Posted on 08/21/2009 2:39:05 AM PDT by Cindy
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has taken a swing at golf as the latest threat to revolutionary progress.
In a national television address two weeks ago, Mr. Chavez denounced golf as a "bourgeois sport" for lazy elitists. Now officials in Venezuela are moving to close two of the country's best-known courses, in the cities of Maracay and Caraballeda, in order to make way for either public housing, parks or an extension campus of Bolivarian University. Mr. Chavez's regime is closing an average of three golf courses per year, and there are only about 20 left in the country.
Leftists have long objected to golf as a sport of the well-to-do. It has been denounced as a bourgeois pastime in most communist states, along with such sports as boxing, skiing, tennis, baseball and horse racing. Mr. Chavez's role model, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, called golf a "game of the idle rich and exploiters of the people." This was quite a politically charged statement during the golf-crazy Eisenhower era.
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Just more racist anti-Scottish agitation by a Latin American punk.
I’m with Hugo on this one....
A golf course is a waste of a perfectly good rifle range.
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