Quote: Cedric wrote in post #15I am not attacking Nerd, personally.
I am attacking the vile and cowardly things he has written (in this case about George W. Bush).
There is a difference.
I will remind you that Nerd's ever present tag line indirectly refers to Mr. Bush as one of "Rove's dopes".
In so doing, Nerd has aligned himself with the likes of Hugo Chavez, who also denigrated President Bush, and Nerd should be made to face fair criticism accordingly.
Keep on topic. Hugo Chavez is dead. We have so many things to discuss like Cuba' s excellent health care system, his successor, how George Soros will profit, Obama upset because his brother from another mother is dead.
How will an unstable Venezuela affect us? Think Citgo and oil refineries. None of that includes any members on this forum.
The Associated Press has released a largely glowing, almost romantic obituary of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, who died today. "President Hugo Chavez was a fighter," the obituary begins, and proceeds to recount a highly selective version of Chávezs life, omitting many of his abuses and political failures.
Most glaringly, the obituary, written by the AP's Frank Bajak, fails to mention the fact that Chávez lost a 2007 referendum that, as the UK Guardian reported at the time, "would have allowed him to run for re-election indefinitely and enshrined socialism in the country." (He finally won passage of a similar referendum in 2009, after a forceful campaign marred by brutish tactics.) The AP mentions some of Chávez's actions against domestic political opposition, but omits some of his worst excesses, including his repeated uses of antisemitism.
The AP article only gives passing mention to Chávez's alliance with Iran, and fails to mention Chávez's support for would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. In 2009. Zelaya tried to pass a Venezuela-style constitutional referendum, in violation of his own country's constitution. Chávez attempted to ship him the necessary ballots; he was deported before he could act. Only the U.S. left, long enamored of Chávez, mourned Zelaya's ouster.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
What does it say about the quality of Venezuela's medical care that he'd consider Cuba a step up?
Quote: Heisenberg wrote in post #23So much for Cuban Miracle health care.
"The Republican Party doesn't demonize prosperity. We celebrate success in our party," he said. "And let me be clear, if Republican leaders want to join this president in demonizing success and disparaging conservative values, then they're not going to be fit to be our nominee."
We’ll have to dig through this one line-by-line, because the former president-turned-validator-of-stolen-Latin-American-elections has offered up a masterpiece of mendacity in the eulogy of Hugo Chavez today so instructive as to make it difficult to debunk the contention that virtually no difference exists between the politics and ideology of Chavez and today’s Democrat Party. And away we go…
\"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add \'within the limits of the law\' because law is often but the tyrant\'s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.\" Thomas Jefferson
As ungracious and cold as this may be/sound, I was doing the happy dance when I came home from work and first heard about this. Now to add, Obama, Kim Jong Il, and others like them. I should be praying for Obama, as our Lord tells us to pray for our leaders, but I only pray, every time I have to hear his voice, "Lord, take him out."
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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