I don’t know how “smart” Chavez is, but he is liked by the poor and the very poor in his own country and they love him more than anything seen in Latin America.
On the other hand, I have read how the secret Intelligence Forces since the 50s have invaded the corrupt political classes and installed dozens of corrupt, pillaging and self-serving and U.S.-backed Dictatorships. REmember l973 and the installing of that monster Pinochet whose gangs raped thousands of women students in Chile, aided by secret American officers?
That was not something to endear Latin Americans to us! We’ve done some pretty nasty stuff for power in South America. so many books have been written and so many Church Organizations have aided these poor people who were victimized by American shortsighted Foreign policy and their own eager corrupt politicos who hang into power….too many examples…no one’s got the monopoly on Political Sainthood!!! Chavez sometimes calls it as he sees it. So far, his country hasn’t been evaded successfully, altho I saw docuentary recently online on what happened before he came into power. Amazing history…..let’s open our eyes wider and understand other people’s sorrows.

Still there.

Ziggy, Hugo knows Obama is a paper tiger. He is taking full advantage of the situation. Machiavelli said it best–it is better for a prince to be feared than loved.

With Obama the fear factor once wielded by the United States is gone. In fact, I am told by sources in the know that both Israel and the Palestinian authority have concluded that Obama’s word cannot be trusted and that he will be a one term president. Therefore, they are not inclined to wait him out rather than doing anything.

Just as an aside, wasn’t it funny how AP, CNN and the New York Times immediately reported that this meeting was a great success for Obama, and how he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? I mean the world knows the truth–he fucked it all up. And headlines of the foreign press made no bones about that. Hugo was the star, and Obama was an extra.

The only thing that bothered me about Copenhagen was those peace loving protesters in ninja suits being brutally and sadistically assaulted by authoritarian danish police monsters. Not to be critical of the Messiah, but I wish he had saved one his miracles for them and made those nightsicks levitate out of their hands, messiahs can do that you know.

I guess he was too busy insulting China and barging into private meetings and getting verbally bitch slapped by Hugo to see what was going on outside those halls.

(The fart has no nose.)

I, too, wish these leaders would actually work for the very best possible for the greatest number of their citizenry instead of doing all this political posturing and one-up-person-ship. s it possible to have a leader who really leads, who cares more abt the people than their own ego?

And I am right there with you – I do what I can for the environment, and have for years, too. On some levels, I am not sure it really matters if the global warming is 100% due to human activity – we should be doing what’s right for the planet, thus ourselves, ANYWAY because it is the smart, right thing to do. If we preserve the planet, if we utilize renewable energy sources, if we curtail pollution, how is that a bad thing? It just seems to make sense to take care of our home, protect our wildlife, and keep our water sources clean. Know wheat I mean?

Anyway – I just saw a funny comment at an article abt the two getting divorced. Someone said Penn was leaving Wright for his new Significant Other, Chavez!

I don’t particularly cotton to other leaders disparaging our country, either, but there was no shortage of glee when Chavez said the same abt Bush. I’m just sayin’ – not that it was right, but many of the same people who now discount Chavez thought he was spot on when he said the same abt Bush. (And again, I have no love lost for Bush, just making a point.)