That's a quote from one of my favorite movies, "Casino," and seemed very appropriate given a certain item in today's news: Current Las Vegas Mayor, longtime prominent Vegas attorney, and actor in the movie Casino -- Oscar Goodman (first pic above; he's the one in the center) -- todays tells Obama to go F*ck himself, expressly rejecting Obama's official request today to meet with Goodman.See, Obama is out in Vegas to try to campaign for Senate majority leader Harry Reid (Obama campaigning for anyone has very recently been an almost certain kiss of death, BTW). So Obama wanted a sit down with Vegas Mayor Goodman to start things off. Goodman, however, recalling Obama's repeated preachings over the past year that admonished Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Vegas, told Obama today that there will be no sit down meeting unless and until Obama apologizes for his previous comments disparaging any individual who has the free desire to go to Vegas for a weekend (can't have that, after all, right Obama?) -- see link below.
Goodman, BTW, is a man after my own heart -- Previously representing very unpopular defendants in courts of law and previously aligning himself more with the dems but is now a declared Independent. You Rage, Mr. Mayor!
(Postscript: Ironically, Harry Reid is also portrayed in the movie Casino, from his younger years as a state senator in Nevada. One of the Smothers Brothers plays him, and strikingly well. The Reid character is the politician seen in the movie taking kickbacks and free ladies from DeNiro's casino in the first third of the movie. Goodman's character, BTW, is DeNiro's character's attorney in the movie.)
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