Comments on: Chavez: what a guy

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:01:07 +0000

News from Caracas Chronicles blog is that Chavez lost.
A great sigh of relief.

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:47:20 +0000

I fervently hope that the US Government (both the current Administration and the next one) merely ignores Chavez (which in any case would be entirely appropriate). Go ahead and implement it as best you can, Hugo. Use your country as a Petri dish, so we can later point to it as an example that socialism does not work, and we had nothing to do with its failure.

By: pst314

pst314 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:15:11 +0000

I have read that most of the student opposition is leftist. One article quoted a student leader who calls himself Stalin. When parents name their children Stalin you know that a culture is ready for examination by a pathologist.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:42:41 +0000

On the previous comment thread, Bunk whined on and on about how people — “chauvanist” people — said mean things about him and his surrenderist ilk. Here, his whole shtick is merely to run whatever variants he can think of, and that isn’t many, on “binary thinker” as a taunt. The simple fact is that he’s a troll, a swollen-headed troll ever since neo devoted a post to arguing with him, but a fairly dim example of the type at that (binary thinking being at least one level higher than the mono-thought that pervades his herd).

Nevertheless, it is of course true that Chavez should be left to stew in his own juice, along with the poor, benighted multitudes who have fallen for the old, old socialist shell game yet again, and do support him. I haven’t seen anyone here or elsewhere calling for his forcible ouster, only hopes that the coming referendum will be just some approximation of “fair” (if it’s not, or even if it is, it’s unlikely that there’ll be any future elections during his tenure). But — should there emerge any real evidence that he’s making deals with jihadis, as a means of getting at his obssesive hate-figure, Bush — Chavez coming across as almost as Bush-deranged as some American lefties — then he should be taken out fast. As with pirates, nobody and no state, democracy or otherwise, has a right to harbor or support terrorists.

As for his admiring entourage of high-profile, celebrity lefties, it’s particularly comic to see our resident trolls squirm trying to pass them off as a lunatic “fringe”. No, sadly, they’re all too representative of the degraded level to which so much of the contemporary left has been reduced — fawning over any posturing thug that comes along in the mono-brained, adolescent belief that he’s “sticking it to the man”.

By: harry9000

harry9000 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:53:42 +0000

You know what Bunk? Now that I think about it, what you had said about being careful about what you say to your lefty pals on your turf, and what you admit to us about Chavez on our turf, must mean you trust us “binary-brained” “chauvinists” to act in a more rational manner. Its an important revelation and self discovery on your part. I encourage you to continue to examine your beliefs further.

By: harry9000

harry9000 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:38:00 +0000

Thats…”how absurd you sound”.

Sheesh!

By: harry9000

harry9000 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:34:37 +0000

BUNK:
“Carter has done this in many countries and elections and has an unassailable record of integrity and fairness. “

He has an unassailable record of being an unwitting (or not) dupe and useful tool for tyrants and dictators world wide, and a hindrance to a foreign policy that calls for moral clarity and certitude. Other than that, Im sure he’s a model of patriotism. To whom, Im not too sure…

“On lefty blogs,…I’ve taken the position that we should be careful in criticizing Chavez because the criticisms feed into a mindset that says bad political leaders need to be overthrown violently by the U.S.”

LOL! Oh, Im sure thats true. But on “lefty blogs” its not as though you’re going to run into anyone there thats willing to go to war for anything anyway, so you’re pretty safe there.

Take a moment and think about absurd you sound. You dont want to talk bad about a dictator because you’re afraid that, that alone would trigger a US invasion. Honestly, what the hell is wrong with you?

By: bunkerbuster

bunkerbuster — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:15:29 +0000

Smelly socks?

Say it ain’t so O.B.!

I didn’t know you had a thing for lingerie…

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:32:25 +0000

How about Chavez’s “Enabling Act?” Now, where have I heard that phrase before?

For those who are apparently incapable of grasping elementary truths, Chavez’s “democratic mandate” or lack thereof is irrelevant if he uses that mandate to destroy democracy (viz., the Enabling Act), as he bids fair to do.

He’s a low-rent, smelly socks knock-off of two other famous socialists, lacking only a mustache and a few dozen IQ points.

And for my part, I’m not a binary thinker. There are good things about Chavez, too. He is making the trains run on time, I hear.

By: bunkerbuster

bunkerbuster — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:17:36 +0000

And as for accepting heating oil at a 40 percent discount from Venezuala: I hardly think this is sign of support.

Why wouldn’t anyone be willing to cut Chavez revenue by 40 percent, while at the same time lowering their constituents’ heating costs, which have soared in the past few years?

Again, binary thinkers can only recognize two points of view: absolutely for them, or absolutely against them. Anything else, they just don’t or won’t or can’t understand.