Boy did your title hit home with me recently.  People really don't want honesty.  Really they don't.  They want their ears tickled.  It's a rare person nowadays that really wants the truth. 

I prefer the truth. I lied one to many times in my life and I am where I am due to that today.

I am sure there are some gamble-holics.  But most who go to Vegas are not that type, and go there for fun.  They saved their money and now want to spend it their way to have fun.

What Obama is doing is trying to stigmatize fun.  He is not offereing help for the afflicted, but instead piloring what he thinks is a rich man's folly.  And he got nailed for it.

Let me put it this way.  If you (the royal you not you Charles) dont like smoking, petition to make it illegal.  Oh, you dont like losing the tax revenue?  then shut up!  Same goes for gambling.  Let's see how popular he will be when he bans mega Millions and Power ball.  Idiot.

KFC, nowadays? people have always not wanted to hear it.

As for obama being "right" about las vegas... BS. Obama has no right to attack gambling. I don't gamble because it is stupid, but some people have fun doing it and that is their right. In the soviet state you can't have money and you can't have fun. You work all day for the government and are poor and unhappy... but we are not soviet yet. Gambling is a perfectly legitimate business and entertainment that many people enjoy. You do not ban or even demonize food because some people harm themselves by eating in excess

When the president attacks a particular city or activity, he smears literally millions of people who make a living in those cities based on the recreational activities of others.  You think unemployment is high now?  What will happen when you add all the hotel, restaurant, transportation, casino workers, and others to the list?  They called Bush dumb and they hold this guy up as a genius...isn't there something in the Bible about making the bad look good and the good look bad?

There is, it is my favorite quote from the bible and one of the truest things ever said (and I am not a christian)

yes,  I think you must be referring to Isaiah 5:20 which says:

"Woe to them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." 

hahaha..weeeeellll you've got a good point.  But it just seems more prevalent today than it did when my daddy's daddy was around.  I'm thinking of another verse that says:

'...in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron."  1 Tim 4:1

Could have just said "woe unto liberals" to be more concise . (kidding, it is important to understand WHY liberalism is evil)

You misunderstand. I am not saying that Obama is right for criticizing people, I am saying I too believe people should be spending their money more wisely. I just won't go around telling people whether I think they are stupid or not for spending money they earned in Las Vegas. That's their right, who am I to criticize them?

Everyone is entitled to an opinion on the evils or joys of gambling...free country and all.  The government and especially the head of it DOES NOT have any business telling us how to spend our money or time or energy.  Just because he expresses an opinion does not automatically mean he is "Right".  Obama seems to live by the motto, "Everybody is entitled to my opinion".