[HarleyD]

where he talks specifically about democratic republics: No matter what form of government a country has, the lives people will live under that government will depend on the quality of virtue: the virtue of the governed, and the virtue of the governing.

HA! And should we assume Hugo Chavez has any virtue?

It sounds like he just dug himself a deeper hole to try to crawl out of.

[Quix]

Some people live in deep holes and pretend that the sun traversing the top of the hole is merely a light carried by the night watchman.

Then they pretend that THAT’S TRUTH and attempt relentlessly to beat it into the heads of all the others in their hole—and yell it stridently to those outside their hole.