As faux pas go, this is way more amusing than damaging, but as for him being a slow learner, you make the call.

Nicely done, Mr. Mayor.

It always amuses me when I hear certain politicians talk about belt tightening, I guess lavish amounts of glue was applied to all the seats in the audience to prevent mass people falling out of their chairs convulsing with laughter.

I wonder if the president thinks that any vacation, anywhere, is a frivolous luxury deserving of derision for it’s execessiveness . Since almost all parents are trying to save for their kid’s college, all leisure activity should be considered wasteful and selfish, OK.

Seriously, should the president get pilloried for this comment? small potatoes, I think, since we all get the sentiment involved.

Discovering that people actually do listen to what he says, some smoothing over was in order.

Perception and reputation are sensitive issues for Sin City as it struggles to find footing amid a two-year meltdown of foreclosures, bankruptcies and unemployment. Tourism is the Silver State’s backbone, and several lawmakers said they were shocked that Obama singled out Las Vegas again after commenting last February that bailed-out banks shouldn’t go to Las Vegas using taxpayer money.

The mayor did give the president a way out, TDS…......Teleprompter Dependency Syndrome:

“He has to step up right away and say, you know, he wasn’t thinking,” Goodman said. “Sometimes when he’s not using his monitors and reading what he says, he doesn’t think. And this is one of those times he didn’t think, and he should straighten out the record because he’s been here, he knows Las Vegas is a great place.”

He shoots, he scores.

I’m not going to shed many tears for Vegas, Sin City has always provided remedies for misery. A lap dance with Bambi or raking in the chips yelling ,“Winner, winner, chicken dinner” can make that pink slip just a passing memory.