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Subscribe to RSSOne of the world's most flamboyant leaders lost his two-year battle with cancer on Tuesday, ending 14 years of a tumultuous and often bitterly divisive socialist reign. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
A wave of public grief washed over Latin America following the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, reflecting the powerful emotions the charismatic leftist leader evoked in the region and around the world.
The Cuban government, Venezuela's closest ally, declared official mourning for Wednesday and Thursday, and nationwide mourning for Friday.
"I tell you, this is sad and painful news not just for me, because ... Cuba and the entire world has lost a great man," said Armando Fuentes, a store clerk in Havana, after Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro broke the news of Chavez’s death Tuesday.
Dayana Calzado, a 27-year-old Cuban lawyer, said the world had lost a great leader. "A very long time will pass before there is another leader like him," she said.
Chavez's passing was acutely felt in Latin America where his anti-colonialist and anti-American policies and rhetoric provoked both loyalty and anger.
Reports featuring crying mourners from around the continent dominated Venezuelan television in the hours after his death was announced.
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Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the United States and elsewhere mourn his death.
Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, said she was mourning the loss of a great "friend" of her country, the BBC reported.
"This death should fill all Latin and Central Americans with sadness," she added, according to the BBC. "Hugo Chavez was without doubt a leader committed to his country and to the development of the people of Latin America."
Chavez has often criticized the United States on its history of intervention in the Americas and Washington's stance on countries such as Iran.
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner suspended activities after receiving the news and traveled to Venezuela. She and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, were close friends of Chavez.
Chile and Ecuador released official notes of condolence, while in Peru a minute of silence was held in Chavez’s honor. Meanwhile, Bolivia's President Evo Morales announced he would travel immediately to Caracas to pay his respects. Uruguayan President José Mujica also set off for Caracas.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos tweeted: "I profoundly lament the death of the president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez Frías. Our sincere condolences."
Chavez's friends further afield also reacted to news of his death immediately.
"It's a tragedy. He was a great politician," Russia's U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin said of the death.
'Understood the needs of the poor'
In the United States, Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., who represents a largely Hispanic district, tweeted his condolences: "Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President."
Serrano's statement provoked an angry reaction form pro-troops charity Move America Forward.
"Chavez openly hated the United States and opposed any effort to spread freedom, democracy and free markets to Latin America," it said in a statement.
Nevertheless, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter also paid tribute to Chavez, and said in a statement that he "will be remembered for his bold assertion of autonomy and independence for Latin American governments."
Joseph P. Kennedy II, chairman of non-profit Citizens Energy, which was criticized for receiving heating oil donations from the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, released a statement thanking Chavez for his generosity.
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The life of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez from his rise as a lieutenant colonel after his failed coup attempt in 1992.
"There are close to two million people in the United States who received free heating assistance, thanks to President Chavez's leadership," Kennedy's statement read. "Our prayers go out to President Chavez's family, the people of Venezuela, and all who were warmed by his generosity."
The friction between the U.S. and the Chavez regime lasted until the end of his life.
Only minutes before the Venezuelan leader's death was announced, the State Department issued a statement rejecting Maduro’s earlier accusations that Chavez’s enemies gave him cancer and that U.S. diplomats in Venezuela plotted to destabilize the government.
Following the news of his death, the White House released a statement reinforcing its goal of improving its relationship with the Venezuelan government.
"At this challenging time of President Hugo Chavez's passing, the United States reaffirms its support for the Venezuelan people and its interest in developing a constructive relationship with the Venezuelan government," President Barack Obama’s statement read. "As Venezuela begins a new chapter in its history, the United States remains committed to policies that promote democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Mike Rogers, R-Mich., also said he hoped for the two countries to turn a new leaf in their relationship.
"Hugo Chavez was a destabilizing force in Latin America, and an obstacle to progress in the region. I hope his death provides an opportunity for a new chapter in U.S.-Venezuelan relations," he said.
Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., issued a statement saying, "Sic semper tyrannis,” which translates to, "Thus always to tyrants."
Those words were used by John Wilkes Boothe before he fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
"After the welcome news of Hugo Chavez's death, I hope that the oppressed people of Venezuela will be able to live in freedom, not under miserable tyranny. I look forward to working in the House to promote a free, democratic, and pro-American government in Venezuela," Cotton added.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also used the opportunity to take a parting shot at Chavez, releasing a statement that read in part: "The Venezuelan people now have an opportunity to turn the page on one of the darkest periods in its history and embark on a new, albeit difficult, path to restore the rule of law, democratic principles, security and free enterprise system in a nation that deserves so much better than the socialist disaster of the past 14 years."
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Mary Murray, Edgar Zuniga, Sofia Perpetua, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This story was originally published on Tue Mar 5, 2013 7:45 PM EST
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[Crying] You're my boy, Blue! You're my boy.
It's amazing how republican congressman cotton can speak ill of a dead man who it seems the entire latin america adored. So much for being a southern gentleman.
The world is rid of a dictator, we should be celebrating! Shame on you MSNBCNews.... not everyone thinks this guy was a hero!
Obama liked the guy and probably would also like to accumulate a $2 billion nest egg like Hugo did! Unfortunately this wealth came at the expense of his country during his 'service to his country', wink, wink! A nice racket if you can get into it! That's socialism for you.... remember you didn't do it yourself!
Well 711 made some money and he blamed the USSA for all of his problems
-Albert Bore
If that is true, PJ, we don't need one more of them coming to this country.
Ted Kennedy wh is still dead said When i returned Mary jo and the car were gone.
He was loved by more world leaders than many know about. Mainly he was well respected in Latin America, a place our politicians don't seem to know about and don't visit at all. Our best neighbors are in this hemisphere and we seem to spend all our time overseas in Asian and the Mideast.
thats not true i live in latin america most people hate this man
Good riddance to a real @!$%#!
Its About time, One Socialist idiot gone a few more to go, Anyone want to know why he went to cuba for treatment, because his country has crappy Healthcare and he doesnt care about his people, Im sure they are jumping for joy, I hope your enjoying your room in hell Chavez
Latin American people loved him because he was worthy of their love. Same with Fidel Castro. I hold much respect for both Men and I'm not Latino. Don't agree with their politics, but I respect the hell outta them. My condolences to President Chavez's family and His fellow Venezuelan's.
here's a man who. as President, went to private land owners and "took their land without reprisal, and when the landowners spoke out, he had them placed in jail. Here's a man who took businesses from Private owners, in the name of the Venezuelan government, and took all control and power from the business owners, left them for nothing, and when they spoke out, he had their family members arrested and place in jail. Here's a man who was "hammered" by amnesty international, for his abuse of power, and yet we have the likes of Jimmy carter, "poor peanut farmer, and Joe Kennedy, just like his dirtbag congressman relative" never made a name for himself" attesting to the "good" this dirt bag did. These two American politicians have so much dirt on their graves you can't tell where the fricken grave is, What he did was 1. abuse his power 2. take advantage of the poor 3. Abuse and emasculate the middle class and 4. run Venezuela into the ground. Anyone with knowledge of the South American Country knows what a criminal he was and how many died at his hands. Their innocent blood will carry him to his final eternal HELL! no rest in peace for this assho%%.
Chavez had one thing in common with the good people of the United States.... we ALL hated G.W. Bush!
only a corrupted mind could have any respect for someone who oppresses and kills their citizens. hugo chavez is a dictator who is feared by many but respected only by the corrupted. he will not be missed by anyone with any morality or human compassion. he will be judged for what he has done.
shame on msnbs for doing a puff piece on a megalomaniac, narcissistic thug who does not deserve to be called a leader. im sure they would slobber over hilter, mao, pot, stalin and the other mass murderers -oh, they already do.
when real leaders stand up please wake me up, this nightmare is getting old.
dont smog marihuana..!
just give him a proper funeral ,jiggle the handle and flush the POS down the toilet with the rest of the turds
@Bill - so if you don't like a strong leader of a country - you label him dictator? He was elected one.
Let me tell you who the dictators were:
Suharto, Charles Taylor, Zia Ul Haq, Noriega, Marcos, Pinochet, Saddam, ....
All received American support to threw democratically elected governments and remained more loyal to their American masters and their self interest than the interest of their own people
Chavez was definitely not "OUR" dictator. And that is his fault. Just incase it surprises you - neither is Ahmadinejad a dictator. He is elected by Iranians - if that means anything to you.
Ahmadinejad received more votes in one district than there were voters. Remember all the riots after the election. What happened to the rioters, bang bang. Iran democracy LOL.
LSTM, maybe you should move there and leave the USA where even a$$ h0les like you have a voice.
elections can be bought and fixed. even in america.
There is nothing wrong with Socialism. There is something wrong with people who think otherwise.
Rest In Peace Mr. Chavez. You may have had flaws. Being a Socialist is not one of them. Thanks for the free heating oil for the US poor.
uuhhhh mars rover is a dumb A$$......and yes there is something wrong with you.
Well at least here in America socialism works, all you have to do is be to big to fail, or be an enourmous oil, agriculture, etc. corporation and you get all the money you need from the American tax payer when your corrupt practices bring you to the point of bankruptcy. It amazes me that a man that wrested his country's natural resources away from the corporate globalists and gave them back to his people is so vilified here, but its easy to explain, with whacko's like Jim-952823 and Beauford Pusser its no wonder there are so many worshippers of war criminals like George Bush and Dick "the war will pay for itself" Cheney, who's personal holdings of Haliburton stock rose from 1.2 million to over 120 million in one year, 2005. If you want to vilify evil and corruption all you have to do is look at republican leadership, but Victor Chavez was hardly in the same class of evil as those two.
Listen to all the US politicians, liking the boots of these third world cowards.
@Token -
Just when you think you've heard all the wacky comments from a left wing liberal democrat. First of all, Bush NEVER did anything major like go into Iraq and Afghanistan WITHOUT FULL Congressional approval, including approval from your beloved DEMOCRATS like Senator Diane "take everyone's guns away and kill the Second Amendment" Feinstein who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Unlike, say, your hero Obama who has taken it upon himself to invade Libya and take down a dictator for his "Arab Spring" dreams...WITHOUT approval from Congress. And this is irrespective of him just killing people with drone attacks without bringing them to trial and justice in Afghanistan and Pakistan...something you left wing liberals whined over Bush about. And you were saying WHAT about war crimes??? Yeah that's what I thought.
And how about Obama and "Big Sis" who feel the need to use drones on their own fellow Americans? Where are you liberals and your outrage over that? Yeah, again, that's what I thought. Then you complain about corporate globalists (whatever that insipid comment means) while ignoring the BILLIONS wasted by Obama on "investment" in green energy with taxpayer dollars from that $860 billion "stimulus" bill rammed through Congress in 2009 that was supposed to have created millions of jobs. But that's okay, we know how you liberals love your socialist-fascist dictators, we expect no less comments than that which you provided. And I certainly expect nothing from admirers of a dictator who made billions by stealing resources and property from his own people under the guise of government takeover for the "greater good" of the nation (sounds VERY familiar!!!). Have a nice day!
Afterthought: the liberal main stream media fawning over this hater of economic freedom and liberty is nauseating, to say the least.
Yeah tortured and imprisoned anyone who spoke out against him...only libs could have their brains so far up there a$$es as to be blinded like this
Swagganaut "oppresses and kills their citizens" We don't?
We spend so much time ( some people) worrying about what other nations (and their leaders) are doing and in the mean time our own country is falling down around us. We have become a nation of bitch about everyone else except ourselves.
MY political party is always right yours is not.
I know what I am talking about you don't
My president is right yours is a @%%*^&)&
Liberals are a bunch of *(&(*^$&^
Conservatives are a bunch of &^&_+
This or that country should be blown up they are useless
If you are not anti abortion you sleep with the devil
If you are not pro life you are anti women
The list goes on and on and on and on and this @!$%# will never end. And I always love the " If you don't like it you can always move away. Well that isn't going to happen , this is my country also.
As to Chavez May he RIP Now you can all go find some one else to crucify or stand up for. He was never in the past my problem but the problem of the people of Venezuela. We have enough problems and situations at home to deal with, and no body seems to give a rats ass about them.
Good Riddance to a hater of my country.
How easily people always fall for the "compassion" and "equality" line from would-be ruthless communist dictators.
Tell the people you're giving them power while you take away their freedom, and they fall for it.
Tell people you are giving them equality while you're making them economic slaves-and they fall for it.
Tell people you're going to get even with "the rich", take their money and give it to "the poor" while destroying the opportunity of ALL the people to gain a better life - and they fall for it.
That's the poison of socialism - and it's exactly what Obama is doing - and it's what Chavez did.
BTW, I am liberal in the sense I believe in liberty and freedom. I am NOT a neo-communist "progressive".
No matter what anyone thought of Hugo Chavez, his own hatred of the US was his eventual undoing. He turned to Cuba for medical treatment rather than come to one of the best medical science countries in the Western Hemisphere, the United States. Hate the politics not the people, yet Hugo Chavez used the general mistrust of the United States in South America to keep the focus off his failed policies and corruption and when he needed medical care, well, like I said, his own hatred let him die.
And unless you lived in South America, don't think everyone hates the USA. Quite the opposite. Most dream of coming to the USA where they still think the streets are paved with gold. I know, I lived there for three years and was actually asked that by more than one person. Amazing how local media can paint the wrong picture of a country. Sound familiar?
Fantastic news, one less worm we have to contend with. So many ignorants in this world look how they cry over a dictator trained by Fidel Castro to be just like he is. Scumb bag and Mr Obama another Socialist crying over him shame on you Mr President you are supposed to lead the free World not the the oppressed people of the United States. Or Mr President is it your intention to lead the United States to another Cuba, or Venezuela or even another Russia. The ignorants in this country voted in a Communist but not this United States Citizen. I have seen right through you, maybe you should go and find another country to lead into distruction. How about your own country where you came from. HUGO CHAVEZ BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY YOU DISERVE EVERY BIT OF IT.
Hell is burning a little hotter now!
Interesting story- International communists and socialists are mourning the guy whom did all he could to undermine "western" countries in the region and spent his time taking over international companies nationalizing oil, deteriorated the standard of living in his country. Good guy.
I bet we say some nice things about him too.
(Did newsvine finally get rid of that online auction posting freak?!)
It wasn't widely reported in our press, but obama got more votes in some precincts in Ohio, PA, and Florida than the number of people that actually live in those precincts, let alone the number of registered voters! The politics of a socialist dictatorship has arrived in America...!
the-Chief
You mean like Obama is trying to do?
Give him time, he is working very hard to do the same. Problem is, he too will be "loved" as Chavez was. Because he took from the rich and gave to the poor. And kept a few billion for himself.
Who was the worst Hispanic dictator?
Franco, Castro, or Chavez????
Well, glad to see that this discussion hasn't wound down to a political mud slinging match...
This is why, if there are more than 50 comments on a story, I don't bother usually. By this point, the extremists have already taken over and there is no longer any reasonable discussion.
PJ
I had no problem speaking ill of the man when he was alive. What makes you think it should be any different now that he's dead? A repressive dictator is still a repressive dictator. Hope the pearly gates slammed shut right in his face!
William Travisvia
Franco from Spain.
Ed - he was an elected leader not a dictator. Put the remote down.
Seldom Seen Sam Colorado,
It wasn't widely reported in our press, but obama got more votes in some precincts in Ohio, PA, and Florida than the number of people that actually live in those precincts, let alone the number of registered voters!
This is completely false. Furthermore it is easy to verify that it is false. Stop the lies! And I highly doubt the person you quoted has any real sense of what did or did not take place in an election in Iran. That does not make me pro-Iranian or pro anything else, except I am pro for the truth. Stop lying!!!
PJ -
Chavez hated your country and everything it stands for. Why defend him?
Just as I figured, typical ignorant c^nts leaving typical braindead messages about an individual they know nothing about outside of what fox and limbaugh have been screaming at them for the past few years.
I wonder who we will install as a puppet leader there now that this guy is out of the way.
Doesn't say much for Cuba's hospital care,,,
The man seemed so filled with hatred... Just as all the leaders he associated with around the world...
@10tacle
you seem to be under the impression that I approve of American foreign policy as it stands, or that I am somehow affiliated with the democrats, you ass U me to much. No where did I say I like what congress did, they sucked down the bullshike that Bush and Cheney fed them, what I was doing was comparing evil, Cheney-Bush, over 100,000 Iraqis killed during the invasion based on lies and to the benefit of an elite few, compared to Chavez.
@drive5151
What ass kissing, duh, what would I possibly gain from my statement on the comparison of the evil perpetrated by Bush-Cheney and any evil Chavez might be guilty of. Your comment is idiotic. (lol)
JK
Good call! Personally, I think it may be a tad unfair to throw logic and common sense at seemingly leftist liberals like PJ, as it just confuses then even more and ruins their whole days! Kind of gives me a warm fuzzy feeling thinking about it though.
Sounds like NBC is in mourning too but that's not very surprising is it?
I bet Hugo is smelling the Sulfur now !!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim-952823,
I believe that you don't even understand the meaning of Socialism. Just to set the record straight, I would not be considered a Socialist.
Do you know that there are many Socialist parties in Europe? Do you know that most European governments are Socialist leaning governments? Do you know that Canada has a Socialist government? Do you know that no country in this world practices the unbridled kind of capitalism that the US espouses?
By the way, I dislike big goverments, and I profoundly abhor when layers and layers of city, county, state, federal, international organizations (i.e. UN, WHO, IMF) live on the backs of the tax payer.
However, I will not go around preaching to others that they should never show any compassion for the less fortunate.
I believe that you are not able to comprehend what I am telling you. Therefore, I do not blame you for any insults that you throw in my direction. I am a fan of Beavis and Butthead by the way. So you get points from me for that.
Have a nice life.
Spaniards DEFINE the word Hispanic.
All Americans should be asking why the Department of Homeland Security has recently purchased over 1 billion bullets, 2700 light tanks, and hundreds of drones! This has been reported in the news!
Now what exactly does a democracy need all of these items for, crowd control? Certainly not for border protection. Obama claims the border is secure! This is exactly what Chavez did when he first took over control of Venezuela many years ago he beefed up his army and then stole land from the wealthy and nationalized many businesses.... doesn't this sound familiar to you?
How very strange that MSNBC says the "world mourns" his death. Beside Sean Penn, the Iranian dictator, and castro, I can't imagine who would miss him. In fact, my husband and I actually sent up a cheer when we heard the news last night.
lot misinformed people on this board who prob never been born or lived in a third world country....grow up
no kamanda fluery, but there are a lot of folks afraid America is being turned into a third world country!
Hugo, how's that socialized medicine working out for you?
At least it was free and you died with 2 billion in the bank!
@JK - People - not corporations define any nation. Chavez fought against American corporations that, doesn't mean he was against American people or America as a nation.
@Ed - good way to stop discussions. Righties don't like discussions ... they just want people to "believe"!
The world is a better place now that he is gone. People mourned Stalin too.
A lot of countries didn't like the United States because of the way the George W. Bush administration ran foreign policy; Chavez was one of the few people to have the balls to call them out for it.
Chavez was a jerk and a loudmouth, was paranoid, egomaniacal, and divisive, but he appears to have been a darn good president, given what he was able to accomplish in his own backyard. We had a guy like that once, too. I think his name was Nixon...
I wonder just what the U S had to with and how they pulled it off? Everybody knows how much the feds loved him. He called George the Devil and wasn't really that much off on his call. Probably a CIA effort.
We could have learned from President Chavez how to be an industrialized country while protecting our resources and our environment. Venezuela has over 70% of land under conservation. Compare that with 20% of the US.
And politics aside, he did a lot for his country and ours:
Reduced poverty from 70 to 20%, provided free education from kindergarten to college, provided universal healthcare. He should be applauded for that. And just because Washington and him couldn't get along (Come on people, how many times do we ourselves not support the decisions our President/representatives make??), we shouldn't demonize him and disregard what he had accomplished.
And lets not forget that with his partnership with the US nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. and former US rep. Joseph Kennedy, II, the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program has provided free heating oil to more than 1.7 million Americans in 25 states and the District of Columbia since it was launched back in 2005.
@PJ-1795048
You're right, here's another one: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
I came here for a new sweater - 100% wool, anybody bring a pair of shears?
I read a few good posts, a few clever posts, and a few rather funny posts as well. The idiot posts I'm trying to ignore.
I found ONLY ONE truly AWESOME post though and that was post 1.29. Nighthawk Freakin Nailed It!
@Night Hawk - Really great job :)
Regards,
Brandon
To all those saying he was ELECTED....seriously ? I personally know and have worked with people from Venezuela who had their family's torn apart,had their homes TAKEN from them,And can never go back and visit their family's without the very real threat of being murdered by this ELECTED DICTATOR....like all corrupt Goverments,They cheat and threaten death on the People if they DoNot vote the way they are told,if they are even allowed to vote at all.Those family members that still live there have to watch for snipers and have barbed wire around their homes and basically live in their own little prisons(Ive seen the pictures) because of their family members who were able to leave and those left are considered enemies of the Government.
So quit feeling compaction for this monster...I guess we know who voted in our present Dictator,Obama plays by the same rules.
I notice nobody is reporting on Mr. Holders comments on how President Obama is the judge,jury and Executioner,And if Obama feels you are a threat he can send up a DRONE on American soil and MURDER any American HE doesn't like or feels is a THREAT Should be Front Page news Everywhere...I'd say that's a Really big story !! Bigger even than a Canadian being held for Alcohol induced rape ! (Sarcasm)
And then we have Bloomberg who is Dictating what kind of soda,coffee,suger per drink ect...Again dictating to Grown American Adults what they may and may not get from Stores selling soda and coffie.....
And of course the way we may protect ourselves and attacking our Constitution At an alarming pace....
We should all be on high Alert,It is refreshing and encouraging to see even the Obama supporters are beginning to SEE What's happening.
Why dont all you dumb sh-t libs move to a commie country if you think Hugo was such a great leader? I didnt realize that Sean Penn had so many different names on the vine. You libs probably think Stalin was a grand leader. Get a clue you turds.
They should be thankful that this pos is gone and out of their lives. The man was evil, a murderer, rapist, control freak that didn't even deserve to live imo.
Next, Castro, and hopefully a few American politicians will drop dead sooner rather than later.
jussayin-
This is such progaganda....."a waive of grief washed over Latin America". Give me a fecking break.
Whoa whoa whoa, there are actually people mourning this guy?
I'm sorry, I didn't know it was okay to grieve the loss of a lying, betraying, despotic thief. If one person supporting this guy can tell me why I should show him any respect, even in death, without contorting around the fact that he was nothing more or less than a despot, then I'll change my tune.
I'll enjoy the sound of crickets that follows.
To be fair the US supported brutal dictatorships in Latin America for the better part of the last century, often those who overthrew democratically elected officials. We may or may not have been indirectly involved but we certainly, as a policy, turned our heads the other way as atrocities against civilians were being perpetrated. Our leaders are no better than Chavez really. If you don't believe me look into gems like Augusto Pinochet in Chile and atrocities in Argentina are too brutal to recount here.
As always, it's not the black and white issue that you all want to make it out to be. I don't support Chavez per se but I can understand that his own people might. Yes he was Anti-American but Americans are scared of their own shadows anymore and we love to blame everyone but ourselves. Unless you are from Venezuela I don't really know why you would care either way. At the end of the day Chavez, much like Castro, has never been a threat to us whatsoever so I don't really understand the hate, aside from the fact that the US is generally a hate-filled society.
Will they use a spit-shield to protect his body as the mourners pass by his coffin?
@ PJ-1795048 (1.18): yes, and by your standards, Adolf Hitler was not a dictator, either, as he was 'duly elected' by the people of Germany, right? Took Hitler less than six (6) months to destroy the democratic process that led to any opposition. Historical fact. But he wasn't a dictator? Your view point is absurd. Chavez WAS a dictator. Stuffed ballot boxes, arrest and murder of anyone speaking out against him... yeah, nice guy. To bad he wasn't born to lead your country? Not only do you come off as a 'tool' (sorry, actually don't mean any offense, just sayin') you have written so much, and many comments on the love and virtue of this dead POS, that you must have a third shift job, as otherwise people might tend to think you're typing out of mom's basement...
i'd like to thank Citco for donating to the people of ALASKA. we are thankful for your fuel donation. without such a great gift, a lot of rural Alaskans would find it hard to keep their homes heated. While BP and CONOCO took and never gave back, Citco, from another country took their profits and gave to the people of the United States. Thank you
Via con Diablo, Comandante!
The only people missing this dictator are the parasitic "takers" under socialist rule. Those Venezualans who work hard for a living and were actually making their own way were supporting the others - and I doubt they miss him one bit.
And that is what we have to look forward to in the US if O-bow-to-me is allowed to continue his socialist reform policies.
@twolovingdogs - Pehlavi is a good one. Interestingly that is another country with oil and a good target for hate.
@Gary - if you have a useful point to make -- make it. Adolf Hitler - I don't like that scum - but whether you like it or not was indeed elected. It only tells you that dictators are not the only kind we should be afraid of. Sometimes elected leaders can lead you to unnecessary wars (like johnson) and sometimes not-so-elected -- like george bush.
PJ,
You are a tool. Why dont you go live in Cuba if you think dictators are so great?
Any World Leader who is good friends with Ahdinemajad/Iran and Fidel Castro/Cuba says a lot.
The Poor People of Venezuela may have loved Chavez, because they are not educated, knowing of nothing other than their inside world. Didn't he shut down all Internet Service in his Country? The Government of Venezuela surely makes all their citizens come out for a Grieving Party, Just like they did in North Korea for Kim Jong-il. Crocodile Tears. They have to do it, or it may mean prison, harming their families, or even death. That's Communism, along with a true Socialistic Countries. The people are numbers, not humans.
PJ..... you failed to mention OBAMA and CARTER duly elected.....horrible presidents.
@Proud 2B Liberal -- It is really great to hear from a real, true liberal. Thank you. Most people who call themselves "liberal" these days are not. They are leftist tyrants. You are obviously of the old school. So am I. Even though I often will say I am "conservative" I am also a "liberal" in the classic sense of the word. True Liberals believe in freedom, liberty, individual inalienable rights and equality under the law. I think labels are confusing and misleading these days--especially since the leftist "progressives" (who incidentally were well-known for their support of eugenics for a "better world") took the word "liberal" and falsely applied it to themselves in order to mislead the public.
Leftisim has nothing to do with true liberalism. Leftism can be socialism, communism, fascism, nazism, etc. but they are all forms of tyranny when you see the true outcome of their policies. It is about those in charge amassing power and wealth at the expense of everyone else. They claim to redistribute wealth to be fair, but most of the wealth goes into their own pockets or the pockets of their friends and colleagues. Socialism is not all that the leftists claim it is. It creates two classes of people: A small number of elite at the top of the power structure who have everything and can do almost anything and then the masses of citizenry who have no ability to change their economic status in life, live at a lower standard of living, have to deal with shortages, and whose freedom is greatly restricted by those in charge. It is not a good system. In fact, the poor are worse off under socialism than they are in a truly free market economy where government is limited (and thus corruption is kept to a minimum). It has been demonstrated over and over again throughout history. Unfortunately, many of our schools and media are controlled by the left and so mostly revisionist history and misleading information is fed to the public. One has to do independent research of original documents and writings of those who actually lived history these days to find the truth. We also need to look at all sides objectively and use critical thinking to find it. Only then, will people realize that they have been lied to by those with a much darker and insidious agenda.
"Till I finally died Which started the whole world living"
Perhaps the oil money can now be sued to benefit the Venezuelan people instead of being used to further Chavez' Communist agenda.
Janine-984304 " In fact, the poor are worse off under socialism than they are in a truly free market economy where government is limited (and thus corruption is kept to a minimum). It has been demonstrated over and over again throughout history."
I find it interesting that modern day Conservatism is what was historically regarded as a 'Classical Liberalism' (Someone that believes in as much freedom as possible against an all-powerful central government), while a modern day Liberal has taken the place of a historical Conservative in the manner in which they think that an all-powerful central government should dictate how people should live their lives. So white is now black, and black is now white (no racism intended). For an interesting 'read', consider the following;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Don't know if this is a good or a bad thing for the United States. Chavez definitely had ties to multiple communist regimes, and he was repressive to his own people.
What's more, he wanted more for his oil from the U.S. than he did some of his other buyers, including Russia, Communist China, and other more local countries led by third world dictators.
I guess time will tell.
@ Janine its not popular any longer to claim to be a liberal because of what you just clarified in your post, the liberal movement has been hijacked by the radical left just like you said and they being a cancer are tarnishing the true image, extremist destroy everything they involve themselves in from the Sierra Club to rights movements and beyond, it has got to the point that I cant support any good cause because these people will invade the ranks and take over, they will turn my efforts into something undesirable and beyond my intentions they take everything to extremes, and turn it into a over bakeddisaster they will never be happy unless everyone other then them is miserable they bring our nation to the edge and think dysfunctional is their best weapon. they would have us living in caves while they dwell in castles. I used to donate to Green Peace, I helped get the EPA up and going, save the whale, the environment all that. now I wish I had not! they all became environmentalterrorist they took our good efforts and drove them to far. I can not even stand to be in the company of these people, like the man that brought attention to the Spotted Owl said" I wish I never mentioned that damn bird!" after thousands of people lost their jobs and a industry was nearly destroyed and the way we live in the country was forever changed and not for the better but for the few.
Irish why don't you live in @!$%#ing ireland?
The poor oppressed ZioNazi monetary system monopolizing weapons dealing war profiteering pigs from Venezuela to Wall Street to Switzerland and the Vatican are celebrating Hugo Chavez's death. The Pandora's box of the synagogue of SATAN, the CIA, the mark of the beast may be open for business once again in territories lost to love and Christ like social sharing of wealth responsible to the peoples of the Earth rather than infinite greed. Their propaganda network will be at the side of the vipers just as the writers of this acticle are. Welcome to Amerika land of the greed home of the slaves.
PJ
If there were something to discuss with you other than your seeming lack of insight and knowledge of recent Latin American history, we might indeed be able to have such. The problem is that you can only seem to come up with insults and negative comments for people that do not agree with your views, and as such are in denial about the true nature of Hugo Chavez and the way he governed Venezuela. If you can get past that, perhaps we might have a reasonable conversation but it is doubtful. Have a good evening.
2FAST4U1701
Thank you for your post
I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind
Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind
But there is within us an evolving soul of material so fine that nothing on this earth can harm it. The material body may be dust; But, the personal identity is not and can live on. The earth may pass but the best of thoughts and their creator will not!
So hang on to faith and love that will not die.
Hugo: Le Miserable. Oui. Does he deserve any rhapsodies?
You must be on drugs...
Americans are a braiwashed bunch of ignorant idiots, they believe everything they are told on tv without doing any research of the facts ! Chavez lifted MILLIONS out of poverty and did a lots of good in his own country and other south american countries. He was not a dictator because he was elected by the people ! this idiocy of americans is just mind boggling !
Republicans and others wanted to control his country's oil and chavez would not let them !! This is why all these lies about him were told !
Damn nasty republican thieves !!!
Chavez was a brutal dictator.....I'm glad for the people of Venezula that this "little O'bama" died at 58!!! There is a special place in hell for him and his kind.. Speaking of his kind has O'Bagger ordered the flags to half staff?
NBC is piling on the *** trying to make this POS look good. NBC, #5 and stiling falling!
Chavez was not technically a dictator because he was elected. However, there is strong evidence that he manipulated the electoral system and later he tampered with the constitution so that he could continue to remain in office. I have not doubts had he not been inflicted with cancer he would have remained in office for a long time and sought to name his successor. In my book he was a dictator hiding in a false legitimacy of elections.
As for his legacy, I think the people of Venezuela have to figure that one out. And I think that will take them a long time.
they said the same "uplifted the poor" about Hitler and Castro
A tyrant is a tyrant...and a dead tyrant is best
you're my boy Blu!
americanfools2008:
Well, you got your name right, at least. Fool is an understatement.
Chavez did exactly what O-bow-to-me is trying to do: take from the successful, hard-working people and give it to the people who don't/won't.
Fools2008, you are the one who has had the wool pulled over your eyes. You have been obviously indoctrinated into the same false propaganda all tyrants feed all the "useful idiots" who keep their tyranny going. You keep monsters who steal from others, murder othes
I see Blue, He looks glorious.
A great man and a great leader!
a communist dictator!
He was a pain in the @ss but really did not hurt anyone. For a third rate dictator I guess he was not that bad, let see what the next goon does.........
If you consider him such a great leader, why don't move to Venezuela and find out
how terrible those people live there. It's easy to judge from here, with a full
stomach and all the amenities we have.
You are pro-life and a fan of a leftist dictator? You obviously have mental problems.
The world is rid of a turd.
you must love obama
Really? Tell that to the people who were imprisioned for standing up to him. I am sure they would agree with your assessment to. Let's not forget how he destablized a region and resurrected communism when it was all but dead after the fall of Russia. Anyone who see's this thug as anything than what he was needs to go live in that country and then spout off what a great leader he was, given the fact that he totally controlled print media and government controlled TV. Yeah you'd get an honest evalutation there wouldn't ya!~ Moron.
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Mandy, that's the problem when living in the right-wing bubble; you haven't got a clue. Facts and contrarian perspectives apparently matter little in your limited world. For instance, why don't you move to Camden, Detroit, Memphis, Flint, Stockton, Tallahassee, etc., then talk to us about "full stomachs" and "amenities"
You likely have no idea about your own country and its politics, never mind Venezuela's. It probably does not occur to you that Chavez was considered a hero to a majority of Venezuelans (he won all of his elections fair and square - and by landslides!).
Chavez's Bolivian" revolution has no doubt been a complete farce (there may be less poverty and better medical care, but practically everything else is far worse and worsening still). But that's not to say that he was not a gifted man with extraordinary qualities, as a soldier, as a politician and as a human being.
I actually feel sorry for you and how much you miss on out by not being able to see other points of view but your own.
Condolences to all those in morning, rest in peace President Chavez
Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Chavez was a working class man from the ranks of the Venezuelan military who decided he was going to fight for the people, not the rich. We should follow his example. Chavez understood that it is necessary to change the capitalist system. That is why he fought for 21st century socialism.
is a sad news in Latin America, Rest in peace Comandant Chavez !
Good riddance to an evil hate-filled man. Venezuela is celebrating an end to a socialist tyrant and so should we! Hugo, say hello to Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, and the rest of the boys in hell!
Condolences to his family, and the Venezuelan people.
I liked him because he put his people ahead of profits, and didn't Kowtow to rich industrialists and the capitalist governments of the world. (same thing).. He set an example for all, by using the money created by the countries resources, to actually pay to help the citizenry. The list of things he did to make life better for people is long.
Hopefully the country gets another leader that cares just as much. Maybe it will inspire the same thing here, but im not holding my breath..
you liked him because you are a stupid communist!
The only people who benefited from this dictator were the few elite he chose.
You can say the same about capitalism in the corrupt United States of America, which is rich in many things yet it has no affordable health care for it's citizens, high corruption by its govt. officials, high price of gas at $4 a gallon. Have you seen the poverty in Detroit, NYC, Baltimore, Philly, L.A., New Orleans, Houston, W. Virginia, Chicago? Do I need to go on, or do you get the picture? The U.S. is in ruins and you have time to criticize and elected leader like Hugo Chavez? Let's concentrate on our big problems here in the U.S. and not in other countries.
I live in panama and this guy was a pice of s hit we got the news on this dictator every day get a clue
Wow! So you were his finance minister! I didn't realize you were intimately knowledgeable with how the finances were dispersed. Tell me, did any go to Daniel Ortega? Seems to me that it's because of Hugo that Chavez is still in control of Nicaragua. I guess you forgot that. And let's not forget Ecudaor. Or El Savador. I guess you're for anyone who imprisons dissidents or who is such a control freak that he appeared on TV even more than ObamNuts. Have at it. IF you make it they might put you in the next cabinet.....loser.
i am deaply sorry for mr shavez he is a good man he loves his people i wish he can make his fourth times as a leader of venezuela r.i.p my brother u love haiti u try ur best to help us my sympathies go to mr chavez family and the people of venezuela a good man leave this earth god know why u will be miss venezuela will ever have a strong man like u and thank god u choose mr fidel castro as ur friend i feel like i loss a family member
lena hall
nassau bahamas
That is a good comment. The poverty in US cities has the same basic cause as the poverty in Venezuela -- a capitalist system that is an "empire". The US billionaire capitalists have exercised imperialist control over Latin America. The law of capitalism is the accumulation of profit. The rich get richer at the expense of the working class.
The working people of Venezuela are no different than the working people in the US. We are allies in the fight for a different kind of world.
Morejustice:
This POS died with $2 BILLION DOLLARS.... He helped himself! Did you vote for O'Bagger?
He was a thief,Killer,monster,Thug,DICTATOR (elected or not) And he cheated to win the elections like all Monster's that gain their power by manipulating the media(propaganda) Using his military(his thugs)against his own people,,he lied cheated and bullied And killed and stole from the People he was to "elected" to lead.
Good riddance You Discusting POS
Ster,
Nice eulogy.
Lee, what the hell does voting for one party or the next have to do with El Commandante Chavez' death? If you are such an expert on South American Politics, why don't you use your expertise and fix your own f-ing country?
I noticed DuckRunner was bashing Capitalism, Dude i plan on getting rich some day because of Capitalism. And i guess i have a choice not to hire you!!! Fantastic, I don't want you stuffing rags in my toilet to make it over flow like all the Wall Street haters want you to do. Do you prance around because OBAMA made the DOW go up? Do You, I ask??? Do you even have a JOB. Thought Not!!! Don't even give grief to Capitalists. Your Govt. pay check would run out. Please don't take my word for it. You see the better half and more on this vine and other recognize Obama and Chavez as the same trash that need to be disposed of for the betterment of all people. Just my thoughts!!!
Ok1234- Did you happen to notice that the problem cities you pointed out are all Far left Dem Socialist run cities and have been for decades?
He was a dictator who used his people to get rich beyond belief. At his death he was estimated to be worth over 2 billion U.S.D. He made a temporary positive impact. However, in the end he was a selfish dictator who did more harm than good for his people.
I wonder what's going to happen to the $2 billion U.S.D. Where will it go? Who will inherit it?
stupid americans that believe every thing they are told !! Chavez was a great leader !!!!! He lifted millions out of poverty !!!! your capitalist system IS A DICTATURE !!!
americanfool, do you still have that tingly feeling running down your chin? Get up off your knees and pull his zipper up!
sounds like a republican to me...
A Socialist Dictator, is still a dictator. But not to NBC and the Left for whom they speak.
Steal from the makers and give to the takers. Very simple. It works to win elections.
Until there is nothing left to give away because there are no more makers, only takers.
We already went through this in the Soviet Union, and Cuba where everyone is equally poor except of course the Castro brothers and their apologists. Like NBC
And your country is not full of poor people who are taken advantage of by the super wealthy. Get a grip on reality.
nobody is taking advantage of anyone. maybe if the poor people wouldn't hand over their hard earned money to buy consumer crap from the rich (iPhones, Nikes, Microsoft, Escalades, flatscreen TVs, so on and so forth) and actually save their money, accumulate real wealth instead of temporary and depreciating status symbols, then there would be less poor people and the rich woudn't get richer? or you could keep that firm "grip on reality"...up and down...over and over...aaahhhh
our "poor" are amongst the richest in the world lol. go to some actual poor countries and you wont be calling any american, poor. we have it so good in this country that it makes all others look like serfs. we waste so much of our wealth on nothing that it could make a poor nation rich overnight. we are like rich spoiled brats in this country with as much luxuries as we have. try living in some random crap desert wasteland in africa and tell us all how bad we have it here.
Swagganaut
that's not actually the truth if you go to areas in the deep south, west, S. California you can still find plenty of 3rd world examples of poverty.
of course and they still got cell phones, cars, dishwashers, refrigerators and tv's and all the luxuries of a developed nation. go to the armpits of the world and you will find nothing but what nature can provide you with you own hands but is probably taken by the local warlord. the truly poor in this country have ample supply of forced government programs, charitable organization and helpful citizens. to compare our poor to others is like comparing night and day
Tokenflame,
IF you are halfway intelligent, you'll admit Swagganaut hit the nail on the head and is 100% on target.
Even in the south our poor are 100% better off than world poor. Hell, they make more out of freebees than even the average middle class around the world!
Ann = F wad
If the people of Venezuela are truly morning the death of their leader, then our hearts and prayers are with them. We in the U.S. of course have only heard the worst in regard to Chavez' leadership. It may have been only because he supported Iran's views of the U.S. or for economic reason's. The Oil industry of course has always painted Chavez in a bad light and we all know how much control the Oil industry has lied about such things as their interests in goingvtovwar with Iraq, the damage Oil has caused the environment, and of course Mr. Chavez' running of his own country.
He appeared to care greatly for the poor and made their lives better for a period of time. The economic downturn and other issues may have prevented him from helping further
Let hope that the new leadership will be able to get develope better relationships with the U.S. without the Oil industry involvement once and for all.
Brilliant Diane!
Good point about how Americans really buy the media propaganda painting people and countries as good or evil with nothing in between. Any one who thinks Chavez and his country (or any country for that matter) were 'pure evil' should stop and think how those countries reported what happened in Waco Texas several years ago "American Government burns women and children" was the likely headline (but not even close to the truth). Hopefully the masses in other countries look past headlines for the truth and are not as gullible, simple minded, and ego driven as so many here seem to be .
Gee, Bill... not wasting any time on painting Waco as a government murder plot. See a doctor for a laxative, as you're obviously full of crap...
Diane : Well articulated !
Homie D Clown, get some glasses and take some time when you read others posts. Bill was making a point about how media outside the U.S. writes its anti-America articles. Bill did not paint Waco as "a government murder plot," as you put it.
Guess if you repeat a lie often enough, some fools will believe it. Since we went to war with Iraq for oil, please inform us which oil companies control the oil...Exxon, Mobil, Getty? Naw, your "point" is pointless.
As far as oil damaging the environment...let's take all trucks and cars off the road, stop all air transport, idle all trains, and plant crops without tractors or fertilizer. Then we can become a poor, third world country...unfed, unclothed, uneducated. Great idea Diane (not!)
@logic4U - how about we get serious about developing alternate forms of energy and let that spark a new industrial revolution?! Unless of course you look forward to a world with no clean air or oceans, no jobs, and one in a state of perpetual state of war.....
Whatever you can say about Chavez, he had the cajones to stand up to the neighborhood bully....
I paid tribute...then I flushed...
You seem confused as to who are the makers and who are the takers. Wall street getting 28 trillion for the banks kind of seems like the takers to me. Not one person jailed. The makers are all the people in this country who work their butts off all their lives and recieve a pink slip.
not confused at all. unlike you, i enjoy the opportunities in the US to make it on my own (and reap the rewards) and don't rely on the government to do it for me. or tell me what to do, so i can still work my butt off, still get a pink slip in the end, and live out my days a broken poor bum in poverty. only someone who can't or won't make it on their own supports that socilaist crap. but keep on blaming wall street for your personal inadequacies, shortcomings, and failures in life...
another dead leftist, good riddance...
BD-540164
and when you die we'll say, "another dead, corporatist, price rigging pig, good riddance."
Tokenflame,
And when you die, we won't say such nice things abut you.
Logic4U
I couldn't care less about anything that might be said about me after I'm dead because I will be dead, you moron.
Another unwanted despot bites the dust - good riddance!
The one thing I will say for him is he did away with poverty to where there are people living at least a decent life. He gave heating oil to our people to ridicule our government of course, but that is well deserved.
I'd suggest a flight to Venezuala to see first hand just how well he "did away with poverty." can you get a tickt on your own, or do you expect the government to provide that for you, too?
Stupitidy never works is a better name!
If life in Venezuela is what you call a decent life (and yes I have been there) than I would hate to see the cesspool you live in.
My Tirbute to y'all who love Communist dsatsab like BO & Chavez both Communist sdrut. ..l..
What is it Fox does to make our people hate poor people? I have a real problem with that!
Fox has nothing to do with it. Ignorant comment...
No, but it sure effects on how you post. Fox and Rush must be proud of you.
oh isn't that cute!!! now the "rush" crack...did you come up with that all by yourself? or should i be stuffing crackers into your parrot beak while you repeatedly squak that ignorant nonsense? don't watch or listen to either...LMAO! but i guess because i don't support a socialist, i must listen to rush on fox? way to think things through...LMAO! how pathetic...but thanks for the laugh there verno...LMAO! i'm really cracking up here....
Your right....austerity never works the greeks should just keep spending money, so what if no one will loan it to them anymore......
You're poor by choice...or, as in most cases, a lifelong string of poor choices. I don't hate the poor, nor do I know anyone who does, but there's always a part of me wondering what the heck they are doing with their lives. You only get one shot at life, and it's too short to squander it.
Chavez was basically a petty dictator. Why are we so set on idolizing him?
Evidently because there are a lot of really stupid people who want to lick his sorry ass.
next thing you know, these clowns will be running around wearing Hugo Chavez shirts to replace their worn out Che Guevara ones...will look so cute with their Birkenstocks...
If everything was so rosy in Venezuela then his citizens wouldn't be coming to the United States of America.He sided with Iran and every horrible dictator around the world so I don't see how that makes him a great person.He stated in an interview that he believed in democracy but his definition of democracy is socialism.The Cuban people can only be so lucky to see Castro and his brother Raul drop dead soon.
Deep pain, yes that is what he was to his people.
I hope they do not let this happen again.
If they follow in the footsteps of America they are doomed.
We have made the mistake twice in two terms.
The leaders in mourning are secretly laughing.
That because dictatorship gets sh*t done.
If you count lining your pockets and raping the people while all the while they are smiling, yes.
Nick- You must be in a hurry to move to Cuba.
LMAO! Good one!
it seems that no one gets it, for the people of Venezuela Chavez represented the emancipation from the domination of global oil and mineral concerns, Chavez certainly returned more wealth from his country's natural resources to his people than the globalists would have. All you have to do is look at what happened to the people of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, other Latin and Asian nations when the Friedmanite Globalist horde took over their counties natural resources and publicly owned businesses.
Based on the article, it was more like South and Latin American leaders that praised Chavez rather than the "world". Kennedy and Carter don't count, they're not world leaders. Why in death do we elevate someone who was otherwise a pain in the behind to most everyone outside his out little sphere of influence?
Oh well, I guess he had his good and bad points, like anyone else. R.I.P.
the whole truth !
His only good point was dying a slow death.
Ding Dong, the Bitch is dead!
If you REALLY want to know why people in much of Latin America and elsewhere hate us, go here:
www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
Start reading at about 1953. You won’t have to read very far before you’ll begin to understand why that “worldwide apology tour” President Obama was falsely accused of undertaking might be a damn good idea after all. All that “My country, right or wrong” jingoism is just wrong-headed. “We’re number One”. Yeah, start looking up what things we’re number one in. We need to stop being so full of ourselves and get a decent mirror. Then maybe we can fix some stuff.
Stop being a puss... people used to look up to America, for many years. We were in a leadership role, in industrial development, space exploration, developing technologies, automobiles, medicine, etc...
And people from other parts of the world longed to come to America.
Now - we're stuck with a bunch of leeches & Justine Bieber-type panty-wearing males... not men.
We're not 'so full of ourselves'. The World was looking for leadership years ago, and they're looking for it now. And it isn't coming from Washington.
Clearly you didn't visit the link. By the way - appropriate screen name.
Justin Bieber type panty wearing?
Never...Not when I can get them with Cher on them....
justin bieber wears baggy diaper type pants. ridiculous lil bitch import... as if we don't have enough here already.
Obama-he was the older brother I never had, I will follow in his footsteps
Too funny!
keep smoking those bath salts bright asses
RIP Hugo Chavez.....beloved fascist, socialist dictator and obama supporter
Truth, You speak the truth, do you ? Well if you knew anything about the truth. You sure as hell would keep your third grade education level mouth shut. Why is it that no matter the subject, someone like you have to insult the President ? You and those like you, are reminiscent of a bunch of third graders at recess. You call others names that don't quite live up your "Standards" ! HOW ignorant can people get ! Try depicting "Facts" and not the lies that have been thrown out of hate and anger ! You want to know why the Republicans lost in 2012, because Mr. Romney pandered to the "White Males", he lost the Latino, Black, Youth, Female and other minority votes. Now they are trying to put "Rubio" out there, thinking that he will be another Reagan ! Oh good God ! We sure as hell do not need another corrupt inept moronic right wing nut in the WH ! The only possible candidate that the GOP have is the current Gov. of NJ and even he will most likely lose to the Hilary Clinton. Not because he's bad, but because the people of this country have grown past the GOP's message ! "Cut taxes and cut everything else, take food out of poor babies mouths, that haven't done a thing to deserve what happened to them. But God fore bid the super rich should go without another tax cut !", that message is so old and worn out. Get new material, try saying " We are for something" instead of we are "Anti- Gay, Abortion, Soc. Security, Medicare, Medicaid and on and on. We know all that !
Wow! What a diatribe....!!!! I thought this was about Hugo Chavez, not some nut regurgitating the past election and what must be done to salvage the next. I guess the RNC is probably looking for someone to take over. So please, don't waste your time here boring the heck out of us. Go there and do you're thing....I am sure they could find you a good therapist and put you on the right medication. You have issues.
CreepingBuffao you need to learn to use the proper words and put together some kind of thought worth reading.
this is to you mr.yes and the rest of the idiot liberals,im glad chavez is gone i just wish he took all of the liberal idiots with him and obame has 1 billion islam radicals as his friends,it is ironic that obame and his liberal idiots think chavez is such a wonderful thing,liberals would not know a wonderful thing if it bit you in your a— — ,liberals and obame are worse then hitler and the nazis.liberal idiots the only reason obame won was because of a bunch of leaches that dont want to work for a living voted for him
i agree with soldier - Nazis and Hitler? WTF?? You rednecks are closer to fascism than anyone else. I can't believe the level of ignorance, not to mention your short IQ level, in comparing Chavez with Obama. BTW, it's Obama, not obame. Did you not have a school house near your trailer park or were you too busy learning how to shoot at empty beer cans? Do you feel oppressed after 4 years of Obama like you imply the Venezuelans are? Why don't you visit them and compare yourself to them before judging what you don't know, like every other redneck.
Yes 656474 - you couldn't have said it better. The redneck's dream is to have the NRA in the white house and issue a gun to every citizen, that way law enforcement will cease to exist. I'm sure there are right wingers out there blaming the death of Chavez on Obama, along with everything from not being able to buy new tires for their trailer because they're out of stock, to not being able to buy a gun to add to their collection of 23. Even if it rains today, it's Obama's fault.
Well, for four plus years, Obama blamed every one of his many failures on GWB so I guess blaming the rain on him is fair.
The problems that Obama and his handlers Reid and Pelosi are causing won't be that evident for several years, remember Obamacare doesn't take full effect until 2014, and it will take a couple of years at least to be able to tell what harm it will do.
But by that time Obama will be out of office and it will be "well, you didn't keep going like I started, it's the Republicans fault"
....just like his supporters on this thread, Chavez will make fine fertilizer.....burn in hell, POS....
Yes, a true champion for the radical left who would love nothing more than to empower someone like Obama to be just like him. Admired and adored by those that hate the US and detest the very idea of freedom.
Good job truth ... you made Yes do a major word vomit. I think you struck a nerve.
Good bye, dead dude...
Here is my tribute ,,l,, ouy kcuf & good riddens you communist dratsab!
HAHA! Thank you I need to laugh. Ironic what makes me laugh.
I wounder if Kennedy will be one of the pall bearers and guess by now his nostrils are full of sulfur.
Joe Kennedy better hope there's no afterlife because if there is, his father and uncle will beat the crap out of him.
I disagree, Logic4U. The Kennedy clan is a clan of dirtbags, alchoholics, drug abusers and murders. They will probably welcome him with open arms in hell....
Reality Check, you missed a couple. Bad skiers, Bad drivers and boot leggers.