Name one world leader who has done all of these things in the last 5 years

[Melodybe]

other than Hugo Chavez.

If you don't agree, answer these five questions and tell me what one person has done all those things on a global scale?

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In the last five years...

Who else has stood up and damanded to have the same time as Bush?

Who else has been heroically applauded by the world's diplomats for eviscerating Bush at the UN?

Who else has stood up to the big oil companies and said NO?

Who else has been offering a beautiful and glorious religous voice to the left?

Who else has had the nerve to call Bushco and the United States out for being an empire of terrorism, not back down once?


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Hugo Chavez is the only political leader on Earth to do all those things.

I'm telling you, if you disagree, you just don't know Chavez.




Here is Chavez's recent interview with Ted Koppel

By the way props to Ted Koppel for even doing the interview in the first place. It could have been better but Chavez steals the show anyway.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/International/story?id=1134098&page=4


Chavez:

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated. That is what rebellion is; it's rebellion out of love for human beings. In truth, that is the cause, the cause of love: love for every human being, for every women, for every child, for every man, for every brother.

I believe you to be a brother. I don't see you as above or below. I don't feel superior or inferior to you. We're on an equal basis. Your cameraman, your photograph are equal. The men and women who are seeing you, who are seeing us are equal. They're true brothers.

(snip)

We love the people of the United States, and our desire is to have a world of brothers in peace. God grant that that be the case.



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If you dislike Chavez's references to Christianity, let me ask you, did it both you when Martin Luther King referred to god?

Just asking.


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OR HERE:

Hugo Chavez eviscerates Bush at the UN, gets cheering and applause from all the world diplomats!

It is the best article ever!

I love Hugo Chavez!

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-un-chavez,0,3395650.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines



Enjoy every truthful word!

[populistdriven]

1. Bravo!

:toast:

[Melodybe]

21. Thanks, could ya'll please nominate this thread

I want to get the word out on Chavez, I have a feeling that the media might try to swiftboat him more in the near future.

And I don't think he deserves it.

[True_Blue]

29. Nominated!

Viva Chavez!

[Usrename]

41. Viva Chavez! Viva Citgo!

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

[indepat]

46. Damned radical pinko leftist is almost as radical as the lot of neocon

rightists. But extreme right is a holy virture and extreme left a mortal sin.

[niyad]

2. the abc link doesn't work.

[Melodybe]

7. Sorry, they're both working now.

[populistdriven]

3. I wish we politicians in the US who could speak so honestly

[Melodybe]

13. Why can't they? If everyone knows that the media is nothing but Bushco

PR, why should they worry about it?

I certainly hope that Howard Dean is meeting with Chavez this week, I think that they would get along famously.

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

4. Melody - I heard you on Randi Rhodes the other week. YOU ROCK

She wasn't even aware the Wolf had said ... 'these people are soo poor and sooo black' and YOU told her and then she aired it 100 times after that. You did so aweome on that phone call, I loved it!

[Melodybe]

5. That's awesome, I didn't know that, I'm so proud

I've been working and haven't gotten to listen to Randi much latey.

I love her, thats so cool.

I think that I am going to keep calling her, I have tons to say and maybe this time I won't get so nervous.

Thanks for telling me about it!

BTW Viva Chavez, my hero.

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

12. Oh that is sooooo to bad you didn't get to listen to her after your call .

because she found the soundbite (she said Melody said to look it up so I did) and then she aired it and they were in total disbelief and then she kept airing it and I was so thrilled and proud to be a DU'r cuz you told her about it - she didn't even believe you when you told her. I swear, maybe it's just me and my connection to DU but you changed the show by informing of her of that because you changed her show after that. Maybe you could order a copy or something. You would LOVE how the show changed direction after your call. PS, you were nervous and that was what made it GREAT, and your baby crying made it GREATER. You might not understand that, but it really didd - I would be nervous - hell I'm too chicken to even call but you came off as nervous but totally intellegent and I was just so proud to have ties to DU

[frictionlessO]

49. I cant believe I missed this! What day was it??? Someone please let me

Know! I love it when DU'ers get on our favorite shows...

It sounds like Melody did real good by just being herself. Truth to power can only come from such.

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

51. She also mentioned DUunderground on her phone call. It was AWESOME

[Melodybe]

52. Thanks a lot that makes me feel really good.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

53. I was at my desk, streaming AAR at the time...

saw your thread and started to pay attention to what was being said on the Randi Rhodes show. Although you sounded nervous at the beginning of the call, by the end, you totally rocked! It's great to hear DUers on the radio, and I'm psyched that it was another DUer that informed Randi of what Wolf said! I did a silent cheer at my desk, and then realized that my office door was open...I think I turned it into a "stretch and yawn"...But that call may just have been the highlight of that long day at the office!

:hi:

[Melodybe]

54. Cool

:)

[Occulus]

6. I don't mind at all Chavez casting his message in a religious light.

He's doing it for the right reasons, reasons I think anyone could agree with. And aren't those reasons, taken together, the very same message Christ was trying to send?

* does it for ALL the wrong reasons, none of the right ones, and does so deliberately. There's a special place all his own waiting for him somewhere, and I think we all know it's not the Amway Grand Plaza. Or the Super 8.

[Maple]

8. Hold the hero worship

Chavez looks good right now...but then so have a lot of people, only to be revealed later as tyrants with loaded dungeons, or the equivalent.

Support him, back him....and find out more about him

But don't worship him. We've been down this road too many times before.

[Melodybe]

9. Here's the thing, I am a total classist

I don't really like greedy rich people.

If Chavez is taking care of the poor in his country and ours, he is my hero.

I don't know too many other world leaders who have tried to help our cause.

No body is perfect, even King had his issues.

Right now Chavez is doing and saying every thing that I need in a leader.

Seriously is there anyone else to compare him to in our current political climate?

[Maple]

11. Lots of leaders

have been 'benefactors to the poor'. And monsters.

Yes, the world has many good leaders...without a cheerleading section.

'Greedy rich people'....hmmm. Oxymoron that.

[Melodybe]

14. Well, I have yet to hear anything about Chavez that makes me think he is a

monster.

Here read this article about Chavez from Greg Palast:

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=230&row=2

[Maple]

16. You probably will

Most 'saints' eventually turn out to have feet of clay

[Melodybe]

17. I never said he was a saint, I said that he was a good political leader

and voice for the left.

I'll take his crimes, over the genocide caused by Bushco any day.

[julianer]

32. "Greedy rich people"

Not an oxymoron.

It's a tautology.

[Melodybe]

33. Thank you, they both mean different things so it is not redundant

[populistdriven]

10. Look what msn Encarta has to say about Chavez

totally biased beyond belief

http://tinyurl.com/caxww

[Melodybe]

15. That doesn't say anything

it is just a military picture of Chavez.

Which I actually love, cause unlike Bush, Chavez was a soldier who fought for his country. I can't wait to point that out to the fundie nutbags that want to dog Chavez because Robertson told them too.

[Melodybe]

18. Kcik cause Hugo is the man, and if you don't know it you are missing out.

[populistdriven]

19. i was reading the caption for the next pic

http://encarta.msn.com/media_701621364_761560608_-1_1/Protests_in_Venezuela.html

[Melodybe]

20. That's nothing, that's like ten thousand people

Pro Chavez marches go into the millions.

[Melodybe]

22. kick

[Wilms]

23. Nominated. n/t

[Melodybe]

24. Thanks yo!

[Carolab]

25. Agree and nominated. Viva Hugo! n/t

[newswolf56]

26. Done! (I think mine made it 5 votes.)

And a clinched-fist salute (with a hearty "right on!") to you for assembling this thread.

[Melodybe]

27. Thanks, Hugo deserves it, I think.

It is an honor to talk about him.

I just love him, he's like Che but not as angry.

[alittlelark]

28. Chavez is a true PATRIOT - for all that value human ideals

as opposed to corporate/royalty/ upper class ideals.


I say "Rock On' Chavez!

[Initech]

30. No wonder Pat Robertson wants to kill this guy!

I mean, he stands for everything that Robertson hates! Peace, love... those kinds of things arent Christian! I mean, what would Jesus do?

[Melodybe]

31. I know, I'm telling you I can pick 'um and Hugo is the strongest leader

on the left in the whole world.

I am not kidding, you have no idea how important he is already and how important he will be.

[Melodybe]

34. kick cause I want Hugo to go to the top of the greatest page

cause every word is true.

[snot]

35. To everyone who thinks they don't like Chavez--

I'd just like you to ask yourself, where has your info about him come from?

Seriously.

You need at the minimum to watch "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." These folks were THERE.

[snot]

36. To anyone who thinks they don't like Chavez--

Pls consider, where has your info about him come from?

You need at the minimum to watch "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." These folks were THERE.

[LiberalMandrake]

37. Absolutely. Just one thing: I think that we should avoid ...

I think that we should avoid the term "left".
Today it's globalists vs. patriots.

[Melodybe]

38. Fine with me, Chavez is a true patriot!

[Melodybe]

39. Viva Chavez

[Melodybe]

40. kick cause the sun is coming up and I need sleep

[Melodybe]

42. kick

[Melodybe]

43. kick

[patdem]

44. Nominated and kicked cause I too think Chavez is a GREAT

leader for the poor and downtrodden! Viva Chavez! :kick:

[Podface]

45. UM....

Satan?

Just kidding....

[OxQQme]

48. Plan Balboa ?

Way too many google links to post here. See for yourself.

[CrispyQ]

47. I love this part:

Chavez singled out the United States as the most wasteful country, saying he was shocked when a quarter of all the cars he counted Thursday morning on New York streets had one person in them.

"That's crazy, one person with a huge car ... that is using up gas and polluting the atmosphere," he said at a news conference. "The world cannot tolerate this model of development called the American way of life."

===
"That of which we shall not speak"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/14/fiorepetro.DTL

[Melodybe]

50. kick

[Mr_Spock]

55. That interview was interesting

I think this guy is a problem to Bushco because he is not as selfish and greedy as Bushco would like. I like how he points out what true Christian ideals are and how Jesus was a radical reformer. Hard to believe that the Christo-fascist zombie brigade in our country is so ignorant. Alas.