We may be done after one term, but a second will certainly be the death of America.

Vote America, before it is too late to end peacefully.

How do we know they voted for this clown?

MarkTheGreat on July 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM

Didn’t you hear? Democratic ex-president Jimmah Carter certified the election.

The Venezuelans voted for this clown.

This is what they obviously wnated; they deserve what’s coming to them.

rickyricardo on July 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM

I’m sure this was tongue and cheek. Substitute “Americans” for “Venezuelans.” God save us from ourselves or at least our fellow citizens or at least those who voted or were supposed to have voted (read ACORN)! Suspect it wasn’t much different in Venezuela.

Soon Obama will have to follow Chavez’s playbook by kidnapping Republicans to get his bills past.

Might not be far from the truth, but it is far easier to get Acorn to his dirty work to make the numbers happen along with political assasinations of republicans running against democrates or democrates against democrates that did not tow the line, as they did with Liberman.

The Venezuelans voted for this clown.

This is what they obviously wnated; they deserve what’s coming to them.

rickyricardo on July 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM

How do we know they voted for this clown?

In Zelaya’s offices they found a computer with the official results of the referendum he wanted to hold in it. A referendum that had not been held. Remember, Zelaya is a Chavez protege.

LevStrauss on July 21, 2009 at 11:19 AM

If I only got my info from disingenuous dopes like the above, I would think that the USA is the worst place in the world. In reality everyone’s breaking down the doors to get here. This levi strauss guy should go live in Venezuela in a luxuriant house and let his children play around unguarded. He should also be limited to that greatest health care system in the world over there in Cuba.

The governor of Barinas, Adán Chávez, the president’s eldest brother and a former ambassador to Cuba, said this month that many of the kidnappings might have been a result of destabilization efforts by the opposition or so-called self-kidnappings

Damn, I thought it was the CIA.

This is what they obviously wnated; they deserve what’s coming to them.

No–only of helping himself. Certainly not one of helping the American people.

It never ceases to amaze me, the number of mental hoops those on the left are willing to invent, then jump through, in order to protect those they idolize.

You spelled “Barack Obama” wrong.

Daggett on July 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Obama does not have a history of helping his relatives.

Just ask his half brother who still lives in a shack.

What is that definition of insanity again?

LevStrauss on July 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Fair point. But, based on nothing other than my own baises and what little information I have, it seems that kidnapping is more likely to a lucrative process in places where economically depressed people are denied the ability to make money in an entrepenurial fashion. In fact, it seems that in places like Venezula, the only way to make money is extra-legal.

If there was a serious kidnapping for profit problem in the US (outside of drug cartel kidnappings) I suppose it would have worked its way into some media I access.

It seems pretty plausible that kidnapping for profit makes up the majority of cases in the linked story. It does not seem plausible to that is the case in America.

And, to my first point, “involuntarily missing” does not equal kidnapped, as far as I can determine.

If you have more information, I’d happily revise my thoughts on this :P

Don’t forget the Iranians. They’ve been heavily involved there the last few years. Just a few months ago, they held a joint naval exercise with the Russians. (while Barack Ogabe did some navel gazing)

Happiness is a warm gun mamma,

Americans bought enough guns in 3 months to outfit the entire Indian and Chinese Army I love this country.

Dr Evil on July 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM

I went playing with mine just a couple of days ago…the gf went too. She’s rather enamored of it… Gorgeous lady, cooks great, has more tools than I do (and can use them!), and loves guns…I’m a lucky guy!

“The governor of Barinas, Adán Chávez, the president’s eldest brother and a former ambassador to Cuba, said this month that many of the kidnappings might have been a result of destabilization efforts by the opposition or so-called self-kidnappings: orchestrated abductions to reveal weaknesses among security forces, or to extort money from one’s own family.”

With respect, LevStrauss, these lame excuses by Adan Chavez give the game away. It is obvious that the kidnappings are a serious problem because the governor has to make up silly lies to explain them away. No such thing occurs in the US; the two countries are simply not comparable with respect to the problem of kidnapping.

For a socialist, Chavez has a taste for nepotism

For a socialist??? hell this is the nature of socialism! Just exchange family for ruling class.

Kidnapping doesn’t just mean for ransom in most cases, just because those are the only examples in the story, it doesn’t mean that is the only type of kidnapping in Venezuala. Custody disputes could happen in Venezuala as well. If someone who knows Spanish could click the kidnapping link in the NYTimes article and see exactly what they mean by kidnapping that would clear it up more.

Sincerely,

Sean Penn, Danny Glover, and Harry Belafonte.