Crybaby Republicans Don’t Like Barack And Michelle Obama Going Out In New York

hiners in the Republican Party are crying because President Barack Obama has the nerve to go out in New York with his wife. It wasn’t all that long ago they cried (particularly the crybaby governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons) because he was supposedly discouraging people from spending too much money in Vegas and hurting the economy. Now they’re complaining that he is going out with his wife in New York.

I’m not sure if Republican Party head Rush Limbaugh approved this particular message (although I am sure he approves of any anti-Obama message):

The Republican National Committee issued a news release that chastised Obama for saying he understands American’s troubles, but then hopping up to New York for “a night on the town.”

That is a funny comment coming from the party that (throughout last year) criticized Barack Obama for being a community organizer in the city of Chicago (where he was working with working-class people and not making a lot of money doing it). Conservatives turned “community organizer” into some kind of evil term. Now, coming full circle, the Republicans are trying to portray him as some out-of-touch elitist. It won’t fly and it just looks plain silly for the conservatives who are grasping at straws trying to attack President Obama.

I guess the conservatives (Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter and others) are taking a break from mischaracterizing and smearing Judge Sonia Sotmayor (a U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee) while inexplicably and inappropriately painting her as a racist (funny coming from some of these far-right conservatives). With a break from that comes this manufactured nontroversy over President Obama going out with his wife.

Fox News/AP:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/30/obamas-head-new-york-city-date-night/

Republican Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons Is Whining

Republican Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (Fox News does not identify him as as a Republican in their story as of the time I read it) is whining about President Barack Obama visiting Nevada.

First, here is how Fox News lays out the controversy:

Gibbons had demanded a sit-down meeting following Obama’s controversial statement that companies shouldn’t book trips to Las Vegas if they have received federal bailouts and claims statements he made that were critical to Nevada and have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business in the Silver State.

Total crybaby stuff that makes you wonder how much of it is politically motivated. Las Vegas probably only came up because it is a popular tourist destination. This is the kind of whining that leaves people disgusted with politics and politicians. Quite frankly, I’m not sure that Gibbons is in a position to make demands of the president.

“I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration,” Gibbons said. “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments. President Obama is coming to Las Vegas to raise campaign cash for Senator Harry Reid, apparently our money is good enough for the President, but our tourism, jobs, and economic future are not. This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada.”

Gibbons needs to quit crying and get to work.

One would expect Fox News to take another anti-President Obama story and give it major billing on its homepage. One also would expect Fox News to do some basic research to add the fact that he is a Republican (just to be fair and to perhaps put Gibbons’ nontroversy into context).

Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/19/nevada-governer-slams-obamas-refusal-meet/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gibbons_(United_States_politician)