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cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Mar-22-09 05:11 PM
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Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"
   
Source: Reuters


Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.

"He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.

Chavez said Obama's comments had made him change his mind about sending a new ambassador to Washington, after he withdrew the previous envoy in a dispute last year with the Bush administration in which he also expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.

"When I saw Obama saying what he said, I put the decision back in the drawer; let's wait and see," Chavez said on his weekly television show, adding he had wanted to send a new ambassador to improve relations with the United States after the departure of George W. Bush as president.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52L19G200...


Have at it, Chavistas and non-Chavistas.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3795319

[djones520]

Your link to the DUmp is all messed up...

[Chris]

It's fixed now.

[djones520]

The thread itself is rather dissapointing so far.  The claws haven't really come out on either side yet.  Some are trying to show forsight though by turning this all into the Republicans faults.

[rich_t]

The thread itself is rather dissapointing so far.  The claws haven't really come out on either side yet.  Some are trying to show forsight though by turning this all into the Republicans faults.

Have they (DUers) ever taken the blame for anything that they (Dems) FUBAR?

[asdf2231]

iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 12:47 AM
Response to Reply #75
82. while i have nothing against chavez

i fail to see what that proves?

jbecause a group opposed to him also doesnt like obama...
then that means if you dont like chavez you really dont like obama?
that chavez should be perfect in all leftist eyes?

enlighten me on why opposing chavez means aligning with extreme right wing ideology..
nobody is perfect,
pretty sad when you cant even disagree with a foreign leader on anything without being labled something

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 12:50 AM
Response to Reply #82
85. What? I was pointing out that the extreme right wingers that oppose Chavez
 came here and opposed Obama, too.

I'm not sure what you're asking. And, I don't think I've ever labeled you as anything but a DUer

IndianaGreen  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 12:43 AM
Response to Original message
80. Obama hasn't closed the School of Assassins at Fort Benning, Georgia
 a good indication that he knows nothing about Latin America, and surrounding himself with the neoliberals that he has, doesn't give me hope that Obama will ever oppose the Latin American elites.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 01:00 AM
Response to Reply #87
91. Which is pretty much what students and scholars of Latin America have been saying for a long time.
 But it sounds so much more sexy if you put it in Hugo Chavez's mouth and make it sound like an insult.

Obama needs to get a clue about the democratizing wave sweeping over Latin America. He's a smart person. He can do that.

Bacchus39  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 01:16 AM
Response to Reply #91
99. you don't think calling someone an ignoramus is an insult?? Hugo, por que no te calles??
 what a prick!!!!

 

IndianaGreen  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 01:22 AM
Response to Reply #99
104. Obama called Chavez a terrorist. That's untrue, and an insult to boot!
 Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 01:23 AM by IndianaGreen
BTW, Obama is now responsible for all the crimes committed by SOA graduates, so when is he going to close the School of Assassins?

Bacchus39  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 01:27 AM
Response to Reply #104
105. Chavez and the FARC were what Obama was referring to 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEWDlTirWU

speak Spanish????

what a total pendejo!!

 
 

[Mike220]

Democratization of Latin America?

Only if you're using the Weimar Republic as a model.

Chunky Chavez pulled a Hitler. Get elected to power, then seize anything and everything you can, change the rules on elections and start playing Socialism.

Next up is his butt buddy Evo in Bolivia.

Ortega in Nicaragua.

Funes in El Salvador.

Correa in Ecuador.

[VelvetElvis]

IndianaGreen  (1000+ posts)        Mon Mar-23-09 12:43 AM
Response to Original message
80. Obama hasn't closed the School of Assassins at Fort Benning, Georgia
 a good indication that he knows nothing about Latin America, and surrounding himself with the neoliberals that he has, doesn't give me hope that Obama will ever oppose the Latin American elites.

I've been waiting for this.  It was only a matter of time. 

Now that the dreaded neocons are gone, along comes the neolibs as the new boogeymen.

[Chris_]

I've been waiting for this.  It was only a matter of time. 

Now that the dreaded neocons are gone, along comes the neolibs as the new boogeymen.

Velvet, the proper term is NeoCom, or NeoCommie.  I've been using it for years to discribe these 'tards.

My apologies to any developmentally disabled individuals who - perhaps rightfully - take offense at being unflatteringly compared to NeoCommies and the DUmbasses on the Island.