Funny how
it is the Democrats that are coming out and defending Bush from Chavez’ insults
yesterday at the UN General Assembly. Despite Chavez saying he got along really
well with Bill Clinton, today Clinton blasted him
saying:
“I think Chavez would be much more effective if he would say
something that’s true…You know, to me, that would be a much cleverer thing
for him to do, where he’d really be doing something good, and he could say, ‘I
disagree with President Bush,’ instead of calling him the devil.”
While Democrats like Charles Rangel was quite harsh saying:
“You do not come into my country, my
congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any
criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they
voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or
any other president, do not 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”
While
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said:
“He
fancies himself as 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,” said Pelosi, a frequent Bush critic.”He demeaned himself and he
demeaned Venezuela.”
EU representatives were not too happy either, calling Chavez’s statements “undignified”
Meanwhile,
while Chavez gave Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global
Dominance,” a big boost in sales, Foxnews is reporting live that Chavez
also killed the MIT linguist, saying he would have liked to have met him before
he died. Chomsky is alive and well and it sounds like Chavez had not read the
book until last week and knew little about him.
I guess Chavez’ speech
writers must be the same ones who write the speeches for Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who said three days ago in Caracas when referring to Simon Bolivar:”
He was assassinated by the enemies of the revolution”, indicating that the
bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
which killed the Liberator was somehow against his movement. This is revionisim
at its best.
Finally,
pro-Chavez news sources like the Agencia
Bolivariana de Noticias have said very little locally about Chavez’ insults
against the US
President and the outcry they have caused. Chavez repeated the word devil today in referring to Bush, but added alcoholic to the repertoire, simply refuting the position by those tried to aplogize for Chavez today, saying he did not mean what he said yesterday at the UN, “but was simply caught in the excitement of the moment”. Yeah, sure!