[La Lydia]

This is the best thing I have read on Chavez for several weeks.

[Dan B Cooper]

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías AKA Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios

[Brugmansian]

Hope David Axelrod doesn’t read this and get any ideas.

[YankeeReb]

Very interesting article. I didn't know Bolivar was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson.

Maybe we can exhume Marx and Idi Amin and find DNA evidence that they're related to Hussain.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Hopefully soon Chavez will undergo an autopsy for cause of death and/or mental derangement. In God’s time.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Obama is resurrecting Jimmy Carter.

[pallis]

Venezuela is in the grips of a madman, and all Obamao can do is look on with envy.

[Monterrosa-24]

To understand the complete difference of the lowly Chavez and the great Bolivar lets look at the words of Bolivar in a thank you note he sent Lafayette for a gift of George Washington's portrait...

March, 1826

“I have been honored to look for the first time on the noble features of the man who did so much good on behalf of the New World....I experienced a mysterious exhilaration on learning in the newspapers that you had had the generosity of heart to honor me with one of the treasures from Mount Vernon...There are no words to tell you how much my heart treasures this gift...Washington's family honors me beyond any aspirations my imagination could conceive...”

Bolivar's words were dignity personified. And Chavez? Of course one of Bolivar's many strengths was the art of coalition building and he knew how to appeal to different kinds of people. He was also slender, fit, energetic, and capable of self-denial.

[VeniVidiVici]