Chavez gets hero's welcome in London

[Grendel9]

A small audience, but the politics in the UK is really up for grabs at this time. Blair's been in real trouble for months, correlating quite nicely for the Left with Bush's problems.

Then there is the follow up piece...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1774918,00.html

Not a difficult choice at all

Chávez and Venezuela deserve the support of all who believe in social justice and democracy

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will today become the second head of state - after the Queen - to be welcomed to London's City Hall. When it comes to the social transformation taking place in Venezuela, the political qualifications often necessary in our imperfect world can be set aside. It is crystal clear on which side right and justice lies. For many years people have demanded that social progress and democracy go hand in hand, and that is exactly what is now taking place in Venezuela.

It therefore deserves the unequivocal support of not only every supporter of social progress but every genuine believer in democracy in the world.

Venezuela is a state of huge oil wealth that was hitherto scarcely used to benefit the population. Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness. These are extraordinary practical achievements.

Little wonder, then, that Chávez and his supporters have won 10 elections in eight years. These victories were achieved despite a private media largely controlled by opponents of the government. Yet Chávez's visit has been met with absurd claims from rightwing activists that he is some kind of dictator. [only an excerpt]

He's getting a following as he continues his European tour. Scarey.

[Salvey]

Why do I keep thinking Yamamoto?

[the invisib1e hand]

he'd get a hero's welcome in NYC, too. So what?

[pissant]

The left's new hero. I love to see the communists come out of the woodwork.

[Tracy V.]

Lol, probably. But you can bet your ass for certain he'd be crowned in San Fransisco. Word around the campfire is 'ol Huggy is as queer as a football bat.

[Tracy V.]

Isn't there some other thread you can highjack?

[ErnBatavia]

There must be a "lost art"....Al-Sadr, Chavez and watzisname the Prez of Iran are still breathing...

[Tracy V.]

Hey, Bush hijacked the Republican Party. It's open season.

I felt the urge, no, the absolute need to respond to that....then I just realized I have a sudden and stronger desire to eat dirt.

[Rummyfan]

Word around the campfire is 'ol Huggy is as queer as a football bat.

A maricon? Interesting.....

[Rummyfan]

Word around the campfire is 'ol Huggy is as queer as a football bat.

A maricon? Interesting.....

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

"Venezuela is a state of huge oil wealth that was hitherto scarcely used to benefit the population. Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness. These are extraordinary practical achievements."

This is the crap that the Left used to praise Castro early in his regime, while the SU was funding Castro. Now Cuba doesn't provide any decent education or health care, etc. The economy is a disaster except for European tourists and $$ sent from US Cubans. Once the price of oil drops, the same thing will happen in V.

[rod1]

Red Ken is basking in his element. He should enjoy it now before a few more of his other "friends" blow up some more of his city's infastructure via their kindness and appreciation.

[Obadiah]

No kidding!

[Rummyfan]

Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness. These are extraordinary practical achievements."

Sounds like that other socialist paradise Cuba! Give up freedom for universal literacy and health care!

As for the numbers, in a nation of 25 million, one-quarter million were going blind? Is there something in the water down there?

[oblomov]

>> Is there something in the water down there?

Vitamin B12 deficiency leading to optic nerve neuropathy- because of their socialist economy, Cubans consumed very little milk and meat and resorted to eating cassava to stay alive. Although cassava and similar plant are filling, they lack complete nutririon.

[oblomov]

Sorry for the mispellings in my previous post. I should have added that Cubans resorted to cassava only after running out of grain. A well-designed whole grain and bean diet can provide complete nutrition, but not one centered around cassava...

[lonedawg]

The price of oil will tank sooner or later. Saudi oil minister is already warning OPEC that $70 oil will ultimately prove the undoing of OPEC. Chavez is a socialist scumbag nationalization always leads to political corruption that will eventually catch up with these gigantic pissants.