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What Is The U.S. Doing At Chavez's Funeral?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 8 March 2013 | Editorial

Posted on 03/11/2013 1:52:31 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Amateur Diplomacy: Somebody explain to us why an official U.S. delegation was sent to Caracas for the funeral of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. It only boosts our enemies while diminishing America. The death of Chavez this week should have been an opportunity for the U.S. to rally global support for Venezuela's battered democrats and make a stand for democracy. Instead, the Obama administration has done all it can to validate and bolster Chavez's gangsterly minions desperate to perpetrate their Marxist kleptocracy. Already these surviving Chavistas have made clear who they are and what the U.S. can expect: President Obama called for "better relations," and Chavez's designated successor, Nicolas Maduro, announced the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats for "plotting." For good measure, he bizarrely blamed the U.S. for giving Chavez the cancer that killed him, making the U.S. the assassin.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; delahunt; joekennedy; meeks
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Stinks any way you look at it.
1 posted on 03/11/2013 1:52:31 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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Maybe the US is just exceprting a blog there trying to get some hits.


2 posted on 03/11/2013 1:54:20 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

One would think that with the number of times you have written the word,
you ought to be able to spell “excerpting” by now, humblegunner...


3 posted on 03/11/2013 1:55:55 PM PDT by humblegunner
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I think a poll said only 6% of Americans liked Chavez. Makes you wonder when the White House sends people to his funeral. Why not send anyone to Kim Jong Il? Not socialist enough for bammy?


4 posted on 03/11/2013 1:56:51 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: IBD editorial writer

There is no earthly reason for us to have delegates at the funeral of this nutty dictator. I guess maybe Obama is lining up attendees for himself, eventually, when he gets his own glass case like any other self-respecting Marxist dictator.


5 posted on 03/11/2013 1:58:38 PM PDT by livius
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To: ColdOne

Informed people in Colombia just shake their heads..........


6 posted on 03/11/2013 1:59:07 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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What Is The U.S. Doing At Chavez's Funeral?

We should be celebrating but instead are mourning. Obama is probably writing up a glowing eulogy and plans to include him in his adorations of previous evil dictators.

7 posted on 03/11/2013 1:59:56 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 ("The British are Coming (to confiscate weapons)" - Paul Revere (We know how that ended))
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Waste of time posting to this pimp; it never makes replies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:ibdeditorialwriter/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change


8 posted on 03/11/2013 2:00:36 PM PDT by humblegunner
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It’s not a blog, it’s an editorial from a legitimate newspaper.


9 posted on 03/11/2013 2:00:58 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: ColdOne

I think a poll said only 6% of Americans liked Chavez. Makes you wonder when the White House sends people to his funeral”

...61% of Americans didn’t want Obamacare.

...62% of California voted “one man, one woman” but a judge decided otherwise.

...90% of NYers don’t agree with a “soda size ban”. Bloomy did it anyway.


10 posted on 03/11/2013 2:01:19 PM PDT by albie (re)
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Socialist of a feather, flock together!


11 posted on 03/11/2013 2:03:15 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Hussein barrak obama wanted to get some ideas of how his funerals would be. Dictators do like to outdo each others even in death.
I imagine hussein wanting his body laying in state for a year so that ALL Americans are forced to go and participate - just like in north korea.


12 posted on 03/11/2013 2:04:49 PM PDT by Christian1
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To: Cyber Liberty
It’s not a blog, it’s an editorial from a legitimate newspaper.

Posted by an entity only here for purposes of self promotion.

13 posted on 03/11/2013 2:10:17 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

So what?


14 posted on 03/11/2013 2:11:59 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

So it’s a bot trolling FR for hits.


15 posted on 03/11/2013 2:13:57 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

It’s sorta like the savings associated with spelling “employee” with but two “e”s.


16 posted on 03/11/2013 2:18:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: IBD editorial writer

Arranging to meet Hookers . . ?


17 posted on 03/11/2013 2:19:26 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: rrrod
Informed people in Colombia just shake their heads..........

I hear ya bro...prayers down South to family and friends.

18 posted on 03/11/2013 2:21:50 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: humblegunner

I’ll bet that if it’s a problem, Jim would have popped it a long time ago. Really, you have to pick your targets better. There are a lot.

I have no influence around here, but as a favor I ask you to leave IBD guy alone. And John Semmens. He’s good people.


19 posted on 03/11/2013 2:22:41 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Well, since they are sending Sean Penn, one of the CIA’s top assassins, maybe they intend to cork his chief lieutenant.


20 posted on 03/11/2013 2:23:02 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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