22 Jul 2012, 11:15 am
This October 6, Venezuela will have its presidential election, one month before the USA.
Politics between the two countries are overlapping.
The USA Today (not the most intelligent of news sources) calls Chavez the "dictator of Venezuela"
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... o-chavez/1
Quote:
Romney jumped on Obama for saying this week that Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela, does not pose a serious threat to U.S. national security.
"It is disturbing to see him downplaying the threat posed to U.S. interests by a regime that openly wishes us ill," Romney said in a statement. "President Obama's remarks continue a pattern of weakness in his foreign policy, one that has emboldened adversaries and diminished U.S. influence."
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Obama's campaign fired back, saying that the president's policy has marginalized Chavez in the Latin world. Romney "is only playing into the hands of Chavez by acting like he's 10 feet tall,"
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Here's what Obama said about Chavez to a Miami television station in an interview this week: "....overall, my sense is that what Mr. Chavez has done over the last several years has not had a serious national security impact on us."
"It is disturbing to see him downplaying the threat posed to U.S. interests by a regime that openly wishes us ill," Romney said in a statement. "President Obama's remarks continue a pattern of weakness in his foreign policy, one that has emboldened adversaries and diminished U.S. influence."
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Obama's campaign fired back, saying that the president's policy has marginalized Chavez in the Latin world. Romney "is only playing into the hands of Chavez by acting like he's 10 feet tall,"
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Here's what Obama said about Chavez to a Miami television station in an interview this week: "....overall, my sense is that what Mr. Chavez has done over the last several years has not had a serious national security impact on us."
Meanwhile, in Venezuela:
http://news.yahoo.com/chavez-says-elect ... 08602.html
Quote:
The two electoral races bumped against each other last week when President Barack Obama and his Republican rival, Romney, sparred over the risk posed by Chavez, and the Venezuelan leader sought to soften his radical image a touch by saying Obama was a "good guy."
Holding forth at a large rally in the western city of Maracaibo where he sang and pretended to play the guitar with a band, Chavez said opposition candidate Henrique Capriles resembled Romney, who hopes to replace Obama in the White House.
"What could better explain his program?" he asked. "Maybe it's the far-right candidate in North America, Romney. It's their plan. Their plan is to subjugate Venezuela again to the service of imperialism, of capitalism."
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Boasting his trademark red beret at the rally on Saturday, Chavez mocked Capriles' intellect and said it did not matter if he had visited so much of Venezuela in such a short time.
"So what if he's visited 80 towns in 15 days? ... The loser can't explain anything because he knows nothing. He is nothing. He represents what they call nihilism: nothing, the negation of everything," Chavez said.
"He's trying to cheat people so he's taken on this 'ghost' strategy. Wooo! Scaring people, wooo! They ask him something and he just keeps running," he said, mimicking a child wearing a bed sheet and pretending to be ghost.
That drew laughter from the crowd, including one man who had been waving a large cardboard cut-out of Chavez gripping a frightened-looking Capriles in a head lock and swinging a boxing glove-clad fist.
Holding forth at a large rally in the western city of Maracaibo where he sang and pretended to play the guitar with a band, Chavez said opposition candidate Henrique Capriles resembled Romney, who hopes to replace Obama in the White House.
"What could better explain his program?" he asked. "Maybe it's the far-right candidate in North America, Romney. It's their plan. Their plan is to subjugate Venezuela again to the service of imperialism, of capitalism."
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Boasting his trademark red beret at the rally on Saturday, Chavez mocked Capriles' intellect and said it did not matter if he had visited so much of Venezuela in such a short time.
"So what if he's visited 80 towns in 15 days? ... The loser can't explain anything because he knows nothing. He is nothing. He represents what they call nihilism: nothing, the negation of everything," Chavez said.
"He's trying to cheat people so he's taken on this 'ghost' strategy. Wooo! Scaring people, wooo! They ask him something and he just keeps running," he said, mimicking a child wearing a bed sheet and pretending to be ghost.
That drew laughter from the crowd, including one man who had been waving a large cardboard cut-out of Chavez gripping a frightened-looking Capriles in a head lock and swinging a boxing glove-clad fist.
President Chavez is really funny.
It does make for an interesting election season, with Venezuela and the USA coinciding so closely, and candidates in both countries invoking each other's candidates.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5t2D7ZFYl4[/youtube]
22 Jul 2012, 1:16 pm
There is quite a lot of hyperbole in both elections.
Imagine: Hugo Chavez comparing his opponent to Mitt Romney. His opponent is nowhere near as bad as Mitt Romney.
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