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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Hillary and Hugo

The Wall Street Journal CAPITAL JOURNAL By GERALD F. SEIB Clinton, Obama and a Difference That Matters February 26, 2008; Page A2
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120399018818292447.html
We quote:  
In a major speech yesterday at George Washington University, Sen. Clinton drove the wedge deeper: "If I am entrusted with the presidency, America will have the courage, once again, to meet with our adversaries. But I will not be penciling in the leaders of Iran or North Korea or Venezuela or Cuba on the presidential calendar without preconditions; until we have assessed, through lower-level diplomacy, the motivations and intentions of these dictators."

The only problem I have with an ID card with a photo of Hugo Chavez and where it says "Occupation? : Dictator" is that he was elected a couple of times by the voters of Venezuela in elections that were characterized as open and fair by all international observers. What does one make of that?
He also survived an attempted coup which was notoriously and unabashedly backed by the USA. Recently, he has shut down a TV station. However, this TV station was openly supportive of the coup attempt, rather as if CBS were to come out and call for the military to overthrow George Bush. I think the FCC might take a few steps to correct that.
This shows me that I have not grasped the NeoCon ( yes....Hillary thinks like a NeoCon...it's all about Power.) daffy-nition of Democracy. Nor the Mad-libs definition, too. The same thing happened when the incalcitrant Palestinians had the nerve to elect Hamas. Damn fools!

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