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The North Is Red
From Reuters:
Socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked George W. Bush as a "comrade" on Wednesday, saying the U.S. president was a hard-line leftist for his government's intervention of major private banks in the U.S. financial crisis....
"Bush is to the left of me now," Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. "Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks."
|10.16.08 @ 9:33AM|#
All malificent acts aside, Chavez is a pretty funny guy. I mean, "Comrade Bush", sweetcake.
|10.16.08 @ 9:44AM|#
Buying shares versus sending armed thugs in to seize a company,
sack its entire management, then replace it with an incompetent
assemblage of cronies...
...yep, I can see the comparison there.
Abdul|10.16.08 @ 9:45AM|#
That's a pretty funny line. Chavez should double the gasoline ration of the person who wrote it.
shecky|10.16.08 @ 9:46AM|#
Moted!
The emptiest epithet of the season goes to the morons sticking
Obama with the word, "Socialist!". After Bush's cherry of a bailout
plan to top his presidency, along with McCain's lame campaign
suspension in full support, is there any fucking wonder the GOP
brand is so flaccid?
|10.16.08 @ 9:55AM|#
It's funny, because it's oh so true. America is going so red that I'll wonder when we'll be forced into Barry Larkin and Joe Morgan jerseys.
Guy Montag|10.16.08 @ 9:56AM|#
an audience of international intellectuals debating the
benefits of socialism
This passage needs single quotes, something more like: an audience
of international 'intellectuals' debating the 'benefits' of
socialism
Better.
|10.16.08 @ 10:05AM|#
America is going so red that I'll wonder when we'll be
forced into Barry Larkin and Joe Morgan jerseys.
If only. I miss those days... Cincinnati baseball just isn't the
same anymore, ya know?
curious|10.16.08 @ 10:09AM|#
There seems to be a link between authoritarianism and socialism.
Is this discussed in Polisci classes? Having concentrated on
biology and math in college I never took any polisci, but just from
general reading it appears to be a robust link.
If it is discussed in polisci, shouldn't all the politicians know
it?
Elemenope|10.16.08 @ 10:14AM|#
There seems to be a link between authoritarianism and
socialism. Is this discussed in Polisci classes?
Yes.
If it is discussed in polisci, shouldn't all the politicians
know it?
Very few politicians were political science majors.
dhex|10.16.08 @ 10:28AM|#
as sadly funny and true as the zinger is...what is chavez going to do when bush leaves office? bush is the best thing that could have happened to him.
Guy Montag|10.16.08 @ 10:32AM|#
as sadly funny and true as the zinger is...what is chavez
going to do when bush leaves office?
If Sen. Obama wins, sounds like he will be eating lunch in the
White House on a regular basis.
Abdul|10.16.08 @ 10:39AM|#
If Sen. Obama wins, sounds like he will be eating lunch in
the White House on a regular basis.
Senor Obama, I cannot understand how you allow this Jose the
Plumber to buy a successful busines. If it is a successful
business, it should be owned by the state, no?
Your predecessor, he understood these things much better.
|10.16.08 @ 10:45AM|#
If Sen. Obama wins, sounds like he will be eating lunch in
the White House on a regular basis.
Aw, and carrying out truculent pissing matches, supporting coups,
and blowing off diplomacy have been working so well.
Lefiti|10.16.08 @ 10:49AM|#
"It's funny because it's true!"
You deep thinkers of the libertarian right are not into subtle
distinctions or precise definitions, are you? Fucking morons.
|10.16.08 @ 10:49AM|#
Good point, rhywun; you'd think there would be a little coverage of our neighbors to the North.
|10.16.08 @ 10:51AM|#
Lefiti, I am continuously impressed by your ability to type only with your left hand, even while your right is so busy.
|10.16.08 @ 11:01AM|#
what is chavez going to do when bush leaves
office?
Railing against the Yanquis is the only thing Chavez will have
left.
Why we'd throw a hostile leader who has to face election that
lifeline is beyond me. It's grimly ironic to think that that coup
we backed was supposed to shorter Chavez's time in office.
egosumabbas|10.16.08 @ 11:16AM|#
Wow Chavez merely confirms what I already thought to be
true.
I can't wait to ask Naomi Klein her opinion on that when she comes
to campus next week.
Offtopic: I plan on holding a sign up that says "disaster
socialism" in the audience during her speech.
Reformed Republican|10.16.08 @ 11:56AM|#
If it is a successful business, it should be owned by the
state, no?
In the USA, we prefer to own the unsuccessful ones.
|10.16.08 @ 12:16PM|#
In the USA, we prefer to own the unsuccessful
ones.
Why go to all the trouble of taking a successful business and
running it into the ground, when you can just buy your failures
ready-made?
Dello|10.16.08 @ 12:28PM|#
joe,
"was supposed to shorter Chavez's time in office."
The ink on your keyboard's "n" key is wearing out...
Grandpa Whithers|10.16.08 @ 2:48PM|#
"Offtopic: I plan on holding a sign up that says "disaster
socialism" in the audience during her speech."
Think that'll get you laid, sonny?
zoltan|10.16.08 @ 2:49PM|#
If Sen. Obama wins, sounds like he will be eating lunch in
the White House on a regular basis.
Guy, the fact that you don't include Sen. McCain in this sentence
clearly reveals your partisan hackery. Not that that hasn't
happened before.
Andy|10.16.08 @ 4:02PM|#
Go get her egosumabbas. Although a good intellectual point is much more devastating than a sign, which could get you kicked out. Make it an argument based on reason.
|10.16.08 @ 8:27PM|#
I'm starting to suspect that Bush's own failed companies are tucked away in some Federal inventory sheet.
|10.21.08 @ 4:59PM|#
Wonder how long it takes for Venezuela's economy to crash due to under $80/bbl crude?
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