While it may be annoying, Chavez endorsing a candidate isn’t exactly “interfering” in our election.

I think it is, and Cheney, Krauthammer, and Morrissey agree with me, because that is the thing they were talking about as well. So we disagree with you. Fine.

Libertyordeath:

he’s probably what I’d call a “lifer.”

I am a pharmaceutical research chemist and have been out of school for 25 years.

any opinions or thoughts that differ or interfere with their liberal utopia!

Ironic that you say this to me. I read books and papers written by conservatives all the time, probably more than you do. I also consistently read and post on conservative blogs, exposing myself to other views. I never read leftist blogs. So tell me, how often do you read books and papers written by those on the left? Who here is projecting?

for John McCain: Hugo Chavez wants anybody but McCain in the White House.

Trust me, you fat paratrooper. You would much prefer McCain as POTUS than me ……

Liberty or Death on March 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM

By the way; great name.

Johan Klaus on March 26, 2008 at 7:02 PM

Thanks John *siff-sniff* you’re the first HA blogger to say so..*sniff-sniff*

Let me guess; he is probably a liberal university student or a faculty member.

Johan Klaus on March 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM

Heh, with my experiences dealing with universities he’s probably what I’d call a “lifer.” A lifer is someone that goes to a university, gets a degree, then gets a job at the university, and never leaves because they can’t make it outside of the liberal bastions of university life.

In other words university lifers can’t deal with the reality of the real world so they become institutionalized into the liberal university utopia where everything is rose colored except for the “green meanies” (all those outside the university) that have any opinions or thoughts that differ or interfere with their liberal utopia!

By the way; great name.

Let me guess; he is probably a liberal university student or a faculty member.

dave742 on March 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM

Sounds to me like someone has a man-crush for Sean Penn and Heir Chavez!

As opposed to Muslem or communist Puppets?

Did you really mean that, or was it just a Freudian slip?

Cheesestick:

You are totally twisting what MannyT said.

How? I quoted exactly what he said to me. Which is:

I see it as saying that Chavez has a “right” to “express his opinion all he wants,” the opinion in question being who he thinks the US president should be. Cheney, Krauthammer, and Morrissey have said that foreign leaders should stay out of our elections. I agree with them, and not with MannyT. Please tell me how I misinterpreted what MannyT said.
dave742 on March 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM

While it may be annoying, Chavez endorsing a candidate isn’t exactly “interfering” in our election. He has the “right” to say whatever he wants as long as no one is going to go there & tape his mouth shut. Do you want Bush to go tape his mouth shut? No? Then you agree with MannyT that he can express his opinion all you want.

The hypocrisy of the right knows no bounds.
It is impossible for someone on the right to construct a worldview based on general moral principals,

I do not understand how someone can live a life this way.

Probably because we are “Israeli puppets”?

Shutup!

“Barack Obama, endorsed by Hugo Chavez.”

rbj on March 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM

More like Barack Hussein Obama: Endorsed by Hugo Chavez, Louis Farrakhan, The Black Panthers, Nation of Islam,Osama Bin Laden, the Mahdi Army, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Elijah Mohammed’s son Jabir Mohammed, Imam Jeremiah Wright, Muammar Qaddafi, Raila Odinga, Adam Gadahn, Ayman Zawahiri, Michelle Obama etc. etc. etc.

With friends like these you can’t lose!

The only question is..which one will he pick as his VP nominee?

My money is on Louis Farrakhan.

It is impossible for someone on the right to construct a worldview based on general moral principals, and then to judge all nations and people with the same yardstick. Instead, your worldview is based on the idea that everything the US does is right, and everything that anyone else does that gets in the way, even if morally justified, is wrong. I do not understand how someone can live a life this way.

Some wacko leader expressing his opinion on who he would rather have as president is not interfering in a countries elections. Foreign Influence is China sneaking all sorts of “campaign contributions” to the Clinton campaign. And if we ever have a dictator running this country, I will gladly accept other countries help in overthrowing him/her in our coup. Your basing the worldview on the “influence” yardstick, not the oppressor yardstick.

You are totally twisting what MannyT said.

How? I quoted exactly what he said to me. Which is:

He can express his opinion all he wants. I’m not sure who is disagreeing with his right to do that.

When I read this, I see it as saying that Chavez has a “right” to “express his opinion all he wants,” the opinion in question being who he thinks the US president should be. Cheney, Krauthammer, and Morrissey have said that foreign leaders should stay out of our elections. I agree with them, and not with MannyT. Please tell me how I misinterpreted what MannyT said.

The way I read the rest of the posts on this thread, I see nothing but support for the idea of a foreign leader expressing his opinion on a US election. Most seem very happy about it. Of course, I realize that all opinions, morals, values, and beliefs of those on the right are situational, and not based on principal. It is OK for Chavez interfere in a US election by saying something negative about McCain, because you feel that will help him. If you don’t like the implications of a different situation where a foreign leader interferes in a US election, you will then oppose it, like Cheney or Krauthammer. Cheney will oppose foreign “influence” on a US election, but then support a coup attempt on a foreign leader. The hypocrisy of the right knows no bounds.
It is impossible for someone on the right to construct a worldview based on general moral principals, and then to judge all nations and people with the same yardstick. Instead, your worldview is based on the idea that everything the US does is right, and everything that anyone else does that gets in the way, even if morally justified, is wrong. I do not understand how someone can live a life this way.

Did Hugo eat eggs again?

p40tiger on March 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM

I didn’t cater his meal :-)

So you’re saying that the people on this thread think Chavez has the “right” to give his opinion on who should be US president? People on this thread disagree with Cheney and Krauthammer? What kind of conservatives are you people?

dave742 on March 26, 2008 at 11:01 AM

You are totally twisting what MannyT said. And now you are using Cheney & Krauthammer (the “Israeli puppets” I believe you were referring to in your second post) to justify your false argument?

Barak Obama has all the dictator/Islamofascist/Communist/America hating “rage against my trust fund” tranzi idjit endorsements. They all are getting wood at the mere thought of having an Islamofascist loving, AmeriKKK hatiing Communist iin the White House.

“We have a long tradition of demanding outside governments stay out of our elections”

He can express his opinion all he wants. I’m not sure who is disagreeing with his right to do that.

Charles Krauthammer agrees with me as well, and said this:

“when yet another insufferable penseur — first Chirac, then de Villepin, now the editor of Le Monde — starts lecturing Americans on how they ought to conduct themselves in the world, the rules of decorum are suspended.”

So you’re saying that the people on this thread think Chavez has the “right” to give his opinion on who should be US president? People on this thread disagree with Cheney and Krauthammer? What kind of conservatives are you people?