"Ladies and Gentlemen, Obama has left the building."

Once again we mere mortals have been shown that we should never underestimate the star power of The Chosen One. After all of the hubbub about Obama dissing Las Vegas, twice, now after just a twenty-hour visit to The Sin City, by simply giving a wave and a smile, while unashamedly proclaiming a hardy, "I love Vegas… always have," everybody, who is 'somebody', is smiling again.

But with a 13% Nevada unemployment rate and with that state leading the nation in home foreclosures, there are a lot of people who still find it hard to smile. Not that any of that was Obama's concerns, or his reason for going there, Obama was just campaigning, still, this time for the reelection of Senator Harry Reid.

This Las Vegas fiasco, which started last year when Obama pulled a 'Biden', is just a microcosm of the Obama Administration. In this small episode you can find all of the hypocrisy, arrogance, detachment, ineptitude, and wag the dog stupidity along with the socialistic agenda and tactics such as class warfare and race baiting, which most of us have come to expect from the Obama Gang and his minions. Likewise after all of the mindless talk and wasted energy that was directed at this sideshow, again, nothing has been improved or accomplished.

Just like our Nation now finds itself a year into the Obama Regime, after Obama has come and gone, Nevadans still find themselves with the same problems. In the last year we have spent more money than ever before in our history, while constantly debating one failed Obama agenda after another only to find ourselves in the same mess, or worse, than when Obama came onboard as he just stumbles blindly on by continually crisscrossing the country. In another one of his recorded 'Presidential firsts' at his present travel schedule Obama may be the only President who meets himself coming and going. But then wherever he goes, he always leaves them smiling.

This whole Vegas mess started when the Constant Campaigner was giving yet another one of his patented blame the rich guy/fat cats speeches in Indiana. Talking about corporation bailouts, which where approved by Congress and signed by his Oneness, Obama stated, "You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime."

Well yes "you" can if Bush, Obama and Congress gave them the taxpayers' money in the first place. No bailouts equal no taxpayers' dimes, which equates to no trips to anywhere at the taxpayers' expense. Obama's statement was especially lame after it was revealed that Congress had agreed to the corporate bonuses that would be paid to corporate bigwigs after the bailout money was received.

Likewise it is immensely galling to watch as what is collectively the most corrupt Congress and Administration in our history preaches about what is right and wrong, even if they are talking to greedy corporate goons and bankers. Corporate hacks and bankers are no different than our politicians; they got their hands on other people's money and they wasted it. Sorry, nothing new here. At least most of the corporate waste stayed in the USA.

But the talking heads of the MSM said nothing about this hypocrisy. Instead they fixated on the uproar coming from the various Nevada politicians about how Obama was hurting their economy, which indeed he was. Of course the point of most of the MSM fixation was in defense of The Chosen One's statement.

Nor did anyone "in the know" care to reflect on the twenty odd trips Obama has made to Vegas in the last two years during his campaign and twice since his inauguration. It's okay for the Chosen One to take private jets, including Air Force One on the taxpayers' dime, into Vegas whenever, or on a date night to New York City, but the rest of you fat cats better stay home. In the last year Obama has repeatedly been that all to well-known bad example of "don't do as I do, do as I say." But then that is the way this guy rolls.

Since Obama's emergence upon the national political scene the Left has been constantly telling us what a genius this guy is. Of course without any evidence concerning a real paper trail from his life history it is hard to substantiate this claim. Forget his birth certificate, I would just like to see some college grades, or papers and if he registered as a foreign student.

Nonetheless what we have repeatedly seen is a guy who without a teleprompter can't string six words together unless three of those words are, "Uh."

With such gaffes as "visiting 57 states with a couple of more to go," "the police acted stupidly", the Christmas panty bomber "acted alone" and "corpseman," Obama seems to be in a race with his VP to see which one of them can make us all ask, "What?" the most. Personally I would give Obama a few more IQ points if he could get through a speech without the teleprompters by maybe just writing a few notes on his hand.

As it is Obama also seems to be absentminded because no sooner had the first Las Vegas slam been set aside then earlier this month Obama gave us this gem:
 
"When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college."

So once again the Nevada politicians justly threw up their arms and screamed, "What the…!" This time even old Harry Reid told Obama he should, "…leave Las Vegas alone."

Likewise the MSM once again reported about how everyone was upset and once again they mainly defended their Messiah for making this statement. At least Bill O'Reilly did get it marginally right when he said that Obama's statements hurt the common working people of Vegas more than anyone. But there is so much more wrong on so many levels with this particular free-spending politician making this statement.

First, and most obvious, is the fact that in Obama's first year of office he and his Liberal Democrats have spent trillions of tax dollars yet here he lectures the American people on being thrift? Tighten our belts? We have, now how about you and your cronies doing the same, pinhead.

In Obama's world, the American people must all do "the right thing," "sacrifice," and in the mean time we politicians will do as we please. Once again it's the old do as I say not as I do, right BO?

Also in this arrogant statement Obama strongly implies that it is the spending habits of the American people who have brought about this recession/depression. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Congress, Wall Street, Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and so on and on had nothing to do with the fix we're in. If only the Johnson's hadn't bought that new boat and the Smiths hadn't gone to Vegas our economy would be just fine. From this incompetent President and his idiotic Democratic Congress who have repeatedly preached that 'they' need to spend our way out of this recession, the American people are again told to tighten their belts!

Somebody should belt Obama.

The division between the American people and our aristocratic politicians was never more evident than in this statement. With millions of Americans unemployed and millions more under-employed, Obama sits on high where he can only imagine that what we peons are thinking about are new boats and expensive vacations.

Americans are not planning on buying new boats, cars, televisions or flying off to the beaches and Vegas. Americans are worried about paying the electric bill this month and putting food on the table. They are worried about the kids having the proper clothing for winter and food in their bellies. Millions of our elderly have had their life savings wiped out by corporate and Congressional greed. Widows and widowers have seen their retirements disappear and are now facing a life of going back to work in their sixties and seventies. Young Americans have had to set aside their college plans because Mom and Dad have lost their jobs, perhaps their homes as well. As these young Americans are forced out of school they find that what jobs are available don't pay enough to get by. But Obama wants to make sure we know to tighten our belts. He wants us to not buy that boat or to roll the dice in Vegas while he and his fellow Liberals continue to roll the dice with all of our futures.

Last year Obama and his Liberals generously extended a tax break to the American people amounting to about $250.00. In the meantime they handed out billions to the scum who got us into this mess. Somebody needs to tell the uninformed Obama that $250.00 won't even buy you a decent remote control toy boat let alone an actual take the family skiing type rig. The plain simple fact is that Obama and the rest of these arrogant politicians don't have a clue to what the American people are going through, nor do they care. But then what else should we expect from a man whose wife wears $500.00 tennis shoes?

Finally with this inane statement Obama clearly shows that he really doesn't have a clue as to how our economic system works. One can surely understand how this inexperienced lifelong public sector employee never was able to grasp the way free enterprise works. After all everything he has done has been funded by tax dollars. Quickly, if people were out buying new boats and taking vacations this of course would help our economy. The fact that people do not have the money to buy boats and take vacations is why we are in a recession/depression. I wonder if Obama understands that? Buying products and services, good. Not having jobs, thus not having any extra money to buy products and services, bad. As Obama has shown that he is a slow learner, I doubt he will grasp this by the end of his term.

Meanwhile back in the desert!

With Obama's two slams on his city the Republican Mayor of Las Vegas flatly stated that he would not meet with Obama when he came to his fair city. Unfortunately for the Mayor the night after he made this announcement he had a meeting in what the Las Vegas Review Journal described as, "the city's historically black community of West Las Vegas." Not long after this meeting began the Mayor stormed out stating, "I'm not going to be called a racist!"

What the Mayor had said was this:

"Working families are suffering because of the President's remarks, the president should retract his reckless statement about Las Vegas and make a public statement supporting business and tourist travel to Las Vegas and other destinations in the State of Nevada."

How that is racist, I do not know, but it seems that many of the residents of this "historically black community of West Las Vegas", including a few Democratic assemblymen, feel that the Mayor's comments on Obama's comment were racially motivated. Once again proving that if you disagree with Obama, and especially if you are a Republican or a conservative, then you must be a racist. And so as Sonny and Cher once so vocally harmonized in this city of nonstop entertainment, "And the beat goes on..."

But it is all over now, well except that if the Mayor is planning on running again he has lost the African-American vote. Obama came to Vegas where he gave two speeches, mostly to tell people what a great man they have in Reid, and to answer even more questions about his health care plan.

Yet out of this microcosm of Obama's world perhaps the most telling item was the joke he told during one of his speeches. With our nation looking at financial ruin and generational debt the Ultimate Gambler came to Las Vegas to joke:

"Just last night, I hit a flush on the river and cut the budget deficit in half. Some of you know I can play some poker."

With what Obama and his fellow politicians have done to the deficit is hardly a joking matter.

Of course when you're playing with other people's money, what does it matter if you win or lose?

God Bless America

Semper Fi,
Mike

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