Wednesday, February 3, 2010

President Obama is no longer welcome in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is suffering from one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. President Obama has lambasted Las Vegas a second time by saying,
"When times are tough, you tighten your belts," Obama said while giving a speech at a New Hampshire high school Tuesday.

"You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage," he said. "You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices."

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman had this harsh response:
"He didn't learn his lesson the first time, but when he hurt our economy by his ill conceived rhetoric, we didn't think it would happen again, but now that it has I want to assure you, when he comes I'll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington and to visit his failures back there....

Here is a video of Mayor Goodman's response from KTNV TV 13:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I honestly didn't see anything wrong with that statement the President gave. I know people will take what he said as NO ONE should go and spend money in Las Vegas but if you are trying to get a college degree then obviously it wouldn't be wise to gamble it away.

As for not being welcomed in Las Vegas, I bet he will be there to campaign for Reid's re-election. I hope he does because it didn't help Coakley or Corzine.

Bluegrass Pundit said...

M4zdaman said...

" As for not being welcomed in Las Vegas, I bet he will be there to campaign for Reid's re-election. I hope he does because it didn't help Coakley or Corzine."

The interesting part of the story was Las Vegas' Mayor's response. I hope he campaigns for Reid too. He may be the only person less popular in Nevada ATM.