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Chavez Raving: The Loon from Citgo is Asking for It Now
American Spectator ^ | Published 9/21/2006 12:06:21 AM | Jay Homnick

Posted on 09/21/2006 7:42:29 AM PDT by gopwinsin04

Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't. Sometimes you feel like listening to President Almondjoy -- mix cocoa and coconut to get cuckoo nut -- of Iran and sometimes you would rather watch President Chavez pile up mounds of Venezuelan guano.

In either case, visiting the United Nations is like taking a trip to Mars.

Chavez is an Old School Commie, or perhaps Old Factory. Olfactorily he is challenged, that's for certain: he detects no sulfurous miasma anywhere in the U.N. building other than President Bush's diabolic wake.

The United States, he says, is an imperialist power bent on oppressing and pillaging the blameless innocents of the world who whittle their olive branches in sylvan boughs.

Although this makes for great comedy, the tragedy is immense. Every time we sit, not go, at a Citgo station, we are putting money in Chavez's pocket.

At many of the other stations we are donating to Iran, a tad less directly.

We tried regime change in Iraq, but regimen change is proving much harder in the absence of regiment change. Ostracism is often effective but it requires unanimity that Russia, France and China will undo with pusillanimity.

These guys just buy time and then sell us down the river; it's a bad business all around.

In the meantime, the inmates are taking over the asylum, not to mention the Manhattan parking spaces. The quacks are trying to pull us into the mire, knowing our phobia of quagmires.

No longer is the United Nations a bunch of old ladies wasting their time on gossipy intra-Venus gabfests; now we have a bunch of martial Martians. President Bush will have a devil of a time digesting this bunch of nuts.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boycotcitgo; bush; chavez; hugochavez; un; unitednations
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1 posted on 09/21/2006 7:42:30 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Chavez has an 87% approval rating according to polls.


With $60 a barrel oil, it's not hard to see why.


2 posted on 09/21/2006 7:45:40 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: gopwinsin04

Drudge is reporting that President Chavez (we like to call him El Whackjobbo! - remember that j is pronounced as an h, as in a-hole) is fleeing the country.

I just had some fun on my coffee-break. Gave the Embassy of Venezuela in DC a call - (202) 342 2214 - and told the Chavez-servant who answered: "Hey, thanks for the laughs yesterday - from EVERYONE here in the USA - we say thanks for the laughs."

She said, "What do you mean?"

I said, "You President is a total raving lunatic a-hole! Thanks for letting him out of the nuthouse for the day."

She actually said, "Oh, you're welcome, sir!"

You couldn't make it up if you tried.


3 posted on 09/21/2006 7:51:05 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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To: gopwinsin04
Chavez is an Old School Commie

And he's offering free gas to the people living in Clintonville, NY. Coincidence?

4 posted on 09/21/2006 7:52:22 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: gopwinsin04

His deal with Iran may be one deal too many!
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1213


5 posted on 09/21/2006 7:54:43 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: Brilliant
The Venezuelan people do not see the money gained from that $60 barrel.

I have read that they are peeved that the country is dirt poor with the coffers of the country getting fatter and fatter.

Also, I would assume that his alla comments yesterday and his pope bashing isn't going to endear him with his Catholic country.
6 posted on 09/21/2006 7:54:52 AM PDT by Republican Red ("There’s God, then there’s the president and then there’s my father.”- 6 yr old Jack Roberts)
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

shades of the USSR & Cuba in 1962


7 posted on 09/21/2006 7:55:55 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Every time we sit, not go, at a Citgo station, we are putting money in Chavez's pocket.

Pass it on. There's probably a lot of people in this country who don't know this about Citgo.

My husband went for a ride on his Harley the other day and was getting low on gas. He really pushed the beast in order to avoid a Citgo station. He said he thought he might have to call me to bring him gas. Now that's patriotic!

8 posted on 09/21/2006 7:58:20 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Brilliant
I've been to Venezuela on 2 mission trips to do sports camps with the urban poor. The people in the slums where we worked (the slums are a Chavez stronghold)were great to us. We saw some anti-American stuff but it is really just the way Chavez tries to rally support. The malls, music, movies, and the fashion were American.
Chavez is Castro with oil, and will put the same limits on the freedoms of the Venezuelean people that Castro has the Cubans. His original support was more a reaction against the indifference of the old wealthy ruling class to the poor than pro-Chavez.
This is not an apology for Chavez, but most of the Venezueleans don't hate Americians.
9 posted on 09/21/2006 8:02:29 AM PDT by fungoking
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To: Republican Red
I have read that they are peeved that the country is dirt poor with the coffers of the country getting fatter and fatter.

And now Chavez is passing out freebies to "the U.S. poor" and even giving away free "helping the U.S. hurt (democrat sloths)" and "bringing help and comfort to their home" type tee shirts to endorse his charity
The "poor" in this country live like millionaires in his country. Heck, "the poor" in this country live better than many of the taxpayers being scammed!

10 posted on 09/21/2006 8:09:28 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: gopwinsin04

I think it's very likely that Chavez will get the Democrat nomination for 2008. An endorsement by Amadingyjaad would sew it up.


11 posted on 09/21/2006 8:21:03 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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The first few lines in that spiel sums up the past two days quite nicely. It's a good thing I didn't watch either of their speeches, or this time a PS2 controller wouldn't have been broken.


12 posted on 09/21/2006 8:22:01 AM PDT by wastedyears
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To: Ben Hecks
Almondjoy and Chavez raving on TV news helps Bush's approval ratings and the GOP. A lot of Americans that aren't totally happy with Bush still don't like a nut raving at the UN that the US President is the Devil!
13 posted on 09/21/2006 8:26:39 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

If you see a Citgo station. Picket it.


14 posted on 09/21/2006 8:27:31 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: concerned about politics

And cheap heating oil to the residents of Harlem - saw that on Fox News this morning. What a great guy.

Are these poorer Americans so naive as to not realize that as a member of OPEC, Venezuella shares responsibility for the high price of oil in the first place?

Oy.


15 posted on 09/21/2006 8:40:44 AM PDT by agrace
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To: agrace

This guy and his ravings don't bother me so much. He really is inconsequential.

What DOES bother me deeply and makes me ashamed of my country is the standing ovation he received at that college in NY last night.

Traitors, to the last applauder.


16 posted on 09/21/2006 8:43:59 AM PDT by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Boycott CITGO. Check this out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705521/posts


17 posted on 09/21/2006 8:54:23 AM PDT by shortstop ( Win One For the Gipper)
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To: Brilliant

Doesn't Venezuela's oil have a very high sulfur content?


18 posted on 09/21/2006 9:20:38 AM PDT by ingeborg
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To: shortstop

Citgo has a customer hot line....800-252-4846


19 posted on 09/21/2006 12:27:31 PM PDT by JoanneSD
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To: gopwinsin04

I do not believe in boycotts. Never have. I have, however, stopped buying products because of how I feel about the company.

I don't buy Barbra Streisand albums any more.

I don't buy Citgo gas either.


20 posted on 09/21/2006 12:29:51 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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