Chavez loses vote on new powers in Venezuela

Reuters ^ | Mon Dec 3, 2007 12:32am ET

[sport]

I believe that a miracle happened.

[spectre]

The "miracle" would be if he didn't wreck havoc with the few years he has left.

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[USF]

I’m only shocked he didn’t pay better attention to the Stalinist guide to “voting” (he still has time).

[engrpat]

Color me surprised! I figured for sure with him counting the votes there was no way he could lose. Wonder if the will do what all good democrats everywhere do, keep counting until they win?

[arthurus]

The real vote was probably 2-1 against him and he was prepared for 3-2.

[arthurus]

He can probably repeat his referendum annually or even monthly until he gets his vote prep right.

[mdmathis6]

The Chavez opposition might concede defeat just to get him to “shut up”!(sarcasm on)

[Mr. Jazzy]

OK Photoshoppers, time to take the original image from 2000 of that bald guy with the crossed eyes looking at a hanging chad ballot. Place Hugo in the background, as the guy, whatever.

Get to work.

That is all.

[jveritas]

Excellent news. The clown dictator lost this one.

[Red in Blue PA]

Sean Penn and Hollywood are in grieving.

[Tatze]

HA HA!

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe he can be like the Dems and find a few ballot boxes that were apparently forgotten.

I hear some of New Jersey's finest political minds are headed down there to assist with the recount...

[jrooney]

Actress from the 80’s and early 90’s. Was the female officer that worked with anny Glover in “Predator 2” and Sean Penn’s hispanic girlfriend in “Colors”. Was in several more movies and preiodically still acts.

[Just A Nobody]

Chill...this too will be rectified posthaste! ;*)

[boop]

LOL!

[Wilhelm Tell]

Here we are, and here we stand, a veritable rock of salvation in this drifting world.

Winston Churchill really knew how to write and speak. Now we have inarticulate soundbites and ghost writers.

[danmar]

Congratulations, people of Venezuela.

Too little too late. Who put/elected this nut in that position?! Huh? Now they finally saw his true colors and are running scared too death! 51% to 49% is too thin for a strong rebuttal to Chavez.

Watch him in the next 5 Years chewing his 49% in to Socialism/Communism Shangri-La and nobody is going to do squat!
Let's have this discussion 2 Years from now!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

His term finishes in 2013?????

This means nothing then.

[james500]

“Too little too late. Who put/elected this nut in that position?! Huh?”

Too late for what? Sounds kinda melodramatic. The Venezuelan people who voted for Chavez put him in that position. You think Venezuelans are the only people to elect reckless charismatic populists? This slim victory went a long way in emboldening the opposition. That should be encouraged. He’ll break apart his “reform package” and some will pass, some won’t. But before Venezuela starts looking anything remotely like Zimbabwe, Chavez will find himself on the losing end of a coup.

[danmar]

But before Venezuela starts looking anything remotely like Zimbabwe, Chavez will find himself on the losing end of a coup.

You think so, huh!...reread the latest news coming out of that paradise...he already tighten the grip on the Press, and monopolized the Oil Industry under his command and a host of other "little" measures to entrench himself as a "El Commandant" as required in those South American Banana Republics.
Talk to me in 2010.