Obama to Nevada: Drop Dead, But Please Vote for Harry Reid
In a very well rehearsed speech at Notre Dame, President Barack Obama spoke of listening to and considering opposing views. Sounded nice, unless you realized Obama was telling his opponents they had to listen to him, but HE didn't have to listen to them. Because, after all - Obama won, and the Nation lost. This theme has come up over and over in the Obama Administration - the concept of 'coming together' to seek common ground means you capitulate to Obama, or else.
Barack Obama doesn't understand a whit of free market economics, and hates free market business in the classical Marxist way. So when he stood on that podium in Elkhart, Indiana and declared to bankers '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." He was declaring the new paradigm of Government control of the American banking system, and he incidentally crapped on the entire state of Nevada at the same time.
You see, for all the belly-aching about expensive Corporate junkets to places like Las Vegas, the fact is that those conventions played a part in the overall national economy. And Nevadans sat up and took notice when hundreds of business conventions were subsequently canceled. It was a severe blow to the Las Vegas economy.
So the Republican Governor of Nevada requested (or demanded, depending on your point of view) an audience with Obama to press the case for just how harmful Obama's comments were to the Nevada economy. The President, who urges finding common ground and consideration of opposing views, flipped the political bird. Remember - Obama doesn't consider opposing views and never has, it is up to his adversaries to consider, and ultimately embrace his views. There is no bi-directional exchange of ideas here, and any claim to the contrary during carefully rehearsed speeches is simply a lie, and a very big lie at that.
It's amazingly contradictory and hypocritical. Here is President Obama swooping into Nevada, aboard the most expensive and luxurious private jet in the world, on the taxpayers dime, to campaign for Democrat Harry Reid's re-election, while refusing to have a fireside chat with the Governor of Nevada over Obama's harmful remarks impacting the state's tourism industry. It's so heartwarming to see Obama reaching across chasm of the Marxist left to the free market right. Also consider that Obama solemnly swore to the huddled masses in Elkhart, that money-losing fat cat bankers would not get fat cat bonuses, and wouldn't be able to private jet around or play at expensive resorts on the tax payers dime. Yet that is precisely what President Obama and many members of Congress do themselves. The Federal Government is awash in red ink, losing more money than all money losing Corporations combined, and Obama zips around the Country in his private jet, and members of Congress frequently do the same (Nancy Pelosi has a well-publicized penchant for military jumbo jets herself). With the nation awash in red ink - let Obama take the train, and let Congress go Greyhound. After all, fair is fair: With the Government taking over much of the financial industry, now the auto industry, and soon an attempt to swallow healthcare - which is 1/6th of the economy - America, Inc. has to have some accountability doesn't it?
As for those fat cat Corporate types....there are many ills in the world, but the truth is that the money those people sent played it's part in creating jobs for others. The interconnectivity of the economy was never so ably or accidentally demonstrated when Corporate spending dried up in Las Vegas, and left many thousands unemployed.
Way to go Obama!
Just remember the Obama refrain: 'I won, you lost'.
The proper thing for Nevadans to do is greet Obama warmly, and then throw Harry 'The Iraq War is Lost' Reid out of office.
Barack Obama doesn't understand a whit of free market economics, and hates free market business in the classical Marxist way. So when he stood on that podium in Elkhart, Indiana and declared to bankers '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." He was declaring the new paradigm of Government control of the American banking system, and he incidentally crapped on the entire state of Nevada at the same time.
You see, for all the belly-aching about expensive Corporate junkets to places like Las Vegas, the fact is that those conventions played a part in the overall national economy. And Nevadans sat up and took notice when hundreds of business conventions were subsequently canceled. It was a severe blow to the Las Vegas economy.
So the Republican Governor of Nevada requested (or demanded, depending on your point of view) an audience with Obama to press the case for just how harmful Obama's comments were to the Nevada economy. The President, who urges finding common ground and consideration of opposing views, flipped the political bird. Remember - Obama doesn't consider opposing views and never has, it is up to his adversaries to consider, and ultimately embrace his views. There is no bi-directional exchange of ideas here, and any claim to the contrary during carefully rehearsed speeches is simply a lie, and a very big lie at that.
It's amazingly contradictory and hypocritical. Here is President Obama swooping into Nevada, aboard the most expensive and luxurious private jet in the world, on the taxpayers dime, to campaign for Democrat Harry Reid's re-election, while refusing to have a fireside chat with the Governor of Nevada over Obama's harmful remarks impacting the state's tourism industry. It's so heartwarming to see Obama reaching across chasm of the Marxist left to the free market right. Also consider that Obama solemnly swore to the huddled masses in Elkhart, that money-losing fat cat bankers would not get fat cat bonuses, and wouldn't be able to private jet around or play at expensive resorts on the tax payers dime. Yet that is precisely what President Obama and many members of Congress do themselves. The Federal Government is awash in red ink, losing more money than all money losing Corporations combined, and Obama zips around the Country in his private jet, and members of Congress frequently do the same (Nancy Pelosi has a well-publicized penchant for military jumbo jets herself). With the nation awash in red ink - let Obama take the train, and let Congress go Greyhound. After all, fair is fair: With the Government taking over much of the financial industry, now the auto industry, and soon an attempt to swallow healthcare - which is 1/6th of the economy - America, Inc. has to have some accountability doesn't it?
As for those fat cat Corporate types....there are many ills in the world, but the truth is that the money those people sent played it's part in creating jobs for others. The interconnectivity of the economy was never so ably or accidentally demonstrated when Corporate spending dried up in Las Vegas, and left many thousands unemployed.
Way to go Obama!
Just remember the Obama refrain: 'I won, you lost'.
The proper thing for Nevadans to do is greet Obama warmly, and then throw Harry 'The Iraq War is Lost' Reid out of office.
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