Hugo Chavez: A Large Waste of Time
This is a funny way to get publicity. First Chavez starts a daily or weekly verbal attack on President Bush. Then he gives oil to people he feels can’t afford it to make Bush look bad. Ya, whatever. Then he claims to be the guiding light for the Western hemisphere. So what is he doing now?
If you want to clamp down on the media, Hugo, you’re screwing up royally. Now you have every other camera pointed at you and everyone is forgetting about your saintly self- descriptions. And if you wanted publicity, why shut down your country’s media. All that will do is get you more press of the bad kind. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?
With all the attention given this little dictator in the press and on the net, this blog had to finally throw its two cents worth in just to not feel left out. Because anything about Chavez seems a large waster of time to write, record, read or view. Give him a while, he’ll go away.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
Chávez opposition re-energized
By Juan Forero
The Washington Post
FERNANDO LLANO / AP
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s decision to pull the plug on an anti-government television station has prompted days of protests and generated international condemnation, giving a weak and demoralized opposition a rallying cry after years of setbacks.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:55 am
It is not as simple as, “yeh, whatever”. The mentality of, “whatever”, is not much of an analytical approach to understanding what is happening in Venezuela. Venezuela does not belong to America or its corporations.
The leader, dictator or despot, call him what you will, has the will of the people of Venezuela. Much like U.S. President Bush has or has had the will of American citizens.
The fact of the matter remains, it is their country, thier petroleum and all natural resources, to do with what they will. Maybe thier hope for Socialism will make, maybe it wont.
In a truly free market society, oil, would be no more expensive than it is now. However, there would be much less contraversy over oil, if we simply negotiated the price in a fair and equitable business like fashion.
Too bad that U.S. politics has set the stage for such a ruthless game.
I for one, am for Chavez’s claimed goal of, “for the people”. Strangely enough, the U.S. could take a look at its own backyard and maybe notice the Corporate trash that needs to be taken out.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:55 am
It is not as simple as, “yeh, whatever”. The mentality of, “whatever”, is not much of an analytical approach to understanding what is happening in Venezuela. Venezuela does not belong to America or its corporations.
The leader, dictator or despot, call him what you will, has the will of the people of Venezuela. Much like U.S. President Bush has or has had the will of American citizens.
The fact of the matter remains, it is their country, thier petroleum and all natural resources, to do with what they will. Maybe thier hope for Socialism will make it, maybe it wont.
In a truly free market society, oil, would be no more expensive than it is now. However, there would be much less contraversy over oil, if we simply negotiated the price in a fair and equitable business like fashion.
Too bad that U.S. politics has set the stage for such a ruthless game.
I for one, am for Chavez’s claimed goal of, “for the people”. Strangely enough, the U.S. could take a look at its own backyard and maybe notice the Corporate trash that needs to be taken out.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:07 am
You posted it twice. But I read it once. And ‘whatever’ he does including controlling all opposition including the media is ‘for the people’. Ya, whatever.