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Sam Morris / Las Vegas Sun
President Barack Obama smiles during a campaign event Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at Doolittle Park. An estimated 13,000 turned out for his ninth visit to Nevada this year.
By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Published Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 | 7 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 | 10:33 p.m.
Singer Katy Perry performs during a campaign event for President Barack Obama Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at Doolittle Park. An estimated 13,000 turned out for his ninth visit to Nevada this year.
Doolittle Park
With the economy still fragile and his re-election prospects uncertain, President Barack Obama hasn't quite been able to muster the rock star status in 2012 that helped carried him to victory in 2008.
But Wednesday night, with the help of a little pre-speech singing by Katy Perry, he mustered the old groove for a crowd of 13,000 in Doolittle Park.
Obama stopped in Las Vegas tonight for a rally on the third leg of a multistop tour of swing states that began in Iowa this morning, and in the next two days will take him to Colorado, Florida, Virginia and Ohio.
"We are pulling an all-nighter. No sleep," Obama told the crowd. "And if you're not going to sleep you might as well be in Vegas."
The president is crashing through six swing states in three days, shoring up support in those that have been tipping in his favor, and trying to pump up Democrats to go storm the polls in the states that lately have been teetering toward Romney.
Together, the stops are a preview of the states the nation will likely be watching on Election Night, as somewhere within their combined 82 electoral votes are the points that will put one candidate or the other over the top.
Obama has been polling a few points ahead of Romney in Iowa, Nevada and Ohio, and holding an even slighter lead in Colorado. But in Florida, Romney holds a slight edge — and in Virginia, they are all but dead even.
But with all of those numbers falling well within the margin of error, neither candidate is presuming to presage the outcome of this race.
So Obama made a point of emphatically, directly, and sometimes comically, asking the Las Vegans gathered for their vote.
"I've come to Nevada to ask you for your vote. I've come to ask you to help me keep America moving forward," Obama said. "You can choose the top-down policies that got us into this mess or you can choose the ones that are getting us out."
Obama then went on to accuse Romney of not actually having policies that voters could consider if they tried.
"He's hoping you will come down with a severe case of Romnesia before you cast your ballot," Obama said, citing the term his campaign has coined to diagnose what they consider to be flip-flopping on the part of the Romney campaign, especially in the weeks since the televised presidential debates started. The last of those debates was on Monday night.
"But Las Vegas, if you feel any symptoms ... fever, or a ringing in your ears, blurred vision — not being able to remember what you said just last week? If it's coming on, good news, is, we can fix you up," he said. "Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions ... There's a cure, Nevada! All you gotta do is vote!"
But despite humor — and a favorable-looking voter registration advantage — Obama's campaign has stressed they are not taking anything in the state for granted. The sentiment was reinforced throughout Wednesday night's ceremonies by a none-too-subtle freestanding 6-foot-tall sign to the right of the stage that reminded the audience to "VOTE EARLY."
Arriving in Las Vegas around 9 p.m., the president stepped off Air Force One to a welcoming group that included eight Nevada politicians and union leaders and a crowd of about 60 friends and families of campaign supporters. He shook hands and posed for pictures with the various leaders that included: Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager, state Sen. Mo Denis and Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow, among others.
Then he ventured into the crowd to greet supporters. The moment was better than new parents Kyle and Nicole Singer could have imagined. When the president reached them, he held their 2-month-old daughter, Lillian, and kissed her head. The moment drew laughs and coos from the crowd and left Nicole Singer giddy. The moment gave them the perfect Christmas card.
Elina Motola, 16, screams to her friend Gabriella Benitez, 17 as Katy Perry is announced while Samantha Green, 15 looks on. Benitez described Perry as "her idol."
“It was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Kyle Singer said. “We’re going to show her when she gets older.”
Obama then took off in his motorcade for Doolittle Park just after 9:05 p.m.
Las Vegas has become a hotspot for presidential campaign visits this season. In the last week alone, Vice President Joe Biden, presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, and now the president have graced the city and its suburbs. First lady Michelle Obama pops into town on Friday.
Their back-to-back appearances have inspired plenty of local vitriol about the state of traffic snarls. But it has also given locals a front-row seat to be persuaded by the candidates and convinced by how they sell their plans.
Romney told a crowd of about 6,000 (a campaign estimate) at the Henderson Pavilion Tuesday that "we cannot handle four more years" of Obama's presidency, in a speech where he highlighted his business acumen and his experience slashing budgets and creating jobs to persuade voters that he was the best primed candidate to fix the local economy in Nevada and reintroduce a "6 percent" unemployment rate to the state.
Romney has been criticized in the last 24 hours for being overly optimistic for that estimate, which many Nevadans believe is impractical considering how severe the state's economic ills are.
Obama offered Nevada no hard number estimates. But he did outline a few special interests for Nevada in running through the top-line points of his economic plan.
“I don’t want solar panels made in China. I want them made here in Nevada,” Obama said, as he ticked off other goals: Ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, cutting oil imports in half by 2020, and keeping college tuition low.
Senate candidate Shelley Berkley addresses the crowd as they wait to hear from President Barack Obama at Doolittle Park in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.
"I want you to compare my plan to Gov. Romney's plan,” Obama told the crowd. “See which plan is better for you. See which plan is better for Nevada. See which plan is better for America's future.”
But Obama admitted to the crowd that numbers or plans or promises about the next four years would not likely be what decides this election.
“There's no more serious issue in the presidential campaign than who can you trust,” Obama said. “Trust matters. Who's going to look out for you.”
He was tapping into a theme that had been building throughout the night. Trust us, the Nevada Democrats who preceded Obama kept saying throughout the night to the crowd, as they told Obama’s personal stories and their own to illustrate why the audience of potential voters should.
“[Obama] knows what it is like to start from so little,” said Steven Horsford, the Democrat running against Republican Danny Tarkanian to represent Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, and the first candidate for federal office to speak Wednesday night. “That's why he's fighting to make sure everyone gets a fair chance to succeed in life.”
“Barack Obama and I, we've got your back,” said Shelley Berkley, the Nevada congresswoman running against Republican Dean Heller for the Senate. “President Barack Obama and I believe we’re all in this together.”
That was exactly the message the president attempted to get across.
“We've got a long way to go Nevada but we've come too far to go back now. We cannot afford to go backward to the policies that got us into this mess,” Obama said. “We've got to go forward and that's why I am running for a second term as president of the United States. That's why I need your vote.”
It certainly sounded like a swan song on Nevada visits. But don’t count on it.
In an interview with the Sun last weekend, deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said there was a real chance that Obama could return before the election season is over, even with only 13 days left to go.
If the president’s current trip itinerary is any indicator, Nevada may just be one of only six states where each and every vote really matters.
He picks Katy Perry to help him out....were the folks with talent busy??
Obama sure looks desperate. Even his sycophants here on the Sun are quivering.
How do I know?? The Obama-nots are still hurling invectives like the scared sheep they are.
Very sad and disturbing.
In all this election frenzy where is BO college transcripts? Isn't America beautiful ? Hope Romney can win and hopefully the GOP wins the Senate. How I despise Whorehouse REID!
Gee, for a guy who just a few short years ago was telling everyone NOT to go blowing their money in Vegas, he sure does visit our city a lot! I wonder if his earlier comments, might come back to haunt him?
PRESIDENT OBAMA IS THE MAN!!!
Thank God for PRESIDENT OBAMA.
Our great president has already proven to be one
of the GREATEST presidents of all time.
My entire family already voted for him and all of
my friends have already foted for him.
FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
PRESIDENT OBAMA......
Please ignore the minority republican party in
Nevada.
We DEMOCRATS OUT-NUMBER them and will easily
out-vote these crazy fools.
NO PROBLEM!!!
Look at the ungodly amount of money romney fools
spent to lose an election.
Teamster, you are calling us fools and yet what has Obama really done to improve unemployment in our state??? It was 5.5% when he took office and today it's 11.8%! It's sad to see people blindly follow a President who has failed to deliver on so many of his campaign promises.
Ivrose.....
Do you understand who destroyed our economy?
REPUBLICANS!!!
Republican GREED destroyed our middle class.
Open up your eyes.
Do you or your family need health care?
Will you need Medicare?
Start thinking, man.
romney is lying through his stinking false teeth.
The Whitehouse knew within 2 hours.
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-whit...
I wonder if Sheldon Adelson well be supplying the cheese to go with all the whine, when Romney's supporters find that they are the 47%, while the majority 53% are celebrating Obama's re-election with chanpagne. Nevada is getting darker blue everyday. (4 more years)
Definitely NOT interested in another four years with Harry Reid as President.
People died/Obama lied.
People need to trust the men and women they elect to lead them. Trust is based on integrity and respect - can anyone say that is what we'll have if we get another four years of Obama?
He obviously doesn't respect us, telling us that the debacle in Benghazi was because of a video no one has seen, while all the time he KNEW what had really happened. Can anyone honestly say that they will respect him in the coming term?
I can't. It was bad enough with the broken promises, such as "I won't raise your taxes", his failure to work with Congress to get things done, and his failure to accept responsibility for the actions (or lack of them) of his own administration. But now we have four Americans dead, and he treats it as an inconvenience to his re-election effort.
I guess I respect him as much as he respects me, and having Katy Perry tag along won't change anything.
The Right is in a tizzy over the 4 Americans who died recently. It was terrible, bless their souls.
However; you voted for Dubya twice, and he killed 4,000 Americans based on lies & oil. He emptied our treasure and destroyed our honor. Yet you STILL claim you deserve to be in charge again, with the same 'ole GOP nonsense that got us in the mess to begin with.
Can someone tell me how channel 8 can interrupt CSI during prime time and not have to give Romney equal time ? I thought that was the law.
Klaus.....
On 9/11, our country was attacked with republican
clowns running the show.
And greedy republican clowns destroyed our entire
economy before we booted those idiots out of the
White House.
WE'RE NOT STUPID!
WE'RE KEEPING PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!
misterbig.....
Nobody here cares about old man romney.
He's already retired.
If you ever want to retire, vote DEMOCRATIC!
I'm proud of the President and I'm pulling for him to win the election. We need to continue building on his successes during his first term.
-Implementing the health care overhaul, which will cover 30 million more Americans and has already caused massive positive changes in the U.S. healthcare system
-Implementing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to make sure that people aren't screwed over by the big banks. I myself had my house foreclosed while I was in the middle of working with a buyer for a short sale.
-Continuing to work on fixing the deficit. Obama will work in good faith with the Congress to reach a grand deal to keep us from going off the fiscal cliff.
-Ending the war in Afghanistan, just like he ended the war in Iraq.
-Continuing to appoint smart and fair Supreme Court Justices.
-Continuing to pressure Congress to pass his Jobs bill, to get more Americans back to work. The Stimulus/Recovery Act staved off a Great Depression and instead we have a Great Recession. I understand that politicians often don't get credit for avoiding a calamity, but in this case I can see that a crises was averted thanks to the Recovery Act.
Obama has provided thoughtful, steady leadership. I believe he'll be re-elected with a good margin come November.
Go vote people! (except for the crazy people on here) ;)
Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, and we should respect that. However, let's not get it twisted. There has never been a U.S. president elected who was any more qualified than Barack Obama, or one who fought harder for the betterment of the middle class in this country. If you're angry about the lack of productivity of our congress, let's be fair about it and take a closer look at our U.S. senators and representatives -- in BOTH parties. You can't blame their pitiful performance during the last 4 years solely on the President. As for Mitt Romney: his flip-flops and outright misrepresentations aside, he has no concept of what women in particular, the middle class, or the elderly need or have to deal with to survive. His and Ryan's agendas (at least what they've revealed so far) are absolutely SCARY!
As for BeSafe's offensive comments regarding the location of tonight's rally at Doolittle Park: if you were better informed, you wouldn't have made such a ignorant statement. I have CHOSEN to live in West Las Vegas for close to 40 years -- it doesn't require being "searched" or "sanitized" for a visit by whomever, certainly no more than any other area in this city/county. Do your homework; you owe an apology to an entire community!
Seriously, @lvrose? The unemployment rate in NV was 5.5 when President Obama took office? Um, try nearly twice that: 10.4% in Feb 09, up to 13% by summer '09-- just as stimulus kicked in. Nevada was like a runaway train headed over the cliff when he came into office. NO president could've stopped it. The stimulus slowed it down by keeping teachers & cops employed and some construction workers working. Look, if you think more taxes and no rules for Wall Street and frackers will solve everything, fine. If you believe government should be so small it can fit inside a woman's uterus and tell her to have a baby she doesn't want or who can marry whom, fine. Be pro-Mitt; it's America. But stop hurling lies from your perch atop B.S. Mountain, be it false unemployment rates or claims Obama raised income taxes (he didn't.) Just stop.
@JudgeRoyBean-- I don't get the obsession on the right about Benghazi. I'm not talking about the event itself: It was, as the President said the day after, an act of terror and resulted in the loss of four brave Americans. But "Obama lied"? Seriously? Say his administration was confused or all over the map with its messaging. But "lie"? WHY? Romney had already attacked them for "appeasing" terrorists when HE thought this whole thing was because of the YouTube video. If it HAD been b/c of the video, would these Americans be any less dead? Plus: With Congress and intel leaks, the admin would've known it couldn't deliberately try to "hide" or "lie" about the cause of the attack. So why try? Why can't you accept that intel isn't perfect, that stories change-- that, as Hillary noted, "Just because terrorists post something on Facebook, that doesn't make it true?" After all, I seem to recall it took OVER A YEAR after we invaded Iraq for Bush to admit their were no weapons of mass destruction. And when they did, they called it...bad intel. So for TWO WEEKS, the Obama admin offered conflicting accounts because THERE WERE CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS. (And, btw, there still are). You wanna say they did a lousy PR job, or that State and the White House were on different maps? Fine. I won't argue. It wasn't their finest hour. But this whole fantasy about Obama "lying" is BS--and, further, is just plain beside the point. What matters is that we find the MFs who did this and bring them to justice. Of course, what would Obama know about tracking down and killing terrorists? (Unlike that great Terrorist Hunter, GW Bush, who refused to go after bin Laden at Tora Bora.) http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/wash...
BTW, @JudgeRoyBean, @get_involved: Here's yet another conflicting report about what went down in Benghazi.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/19/...
Obama didn't LIE. His administration was cautious and deliberative before rushing out anything definitive-- unlike would-be president Romney, who issued a statement BEFORE we knew our ambassador was dead blasting Obama for "appeasing" the protestors (and thus blaming the violence on the YouTube video).
AMAZING TURNOUT... VICTORY ALL THE WAY TO RE-ELECTION .. OBAMA FOUR MORE YEARS
Obama is a product of the tough Chicago political machine. These guys play dirty. If you think that four more years of Obama are going to help the unemployment situation you are badly mistaken. The Obama handlers and flunkees will tell you anything to get their guy elected. He has done nothing for Nevada and nothing for this country. The concerts are nice but there are no jobs available. Look at how many teamsters are out of work due the policies of Obama and the machine that tells him what to do. Any union member that votes for Obama is going to lose.
Yay Obama! we love you!!!!
Bengazzi Obama
Hollywood elites massaging Obama's ego. That's the plan for the next four years.
You Sharron Angle turned Mitt Romney republicans crack me up..
:-)
And i voted absentee for Obama.
Romney has been running for President for 5 years. He couldn't even make it through the Republican primary in 2008. He lost to John McCain. Republicans picked McCain as the stronger candidate. Romney couldn't beat McCain,who in turn couldn't beat Obama. If Romney couldn't even win the nomination of his party in 2008,why all of a sudden is he good enough to be President now.
"I don't want solar panels made in China. I want them made here in Nevada," Obama said
Wasn't this already tried? More government loans to campaign bundlers?
Continue crony-capitalism is president Khardasian's new plan?
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And the lies and false promises keep on rolling. What an absolute LOSER.
The amount of disrespect I see day after day in response to any article on our President is disgusting. When did it become okay to spew hatred and outright lies about the person leading our country (I'm not even taking about his policies, I'm talking about the personal attacks made on Mr. Obama).
Same goes for Mr. Romney. Agree with him or disagree with him, but the conversation should be about his policies and ideas.
Of course, it's easier to hide behind a computer screen and hurl insults rather than the truth, or have an intelligent discussion. It also seems blazingly obvious that now all you need to make something a "fact" is to see it on the internet or speak it out loud.
It scares me what our neighbours in other countries must see when they open a page like this and see the how low we have sunk as a society. Bravo to those who I see remaining civil and talking about the real issues at stake this election. You all give me some hope in our future.
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The Westside of Las Vegas is a model of diversity!
Bound together by an economy built to meet the needs of the people who at the core have more in common in thought, in community, in being responsible than previously known.
To have the President of the United States visit West Las Vegas is historic! The crowd last night was a mix of what the country will look like in the next twenty years.
The larger picture of the event last night on October 24, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada in what is known as the Westside, was a display of a gradual shift of a diverse society here in America.
Where in Clark County can you find people of different color, of different religion, of different culture, coming together in support of common interest? The people at the event last night live in the area, not bused in!
I've been to a rally where there were people from different areas of town. Shouting and being supportive of the candidate. After the event everyone went their separate ways. And during the event there was little interaction within the crowd. But last night, what you saw was people who live in the area, excited and talking with each other. People who looked different, who dress different, who in years past would not be living close together, not in a community together. But last night in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Westside of town, we saw preview of the new Las Vegas.
We need new leaders, and current leaders, to recognize what a diverse community needs. The Westside of Las Vegas is starting model. Let's improve on what we have and learn going forward.
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Where are you tax returns Mr. Romney? What are you hiding?
@JudgeRoyBean
A group of bloodthirsty Muslim extremists attack our consulate and kill four Americans and somehow the blame lies with Obama? Classic example of Republican 'logic'.
The people to blame for the consulate attacks are the terrorists who carried out the attacks.
How can ANYONE call Mr. Obama a liar when for 6 months all Mr. Romney has done is lied; about everything! I guess he feels you can't hit a moving target. Anyone who votes for Romney is voting for a country of the rich.
Colin Powell supports Obama.
Mitt Romney: "Let Detroit go Bankrupt"
I'm laughing my as off at these stupid republican supporter's comments. These commenters are the best comedy act in Vegas. Four more for Obama!!!!
Watch for the black helicopters janenolan, they are over your house..For the rest of us who have their sanity, we will stick with Obama.
Obama is down to name calling, "Romnesia" at every campaign stop now. This reeks of desperation. His campaign is in big trouble and he knows it.
January 13, 2013 can't get here quick enough.
Correction, January 21, 2013 can't get here quick enough.
Fort Hood, work place violence!....
Fast and Furious, Nobody told me, executive order leave Holder alone....
Benghazi, first American ambassador killed in 30 years, it was a video, nobody told me, or VP Bite Me ....
I won't raise taxes on the middle class ONE DIME, Obama...
2012 begins one of or possibly the largest tax increase in American history....
First American credit down grade in history....
Two year Dream Act by Executive Order, (Bribing Voters)....
"Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Detroit is bankrupt....
GM, Government Motors largest asset, The US treasury......
Colin Powell, lied to Congress then or now, either way irrelevant...
Americans on food stamps increase of 20 million plus....
The main show was Katy Perry.
Obama was a side act.
Most people were there to see Perry not Obama.
"For the rest of us who have their sanity, we will stick with Obama"....... You know what they say about doing things over and expecting a different result?
Obama has Gloria Allred trying to unseal divorce documents from the early 90's from a friend and advisor of Romney who was going through a divorce.....just to see what Romney said under oath.
The desperation worsens.
Where are your college records Obama? Hiding something?
Too little too late. Obama is done!
ROMNEY RYAN 2012!!!
After reading the many comments I conclude this is a reasonable observation:
"The once majority, becoming the minority, losing control, losing composure, and some of you are losing your mind."
Change is coming my friends. You cannot stop it!
Simply the sheep following the shepherd to the end.
No agenda, no accountability, just reruns of "hope & change" and attack ads. It'll probably work in NV given the state of public education here and obsession with celebrities & glitterati, plus "the Reid machine", but hopefully the rest of the battleground states won't be so easily fooled.
The comments made here are reminiscent, on a lesser scale, of the transfer of majority white rule in South Africa, to the wonderful Nelson Mandela and the true majority rule.
The elimination of the republican party as a major player is all but done in New England, with the exceptions of the tubby from Jersey and everyones favorite turncoat, Joe Liebermann.
Almost good riddance too the lot of you!
Obama talks a lot about us getting Osama Bin Laden but do you realize what harm it did when they announced only mere hours later that the attack had occurred? How it greatly prevented the teams on the ground from moving forward with the intelligence to capture other operatives?
There are going to be a whole lot of sad old tin foilers the morning of November 7.
Obumma will tax and regulate us to prosperity.
That's quite a 'plan' he has.
Of course, first thing will be to bankrupt coal and make electricity prices "neceassarily skyrocket".
But what do you expect from an administration who measures success by how many people it can sign up for foodstamps.
It is very humorous to witness the implosion of the Liberals. They are after Romney's taxes like the people they despise are after Obama's birth certificate.
The Liberals are Taxers....I love it.
I think Obama should be allowed to serve more than 2 terms
We don't need a groovy prez, we need a guy who can get the job done.
Interesting... I wonder how many people showed up for the free Katy Perry show versus those to see Obama and hear Obama. Sure a free concert by a major performer is going to out do anything that Romney can do and generate far more excitement and a people count, but does it translate to voters voting for Obama?
I do agree with Obama's statement to end tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas. This has been a long time in coming and it can't happen soon enough.
I am concerned about cutting oil imports by 50% by 2020. We are already paying $3.50 - $4.25 a gallon in gas, cutting the supply -- even though well-intentioned and a lofty goal -- will only increase the price.
College tuition is important and hopefully it will be attainable by all who want it. Unfortunately, the market will charge a price that it can get away with. If people realized there are some very affordable schools out there and refused to pay the prices some of the "elite" colleges are charging, the price may come down. Too many students today go to major universities without thinking of the overall cost and what it will be like to be saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt after graduation. Also, emerging technology may facilitate the learning process while reducing the cost.
<<I got telepoled today and pushed 1 for I voted Obama ( I could tell it was a Democrat seeking info) ... love to throw the monkey wrench into things. I wonder if we we will have another ammo shortage when Obama loses?>>
BeSafer:
You're not throwing a monkey wrench into anything!!! Do you know how many people do this??I personally know quite a few people that have done this and are still doing it every time they get one of those calls or are stopped randomly in person on "the street". They say they are voting for Romney when in fact they would rather walk on hot coals then do so!!!
So you're not so smart, are you?
too little too late
@lvrose
Get over it already. At least you could remember what Obama actually said. Can't come up with a better argument? Or an original thought? Oh, and you are wrong on the unemployment rate when Obama took office. Blame your OWN state officials for the high unemployment rate.
@mrbig:
There is NO law that TV stations have to interrupt their programming for a presidential CANDIDATE. They can do what they want or actually - what the advertisers want.
@jadalian
Thank you for the correct unemployment numbers in Vegas when Obama took office. I lost my Vegas job in 2008 and the employment rate then was high. I KNOW because I was out looking for a job and there weren't any. Re Benghazi: The president did not lie. Was the government supposed to take seriously Facebook & Twitter comments on something as serious as this??? Emails? Investigating needed to be done and it is still going on. The Bush administration didn't take the chatter and intel seriously and look what happened? 9/11.
@nvfisherman:
<<Obama is a product of the tough Chicago political machine. These guys play dirty.>>
What better place to learn politics - it toughens your skin. You already know how to deal with dirty politicians from everywhere else in the country after learning from some of the best "dirty politicians". BTW - Those "dirty political days" have been gone for a long time from Chicago Politics, but I don't expect some country bumpkin to realize this.
@janenolan
Aiming to become the next Mrs. Donald Trump?
@CasLee
LOLOLOLOLOL Did you fall asleep during some of these debates? Oh wait - you DVR'd all of them so you could actually count on how many times things were brought up. Sheesh!
@Noindex:
Alred's "ploy" is no better than Trump's BS. And, Obama has NOT put Alred up to this!! How gullible can you get? Oh, wait.....
@mitzy17:
The objective was to get Bin Laden and they had to move quickly - in and out - to minimize our own casualties. You would not make a good Seal. And we did not know about it until many hours later on what happened.
@mred:
THe we should be able to re-elect Bill Clinton!!
@Feldling:
<<I am concerned about cutting oil imports by 50% by 2020. We are already paying $3.50 - $4.25 a gallon in gas, cutting the supply -- even though well-intentioned and a lofty goal -- will only increase the price>>
GOogle this. There was an article by the AP today in the newspaper about this.
@Det--Munch,
Wow, what a fantastic post. Great job. Thank you for the comments that you post everyday. Thank you for your commitment.
Allred is after fame just like Trump. The difference is she's smart. Trump is a fraud who mismanaged the HUGE largess that his father left him. He would be worth tens of billions of dollars had he been even a moderately good businessman.
Too many folks in Las Vegas who think obama is going to give them lots of "free stuff" and make the 1% pay for it all.
Seriously, that is the mentality of his base.
Too bad they didn't hold this at the James Gay park. Big O could have seen first hand what a miserable failure his "Hope and Change" has been..
The bottom line.......
PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL EASILY BE RE-ELECTED.
After the damage greedy republicans have already
done to our middle class and country, one would
have to be completely brain-dead to vote for
romney/ryan.
These two clowns can't stop lying.
Only republican idiots will believe them.
And republicans will always be the minority party
in this country.
We won't let romney/ryan drag our country back
to those horrible bush/cheney republican years.
NO WAY/NO HOW!!!
stopthebs: "Too many folks in Las Vegas who think obama is going to give them lots of "free stuff" and make the 1% pay for it all.
Seriously, that is the mentality of his base."
They obviously can't be learned.
And they still believe that 'green' energy will power some sort of economic recovery. Like Spain's.
Obama's New Street Cred.
In an attack on Americans, Al Qaeda has the smoking gun. Seven hours that will define the presidents administration.
Tells me that Americans can no longer expect help overseas from a state department that cannot help themselves.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...
Earlier this year when Rush Limbaugh made his remarks about Sandra Fluke being a 'sl*t' and a 'prostitute' Romney's response was a weak 'not the words I would have used'. Obama advisor David Axelrod correctly noted 'how is Romney going to stand up to Ahmadinejad if he can't stand up to Rush Limbaugh:
On a conference call that was mostly about Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday performance, President Obama's top campaign adviser said the presumptive Republican nominee failed a test of leadership in his response to Rush Limbaugh's comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. "If you don't have the strength to stand up to the most strident voices in your party, how are you going to stand up to Ahmadinejad?" asked David Axelrod. "How are you going to stand up to the challenges of the presidency? These are tests. Presidential campaigns are tests. You're tested every single day in different ways. The Limbaugh thing was a test of leadership, and you have them all the time. And Mitt Romney has failed those tests in the campaign."
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/po...
The job we are hiring is for a commander in chief - the obama administration has been asleep at the switch and now 4 Americans are dead and the administration is stonewalling. Obama and Hillary knew everything and while this was going on : Help was denied. Special ops wanted to go from the annex to help and were told to stand down.
Obama blew it big time -- he did not protect Americans -- his naive foreign policies caused their deaths. You remove a dictator in a country and you think the job is done and suddenly our people are safe there?
This should be your cover story Las Vegas Sun. What an outrage!