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Jimmy Carter Opens His Dumb Mouth Again
Not satisfied with accusing everyone who disagrees with President Obama of being racist, the idiot from Plains spoke out yet again — this time from Columbia.
Carter told a Columbian newspaper that he believed the Bush administration was behind the coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002 in Venezuela.
“I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved.”
As usual, Jimmy offered no proof or supporting evidence of his latest charges. This from easily our worst president ever or certainly of the 20th century.
Video: Hugo Chavez And Oliver Stone Bring Marxism To Venice
I don’t know what it is about Marxist dictatorships that liberals love so much. Well, I guess I do, but it’s nevertheless disturbing. How ironic is it that useful idiots like Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn support a dictator who suppresses free speech and the media?
The useful idiots would not have the freedom to make their movies if they were citizens of Venezuela. Sean Penn would not have been able to make “Milk” because Chavez doesn’t like gays and often torments them.
Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn are certainly free to pal around with America’s enemies, but they should not be allowed to come back. Americans who choose to become propaganda for our enemies should lose their citizenship.
Oliver Stone premiered his new pro-Chavez movie South of the Border in Venice and had as his guest of honor — Hugo Chavez.
Here’s a cringe-worthy clip of the sordid affair:
It’s all about the red tie.
Obama Stands With Dictators Instead Of Democracy In Honduras
For a guy who loves to brag about “restoring the rule of law” from an allegedly lawless Bush administration, president Obama has done the very opposite by meddling in the political affairs of Honduras.
The president refused to “meddle” when Iranians were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran. The murderous Mullahs of the Islamo-Nazi regime in Iran were allowed to suppress demonstrators and steal an election while president Obama said nothing.
I actually thought in the beginning his measured approach to the protests was probably the right thing to do, but I think he should have become more forceful sooner. However, his Iranian response is certainly a matter for debate and many opposing views on the subject have merit.
Obama’s response to Honduras is a different matter. There is only one side to this issue and the president is clearly on the wrong side.
Unlike with Iran, it only took hours for Obama to take to the airwaves and condemn the ouster of would-be Honduran dictator Manuel Zelaya. He called the ouster “illegal” and demanded that Zelaya be put back in power.
Here’s why he was removed and why it was actually the most beautiful display of democracy ever seen in that part of the world:
President Zelaya is an ally of Hugo Chavez. Zelaya borrowed a page from the Chavez playbook in Venezuela by ordering a referendum on removing presidential term limits.
The Supreme Court of Honduras ruled the referendum unconstitutional and it was opposed by the congress and many in Zelaya’s own party. The Supreme Court said it’s flat out unconstitutional to hold such a referendum.
Zelaya didn’t give a damn what the Supreme Court said and ordered the referendum to be held anyway.
The high court then ordered the military and police not to participate in the referendum since it’s illegal. Zelaya then fired the top military chief and the defense minister when they refused to participate.
The Supreme Court reinstated both men and Zelaya promptly fired them a second time. He vowed to press on with his referendum and hold a vote Sunday.
On Sunday, just before dawn the situation came to a head. After the congress voted unanimously to remove Zelaya for “repeated violations of the constitution and the law” — the military was ordered to remove him.
He was seized from his bed with his family and placed on a plane to Costa Rica still wearing his pajamas.
The military could have taken over as they often do in that part of the world, but they did not. Immediately, the member of congress next in line to the president was sworn in. He will remain president until the next election in November.
The military removed the president in a manner consistent with Honduran law and democratic principles.
Not only is Zelaya a Marxist Chavez stooge, he’s also actively involved in trafficking cocaine to the United States.
So it’s absolutely stunning that president Obama continues to demand that Honduras reinstall a thug like Zelaya.
Is Honduras not allowed to protect their constitution? Should they just go along with Zelaya’s plan to make Honduras into another Commie dictatorship like Venezuela?
This story is not even close to being over and I think Obama will ultimately pay a heavy political price for siding with Chavez, Castro, Ortega, and the UN instead of with democracy.
I guess Obama’s reaction to this shouldn’t come as a surprise. He’s spent his entire political career breaking bread with people who think Castro is a hero.
Obama and his friends share a common ideology with leftist dictators and always have, I just didn’t expect his support for them to be so brazen.
It’s worth noting that Zelaya told the UN today that he will no longer attempt a referendum on term limits if he can come back to power.
Kudos to the Honduran government for not allowing their democracy to be turned into a dictatorship.
-Chris Jones
Obama Shakes Hands With Chavez
President Obama and Dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez shook hands today at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.
Chavez Calls The Killing Of FARC Rebels By Columbia A ‘War Crime’
It looks like Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is off his meds again, because he’s talking crazy. Columbia was finally fortunate enough to kill some of the vicious FARC terrorists that they’ve been battling for years and Hugo Chavez thinks it was a “war crime.”
Although new information that Columbia has made public in the last couple of days may help to explain the bizarre reaction of Venezuela’s tyrant. Columbian authorities are claiming that a laptop plucked from the remains of one of the dead terrorists shows that Hugo Chavez has been a FARC “sugar daddy” for quite some time now.
The documents on the laptop reveal that Chavez has been a financial backer of the group for more than a decade, and at one point gave FARC a $300 million dollar gift. The documents also reveal an ongoing plan cooked up by Chavez and the leaders of the terror group to isolate and undermine Columbia’s President and U.S. ally, Alvaro Uribe.
President Uribe is the first leader of Columbia in decades that’s not up to his eyeballs in corruption and is actually angry that Columbia has the highest kidnapping rate in the world. With the help of the U.S., Uribe is hoping to wipe out FARC once and for all.
The recovered laptop reveals detailed communications between FARC leaders and Chavez, in which multiple scenarios are laid out to hopefully get rid of President Uribe.
Hopefully, someone will have Hugo Chavez killed so that we can be rid of this petty dictator. If he’s allowed to live he will destroy Venezuela and live to a ripe old age just like his best friend Fidel Castro.
-Chris Jones
Columbia Says Chavez Is Funding FARC Rebels
From the AP:
Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle—expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border.
But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the leftist rebels’ deadly insurgency.
And in a tit-for-tat move, Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia’s national police chief in the cocaine trade….READ THE REST
Chavez Threatens To Cut Off Oil To U.S.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an “economic war” if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
Exxon Mobil has gone after the assets of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA in U.S., British and Dutch courts as it challenges the nationalization of a multibillion dollar oil project by Chavez’s government.
A British court has issued an injunction “freezing” as much as $12 billion in assets.
It’s likely that the Bush administration will call his bluff, because the Venezuela’s oil only accounts for around 12% of U.S. oil imports, but U.S. is Venezuela’s biggest customer by far. The only thing that keeps the Chavez dictatorship going are the countries oil exports.
It would be financial suicide for Chavez to cutoff his biggest customer, so this sounds like nothing more than the usual reckless, empty rhetoric we usually here from this guy.
-Chris Jones
Naomi Campbell Calls Hugo Chavez a “Rebel Angel”
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has interviewed Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, describing him as a “rebel angel” who is unafraid to speak his mind but poses no threat to democracy.
Campbell was granted an audience with the outspoken left-wing leader as part of her new brief as contributing editor for British men’s lifestyle magazine GQ, interviewing leading figures from politics, sport and entertainment.
“I’d always heard Hugo Chavez was a people’s president and I wanted to see if that was true… I didn’t want to judge Chavez, or probe him for his political views, even though he gave them freely,” she wrote.
She said the Venezuelan people also seemed happier than her last visit 10 years ago for a Sports Illustrated magazine photo shoot.
The outspoken Chavez gave his views on a politics, human rights, as well as pop music, fashion, and the British royal family.
He said Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the most stylish leader in the world.
“His uniform is impeccable. His boots are polished. His beard is elegant”
For some reason celebrities have this obsession with visiting Hugo Chavez. I suspect Chavez didn’t realize he was being interviewed by the world’s most dangerous supermodel.
If he had been made aware of her tendency to use her cell phone as a deadly weapon, he probably would have thought the interview request was another attempt by the CIA to supposedly kill him.
I especially like the part about Fidel Castro being the most fashionable leader. I would call that scraggly beard he wears many things, but “elegant” is certainly not one of them.
-Chris Jones
Former Chavez Defense Minister Writes Op-Ed in NY Times
One of Hugo Chavez’s closest aids recently quit his post as Defense Minister and has become an outspoken critic of Chavez and his policies. He has written an interesting Op-Ed in the NY Times, called “Why I Parted Ways With Chavez.”
ON Dec. 17, 1982, three of my fellow officers in the Venezuelan Army and I swore our allegiance to the Bolivarian Revolutionary Army 2000. We considered ourselves to be at the birth of a movement that would turn a critical eye on Venezuela’s troubled social and political system — and formulate proposals to improve it. One of the officers with me was Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela, whom I have known since I entered the military academy 35 years ago.
Hugo Chávez and I worked together for many years. I supported him through thick and thin, serving as his defense minister. But now, having recently retired, I find myself with the moral and ethical obligation as a citizen to express my opposition to the changes to the Constitution that President Chávez and the National Assembly have presented for approval by the voters tomorrow.
The proposal, which would abolish presidential term limits and expand presidential powers, is nothing less than an attempt to establish a socialist state in Venezuela. As our Catholic bishops have already made clear, a socialist state is contrary to the beliefs of Simón Bolívar, the South American liberation hero, and it is also contrary to human nature and the Christian view of society, because it grants the state absolute control over the people it governs.
Click HERE if you want to read the rest.
Chavez Loses Vote 51-49
President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
Chavez told reporters at the presidential palace that the outcome of Sunday’s balloting had taught him that “Venezuelan democracy is maturing.” His respect for the verdict, he asserted, proves he is a true democratic leader.
“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.
The defeated reform package would have created new types of communal property, let Chavez handpick local leaders under a redrawn political map and suspended civil liberties during extended states of emergency. Without the overhaul, Chavez will be barred from running again in 2012.
“This reform was about democracy or totalitarian socialism, and democracy won,” said opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said.
Chavez Vote To Close To Call
From VOA News:
Hours after polls closed in Venezuela’s constitutional referendum Sunday, both the government and its opponents say the vote is too close to call.
No official results have been released on the fate of the constitutional changes sought by President Hugo Chavez.
Late Sunday, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez said election workers were still counting ballots five hours after voting was to have ended.
No Mas Chavez?
President Hugo Chavez would take on expanded powers and have a shot at being president for life under constitutional changes being considered by Venezuelans Sunday in a vote that raised tensions in South America’s top oil exporter.
Chavez maintains that in order to turn Venezuela into a socialist state he needs indefinite rule. One can only hope that Venezuelans will take a look at Cuba before they decide that’s the really the direction they want to go.
The reforms would also grant Chavez control over the Central Bank, allow his government to detain citizens without charge during a state of emergency, and empower him to redraw the country’s political map and handpick provincial and municipal leaders.
However, I have a feeling that Chavez is going to rule Venezuela for as long as he wants to regardless of the outcome of today’s vote. Whether or not the outcome of the vote will be fair or honest is debatable, but one thing seems to be clear.
No matter how many times socialism proves to be a disaster, countries in Latin America always get suckered into another socialist revolution by another charismatic dictator.
Chavez has warned opponents he will not tolerate attempts to stir up violence, and threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. if Washington interferes. His country is a major supplier to the United States, which in turn is the No. 1 buyer of Venezuelan oil.
Considering that the only thing keeping Chavez in power is the money from oil exports, it’s laughable to think he would refuse to sell to his biggest buyer.
Pollster Luis Vicente Leon said tracking polls by his firm Datanalisis in the past week show the vote is too close to predict. Which side wins will depend largely on turnout among Chavez’s supporters and opponents.
About 100 electoral observers from 39 countries in Latin America, Europe and the United States were are on hand, plus hundreds of Venezuelan observers.
-Chris Jones
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