Not even a year after trashing the Las Vegas economy, Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama opened his mouth again and stuck his other foot in it, once again taking a cheap shot at the city.
President Obama is catching heat from Nevada lawmakers and business leaders regarding his comments Tuesday criticizing trips to Las Vegas.
During the president’s town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, he discussed the need to curb spending during tough economic times. “When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”
The president’s comments come nearly a year after he criticized companies that received federal money for taking corporate junkets to Las Vegas. “You can’t go take that trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on taxpayers’ dime,” he said at the time. Local business leaders say Nevada tourism suffered last year in part because companies canceled trips to Las Vegas in the wake of the president’s comments.
Just what was he thinking? Obama has the bully pulpit yet once again he calls out a single American city, one that just happens to be on Al Qaeda’s hit list, by the way.
It’s also just what Dingy Harry needed as well. The embattled Senate Majority Leader from Nevada is trailing his Republican opponents badly and, with a campaign visit from Obama on the agenda, even he struck back at the remarks:
“The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat.
The mayor of Las Vegas isn’t taking this latest incident lying down. Via Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:
Here’s a transcript of Mayor Goodman’s remarks:
I guess you’ve all seen the president’s remarks or read about the president’s remarks, well I’ve got some remarks of my own. I was back in Washington, D.C. about two weeks ago, going up and down the halls of the capitol telling people about our economy here, trying to get them to be sympathetic to what we’re trying to accomplish, then I have to read what President Obama said.
He has a real psychological hang up about the entertainment capitol of the world. An apology won’t be acceptable this time, I don’t know where his vendetta comes from but we’re not going to let him make his bones by lambasting Las Vegas, that’s why (the press) is here today.
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.
I gotta tell you this, everybody says I shouldn’t say it, but I gotta tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner.
Maybe we can blame the teleprompter. Yeah, that’s it. The TOTUS is at fault. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
One of two things happened: either Obama went off the script (read: teleprompter), and we all know what a trainwreck that is (Worse. Than. Biden), or whoever wrote His speech thought this was a good zinger, one based on the perpetual campaign of class envy and class warfare and quite literally no one, including Obama himself, thought it was a negative.
That’s even more frightening.
