It's ok for Chavez to call Obama the "black man".

[djones520]

Calling the Race

While Iran says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has no intention of having a no preconditions meeting with Barack Obama — something Obama said he would do — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is ready.

Chavez predicts "the black man" will win U.S. presidential election and says he is ready to meet with a President Obama. Chavez is a socialist who has mocked President Bush and calls Fidel Castro his mentor.

He says, "We are not asking him to be a revolutionary, to be a socialist — no. We just want the black man who is about to be the U.S. president to have enough stature for the times the world is living through," adding, "I send an overture to the black man... I am ready to sit down and talk."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446445,00.html

Wonder what SFexPat has to say about that...