Obama Disses Vegas — Again

By Cheri Jacobus,The Hill

Casino gamblers watch Obama on big screen

 Words matter. The words of a president matter a whole lot.

So when President Obama chastised corporate America for holding conferences in Las Vegas in bad economic times,he should have known his utterances would hurt the Nevada economy. The state is suffering from a $100 million loss after the Obama comments. He apparently doesn’t care.

Now that the president is headed out to Nevada to raise money for the increasingly unpopular Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),Gov. Jim Gibbons has asked Obama to meet with a few folks and try to walk back his earlier statements that helped tank the Vegas tourism and business conference trade. The governor wants to do everything possible to stem the tide of the sinking economy in his state (as any governor would) and has requested the president’s help.

Obama has refused. Gov. Gibbons is furious,and he has every right to be. He is now appealing to Reid to use any influence he may have so that something can be done to help ameliorate the damage before the summer vacation season begins and the state economy suffers even more.