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Venezuelan VP to McCain: 'Go to Hell'
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| 01/23/2006
| Christopher Toothaker
Posted on 01/23/2006 8:25:31 PM PST by crushelits
CARACAS, Venezuela - 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.
Jose Vicente Rangel was responding to McCain's statement on Sunday that America must explore alternative energy sources to avoid depending on
Iran or "wackos" in Venezuela apparently a reference to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"It looks like they have nothing else to do in the United States," Rangel said, adding that the Americans have "so many problems, 40 million poor people, 30 million drug users, and an American senator is paying attention to us. He can go to hell."
McCain, a potential Republican presidential contender in 2008, said recent actions by Chavez and by Iran's leaders make it clear that the United States will be vulnerable as long as it remains dependent on foreign energy.
"We've got to get quickly on a track to energy independence from foreign oil, and that means, among other things, going back to nuclear power," the Arizona senator said on Fox News Sunday. "We better understand the vulnerabilities that our economy, and our very lives, have when we're dependent on Iranian mullahs and wackos in Venezuela."
Despite political differences between Caracas and Washington, the United States remains the top buyer of oil from Venezuela, the world's No. 5 exporter.
Chavez has repeatedly accused the United States of conspiring to topple his government, an allegation U.S. officials deny.
The Venezuelan leader says his government would halt oil exports to the United States if Washington ever attempted to invade this South American nation.
TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: gotohell; mccain; venezuelanvp; wacko
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To: crushelits
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:08:05 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: sageb1
"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.
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:08:46 PM PST
by
blam
To: crushelits
McAne better watch it, Belafauxpas might attack him with a banana.
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:10:58 PM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: GottaLuvAkitas1
LOL I agree with you on that point!
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:12:13 PM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
To: crushelits
[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.
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:23:30 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
To: crushelits
Never thought I'd say this.....McCain is right.
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posted on
01/23/2006 9:36:17 PM PST
by
Rockitz
(After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
To: Rockitz
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.
To: DoNotDivide
Hey now, I am referring to his original election in 98. Obviously the referendum was highly suspect.
To: crushelits
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....
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posted on
01/23/2006 11:13:25 PM PST
by
injin
To: crushelits
McCain, a potential Republican presidential contender in 2008When hasn't McCrazy been one?
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posted on
01/23/2006 11:29:35 PM PST
by
jb6
(The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
To: crushelits
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.
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posted on
01/24/2006 7:06:03 AM PST
by
Nextrush
(The Libranos are down)
To: jocon307
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.
To: crushelits
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.
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posted on
01/24/2006 9:14:33 AM PST
by
swampfox98
(I voted for George Bush and got Vicente Fox. Phooey!)
To: dfwgator
~ Hey, he can't say that about McCain. Only WE can say that about McCain. ~
LOL...That's exactly what I was thinking!
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posted on
01/24/2006 9:20:01 AM PST
by
Mustng959
(Peace.....Through Superior Firepower)
To: crushelits
An old saying goes "when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one hit."
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posted on
01/24/2006 9:22:59 AM PST
by
Godzilla
(An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
To: crushelits
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.
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posted on
01/24/2006 11:54:54 AM PST
by
ghitma
(Lifter)
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