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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: Chavez Takes a Shot at Obama |
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| CAMPO CARABOBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the "stench" of his predecessor as U.S. president ." |
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| But Chavez said frayed ties with Washington were unlikely to improve despite the departure of Bush, who the Venezuelan leader has often called the "devil." |
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50G2F420090117
Nice to see everything is back to normal. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: Chavez Takes a Shot at Obama |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| Nice to see everything is back to normal. |
you would think so! |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing really surprising here. Remember, the revolution needs an enemy.
Chavez's little petro-dump is in trouble too. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Nothing really surprising here... |
But there is. I thought that H. Chavez and his kind were rational actors who merely objected to the W. Bush administration and its foreign policies. I thought that antiAmericanism began and ended with W. Bush. Elect B. Obama and it will stop, some said on this messageboard, in fact. "The rest of the world" loved W. Clinton and it will love Obama even more, remember?
Just what is going on here? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| mises wrote: |
| Nothing really surprising here... |
But there is. I thought that H. Chavez and his kind were rational actors who merely objected to the W. Bush administration and its foreign policies. I thought that antiAmericanism began and ended with W. Bush. Elect B. Obama and it will stop, some said on this messageboard, in fact. "The rest of the world" loved W. Clinton and it will love Obama even more, remember?
Just what is going on here? |
I sure didn't think that. Though hopefully some of those naive leftist types that did will be promptly mugged by reality. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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I know. But your response made a nice pretext for me to jump in and state my point.
Meanwhile, el presidente is setting himself up through 2018...
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| CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012... |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Meanwhile, el presidente is setting himself up through 2018...
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| CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for a third consecutive six-year term in 2012... |
CNN Reports |
Yuck. I'd really like him to just go away. |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a little happier to see Bush leave. Of course Chavez is not doing himself any favours here. It would be nice for him to start off with a bit of diplomacy eh? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| riverboy wrote: |
| Of course Chavez is not doing himself any favours here. It would be nice for him to start off with a bit of diplomacy eh? |
This is the naivete I'm talking of.
Chavez does not want "good" or diplomatically normal relations with the US. He needs the Great Satan as the Vader to his Yoda. He is saving his country from the evil gringo bastards. If the evil gringo bastards turn out to be harmless, what the hell use to his country is he? |
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