Posted on 01/11/2008 7:57:51 PM PST by JRochelle
What happens in Vegas should not stay in Vegas. That’s the word from Senator Barack Obama, who kicked off his Nevada campaign tonight at a rally of cooks and housekeepers, bartenders and bellmen. On hand were a smattering of the 60,000 people who comprise the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, the largest union in Nevada, which is supporting him in next Saturday’s caucuses. “We’re gonna show America that what happens in Vegas – is not, no, no – it’s not gonna stay in Vegas any more!” Mr. Obama said, speaking in a crowded union hall a few blocks from the edge of the Las Vegas strip. “We’re going to start something in Vegas and we’re gonna send it across Nevada and across America and everybody’s going to know the power of a united people.” Throughout Mr. Obama’s remarks, chants of “Si Se Puede! Si Se Puede! Si Se Puede!” rang from the audience. Mr. Obama joined along, too, in what has become a new mantra for his campaign. (It is essentially translated to the slogan he started on New Hampshire primary night, “Yes we can!”)
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country, people who are working together across racial lines, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, they can do anything. There is nothing that we cannot do!” Mr. Obama said, his sleeves rolled up, pumping his fist into the air. “That’s your story, the story of local 226. That’s how dishwashers and hotel workers, cooks and cleaning staff realized their dream in this desert town. That’s how you stood up for a bottom line that didn’t just include profits for the few, but prosperity for the many.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
We’re gonna pander for all the illegal votes we can!
Si se puede!
(pinchi puto!)
I wouldn’t have thunk it.
Who’d have guessed that?
;)
So Obama's going to bring more adultery to the rest of the country? That is the point of the Vegas slogan "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". Well, promising legalized prostitution and gambling would probably win Obama the Ron Paul vote.
You took the words right out of my mouth. The big question is how many of them are registered to vote?
Patrick, the first African-American governor in Massachusetts history, showed a cross-partisan appeal similar to Obama's in '06, winning strongly even in Republican areas in his 20-point triumph.
Most?
INS-ICE- BORDER PATROL is only a phone call away.
Illegal rich environment. Pssst Joe Arpio
LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking. ;o)
Sixty thousand of them in unions, and that doesn't count their wives and kids, or their dead relatives, or their dogs and cats.
It’s Pinche (pin-ch-eh) not Pinchi (pin-chee).
You are correct,!
Thank you.
He’s that, too. ;)
“Well, promising legalized prostitution and gambling would probably win Obama the Ron Paul vote.”
Prostitution is illegal in Clark County.
Except among the politicians. We pay them to screw us everywhere, though.
I never understood - why is it illegal to charge for something that it’s legal to give away for free?
The big question is how many of them are registered to vote?
Register? They don need no stink’n register.
From what I’ve read, Deval Patrick is crashing Massachusetts faster than any previous Governor. I loved living in Boston but I doubt if it is very hospitable these days. Sad.
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