CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM

[phk]

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.

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I call on President Obama to follow the path of Communo-Naziism!


Now can I get an all-caps headline too? This guy (or at least his words) matter less to our President's ideology than even me.

[Democratic Hawk]

Must you post every irrelevant piece of news under the sun

[Rob]

It would be nice, but it's not happening. We can, however, push the political debate in the US steadily leftward, as I'm pretty sure Obama wants to do.

[tik 🪀✨]

Republicans seem to have a higher regard for Chavez's ramblings than Democrats do.

[Ronnie]

Chavez is a mindless, skinhead, dictator.  I wouldn't listen to him on anything when it has to do with the economy...or anything!

[dead0man]

Republicans seem to have a higher regard for Chavez's ramblings than Democrats do.

In the same way Democrats have a higher regard for Rush's ramblings.

[Lunar]

The Democrats regard for Rush's ramblings is feigned though.  No one actually cares.

Foreign policy liberals tend to like Chavez before I explain to them about how he's a military thug who forcibly squashes [omg right-wing] dissent.  I've convinced a number of random peaceniks I've had as roommates etc. that Chavez isn't that swell of a chap.

Hopefully a byproduct of declining oil prices is that he loses his funds to run a disgusting government and is deposed.

[dead0man]

The Democrats regard for Rush's ramblings is feigned though.  No one actually cares.

They seemed to care a lot this past week.  (unless it was Pubbies starting those threads.  I don't know.  I don't think I read any of them.  Rush has been irrelevant to me for a long, long time.  If the GOP wants him then they too are irrelevant to me too.)

[Lunar]

Well, Rush is obviously the latest political buzz.  He deserves the threads because the discussion is engulfing political junkies in Washington as well as the news media.

Chavez is just a thug.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hopefully a byproduct of declining oil prices is that he loses his funds to run a disgusting government and is deposed.

That may well happen, but I don't think that hoping for it is especially clever. It isn't as the process is likely to be anything other than ghastly and it isn't as though the new government would be any better.

[dead0man]

Hopefully a byproduct of declining oil prices is that he loses his funds to run a disgusting government and is deposed.

That may well happen, but I don't think that hoping for it is especially clever. It isn't as the process is likely to be anything other than ghastly and it isn't as though the new government would be any better.

The process has to happen eventually and there is always a chance the replacement will be better.  Staying with the devil you know is usually a mistake.

[Lunar]

Hopefully a byproduct of declining oil prices is that he loses his funds to run a disgusting government and is deposed.

That may well happen, but I don't think that hoping for it is especially clever. It isn't as the process is likely to be anything other than ghastly and it isn't as though the new government would be any better.

I'm not convinced the eventual revolution in Venezuela is necessarily going to be that bloody.

[Daniel Plainview]

Hopefully a byproduct of declining oil prices is that he loses his funds to run a disgusting government and is deposed.

That may well happen, but I don't think that hoping for it is especially clever. It isn't as the process is likely to be anything other than ghastly and it isn't as though the new government would be any better.

I'm not convinced the eventual revolution in Venezuela is necessarily going to be that bloody.

Yeah. He's definitely got his problems with the military. Once the sh**t really hits the fan, I don't think he has a chance to stay in much longer.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Because it isn't as though Chavez has a mass following or anything.

[afleitch]

Maybe if Chavez followed the path of socialism he might not be so despised..

[Holmes]

But the Republican talking points have told me that the US is already a full blown socialist nation so I have no idea what Chavez is talking about.

[Ronnie]

But the Republican talking points have told me that the US is already a full blown socialist nation so I have no idea what Chavez is talking about.

Weird, because I haven't heard that once.  They could say that we are on the way to a socialist nation, but that's different.

[Lunar]

Michele Bachmann: Obama Making "The Final Leap To Socialism"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/michele-bachmann-obama-ma_n_172330.html

she's hardy mainstream though

[justfollowingtheelections]

Maybe if Chavez followed the path of socialism he might not be so despised..

Well said.

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Michele Bachmann: Obama Making "The Final Leap To Socialism"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/michele-bachmann-obama-ma_n_172330.html

she's hardy mainstream though

Then again, neither is her entire party.

[Coburn In 2012]

Oh look!

The messiah has a mentor.  How nice.

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"Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States!"

"Come over to the Dark Side!"