Posted on 11/24/2006 2:38:38 PM PST by mylife
Chavez is winning hearts and minds By Boston Herald editorial staff Friday, November 24, 2006 - Updated: 06:02 AM EST
It was bad enough last winter when Hugo Chavez came calling with bargain heating oil for needy Massachusetts residents in a bid to scrub his pitiful reputation. Since then the Venezuelan dictator has called President Bush “the devil” in a rant at the United Nations, visited the sick bed of his “brother” Fidel Castro and lost a bid for a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council. Not to be outdone by his Iranian buddy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Chavez has also taken to calling Jews Christ-killers who have “taken possession of all the wealth in the world.” And now comes word that he is using his dictatorial influence to cook the books and avoid paying up to $6 billion to a group of Ohio investors who purchased bonds from a Venezuelan bank 25 years ago. Gosh, why wouldn’t Joe Kennedy, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt and others embrace Chavez and the cheap home heating oil he’s peddling once more? Kennedy and his Citizens Energy do good work to help the needy who struggle to pay their heating bills. And he may well have cause to chastise big oil companies (with the exception of Venezuela’s state-run Citgo) for not doing enough to help the poor. But to serve as official enablers for a dictator - to esteem him as some kind of hero, even indirectly - well, it’s just mind-boggling. “Only one oil company, Citgo, and only one nation, Venezuela, stepped up to the plate to offer a helping hand,” said Kennedy, who’s also running TV ads praising “our friends in Venezuela” for their generosity. In other words, Chavez’s plan to redeem himself on the world stage - sure enough, it’s working. Pulling down the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square, as some have suggested, would be a stupid, empty gesture. But refusing Chavez’s bribes? The right thing to do.
Ooops, what happened to the paragraphs?
Amazing how cheaply some people can be bought. I'm not surprised that so many of them live in MA.
Enuff said!
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Boston Herald is the conservative paper in Boston. Reread the editorial...you might like what its saying.
I was surprised to see that the Boston Herald actually is on the right side of this and calls out a kennedy
"But refusing Chavez’s bribes? The right thing to do"
As part of a Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), I think Venezuela last year got to export something like $133 million worth of their goods--tariff free- into the U.S.
Are they still on the GSP list? If so, why?
He actually wrote that the hurricane turned intentionally towards the state, because Governor Haley Barbour's actions as Republican National Chairman helped advance the global warming that Kennedy believed responsible for the strong storm. In his mind, Katrina was like Frankenstein's monster, turning on its creator and seeking to destroy him.
I'm sure all the families of those killed in the storm took great comfort in Joe Kennedy's idea that it was some form of karmic justice.
That family has lobotomized far more members than the one they admit to.
It was probably meant to be an incentive, but I think it's time to review it...
I know nothing of the GSP
damn communists.
An excellent post.
Thanks
Reminds me of another Joe Kennedy who liked another dictator named Adolph Hitler.
Chavez is certainly not in Hitlers class yet, but he is a wannabee.
The Kennedy's enjoy our country and they always help the poor. The poor who vote Democrat. The funny thing is they never spend any of their own money in these philanthropical ventures. Its alays someone elses. In this case Chavez who is buying Kennedy cheap IMO.
Any "hearts and minds" that Hugo wins, from among so called "citizens of the USA", he is welcome to, in my book!
We have allowed the socialist mindset to flourish for too long, already, too many "Americans" care more about the free milk and cookies, than they do about freedom.
You will never convince them that they are not really "entitled", to their "entitlements", and we lack leaders, with the courage to even try. Krushev was right, Damn his soul!
100 years ago, my Appalachian kinfolks would say, "I can make me a living on a flat rock, I won't be beholden, to no man". Today, they all stand in line, for the free milk and cookies.
All of us here, I reckon, can see what is happening, if we don't stop it.
I have cast my last vote for a "RINO", for sure!
If the GOP falls to the Gramscian Socialists, there will be no voice for freedom remaining.
No one who supports Chavez has a "mind."
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