Comments on: Stating The Obvious

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:30:32 +0000

The president of Ireland, but then, there’s no power, it’s a ceremonial job.

Hugo cuts deals with his buddies, but, for Latin America, he’s running a fairly clean operation, cleaner than the US government which hasn’t been hard in the last 6 years.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:13:02 +0000

What current national leader do you think is a nice person?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:11:23 +0000

Hugo is not a nice guy and he is wasting money on a lot of things his country doesn’t need, like SU-30s and submarines, but he is also the first leader in a very long time who has spread some of the money beyond a small circle of the elite, and that makes him exceedingly popular among the poor.

Being threatened by the US is a feature, not a bug, for a Latin American politician. As long as his friends don’t steal too much and the poor get something, he’ll get elected.

The opposition got greedy and are paying the price.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:28:48 +0000

But fortunately for Hugo Chavez, George Bush has just about broken our army.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:28:09 +0000

I think the more likely approach is to try to convince the US to invade.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:27:26 +0000

You mean they could try fixing an election? I understand he’s quite popular.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:26 +0000

Since Huge supplies the gas for my car and generator and Mexico is running out of oil, I listen to Hugo quite closely. If his enemies want him out of office they could winning an election.

By: whig

whig — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:47:16 +0000

But if we met with Hugo Chavez we might have to listen to him.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:07:04 +0000

Since we started letting them sleaze their way into office.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:27:35 +0000

Yeah, so dictators can use the fact we talk to them for propaganda purposes. They already use the fact we don’t talk to them for propaganda purposes. Big freakin’ deal. We should talk to them (or not talk to them) based on whether it’s good for America or Americans, not based on how it fits into the propaganda they’ll spout whatever we do. Since when did we let tin-pot dictators tell us what to do anyhow?!

– Badtux the Practical Penguin