Las Vegas Mayor: Obama Is ‘Not Our Friend’

“I want the president to straighten this out. If not, he’s not welcome in my city, as far as I’m concerned."

February 3, 2010 at 9:32 am - KVVU
Dateline: Las Vegas, Nevada
jmcaul   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:41 am

LOL! Harry Reid fell on his sword for this guy and look what thanks he gets! I guess the teleprompter was out sick that day.

Mike   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:42 am

A real slow learner? More like a never learner. Keep playing your fiddle Mr. President, never mind the flames.

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Monaco   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:46 am

All of a sudden, NOW he’s pretending to be fiscally conservative?

sammy   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:48 am

the president is a socialist, marxist, mao , stalin and hitler would love him, this country needs to impeach him

JJ   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:49 am

Open mouth, insert foot.

Obama Is ‘Not Our Friend’   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:49 am

Qbama’s only friend is his mirror!

Tim   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:50 am

Ha Ha Ha…what an azzclown!!

Gusgus   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:51 am

Why not blow your kids college tuition (and then some) in Las Vegas? BHO lies about the size of his inherited budget – claiming it was $1.3 trillion when close to $500 billion of Tarp has already been repaid – but continues to spend like a ‘drunken sailor’. ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’ The morons of this country elected a real ‘piece of work’.

joe   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:51 am

b.o. – what a goof…

VancouverAndy   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:52 am

Smart Power. Now the President is really not going to bow for the Mayor of Las Vegas like he did for the Mayor of Tampa, just because of her racial lineage.

Taggart Snyder   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:52 am

“All of a sudden, NOW he’s pretending to be fiscally conservative?”

Of course, Monaco. It’s an election year. I think we’re gonna be seeing a lot that this year.

@the_new_media   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:52 am

He’s not a friend of any capitalist idea.

RICK   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:55 am

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MORON TALKING ABOUT.OBAMMY YOU ARE THE ONE GAMBLING AMERICA AWAY.

Stacy   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:56 am

Bingo Monaco!!! Several times he’s made comments similar to this in regards to the spending habits of Americans. Yet he doesn’t see the hypocrisy in the debt he’s building. Unbelievable.

Duh!!!   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:57 am

He never was your/our friend. Barry has the dubious honour of being the first affirmative action president.

You Voted For Adolph   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:57 am

Every day a dipchit that voted for Bullwinkle comes out disowning him.

Ron   February 3rd, 2010 - 9:59 am

“You don’t go blowing money in Las Vegas when you are trying to save for your kid’s college” I am just glad that our president feels the need to tell everyone how to spend their disposible money yet is gun ho to repeal tax cuts that take thousands of dollars out of every American’s budget without choice. If he quit spending money and reduce, taxes Americans could do both. This guy is a complete moron.

HansJurgen   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:00 am

What a “chump”! Go back to Kenya where you belong. We don’t need a radical idiot of a thug as our president!

Vinko   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:01 am

Better go play some golf

Joe   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:02 am

Mr. President, you don’t have the right to tell me how to spend ALL my money even though you are trying to get ALL my money!

Scott, Tucson   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:04 am

Why don’t obama just stay put in the White House for a little bit instead of flying around in Air Force One every other week, that would save a few of our tax dollars too. Also, enforce Nancy Pelosi to repay the 1.1 million dollars that she bilk the American people for her junket to Copenhagen the other month. The bit*h has the money to repay it.

Joe   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:05 am

You see, Obama HATES America. Just like the “terrorists” who hate America and our prosperity, they see places like Las Vegas as a symbol of America’s lavish and prosperous lifestyle and they see that as a BAD THING… Regular American citizens see Las Vegas as a JEWEL OF THE DESERT and one of America’s TREASURES!!!! American citizens are PROUD that our country has become the most prosperous nation on Earth and American citizens are PROUD that we have such wonderful destination spots such as Las Vegas… but people like Obama and the terrorists are BOTH DETERMINED to destroy the United States as she exists today and they BOTH would like to see the United States ONLY possess things that we absolutely NEED to survive and nothing more – they would all like to get rid of recreation and the comfortable lifestyle that we currently enjoy… and they are both working towards that goal… Osama bin Laden has now just ALLIED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO FIGHT “GLOBAL WARMING”!!! Bin Laden has been an agent of the international Left and he recruited Middle Easterners to attack the USA on 9/11. Just like Saul Alinsky taught American Leftists, if you want people to follow your vision, you must appear to be one of them… Even though Osama Bin Laden comes from a MULTI-BILLIONAIRE FAMILY, he put out video tapes of himself in mountains and in caves so that the ignorant Middle Eastern Muslims will think that he is one of them and they will therefore fight for him… Little do they know that bin Laden is actually living in a palace somewhere protected by his allies, the international leftists and the maniacal Iranian regime.

RightStuff   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:06 am

Barack Obama is a goofball. He thinks the only thing that Las Vegas is for is for his Muslim jihadists to go get their lap dances before they fly jet airplanes into tall buildings.

givemeabreak   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:06 am

okay, so why is he spending ‘our’ money like it’s never-ending? He can lecture US on spending, while he and the other dems spend like mad fools on a binge, on alcohol, private jets [i.e.; private military jets, eh' Pelosi?], private chefs with a crew of 200. Sick hypocrites! Can we all say with a resounding, “stay out of our lives”. Your jobs are to secure the country/keep us safe, not dictate and take care of every individual, run our business’, etc.

ACORN SEIU Communists   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:06 am

Unless you are William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Antoin Rezko, a corrupt labor leader, a tort attorney, an enemy combatant, etc., Obama is NOT your friend.

morefandave   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:08 am

Obama will give Harry’s re-election camapaign just the kind of shot in the arm it needs. Reid is probably feeling like Fredo awaiting a visit from Michael.

HarryO   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:10 am

Isn’t it treason for anyone to deny access to anything to the POTUS? Oh wait a minute, that’s right, first obama has to prove he’s a natural born citizen before he can be considered a real POTUS.

Ted   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:11 am

Someone help me. Who said, “white folks greed drives a world in need”?

Nobama   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:12 am

I wish he would take the US Treasury to Vegas and put it all on 22 red.
At least that would give us some small chance of getting getting our money back.

Don   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:13 am

I want to see ‘ol Obama fall flat as much as any of you, but keep your criticism legitimate. He is 100% right about THIS issue!

Darrel   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:14 am

Obama is not your friend and neither is Harry Reid. Harry Reid is constantly on his knees servicing his lord god – the Dali-Bama. All Hail Obama! All Hail Obama!

Milt   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:16 am

As a very longtime resident of Las Vegas, I love our Mayor, Oscar Goodman. I only wish he would reconsider and run for Governor of Nevada. The thing I like about him is I know he has my back and he is looking out for me. Thank you Oscar, you are the best.

Daniel   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:17 am

How’s that Hoax and Chains working out for you?

Roger Weber USA   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:19 am

Check out the new version of “Mmm Mmm Mmm Barack Hussein Obama” at: http://www.myspace.com/rogeweber

You’ll get a much needed laugh!

betterred   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:19 am

thoughts of President Obama..
I wonder what the word deficit means? I’ve heard it many times..must look it up.
Hmmm – look at all those we-weed up congressman scurrring about.
Hmmm – I wonder if I should have taken another ship other than the Titanic
Whats that strange noise that sounds like ice scraping metal- hmmm
That reminds me – I think the world needs to hold hands and sing “mmmm mmmm Obama”
Whats that strange feeling that the floor is rising? Is it global warming?
I wonder what song the band can play next? They play anything I tell them
Why dos it feel like there are less and less people aboard this ship?

B-RAD   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:19 am

The only person in BO’s eyes that is able to spend money is himself…us minions are incapable of doing so because we lack the elitism that he exudes. The bottom line is that he is a liar and this video is just another topping on the sundae. His hypocrisy knows no bounds as is evident in this speech….while telling americans not to act stupid with their money and blow it in Vegas, he is doing just that. Spending ridonkulous amounts of taxpayers money on a bunch of crap that will never amount to nothing, like his presidency.

who cares   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:20 am

Barry says we all have to tighten our belts while he & the Dem’s spend us into bankruptcy. Don’t go to Vegas, do community service instead, in the mean time it’s date night for me & the Hoe.

the girl   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am

Don’t spend money you don’t have – aren’t YOU the pot calling the kettle black! Stay out of our lives! You are not welcome here!

Gas Passer   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am

Obama isn’t smart enough to speak to the American people and shouldn’t be allowed to leave the Oval Office without his teleprompter. …and you sniveling liberals thought Bush was dumbest president ever…Obama is the dumbest president ever!

Shish   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am

I have never wanted to visit Vegas more than now. The mayor is my new hero. Can I make a suggestion? Every one who goes to Vegas should send Barry a postcard directly to 1600. Harry might as well start packing up his Senate office now as he is moving back home in November.
A special thanks to every moron that voted for this clown.What have you done?

Charles   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am

Don’t spend your money in Vegas, we need it so we can redistribute it to pay off special interests, fund Pelosi “private” AF jet, and load that jet with $100,000 of booze for a one year supply. We need it so Reid can bribe Senators to vote for a health care bill that they don’t support unless they get the huge bribes Harry gives them. So knock off spending your own hard earned cash you “racists”, you “nazis”, you “rednecks”, you “rich”, just trust Barry, Nancy, and Harry to spend YOUR money for you!

Rank   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:23 am

Hey, he needs every dollar he can take. After all, he must complete the financial ruin of this nation or his backers might withdraw their money!

Travis   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:23 am

Kool-Aid wearing off?

ricardo maxwell   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:25 am

Once again this racist Marxist anti-American dictator wanna be is not a slow learner. He is a full blown radical trying his best to destroy our great country and remake it into some kind of Marxist utopia where reparations have destroyed the “rich white folks” and th ewealth is redistributed. Unfortunately this political has NEVER worked and will never work.

Barry   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:26 am

It is not your money. I don’t care if you worked hard and earned it … it is NOT yours! It is mine to spend on the incompetent, the irresponsible, the lazy, the bribes, the payoffs, the welfare queens. Now stop spending your money – it is MINE all MINE!

Yours Truly,
Obama

marty   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:27 am

All of the kool aid drinkers for obama who critisised some conservatives after accusing obama of being a muslim. Well folks, he is a muslim and you know it. that so called church he and ms obama was a part of for 20 years was nothing more than an extreme black nationalist, hate america church who used a Bible as a prop. His interview about some staffer sending him devotionals from all faiths shows he is not christian. What christian would want a muslim devotional? Answer- Not a real one!

Beth   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:28 am

“Uhh you don’t go skiing when you have to buy food”…Next time try this when in New Hampshire Barack

CallaTeYa!   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:30 am

Monaco, it’s not that he’s a fiscal conservative–he want’s you to hang onto it so he can take from you. It will be a lot politically easier to take it from you than it will be forhim to goafter a casino.

Mike   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:30 am

Allright… I never, ever, EVER thought I’d get on a blog and defend this man Obama. But come on. Let’s get real. Don’t let’s fool ourselves into missing his point just because we like to beat him up. Seriously: is there ANYBODY out there stupid enough to believe he really meant to single out Las Vegas? Obviously he was only pointing out an example of responsible spending habits. (Although he’d do much better to lead by example.)

Come on. There are WAY more important things we need to be watching Obama on besides an unfortunate misstep in a speech nobody even listened to.

RightStuff   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:30 am

Adam Smith in “Wealth of Nations”, he says the best thing the government can do is to butt out of our lives. Barry, please take a hint.

Napalinda   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:31 am

Hypocrite doesn’t even begin to describe this man. He and Michelle fly in top name chefs for dinners, go on “dates” to New York and Chicago, take advantage of state trips to take his family and go sight seeing. Michelle and the girls went to London while he was in Paris and of course had to have her own jet to get there and home etc. etc. They are having a high time on the taxpayers $$$

In addition to Copenhagen Nancy “Queen” Pelosi racks up 28K each way for trips between DC and SF. She also flies her family back and forth WITHOUT HER ON THE PLANE (this I believe is not legal). This amount doesn’t include food and drink and her “guests” have expensive taste. She also makes them pick her up at Travis AFB instead of SF which increases the costs because everything and everyone has to be brought in there instead of SF.

These people with their pensions and medical care haven’t a clue what the real world is about. They not only need to be gone, but the perks packages need to be gone. Let them earn a living off the taxpayers dime Nancy will never be voted out by SF voters, there are only 12%-16% republicans in that city and most of the rest think just like her.

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wtd   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:35 am

When will “Me”chelle, his wife cut back on her expenses? How many aides does she have currently?

Mike   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:36 am

What a hypocrite. Obama bows to every foreign leader he can find but arrogantly looks down his nose towards us, the American people, his bosses. Screw him–if I want to blow my money in Vegas I’ll blow my money in Vegas, and this utter failure of a president won’t lecture me about it.

ACORN SEIU Communists   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:38 am

This is the most corrupt and political Administration EVER!

Stop Obamunism NOW. It will take decades for the USA to recover.

Claudia   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:41 am

Obama, as soon as YOU stop all the spending we’ll start listening to you. Until then, it’s “Do as I say, not as I do!” Did you ever hear the terms “WALK THE TALK?”

Fucking idiot. <–and it's a BIG DEAL for me to swear!!!!!

Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:45 am

Ha, Obama’s “not welcome” anywhere lately and I think most of America agrees with me on that. Except, of course, for the Mayor of Tampa and certain Democrats and Communists in Chicago and D.C.

Haiku   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:45 am

Teleprompt & Circumstance – A Haiku

http://haikme.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/teleprompt-circumstance/

FastFacts   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:46 am

America listen up. He wasn’t just talking to Las Vegas, he was talking to all America. Obama the people are seeing what you are doing to us and are not too happy. Obama change your ways or be kicked out.

SOURCE TO WHAT OBAMA IS DOING TO THE WHOLE US: http://www.americanparchment.com

notAsheeple   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:48 am

Every day we get TERRORIST attacks from within the White House.

No wonder when Al-Qaeda attempts successful or not, Obambi pushes it under the rug

Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:49 am

EVERYONE should be aware of the TWENTY-FRICKIN-THREE people Michelle Obama has employed on the taxpayers as her “assistants.”

Many of them are being paid very high salaries and receiving the inevitable federal benefits now and perhaps permanently, just because they were/are federal employees (I’m guessing) (I know they’re taxpayer-paid, though).

By comparison, Hillary Clinton employed three. Maimie Eisenhower had one and she paid for that assistant OUT OF THE PRESIDENT’S SALARY.

Laura and Barbara Bush both had one each.

Michelle Obama has 23. 23. She has 23.

And at the rate the two of them, Barack and Michelle, plow through money, they have no.right at all to be lecturing ANYone on money management. I mean, for gosh sakes, look at Obama’s record on fiscal issues, listenig to ANYthing he says about money, fiscal issues is like listening to a thief lecture you on morality.

Ratt   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:49 am

Don February 3rd, 2010 – 10:13 am
I want to see ‘ol Obama fall flat as much as any of you, but keep your criticism legitimate. He is 100% right about THIS issue

KMA, why don’t you say that to the good people of Las Vegas ?

James_S   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:49 am

I dislike the President…..but he is right! Don’t blow the your money irresponsibly in Vegas.

Lady liberty   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:50 am

“he’s not welcome in our city” LOVE IT you rock mayor!

Lindsay   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:50 am

The arrogance of this guy is astounding. Will we survive this administration?

Lidia   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:51 am

“don’t blow your money on political campaigns or political candidates in Washington!”

DahktaD   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:52 am

Between Obama and Biden…they are running neck and neck with idiotic statements…the Laurel and Hardy of politics.

You can only blame the idiots that elected Obama in the first place…he was a nobody back then and has only attained the status of knucklehead since.

Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:52 am

A year before Barack Obama sold “his” book, so he said on his campaign for the Presidency, he didn’t have enough money in his checking account to make a long-distance phone call.

And THIS is the guy who, presto, now advises the U.S. on our budget, taxes, any management issues at all?

People, Barack Obama is a poser. He’s just a guy who can perform his teleprompter speeches well with a boomer voice. That’s ALL.

He claims to have been a “Constitutional instructor/faculty” while he was never such anywhere. What he was was a lecturer. A LECTURER. Not faculty. He READ NOTES BEFORE AN AUDIENCE.

The list of his lies is demonstratively long. He’s a man who is mentally quite unwell.

Drunken Sailor   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:52 am

A Quote From A Drunken Sailor

“I take exception to everyone saying that Obama, Reid and Pelosi are spending money like drunken sailors.

When I was a drunken sailor, I quit spending when I ran out of money.”

TimMD   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:52 am

As much as I love you Vegas(and have visited numerous times), REAP IT!
You contributed to giving us this clown. While you are worrying about
what he’s saying, you might also show some concern for what he’s DOING.
That soak the rich thing(raising the top rate from 35 to 39%) that you think
happens in a vacuum, well it will cost me $8,000 next year. So, my
Vegas vacation is out!

Tai   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:52 am

How appropriate! Harry Reid, now Obama. Nevada votes in Obama and he throws Las Vegas under the bus. You folks voted for him so quit your whining and accept the fact that you blew it. Now the country has to live with this sorry excuse of a President. How’s that thrill running up your leg feel now?

Laurie in Michigan   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:53 am

Depending on where you live the unemployment rate ranges from 9 – 17%, so it’s possible that anywhere between 91-83% of people are still gainfully employed and have every right to go to Vegas or wherever the hell they want to go on vacation. Sheesh, Obama. SHUT UP ALREADY!

vincenzo4   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:55 am

Obama, he’s so kewl, so neato, so trendy-and the enemt loves him. All his hallmark national security decisions have aided and encouraged enemy operations. Look at the national security spike here domestically and the operational tempo in the combat zones. The President is decidedly neither naieve nor a slow learner. He is calculated, and the bottom will fall out eventually. Eric Holder’s debacles are just the surface of this apostasy.

John Breland   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:56 am

No, BHO is not a friend of Las Vegas, nor is he a friend of America. It’s clear now that he holds this country and its Constitutional government in contempt and is intent on replacing our system with one more suited to his ideology. Fortunately, it seems that enough people are getting the picture now so that this November will (hopefully) be a bloodbath (figuratively, of course) for BHO’s cronies in Congress. Our best hope is to neuter and cage this guy in November and keep him that way until we can usher him back to Chicago, Kenya, whereever, in 2012.

Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:56 am

HER EVERY REQUEST IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT RECESSION

Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing China for the White House during the Civil War.

And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband’s salary.

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:

Mamie Eisenhower: 1 paid for personally out of President’s salary.

Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 23

How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of
Millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning Less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these
Servants of Michelle Obama are the same as members of the National security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:

Michele Obama’s personal staff:
1. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to The President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M.. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E.. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M.. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life.

One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid
Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny
Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

Beth Majors   February 3rd, 2010 - 10:57 am

Obama should follow his own advice. Geez, using a jet to make a special flight to plant a tree, two jets to go to Copenhagen twice, Pelosi using a military jet to pick up some relatives, and the list goes on and on. What a silver tongued snake oil salesman hypocrite Obama is.

Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:00 am

Michelle Obama’s “Assistants” (taxpayer paid):
I think her 20+ staffers, paid for by taxpayers, is absurd. In a recession, with millions of Americans losing their jobs.

1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers ! , Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Socia l Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $! 62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O.. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence fo! r the First Lady)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

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retiredat44   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:00 am

didn’t the morons fool, boneheaded idjits in Nevada vote for Obama? They get what they deserve… boohooo! cry me a river..

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Fresh Water   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:02 am

I guess Muslims only like gambling in Las Vegas when they’re planning imminent self-destruction…

WIldman   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:03 am

You people are insane.

libdave   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:05 am

OBAMA = One Big @$$ Mistake America

ByteRider   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:05 am

NATIONAL ORGANIZED MOVEMENT FOR OBAMA’S RESIGNATION
(NOMOR)
Coming to a website near you…

S Morgan   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:08 am

Going to Vegas at the end of the month for Nascar!

Barry can kiss my ass.

father_moray   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:08 am

Amazing Orange & Blue Kenyan KupKake…eats America. Eats White America. Mao. Better buy TUMS azzzpipe…nov2 vote straight…

RatsoFred   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:12 am

Stay away from Vegas and get out of America!

ManOnPoint   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:15 am

Go Mr. Mayor!!! Obama does not really care about who he offends!!!

333maxwell   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:18 am

The President is exactly right..

The Mayor of Vegas crying the President has psychological problems because the President calls a spade a spade (ya, go ahead, say it.. ).

ANYONE who has worked in Vegas for even a few weeks realizes very quickly how very many people sit there and destroy their lives literally.

It’s their life.. that’s fine.. but the President is correct.

I ran a gaming room here in Montana until last year.. I had to get out because I was sick of seeing people make a B line from the Pawn shop next door to the ‘casino’ and then cry later they have no money. So many people, day in and day out.. one man who works for Conoco (refinery town this is) comes into town for about a month every year, most of that time, from 8 in the morning until I would have to poke him awake as he dozed off at closing time.. actually said he was going to sue me because there is no way he could spend 45,000 dollars there in the last several days and not win anything.. said he would never be back again.. the next week, there he was, back again, he has sold his Lexus (didn’t need it anyway, he said) and pissed all that money away as well.

Personal responsibility? YOU BET..

President out of line for noting that Vegas is the last place you should be putting your money if you are having money problems?? Nonsense.. that was common sense speak. I understand vegas could get upset by the comments.. but drug dealers get angry about the signs that say they need to stay 1000 feet away from a school.

We MUST get over this partisan nonsense.. every time a republican or Democrat say something lately, the other side pisses it’s self in their rabid haste to make something of it.

These politicians, thee partisans are killing us..

I too want the country back.. but common sense talk like what the preseident was saying about money and vegas, should NEVER cause ANY Reasonable person to cry foul.. because like it or not, it’s the fookin truth.

Vegas is eveill it is a fun fun place to go when you have no money worries.. it also consumes and destroys people at what would be an epidemic if it were something like swine flu.

Instead of Vegas crying about this revelation, they should step up to the plate and say ‘hey, this is the reason we are making the best value family packed BUDGET vacation packages available, so you can do a LOT here for the least.. instead of crying about ‘the truth’.

People are daft.. both sides.. I am SO sick of partisan crybabies. And the Dems and GOP can kiss my and I like to believe a growing number of real Americans ars’es..

And the Mayor of Vegas.. you sir are an executive of a city with deep roots in the financial destruction of others, I can think of NO BETTER example than your city, as to the kinds of activities those with financial troubles should avoid at this time of financial upheaval.

john   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:20 am

All of those SEIU clowns in Vegas voted for Obozo and now he’s killing their service industry jobs.

A Williams   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:21 am

Obama should have also included spending a wad of taxpayer money to attend Eco-conferences in Iceland.

Commonsense58   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:26 am

What did everyone expect would happen when an over-educated moron with a drug habit and zero practical life experience was elected to manage the worlds biggest economy? Obama is a child in a suit. This fella has no business being president.period. What still makes me sick to my stomach is this idiots “World apology tour” I have nothing to apologize toi the wotrld for. maybe we oughta “back bill” the world for bailing their asses out of two world wars?

Wanda   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:29 am

Fresh water since she has so many to help her why doesnt some one tell her , her waste lines on her clothes are getting way ti high, or could it be that she is getting fat from all that rich food and since shes on this whole over weight thing she dont want people to know shes fat to???

RTC   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:33 am

Obama – The suit has no emperor.

Dave   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:33 am

Hope the Mayor stands his ground on this one, When Mr. Obama visits and the Local authorities have to work overtime to help with security,, The Mayor should send the WH the bill,,, Obama is all about himself and spending what ever he can get away with. It doesn’t come out of his pocket so why should he care.

Obama   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:35 am

No body loves me ?
You better because I Don’t quit trying….. to get your white guilt to make you wee wee up on yourself in adulation for me.

(Translation) I will bring my union thugs and unwashed masses and race pimps to bear and blackmail you into submission while I call you a racist because I want to destroy america.

Bravo Mayor, you are my hero. Need more people with Nads like you sir.

Satch   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:35 am

Obama doen’t want LasVegas to take your money,—–he wants to take your money.
A bright side Mayor Goodman,my brother and his wife and daughters are coming out in March,and I may be going out this fall,love LasVegas.
Take that Barry.

Barry OCarter ll   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:39 am

I say Goodman for president and Joe Arapaio for Homeland Security!

Corazon7   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:43 am

Do what I say, not what I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBVkR2p6X6k

john   February 3rd, 2010 - 11:45 am

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OBAMA: “Let me be clear, I want you to stop spending your money because I am going to spend it for you.”

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