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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (116372)	10/26/2011 5:35:40 PM
From: joseffy	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224744

What happened to Obama in Vegas ...................................................................................................................... By Jon Ralston Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 lasvegassun.com I would love to know what went through President Barack Obama’s mind as he came to the door of Air Force One on Monday morning and looked down at the McCarran International Airport tarmac. Standing below him was not the usual receiving line of Democratic politicians but a solitary elected official — and one who had abandoned the Democratic Party. As if to add insult to absence, the lone woman’s husband had mercilessly excoriated the president for a couple of years, demanding an apology for remarks he had made about Las Vegas and snubbing him on previous trips. Somehow, Obama kept his smile as he walked down from the plane and greeted Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who along with her husband, former Mayor Oscar Goodman, had made a big show of switching from Democrat to independent when His Honor was making a big show about pretending to think about running for governor last year. Goodman II, clutching her cellphone in one hand, bent the president’s ear for several minutes — there was no one else for him to talk to — handing the commander in chief a “good luck” chip and asking him to say nice things about Las Vegas. How the mighty have fallen. This is what it has come to for the man who created a Nevada wave in 2008, winning the state by 12 percentage points, pulling Democrats up and down the ticket to victory and auguring Harry Reid’s stunning re-election two years later. Obama previously had been greeted by Democrats high and low at the airport, many of them only too eager to shake hands with the president and perhaps ride in the motorcade. Now, the most powerful man in the world is treated like he is arriving on a quarantined plane, a political leper shunned by those who once embraced him — nay, by those he gave political life to just a few years ago. Obama arrived in a devastated state to present a housing plan that probably won’t help many of those underwater on their homes in the worst economy in the country, only to be greeted by a mayor whose husband he surely despises and who hectored him (once again) about his much-overblown “don’t come to Vegas” remarks. Other than that, Mr. President, how was the trip? (Well, there was the money he raised at the Bellagio, the house that Steve Wynn built. You know, Mr. Wynn, don’t you, Mr. President? He’s the fellow all over Fox News and virally on the Internet saying you have been more destructive to business in America than that comet was to the dinosaurs way back when.) Obama’s Nevada problem is a microcosm of his national problem. Here’s a place that was full of hope for change in 2009 but now is mired in hopelessness, and not much has changed for a couple of years. The president who won here by 12 is now underwater almost as much as some of those mortgages he wants to fix — Public Opinion Strategies found his job approval at 45/52 a year ago and 42/55 a few weeks ago. Hence, the lack of smiles and handshakes on the tarmac. Oh, I’m sure Obama arrived at the Bellagio to be greeted by Democratic elected officials brimming with excuses. The traffic was a nightmare. The security folks told us we had to be at the Bellagio early. I didn’t know what time the plane landed. Of course, running away from the president — or not having a photo taken with him in the next year — is a fool’s, or perhaps coward’s, errand for these Democrats. They will still get Velcroed to Obama if his numbers remain low — whether they are literally with him or photoshopped. And the Republicans, here and nationally, will continue to remind people that the president once told people not to come to Vegas, thereby destroying the economy — even though that is a canard turned into hyperbole. In 2009, the president said companies that received federal bailouts “can’t go take that trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Totally reasonable statement, but latched onto by then-Mayor Publicity-At-Any-Cost and others. And, the president turned tone-deaf a year later and essentially doubled down on the remarks by telling people not to “blow a bunch of cash” here. Once, Mr. President, despite what Jacqueline Susann said, is enough. By the way, even though Democrats were scarce Monday, the other Goodman actually was on hand to welcome the president, just not in the flesh. Oscar Goodman made an appearance in a National Republican Senatorial Committee video, a clip of him from a couple of years back demanding the president apologize for remarks. What’s said about Vegas is remembered in Vegas, even if it is, as another president might have put it, misremembered.

To: Justin C who wrote (116372)	10/26/2011 7:18:36 PM
From: MJ	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

I thought Biden the VP was above such 'scare tactics' as has been used by the Obama Campaign and more recently by Obama in August. Biden's comments are directed directly at women to scare them into fear of being murdered or raped etc. unless the jobs bill is passed. Please Mr. Biden tell us how the two are connected? What a really 'dumb' statement. Did the Democrat Party feed this line to Biden to be used to sow fear in women particularly. This is the same fear tactics as Obama's Campaign of 2006-2008 used to scare old people, especially women as they out live the men generally--------with the repetitive political ads saying there would be no medicare unless he was voted for. And more recently the same fear mongering by Obama himself in Congress-------saying that there would be no social security payments in August unless his pet bill was passed. Of course the social security payments were made. If you are a woman reading this message-----don't succumb to these scare tactics. Time for women to throw these bums out of office---------get rid of these fear mongers-----from the top to the bottom. From Obama and Biden on down. I AM SAYING NO TO OBAMA AND BIDEN'S FEAR MONGERING. JOIN ME AND OTHER WOMEN IN THROWING THE BUMS OUT AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL IN 2012-------------AND REMEMBER TO VOTE THIS NOVEMBER IN LOCAL AND STATE ELECTIONS . MJ

To: Justin C who wrote (116372)	11/4/2011 6:52:00 PM
From: Justin C	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

Giuliani: "Obama Owns Occupy Wall Street" By Nick Kalman Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says responsibility for the Occupy Wall Street movement rests squarely on the shoulders of President Obama. "This is a very dangerous movement, and it's ironic it's happening under a president who promised to unify us," Giuliani said. "Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement, it would not have happened but for his class warfare." The Occupy Wall Street protests broke out in cities all over the country shortly after president Obama called for tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans. Some of the protests have turned violent. In Oakland, California, more than 100 people were arrested and eight were seriously injured Thursday, with protesters leaving stores in flames, and streets littered with broken glass and debris. A week earlier a former Marine suffered a fractured skull in a confrontation with Oakland police. Giuliani's words Friday charged up the crowd at the Defending the American Dream Summit, sponsored by the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The 2008 Republican presidential candidate also predicted the movement will eventually lead to the end of Obama's presidency. "Barack Obama [2] praised it, sympathizes with it," he said. "As it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down." http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/11/04/giuliani-obama-owns-occupy-wall-street