U.S. president Barack Obama angered Las Vegans after he slammed their city at a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Ind., on Monday. Obama tried to make a point about wasteful spending when he said people shouldn’t blow their cash in Vegas. “You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime,” said the hypocrite.
Obama’s words angered the powers that be in Vegas, including the mayor who said Obama has a “real psychological hang up” and “he’s not our friend.”
Maybe in his haste to tell common folk how to spend their hard earned dollars, Barack the Narcissist forgot about the time when he wasted $250,000 of taxpayer dollars on a “dinner date” with his wife Michelle Obama in New York where they shamelessly took Air Force One to watch a broadway show.
He also didn’t mention the $1 million that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already spent flying her family to exotic locales around the world on the public’s dime.
What makes Obama’s gaffe even more galling is the fact that Obama will be in Vegas in two weeks to campaign for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada.
Las Vegans are still fuming from Obama’s snub last year when he criticized bailed out banks for taking junkets to Vegas with the cash that He gave them. The criticism resulted in a loss of millions in tourism dollars and jobs to the area as banks and corporations took their vacations and junkets elsewhere.
Wells Fargo bank and Goldman Sachs Group received $25 billion and $10 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money respectively from Santa Obama. That’s $35 billion that could have gone towards creating jobs for out-of-work Americans.
Yesterday, Reid responded angrily to Obama insulting his state again (especially since Reid needs their votes come November). “To truly reenergize our economy, we need people to travel to Las Vegas,” Reid said in a statement prompting Obama to write an apology letter to Reid.
But Las Vegas Congresswomen Shelley Berkley, a Republican, had harsher words for Obama:
“Enough is enough!” Berkley said. “President Obama needs to stop picking on Las Vegas and he needs to let Americans decide for themselves how and where to spend their hard earned vacation dollars. This is the second time he’s pointed a finger in our direction and both times he’s been wrong to single out Las Vegas.”
