if my wife and baby girl will be invited to attend also.
I usually get invites to these type of things, all one has to do is be polite, something I excel at. Just ask Mark, RefNV, and Carmine.
Jeff, don't do it. Your daughter will be more impressed with the teleprompter.
Interesting how Mr. Obama said that folks shouldn't travel to Vegas on the governments dime but he and his wife haven't missed an opportunity yet to come here using taxpayer money. Since this is a money raising junket maybe he and the DNC should set an example and pay for the trip out of their own pockets including reimbursing NHP & Metro for all the overtime that will be spent to provide him an escort by Traffic & SWAT Officers. Of course that will never happen just as it has never happened with other administrations as well as the current GOP nominee.
@ A Sad Teacher: You can side step all you want. Tell me what you'd say to the conentioneers that cancelled or for that matter the folks that lost thier jobs. Stay on point teach. What would you say that you read between the lines and have a higher understanding of what was said? Where do you think clark county gets the money to fund education? Cause and effect or better yet words have meaning and consequences.
Talk about nice and polite...next to my picture of Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn with my wife and me in Bali, the receipt for a brick I bought for Hillary and Bill in Portland Oregon's Children's Hospitals along with the note from them thanking me for the support following the failed effort to forge an affordable health care act, I have the nicest letter from the White House from the Obama family for sending them a signed copy of my then most recent book, the comedy, history and tragedy of June Hog Salmon, the 6 foot salmon that we wiped out with the Grand Coulee Dam in 1940.
http://www.amazon.com/June-Hog-Salmon-Jo...
It's just an ecology book for kids to get the big picture; it's illustrated by Mary Rogers and may soon become an animated movie starring a world famous comedian and history buff who shall remain nameless until papers are all signed and production underway...
Obama may not play well to the Tim Wiggins in this world because of the way the Obama administration has worked to benefit our country and the way Tim would like to return to pre-civil war days when slaves knew their place, but with the best the elephants can do is a bully who gangs up on long hairs, ties dogs to car tops and disintegrates communities for personal profiteering, the future for civility and justice for all seems a good bet, huh, odds-makers?
Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is a political ideology or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion. It's a compliment to be called a liberal. And I would love to attend this event. Anyone know how I can get an invite??