Posted on 05/12/2008 7:05:10 AM PDT by wolf78
The German government has shrugged off a verbal attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez who called her a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and stopped just short of telling her to go to hell. The two leaders might meet at an upcoming summit in Peru.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined a long list of government leaders to receive a verbal savaging from Venezuela's outspoken President Hugo Chavez, but she appears to be intent on ignoring the abuse.
Chavez, speaking on Sunday in his weekly TV and radio program, said of Merkel: "She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today."
"Ms. Chancellor, you can go to ..." said Chavez, before pausing. Then he added: "Because you are a lady, I won't say any more."
German deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg responded on Monday by saying that Merkel was looking forward to the upcoming summit of heads of state from Europe and Latin America in Peru on Friday. Regarding Chavez's comments, Steg said Merkel had "made her position clear" last week.
It was that position, voiced in an interview with the German news agency DPA, that appears to have provoked Chavez's outburst.
Merkel had told DPA: "President Chavez does not speak for Latin America. Every country has its own voice with which it pursues its own interests." She had also noted that Venezuelan voters had rejected (more...) his push for wider powers in a referendum last December.
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Why have we not taken this commie bastard out yet?
YooHoo, Hugo. The Nazis were socialists.
Good plan.
Never get into a shouting match with a fool.
They bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Everybody knows that Chavez's words are worthless blather.
Why dignify them?
“YooHoo, Hugo. The Nazis were socialists.”
It is amazing how often that fact gets missed. What’s also interesting is that given the influx of Muslims into Germany, conditions in that country are primed for the emergence of another Hitler-mindset leader. Gonna be interesting to watch for the next few years.
...They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick ‘em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
‘Round here
At least Chancellor Angela Merkel has a LOT more class then this fool.
And I'm going to scream the next time this whacko tries to lay claim to the Bolivarian ideal, when Bolivar believed in the free market and a government modeled after our Constitution
The left wants everyone to believe that Hitler was a right-winger when he was the leader of a party called National Socialist German Workers Party.
Hugo is an admitted socialist. So, either Hugo is an moron (a good possibility) or like most leftist he refuses to believe that Hitler was a socialist.
I guess these lefties think that just because Hitler hated the communist that makes him a right-winger.
Best Book of the subject ever written: LIBERAL FASCISM.
In Germany, the labels "left", "center", and "right" originate from the sitting order in the parliament, i.e., the Reichstag. Ever since 1924, the fraction of the NSDAP was situated on the right side of the semicircle in which the seats were arranged, while the communists (KPD/USPD) were seated left from the democratic socialists of the SPD. As KPD and NSDAP were known for there street battles - kind of socialist in-fighting - this sitting order may have been only be chosen to reduce the number of brawls in the Reichstag. However, the label stuck...
“The left wants everyone to believe that Hitler was a right-winger when he was the leader of a party called National Socialist German Workers Party.”
The political spectrum is a circle. In reality the far right and the far left have a lot in common. Google for “Horst Mahler” if doubt.
Something must be wrong with either me or PoliticalCompass.org. I’m neither Ghandi nor the Dalai Lama as politicalcompass.org says i am. I always thought to be part of the libertarian right.
Does this mean i have to leave freerepulblic.com ? :-)
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