This time (I can’t remember the last time). Venezuela’s Chavez, the House Minority Leader said, is a thug:
Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern day Simon Bolivar but all he is an everyday thug . . . Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations. He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela.
Maybe—just maybe—the rhetorical flourishes of Chavez and Ahmadinejad this week will serve as a first wake-up call to the Democrats that the threat from outside our borders is greater than the threat from inside our borders. I’d like to think so.
UPDATE. Even Rep. Charles Rangel has leaped to Bush’s defense:
I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president – don’t come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our Chief of State. Any demeaning public attack against him is viewed by Republicans and Democrats, and all Americans, as an attack on all of us.
Maybe, just maybe the Moveon.org, Michael Moore, George Soros style rhetoric of Chavez, Iran, North Korea, Osama Bin Laden, Fidel Castro, et. al., will get them all tarred with the same brush and make people other than the Democratic Party leadership wake the hell up.
Wayne,
You forgot Hugo’s good friend Cindy in your list of Dem favorites.
Unfortunately all the Demos are doing is trying to cover their collective behinds for contributing to the world view that Chavez is taking advantage of.
Look back to the late summer/early autumn for Nikita Kruschev’s antics at the UN General Assembly.
Look back to the late summer/early autumn of 1960 for Nikita Kruschev’s antics at the UN General Assembly.
[...] More than that, though, I’ve been nauseated by the totalitarian mindset on shameless display in lefty blog comments, selected here and here. My only real reason to become a Republican would be to get as far away from those people as possible. I know, Pelosi and Rangel have both had the elementary good sense to denounce Hugo Chavez’s grandstanding at the U.N. And I know that the Republican party drags around its own extremist albatross in the End Times crowd. Maybe looking too closely at the disgusting underbelly of either party would drive me towards the other. But there’s a comment M. Takhallus made that sticks in my mind — I can’t find it — to the effect that it’s also disgusting to try to fight a war without getting your hands dirty. [...]
Better title for this:
“Charlie and Nancy Read the Polls”
Title for the future book about the other side:
“Bush – How a Man withstood 8 Years of Personal Hell to Save Western Civilization”
and of course:
“MSM – the Mark of the Traitor Within”
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