Posted on 03/23/2009 5:57:40 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The DUmmies have a dilemma. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has called their beloved Barack an "ignoramus." So who should the DUmmies defend? Hugo Chavez a proven socialist who is on the way to nationalizing the entire Venezuelan economy or Barack Obama who has recently shaken the DUmmie faith by backing the AIG bonuses via his chum, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner? You can watch this melodrama played out on this DUmmie THREAD, "Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama 'ignoramus'." So let us now watch the battle of the DUmmie heroes played out in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, reminding the DUmmies once again that it was The One and Timmy who approved the AIG bonuses, is in the [barackets]:
Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"
[Who to choose? Who to choose?]
(Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.
"He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.
Chavez said Obama's comments had made him change his mind about sending a new ambassador to Washington, after he withdrew the previous envoy in a dispute last year with the Bush administration in which he also expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.
"When I saw Obama saying what he said, I put the decision back in the drawer; let's wait and see," Chavez said on his weekly television show, adding he had wanted to send a new ambassador to improve relations with the United States after the departure of George W. Bush as president.
[And now lets see which leftwing hero the DUmmies decide to support...]
Chavez is crazy...he had a chance to be civil towards the US once again and he blew it
[Accurate post DUmmie David_NSU but your mere 9 posts leads me to suspect that you are a LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!]
Doing you know what Obama did during his inauguration week, David_NSU? If you know what Chavez is reacting to, then you know that it was Obama who had a chance to be civil to Chavez and he blew it.
[The Hugo DUmmie contingent quickly leaps to the defense of Chavez.]
Question: Where is the biggest terrorist training camp within the United States?
[Just down the street from the newly closed Walmart Detention Center.]
Anyone who says Chavez exports terrorism *is* an ignoramus. I have not seen one act of terrorism come out of that country since Chavez was elected President.
[So you are also accusing our Beloved Barack of being an ignoramus.]
Chavez is a disgusting pig. the meeting in Trinidad next month should be interesting though.
[If you weren't defending Obama, that statement would have been grounds for your immediate tombstoning.]
If you read the posts, you can pick out those on this thread who probably have a lot more in common with Freepers than they do with DUers.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLLS are everywhere! Hee! Hee!]
Chavez is a blunt man. I wouldn't descibe Obama as an ignoramus. But Chavez certainly has a right to. He is the one who was wronged, by Obama's interview on a rightwing corpo 'news' monopoly during his inauguration week, following some Bushwhack script about Chavez loving "terrorists" and being "bad for the progress of the region." Both things are wrong--untruthful, uninformed. So I would call Obama ignorant of South American events and trends, badly misinformed and very ill-served by someone, probably partly the Bushwhack holdovers in the State Dept., the foreign service and the CIA. Latin America has obviously been on Obama's "backburner," and that is understandable, considering what he has had to deal with his first two months in office (the Bushwhacks' Financial 9/11, and two wars). But Latin American policy has suffered, and somebody--or several parties--have been creating problems where there don't need to be problems. I would call that broadcast a major blunder. It was designed to provoke Chavez, and it did. Now Obama is stuck with that, unless he does something dramatic to reverse it. He has inflicted further injury on an elected president--not to mention a very popular president within Venezuela and throughout the region, including many Chavez friends and allies among South America's leaders--who was the target of Bushwhack assassination and coup plots. It must seem to Chavez that Obama agrees with that Rumsfeldian shit. And it is up to Obama to change that impression, unless he isinto that shit. Ignoramus, no. Ignorant, apparently. And making what may be grievous mistakes in Latin American foreign policy, basically pitting the U.S. against the vast majority of Latin Americans, once again.
[Lets just blame it all on the Bushwhacked Rumsfeldians.]
Chavez did not call Obama an ignoramus, but an ignorant poor man.
[Ah! That makes it all better.]
We are wasting a huge opportunity by not allying with Venezuela.
[I bet you love the sound of "Bolivaran States of America."]
and Chavez is one big "stupidamus"
[Posted the big bad "DUmmieanus."]
do you support Obama or Chavez?
[The DUmmie dilemma.]
I'm curious how the freepers are taking this...heads explode?
[Yes. Heads exploding with laughter.]
I wish Chavez were a Communist. He wouldn't have the opposition press that he has. And he would have tried and executed every single one of the coup plotters, and he would have put the Caracas elites and the stupid Catholic Church in their place! The fact he hasn't done any of those things, tells you that Chavez is just a socialist, like Bernie Sanders or many Europeans.
[The above posted by DUmmie IndianaGreen, a college professor.]
People, Obama STARTED WITH THE INSULTS during his inauguration week! Chavez didn't start it. He is REACTING to what Obama SAID. And Chavez doesn't take shit like that by sitting back and not responding. He has not survived a Bushwhack coup and assassination attempt, and several more attempts, and a Bushwhack instigated oil professionals' strike, and a Bushwhack-funded recall election, and non-stop demonization by the Bushwhack State Dept. and the corpo/fascist press, by being a weenie. He is not polite. Why should he be?
[You condemn the Bushwacks but what about the Rumsfeldians?]
Obama's LIES about Chavez were totally uncalled for. he demonstrated complete ignorance in his inauguration week comments, and that is regrettable because there is no reason at all that we should be hostile to Venezuela. Obama CLAIMS to have been a "community organizer," yet denigrates someone whose entire administration is devoted to the cause of The People of his country.
[So I guess we can mark you down as in the Chavez column?]
Regardless of Venezuela's policies, Chavez has the maturity level of a 16 year old. What a buffoon.
[And you we can mark down as in the Obama contingent of DUmmieland.]
"Stupidamus"? So were Hugo and this stupid moose separated at birth?
And here I thought the entire world was going to love us after we annointed the Messiah. Funny how that hasn’t happened.
Nothing is more reassuring to these people than their wrong opinions.
Now this is damned funny. DUmmies forced to choose ‘tween two of their idols.
“I wouldn’t descibe Obama as an ignoramus. But Chavez certainly has a right to.”
However, Rush has no right to.
And that is the truth.
They were also doing some hero-worshiping for one of their other idols, Jimmah Carter, on another thread:
It was like Brigadoon....never meant to last. He was a Cassandra…
there was a lot of discussion during his presidency about legalizing marijuana, seriously…
He talked realistically about driving down the use of energy and doing with less, while funding research into new ways of producing more. He actually raised the minimum wage…
he is an honest man, so he couldn’t get anything accomplished in the nations capitol…
Why would you blame him for the aborted rescue attempt? I blame the military for not properly maintaining the choppers and for assuring him that they could fly a low altitudes over the desert.
Not just a peanut farmer, but a nuclear physicist!
he has spent his whole life trying to help people…
He had some great entertainment at the White House, I must say. Willie Nelson got to smoke dope there, which was pretty cool…
Carter brought decency and dignity to the white house…
The last real human being in that office until President Obama…
President Carter was to many of us what Obama is NOW!
Carter-worship thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5299228#5299238
Could have been said of Robert E. Lee as well...
They need to do a poll to see who gets more support. Let them make it official and call Diebold.
LOL.
I’m not spilling bur I just had a really bad idea...
I loved this response: “Maybe DUmmie should call ACORN”
My wife has thyroid problems, has had them for years. My being retired, she’s the major breadwinner in the household. And she works hard at it. Also, being a manager of a retail establishment, saying she ‘works hard’ isn’t a platitude. She’s not one to sit back at her desk and let her employees do the work.
But, like any realist she has her medication, takes it religiously, and deals with the issue. It’s raised her weight since onset, but we both realize the reason and are not uncomfortable at all. In fact, my weight’s a far greater issue, but that again is medically caused. And no, I’m not self-conscious about it. I am who I am. I was told almost two dacades ago to take my medication and live what life I have remaining. Well, I’m still hanging in there so the meds are doing something... If people don’t appreciate me because of my appearance, then they’re not someone I care to associate with.
This DUmmie’s approach to things is self-serving at best, irresponsible at worst. Trying to win a contest and using his wife’s common medical ailment as an excuse? Give me a break. And on top of that, asking fellow DU’ers to cheat so he wins? Disgusting.
You saw the especially witty reply by BannedfromDU, I hope.
I suspect that would be your sentiments, too, sir.
As they are mine.
Yep. But knowing my wife, it wouldn't be a slipper-shaped hole on my backside. It would oh, so far worse than that :)
Actually, I do take issue with one thing. Thyroid medication can be expensive. Yes, there is some that costs $4.00 at Wal-Mart. But my wife is on one that is quite more expensive, although her insurance brings that cost down to $30 every 3 months, so no big deal to us. But without that insurance it would be prohibitive.
It then depends on how good insurance one has. For instance, mine is quite good, and with no premium. It all depends how serious one is on finding it...
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