At least Obama didn’t hand this clown a popularity boost and then excuse his public attack on American-led globalization as “a nice gesture.” Think how awkward that would be right now! The last time this particular phrase got dropped,……

Most people don’t read history, so they have in fact no clue what crimes were committed during wars, and therefore also misinterpret the world political threats of today. But what happens when people find out evil totalitarian leaders have soft sides …

Spicoli: Hugo Chavez is a “warm and friendly man”

Sean, We’re not interested in your love life.

I do not have a right to punch him in the face, even though I really, really want to.

yubley on April 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM

Au contraire, you can punch him in the face…but there will be consequences for your actions. Freedom is wonderful, isn’t it?

Sean,

Stick to acting.
Just because your father, Leo Penn, was implicated during the McCathey era does not mean you have a right to say really stupid statements

SmallGovtGuy on April 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM

Actually, he does have a right to say whatever he wants. I do not have a right to punch him in the face, even though I really, really want to.

Mass murders, every one of them.

Badger40 on April 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM

By that, of course, I mean the latter bunch.

Stick to acting.
Just because your father, Leo Penn, was implicated during the McCathey era does not mean you have a right to say really stupid statements

Too stupid to pour pi$$ out of a boot with insructions on the heel.

…and left wounds in the hands of our children’s future.

We’ve given our children’s future the stigmata!

I know President Chavez well.

In the authoritarian-dictator-loving community of Hollyweird, that’s a huge feather in your cap Spicoli. To the rest of the world, that’s beyond creepy. How many people are proud to be friends with the most loathed people of the world?

Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor

Oh. You’ll forgive his seizing of property from his people, imprisonment of political opponents, throwing of national elections, and other tasty human rights violations because he treated you well and was charming. And yet, you despise the past PotUS for doing….what again?

“…(who daily risks his own life for his country in ways Dick Cheney could never imagine)…”

Yes, isn’t it obvious that Cheney isn’t a dictator that is so despised by his people that his life is endangered? I guess Chavez is brave because he faces constant threats to his life from others either trying to seize power from him or individuals that are finally fed up with Chavez’s dictatorship. We should all glorify the great bravery of Hitler (who survived several assassination attempts apparently), Stalin (and all of the other USSR leaders), Mao and every other dictator that had to **KILL** all of their family members and political opponents in order to remain in power…how noble and endearing that they are soooooo brave.

To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we’ve done enough of that.

Spit on him you say? Oh, you mean that we’ve been mean enough to him…I was just thinking that you libtards have not yet had your fill of spitting on President Bush and VP Cheney (as evidenced by your above comment). Bush receives the worst vitriol from his own countrymen, but when Chavez gets unfavorable treatment because of his obvious hate for America and his treatment of his country, he’s defended by the morons in Hollyweird. What does that say about a man who visits the lands of the most vile dictators on earth, the ones that imprison and kill their own people, wipe out any political opposition, and commit the worst atrocities and supports them but constantly berates and demeans the leaders of their own country whom hand over power after their term? You sir, are the worst type of sycophant imaginable. You would be the type of person that would disregard the fact that Stalin, Mao, or Hitler had slaughtered MILLLIONS of humans because their ideology more closely matches your’s than your President’s, even though the PotUS abides by the rules of the Constitution and protects the citizens and at the end of their term, freely hands over power to the next duly elected person. I do not think that there is a word in the English language that is terrible enough to accurately describe you. Are you so loathsome that you would rather honor the worst of humanity than to side with a lawful leader with differing political views?!?

Say what you will, but it has only resulted in the self-celebration of our smirking spitters, while costing us international respect, American lives, and left wounds in the hands of our children’s future.

International respect?!?! Nobody respects YOU for being a weak piece of human garbage. If American lives are endangered by our chastising of Chavez, then should we be appeasers? That always works out well, “Don’t make them angry, they’ll kill more of us” … why don’t we instead kill the murderous trash that would attack us? And what the hell does this sentence even mean, “…left wounds in the hands of our children’s future…”? Our children’s future has hands…with wounds in them? WTH does that even mean?!? Moron.

The Cheneys, down to the O’Reillys and Hannitys and Limbaughs, effectively hate the principles upon which we were founded.

That’s right, classify and separate…”us” vs. “them”. Typical tactic. Oh yeah, and they hate the principles upon which the US (I’m assuming when you say “we” that you meant the USA) were founded. You big dummy, you don’t even KNOW a Gd thing about the founding principles…otherwise you’d never even give that piece of trash Chavez (or Saddam, or Castro, et al) a moment of peace, you’d be harping on them from morning ’til night. God, what a stupid piece of work you are. Chavez embodies the US Constitution and the ideas of natural human rights while haters like Limbaugh, Hannity and Cheney are the worst? How can someone be so delusional as to have everything so bass-ackwards? Not only are you an idiot, but you’re quite insane apparently. Can you logically put together a rational argument for our founding principles (as if you had any principles, let alone an idea of what our founding principles are) based upon the actions of Chavez? Its really quite amazing to witness someone with such a perverse and skewed view on the world get a platform from which to espouse their nonsense. Its like giving credence to white supremists that are Holocaust deniers (have you visited Tehran and found Ahmadinnerjacket a warm and fuzzy guy too?) and claiming that the US is bad for stopping what the Germans were doing during WW2…really, really warped.

They are among the greatest cowards in all of American history.

Really? Did you include yourself in that polling, or don’t you consider yourself an American?

I applaud an American President who’s tough enough … to smile.

I think you mean someone who is either a spineless PoS too scared to stand up to dictators and decry their awful treatment of their people or you mean that Obama is more closely in agreement with the Socialist authoritarians than he is with our form of government? I guess I was expecting Obama to stand up for America because he is our leader, but apparently America is the worst country in the world and these other leaders (Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, etc.) are to be admired and followed? Oh, that’s right, I forgot that you loony libs in Hollyweird hate everything American. We’re the worst country in the world, no one is more evil and hated than us and we conservatives in the US spend every waking moment plotting how to kill everyone else in the world who isn’t white…but, don’t pay any attention to the history and facts that prove you wrong…we wouldn’t want you to have an aneurysm when your two synapses fire by having a single thought pass through your head. Let’s all just ignore that when a dictator like Chavez comes to power, he ruins millions of peoples’ lives in his own country. Just ignore the fact that when given the opportunity that dictator will try to spread his power and the human misery to surrounding areas (hundreds of examples there Mr. Moron). Just ignore all of that because you want to keep your head buried so far up your ass that you can’t see the pain and misery that these goons spread all of the world if you give them the chance. Human history is filled with their kind, but it wasn’t until the US came along that a counter was found for their tyranny. But, you would have the rest of us ignore the tyranny and blame instead the liberty and freedom loving nation that would love to see the ruination of tyranny across the world.

You don’t have to be strong to face an evil person and smile. That’s what cowards do. It takes strength to face a terrible person and proclaim them to be terrible. Like most things in your life, you have it exactly backwards.

They are about to regret their decision not to have left long ago, because President Obama is working hard on making U.S. to become a ‘Third World’ country, making Afghanistan look like paradise.

I applaud an American President who’s tough enough … to smile.

Spicoli

No, you don’t, you little fem liar. Bush smiled and played nice with people that his opposition liked and his own party distrusted, people that everyone hates including himself, and all across the spectrum.

I have never heard your douche ass applaud Bush for that.

Why doesnt he move to Venezuela??