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| Gibbons Still Angry Over Obama's Comments |
| 2010-07-08 |
| Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons refuses to bury the hatchet with President Barack Obama and has no plans to greet the Commander-In-Chief when he arrives in Las Vegas Thursday. Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, blames Obama for the state's unemployment crisis, saying his statements about Las Vegas cost 200,000 people their jobs. "I am hopeful Obama does not make more insulting remarks about Las Vegas and further damage our economy," he said in a statement to FOX5. Gibbons is referring to comments the president made in February, when he said families shouldn't blow their college savings in Las Vegas. That statement, which followed a 2009 remark about bailed-out companies scheduling junkets in the city, drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. "It is ironic that Obama badmouths Las Vegas, puts Nevadans out of work, then comes here to raise money and campaign for Harry Reid," Gibbons said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #19 Agreed, this is Fred's garden and the mods have very few rules, but all firm rules. I have been gone for a while from "day to day" interaction, but am always glad I can step away for a while, and yet come back home to the same high quality Rantburg, on days when my "world view" needs some cross checking. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2010-07-08 23:31 |
| #18 Not sure what "finito" means, I live here in Northern Mexico, or that state that believes one should follow the rules. Here on the Burg Fred has rules, it's his land, not mine. Don't want to respect them, start your own blog, but grow some thicker skin. You will need it. Adios and good luck. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-08 23:20 |
| #17 finito "Write if you find work..." |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-07-08 23:02 |
| #16 I'm afraid, logi_cal, that your thinking is way off base on this issue. It's annoying even to have to address this sort of thing, but since you seem to be currently obsessed with the mods and their beliefs, perhaps it's useful to note that: Fred is retired military from the intel side. Pappy is retired military, a veteran wounded in combat. The real physical kind, not the keyboard kind. I am the wife of a retired military officer and professionally am involved in Defense activities. Trailing Wife is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a father whose work directly benefitted the fighters who founded the modern state of Israel. Steve White is a cardiologist and researcher at a rather prestigious medical school. Not one of us, or of the other mods, has either the time or the need to play racial PC games. What we will do is enforce the very few but very real lines regarding racial speech here. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-07-08 22:18 |
| #15 I'll write what most of the rest of us are thinking: It's clear to me that one or more of the mods are oversensitive blacks, liberal (or both) or suffering from racial guilt. I agree with filtering inappropriate vulgar commentary, but 8 years of Bushisms against a president I didn't like anyway was too much to take to swallow what the 'bright-line policy' is pushing; what a guilt-laden power trip. I'm not a bible-toting churchgoer, but it is fitting this is my 314 comment... Exodus 3:14 finito |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2010-07-08 22:00 |
| #14 I kinda feel the same as Ed when I start belting out the lyrics to a JaRule Jlow duet, that I assume jaRule wanted me to buy, since he took my money. But if I sing his lyrics out loud, my kids sream at me to shut up! I am NOT allowed to say that... WTF? should never sold it to me in the first place. Back to Yanni for me. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2010-07-08 18:43 |
| #13 Ed, being offensive is a gift. Be proud and wear it loud. Don't leave please! |
| Posted by: Ford Maude Elle 2010-07-08 17:43 |
| #12 ed, I do enjoy your comments. Maybe don't take it so hard, eh? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-07-08 16:56 |
| #11 Sad to see you go, ed. ...though I share your opinion. Time to start my own blog. Your comments are spot-on. |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2010-07-08 15:27 |
| #10 @#8 http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/08/financial-regulation-bill-dictates-ethnic-gender-quotas/ |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-07-08 14:53 |
| #9 Where photos of simians are concerned Wiser to walk on eggshells, I think. As the officer in the Kipling story said to his fellow soldier who was boinking another officer's wife, "Is it worth it?" |
| Posted by: lex 2010-07-08 14:26 |
| #8 Pity. As a tri-racial person I've tried not to be racist nor submit to inferior status. I was wrong. The right kind of dhimmitude is expected. I no longer wish to participate when a pun can not be made even when the target is not of a protected race/class. But because a protected person is peripherally involved in the story, we must walk on eggshells. What has this gotten us? The first explicitly racist president of the United States in my memory. Denial river is rotten and it stinks. Eric Holder was right. Adios. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-07-08 14:20 |
| #7 I heard they're so desperate in Vegas these days that they've reintroduced penny slots. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-07-08 12:59 |
| #6 Gibbons is referring to comments the president made in February, when he said families shouldn't blow their college savings in Las Vegas. Yeah, leave that to Barry. He'll do it for you. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-08 10:31 |
| #5 Once and for all folks: Do not use monkey / ape / chimpanzee photos when commenting at Rantburg about the current POTUS, no matter how clever you think you are being. Oops, sorry. Just for the record, the pi$$ed off gibbon was not intended to be a caricature of Obama. It didn't even cross my mind. As to why it would cross anyone else's, I have no idea, either. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-08 09:44 |
#4 That photo was of a pissed off gibbon. Get the joke?
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| Posted by: ed 2010-07-08 08:55 |
| #3 Who knew ZZ Top was so upset at the president? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-07-08 06:30 |
| #2 Me, I'm loving watching this fool as long as it's correctable. |
| Posted by: hairofthedawg 2010-07-08 02:34 |
#1 Is there anyone out there this guy hasn't pi$$ed off yet?
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| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-08 01:12 |