The Devil's in the ......United Nations?
Venezualan President Hugo Chavez's hyperbole-laden rant at the United Nations Assembly yesterday, in which he referred to President Bush as "the devil", was a carefully planned political ploy as much as it was utterly ridiculous.
Chavez, who is in the heat of lobbying for a position for Venezuala in the rotating seat on the UN Security Counsel, used his opportunity on the world stage to state that the U.S. President needed psychiatric help, even going so far as to say that the spot where he was standing "smells like sulfur still." Interestingly, Chavez's speech was greeted by giggles and tepid applause.
Now, there are quite a few legitimate criticisms you can lob against our President. For one, he's not that intelligent. A good man, maybe even a good leader, perhaps, but really not all that smart. And he can't speak in public worth a lick. It's often embarassing to listen to the guy trying to say the word on the tip of his tongue that he just can't get out right. Subliminable. Strategery. "Fool me once, shame on you......fool me twice......well, you shouldn't fool me."
You know what I mean.
But the devil? The devil?
I didn't vote for the guy. I can't stand most of his political views, and it is true that his World View is, in fact, turning much of the world against us. Thankfully, one of the beautiful aspects of our democratic system of government is that the pendulum can swing to the other side, and our country can do an about-face from Bush's ill-conceived international politics.
The thing is, we're all Americans. So when Chavez gets up and calls my President the devil, I have to object to that. And not just because the devil is much, much smarter than George Bush.
The President, as misguided and uninformed as he may be, is not evil. Evil is genocide. Evil is blind hatred. Evil is murder of your political adversaries.
Ok, so Chavez was simply exercising his right to free speech, which is ironic because his subjects can't do the same in his own country. Fine, I understand that.
Just don't expect me to be very sympathetic to Chavez if our President decides that Venezuala is the next country he wants to conquer.
Chavez, who is in the heat of lobbying for a position for Venezuala in the rotating seat on the UN Security Counsel, used his opportunity on the world stage to state that the U.S. President needed psychiatric help, even going so far as to say that the spot where he was standing "smells like sulfur still." Interestingly, Chavez's speech was greeted by giggles and tepid applause.
Now, there are quite a few legitimate criticisms you can lob against our President. For one, he's not that intelligent. A good man, maybe even a good leader, perhaps, but really not all that smart. And he can't speak in public worth a lick. It's often embarassing to listen to the guy trying to say the word on the tip of his tongue that he just can't get out right. Subliminable. Strategery. "Fool me once, shame on you......fool me twice......well, you shouldn't fool me."
You know what I mean.
But the devil? The devil?
I didn't vote for the guy. I can't stand most of his political views, and it is true that his World View is, in fact, turning much of the world against us. Thankfully, one of the beautiful aspects of our democratic system of government is that the pendulum can swing to the other side, and our country can do an about-face from Bush's ill-conceived international politics.
The thing is, we're all Americans. So when Chavez gets up and calls my President the devil, I have to object to that. And not just because the devil is much, much smarter than George Bush.
The President, as misguided and uninformed as he may be, is not evil. Evil is genocide. Evil is blind hatred. Evil is murder of your political adversaries.
Ok, so Chavez was simply exercising his right to free speech, which is ironic because his subjects can't do the same in his own country. Fine, I understand that.
Just don't expect me to be very sympathetic to Chavez if our President decides that Venezuala is the next country he wants to conquer.
posted by chrismanganello at 7:41 PM
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