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- shupy, on 03/22/2009, -27/+80There is nothing so tragic to me as an American than to see fellow Americans take every opportunity to insult their president. Those of you who think Chavez is right, I'm sure you can find a home in Venezuala.
Obama has been in power a couple of months. He has inherited the worst mess of any president in recent history. And there is a remarkable segment of the American population that has nothing to do but toss insults at every opportunity.
yeah I know "but Liberals slammed Bush".
People were angry at the decisions Bush made and the consequences. The people that toss vitriol at Obama are angry at things the right wing pundits say will happen. Not at anything that is the result of anything he has done.
I am very ashamed that this country produces so many nasty people. - AlaskaLoneWolf, on 03/22/2009, -12/+62Chavez who? And this is relevant why?
Old expression: When living in glass house, don't throw rocks.
This from the same Venezuela douchebag who failed as a world figure at every level....
....and has asked people to "pray for Fidel Castro". Can't believe he's still breathing. - shutaro, on 03/23/2009, -14/+45***** HUGO CHAVEZ!
- geneikillua, on 03/23/2009, -11/+38Chavez is an *****. I didn't vote for Obama, but he's my President.
- Bartboy919, on 03/23/2009, -15/+38Funny how a socialist leader calls the supposed "socialist" president ignoramus. Face it you right wingers, he is NOT socialist.
- brucealmighty, on 03/23/2009, -6/+28Chavez is a wannabe with nothing more than some oil reserves to earn him any more attention than any other 2 bit banana republic dictator. We should just ignore him til he fades away.
- JaseFace, on 03/23/2009, -2/+18Does anyone even listen to Chavez anymore? I think that even in Latin America, no one really cares about him except his cohorts Morales and Correa.
- normlsparky, on 03/22/2009, -10/+25I have been opposed to our foreign policy for my entire adult life, ever since I figured out what it consisted of. From Reagan on up. From studying history, I can say that I would have been opposed to our foreign policy for much of the 20th century.
It consists of imperialism, interfering in the affairs of other nations and overthrowing leaders of countries who have been democratically elected. If Obama supports our foreign policy as it has existed for the better part of a century, under both Republican and Democratic leaders, I would have to agree with Chavez.
Our foreign policy should reflect the will of the people, not the will of corporate interests and greedy politicians who wish to capitalize upon the resources of weaker nations. The actions of these groups have resulted in our government using our military, and in some cases funding covert groups of individuals, at the cost of our tax dollars and global reputation. - fish0507, on 03/22/2009, -15/+29hahahah, priceless comment.
- lilamae, on 03/22/2009, -54/+68I want to see the actual quote and source. Chavez and Obama both are ignoramuses as far as I'm concerned.
- normlsparky, on 03/23/2009, -6/+20The color of his skin is relevant only to racist idiots and has nothing to do with policy issues.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -8/+22The same as the rest of us. Nothing.
- nihil, on 03/22/2009, -88/+99never thought I'd agree with Chavez on anything
- stonebear, on 03/23/2009, -1/+12Let's make it a JAPANESE game show.
- richnojutsu, on 03/23/2009, -2/+13This guy is creative. Bush smelled like sulfur and Obama is an ignoramus.
- Temlakos, on 03/22/2009, -14/+25Just a minute! Maybe the broken clock that is right at the twelfth hour is Obama, not Chavez. If Chavez is taking exception to an accusation by Obama that Chavez is exporting terrorism--well, now, I suspect that that's exactly what Chavez really *is* doing.
- capachino, on 03/23/2009, -0/+10obama called him out ... so he retorted with an "ignoramus" blast ... big deal ... another quality headline, thanks digg!
- Therion596, on 03/23/2009, -7/+16Well, beats a year a go. A headline back then may have been something like "Everybody in the world calls Bush a ***** RETARD", or something to that effect.
- Maynza, on 03/23/2009, -14/+23Well you guys have already agreed with the Taliban and Kim Jong Il, this is a natural progression.
- Labyrinth336, on 03/23/2009, -1/+10yeaaa... cause that really worked with Hitler and all...
- mandraque, on 03/23/2009, -4/+13Chavez is a clown. End of story.
- deema1, on 03/23/2009, -6/+13"People were angry at the decisions Bush made and the consequences. The people that toss vitriol at Obama are angry at things the right wing pundits say will happen. Not at anything that is the result of anything he has done."
I'm not a Republican, but an Independent. Regardless of my political beliefs, I have every right to question his leadership. That's the right bestowed upon every US citizen, especially when you are a taxpayer. I disliked Bush and thought most of his policies were wildly irresponsible. I hated the fact that Bush grew the government and demanded more control, as were all Democrats and Independents, and many Republicans. I hated how every decision that was made in the name of our protection could very easily have been used for to ensure our oppression. However, now that a president has a (D) next to his name, where is the same skepticism? This further compounded growth in the government is now acceptable to the left? The illegal wiretaps that he has continued are now an acceptable tradeoff? The urgency to extricate our troops from foreign wars and prisoners at Guantanamo that has now been delayed for a year or more is no longer a concern? The anger seems to occur only when it's not your beliefs being addressed. The double standard is sickening, and all people should be looking at things objectively instead of whether it's "your guy" or not.
I don't care if Obama was introducing new regulations and restrictions, or continuing the old regulations and restrictions, with the most sincere of intentions -- this is a dangerous precedent that could very quickly turn sinister. And when it does the ruling class, the same ones who you helped acquire that additional power, won't care whether or not you were a loyal supporter. They're not going to spare you because you believe they're just like you. I have news for you...they're not like you. And they don't believe they're like you.
I'm not angry at Obama and his team for what the Republicans and other opponents are telling me could happen. I'm in the financial business, so I'm angry because I know what is bound to happen. (And, no, I don't work for a Wall Street firm, nor do I hope that they return to their bubble-blown glory). You cannot borrow beyond your means and claim that the economy will make up those deficits once bank lending and consumer spending resumes; not when you're verbally decimating the businesses doing the lending and in which we now essentially own stock, changing the business model of various successful industries that would be able to pull us out of this disaster, and threatening to regulate the hell out of everyone. He's damaging the entire capitalist model but asserts that the way we'll get out of this is when the economy turns. The two are completely incongruent.
I don't have a problem if he wants to revamp pieces of the system. That is great because a lot needs to change. But you have to pick the time for your battles. And spending trillions of dollars to alter every established industry at a time when they need to return to profitability and pull us out of this quagmire, is nonsense. - Insightful, on 03/23/2009, -8/+14WTF? Since when do we care about what Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei think about our President?
Oh, oh, oh, I know! Since the right wing 25% lost the election, that's why. When these irrelevant foreign leaders dismiss our leader, they are joyous. However, if they praise their Obama, they will cite that as proof of Obama's palling with terrorists.
Face it, the the right wing 25% is a party of no - they know nothing, want to do nothing, and want to obstruct everything. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6HAHA. I assure you that when people talked about the "lost respect of the international community" Hugo Chavez was far from the first person on most of their minds.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/23/2009, -3/+8This is so awesome.
Republicans did virtually nothing but whine about people picking on Bush and apologize for the guy for eight years.
Democrats did virtually nothing but bash the ***** out of Bush, some of it more justified than the rest, for eight years.
Now we witness a total role reversal simply based on the letter at the end of a mans name?
And people wonder why I'm an Independent...
Maybe if people stopped filtering everything through the warped glass of ideology and started actually using some logic and critical thinking we'd be able to have a real political conversation in this country that didn't boil down to little more than petty insults, name calling, and finger pointing.
Until then, democracy is dead. Long live blind partisanship. - 4321234, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6I wish he could have come up with a better insult. When he gave the speech where he kept calling Bush "Mr. Danger", that was hilarious.
- sultanknish, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5with a lightning round
- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -14/+19Ditto.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -2/+7This may sound crazy but maybe some of these socialist countries benefit from having a common enemy to blame there failures on. Then they can unify the working class majority(the people that get paid less because they are less useful to society and don't contribute much to it and are easily replaced because they have had an under-developed education system) with hate and envy gaining ever more support from the poor until its too late because they have democratically given him complete control of everything but those evil Americans are the ones responsible for every thing that goes wrong. Yeah we should be more like Chavez since Venezuela stay out of other countries business unlike the imperialist Americans with there failed foreign policy.
- mandraque, on 03/23/2009, -3/+8Its funny because nobody here has any idea of what they are talking about and saying stupid worthless comments.
Its about the venezuela/colombia tensions and how venezuela supports the FARC and they deny it. - 1longtime, on 03/23/2009, -10/+15I approve of what Obama is doing, and I find these childish words without any merit, so I ignore them.
- Amazetbm, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4Yeah, but his oil reserves are heavy/sour crude, not the easiest kind to refine.
- RAGEdemon, on 03/23/2009, -3/+7This whole overuse of "freedom of speech" thing is one of the big problems with with American society as a whole. From a very early age, everyoen is spoonfed the idea that the idiot with the lowest IQ's opinion is just as important as the smartest man's.
A society that knows very little but flaps their mouths with opinion about every little thing in existence.
Please, do us all a favor and STFU. Noone gives a ***** about what you think.
A wise man once said: "Opinions are like *****..everybody's got one and they are all full of *****". - SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4I buried you at first, and then I looked at the "Popular Stories in Politics" on Reuters. Wow, you are totally right.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4I believe he's saying the Republicans seem to be grasping at straws.
- deema1, on 03/23/2009, -1/+5How in the hell is that comment BS?
Wiretapping? Fairness Doctrine (supported by numerous Democratic Congressmen)? Regionalized runaway taxes in the midst of a recession? The eventual bank nationalization? A civilian health database tucked away in a stimulus bill, with no time to read it? State-designated bailout money that comes with strings attached, potentially threatening the 10th amendment? Gun bans, and not just the automatic weapons they're saying publicly. A Civilian military force equal to or greater than the US military? Mandatory community service and federal work forces?
I happen to be very skeptical of Obama and the Democratic Congress, because they're ramming through such legislation without any sort of clarity, and they're saying it's for our own good, just as Bush did. They're using the same panic tactics with the economy to steal our rights that the prior administration used with terrorism. Just because you think these people are on your side doesn't mean that they are, and they're fooling you all into thinking they care about your plight. This is just a con; if you don't acquiesce they'll just rob it from you. - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -5/+9Better being an ignoramus than "the devil".
- bizzywho, on 03/23/2009, -1/+4@Darksoul,
Patriotism, when blindly given out, is nothing more than a bunch of feelings for your country.
I believe being patriotic isn't just being behind the President in whatever he does. Or have you lost your short-term memory of a President named George W. Bush?
Our Founding Fathers believed that as the people, we shouldn't blindly follow a leader.
I didn't vote for Obama and I don't agree with a damn thing he's doing right now.
I am patriotic towards my country, NOT towards one person! - Insightful, on 03/23/2009, -2/+5Why would you want respect from Chavez?
- deema1, on 03/23/2009, -5/+8Bingo.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/23/2009, -2/+5A very wise man? He's ruthless dictator, and you call him "wise" just for badmouthing a president you don't like?
***** you, sir. - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3But can Chavez bowl better than Obama?
- aletoledo, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3@geneikillua & Darksoul
There is a difference between nationalism and patriotism. So you can disagree with everything Obama does and still be a patriot.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/22/175803. ... - phramus, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Oh noes! It's official .. Known ***** disses US President! Whatevuh shall we do?
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Which communist?
- shadygrove, on 03/23/2009, -4/+7@normlsparky: i agree 100% -- i'm not ready to call obama an ignoramus, but i also don't buy the "chavez is an evil doer who supports terrorism" *****... chavez wants to sell oil on the euro instead of the dollar and his country is sitting on one of the largest oil reserves in the world. that is why washington hates / fears him. venezeula oil ended the oil embargo of the '70s.
- esilverski, on 03/23/2009, -1/+4wouldnt that be ignorami?
- dylio, on 03/23/2009, -1/+4Shut up. Have you ever lived in Venezuela or Cuba? You have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
The murder rate of Venezuela is huge and it is not a place you want to live in. Poverty also runs rampant in places like Cuba, so much for equality, right? - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2Hmmm... Maybe this will finally lead to the all too delayed assassination of that ***** dictator.
Too bad it would be because he actually had a moment of clarity. - njndirish, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2Dear President for life Chavez,
Have you heard of the Monroe Doctrine and what it did for your country?
Signed
America -
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