Is Chavez really as bad as Robertson says he is?

[maveric]

Is the Venezualan economy in the toilet because of him. Are Muslim extremists flocking to the area?
Or did he pull this out of his ass?

[izzie]

1. I do not think Venezuela's president likes Bush. That will do it.

:shrug:

[Bob3]

2. yes right outta his butt along with a very upset hamster

I wouldn't trust Pat Robertson if he told me the sky was blue.

[redqueen]

3. What do you think?

How many times has this guy said something and it WASN'T absolute bullshit?

There ya go...

[comsymp]

4. You even have to ask this?

Let's wait for Gawd to smite all the Sodomites at Disneyworld before we assign Brother Pat any credibility, mm-kay?

[K-W]

5. The muslim thing came out of his ass.

The rest is right wing propaganda.

[Stirk]

6. Please. Venezuela as a breeding ground for Muslim terrorists?

That's such transparent bullshit it makes me laugh. Pat Robertson and his corporate buddies don't like Chavez's domestic policies, which put Venezuela before US corporations. That's why Robertson would like to see him dead.

They've been pushing this "Venezuela = Al Qaeda" thing off and on for a couple of years now. It never gets any traction because it's obvious garbage.

[KarenInMA]

7. Chavez was democratically elected.

he's up for re election next year, and he's leading. He survived a pretty nasty coup, as well as a general strike.

he is most certainly not perfect. He's a marxist. He does NOT like the rumblings he see's from his Neighbors to the North.

Therefore, he should be executed?

[On the Road]

8. Chavez is a Populist

He is using the nation's oil reserves to benefit the common folk rather than enrich the upper classes. And he's done it in America's face using constitutional processes rather than a military coup.

The Venezuelan elite, backed by the US, attempted a coup several years ago and instigated a recall election last year. Neither one was successful. That accounts for a lot of the hostility.

[Dr.Phool]

9. I believe Their economy grew by 14-17% last year

The Administration and oil companies are very pissed off at him because he raised the oil royalties charged for Venezuelan oil, to feed, educate, and give medical care to it's citizens.

[flyarm]

13. AND WHAT DID OUR ECONOMY GROW BY LAST YEAR??

anyone know???

look chavez is making the oil companies texaco et al pay the venezuelan people legitimate salaries..

for 3o yrs at least the top venezuelan leaders pocketed all the texaco money and the people got nothing..slave wages!

oil companies hate chavez because now they have to pay the workers real salaries!

time for a coup doncha think??

or do the venezuelan people deserve to have a real living ??

* and texaco et al think its our oil..since they ran venezuela for so long!! with puppet governments!

[priller]

10. Chavez is a complicated man

Not perfect by any means, but he's doing a hard job under very difficult circumstances, trying to pull his country out of abject poverty. He is a Marxist, he's a buddy with Fidel, that's true, but he also makes the point that capitalism, as it has been practiced in Venezuela, has produced a few very wealthy and a whole lot of very poor, and that has to change.

The main reason the Bushies (and their goose-stepping minions) hate Chavez is because he came up with the radical idea of taxing foreign oil companies to help pay for making the poor better off. Of course the Bushies oppose that.

Unfortunately, the tiny minority of wealthy there own the communications apparatus, so you hear a torrent of negative misinformation coming out of there, which the Bushies are all to happy to repeat.

[Beaver Tail]

11. I am just wondering how Chavez

would turn Venezuela, Roman Catholic is by far the dominant religion, into a Muslim Extremist state

[htuttle]

12. Why the FUCK would you listen to the likes of Pat Robertson?

Robertson made it all up, like he makes everything up...

"Oh, I'm getting a Word of Truth....Somebody in Lower Bumfuck, Arkansas is getting their arthritis healed...."

Give me a fucking break!

[flyarm]

15. because he is a legitimate leader of the republican party!

he must be exposed for what he is and what kind of a fucking ass he and the republican religous faction is in the republican party..a murderer!!

[Imagevision]

14. NO, it boild dow n to it's about the oil production coming to the US.

[BurtWorm]

16. Can you really trust the word of a grown man who uses the word "homo"?

As Robertson was caught on live network feed from the Larry King show doing? As seen in the video "Spin?"

May seem like I'm committing the genetic fallacy, but Robertson IS genetically fallacious.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Bush has been trying to oust Chavez from day one. Money

has been used from our government to upseat him.

Greg Palast has done a great deal of writing on this.

In fact, he has a new article today!

http://gregpalast.com/