Venezuelan VP to McCain: 'Go to Hell'

www.chron.com ^ | 01/23/2006 | Christopher Toothaker

[onedoug]

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

[blam]

"When McCain made the "wacko" comment, it was the first time I ever applauded him. It will probably also be the last, but it was good for a laugh."

I think I said something like, One whacko to another.

[SeaBiscuit]

McAne better watch it, Belafauxpas might attack him with a banana.

[Leatherneck_MT]

LOL I agree with you on that point!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Venezuela's vice president derided Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) for suggesting that "wackos" run the South American country, saying Monday that the United States should focus on its own problems.]

I couldn't agree more:
1) McVain is an insufferable gas bag who should retire into ignomimity asap.
2) We should be focusing on domestic problems, such as BORDER CONTROL.
3) Before we start whining about small time SA dictators, whose time will come in due time.

[Rockitz]

Never thought I'd say this.....McCain is right.

[Billthedrill]

Never thought I'd say this.....McCain is right.

Heck, I may as well cut-and-paste that, because it's what I was going to post.

Chavez is learning what every two-bit demagogue learns in time - it's a lot easier muscling your way to power than it is actually running a country. Lenin learned that. So did Pol Pot.

[WoofDog123]

Hey now, I am referring to his original election in 98. Obviously the referendum was highly suspect.

[injin]

why mess around? send in the black ops guys

when are we going to learn that it makes more sense to
knock out the wacko rulers themselves than invade whole countries?

there's got to be a way....

[jb6]

McCain, a potential Republican presidential contender in 2008

When hasn't McCrazy been one?

[Nextrush]

I guess they're both right on this one. Chavez, Rangel and the rest are all wackos, but McCain has been sniping at President Bush since 2000 and I'm sick of his game. I'd say at least what Rangel said or maybe something worse.

[robowombat]

A Venezuelan take on VP Rangel, who interestingly looks like a Hollywood central casting actor who specializes in playing distinguished but corrupt establishment types bankers, judges, senators.

London 26.05.05 | I have always thought that one of the masterstrokes of Hugo Chavez was to request the two fiercest critics of Venezuelan politicos to join his cabinet as soon as he gained the presidency. Thus Alfredo Peña and Jose Vicente Rangel were, for the first time ever, given the opportunity to put their money where their mouths were. The blue lagoon period with Peña came to an abrupt end, however Jose Vicente Rangel (JVR) has quickly moved through the ranks to his present day job as Venezuela's Vice President. Both characters are deeply despised by very many people, however there is an animosity consensus towards Vice President Rangel, without doubts, the least popular person of the Chavez seudo administration. Vice President JVR has no apparent duties other than to threaten politicians with critical information, that he has gathered over the years, which would expose them to public contempt. Gossip has it that former OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria was 'reminded' by JVR of some information pertaining to the former sexual preferences, that would have been made public, had Gaviria spoken about the electoral rigging that took place in the recall referendum.

But the article above gives plenty of ammunition to be used against JVR, so much so that is worth translating in its entirety, to be contrasted with the chronic and unscrupulous lies that have become trademark of the Vice President, that must be emphasized, revels in the present climate of violence, abuse and harassment that Hugo Chavez inflicts on his political opponents.

[swampfox98]

The Venezuelan leader says his government would halt oil exports to the United States if Washington ever attempted to invade this South American nation.

And we'll be over the barrel litterally by these crooks because the Democrats have destroyed America's iniatives to drill for oil in our own country.

What does a nation do (America) when its politicians are more evil than most criminals now serving time in prison? Since there is a faction that always votes for people like Ted Kennedy and the Clintons, I guess the answer is we become slaves to tryants. McCain is not too swift either.

[Mustng959]

~ Hey, he can't say that about McCain. Only WE can say that about McCain. ~

LOL...That's exactly what I was thinking!

[Godzilla]

An old saying goes "when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one hit."

[ghitma]

McCain and the rest of the Rhinos are wacko for not fighting tooth and nail for drilling new wells and building
nuke plants in this country.