Hugo Chaves LOOSES!!! Freedom is SAVED!!!!

[devilgrrl]

I feel safer already!

[glowing]

1. I hope he's gearing up someone to take his place.. I would hate a

US CIA prop up man to come in behind Chavez and ruin the many services he's gained for the people.

[MADem]

3. He has until 2012 to find a successor. Maybe now's the time to start grooming one. NT

[provis99]

4. oh, good grief

You know what the anti-Chavez crowd at DU will say now. He loses, so me must be plotting to have a crony take over after 2012! Dictatorship by proxy! Just wait, its coming...

[glowing]

6. I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to be progressive..

Chavez is a bit of a rough-neck, rumbling bear... but I think he's doing some good things for the country... not all things... but I think better than Bush has done for us... and I really enjoy, no matter what the motive, someone sticking it corporate asshats and someone who calls our President the devil.. At the end of the day it is not our country.. The people decided. I think the fair assesment is that they don't want a propped up demcoracy with a never ending Presidency... but they like the direction that the country is moving. It was a very close vote.

[Guaranteed]

2. Look, they didn't want to give him that much power.

He just needs to take it a little easier.

Settle down a bit. You've been all sarcastic like this for days.

[LittleClarkie]

5. Doesn't exactly promote civil discussion, does it.

It also repels those who might have been uninformed but sympathetic.

[dkf]

7. He was starting to look scary to me.

Too dictatorish for my liking. I used to like what he believed in but his latest moves are very undemocratic.

[Djinn]

9. as per the Vz constitution,

going to the people for a general vote on any proposed changes to said constitution is an undemocratic move? :wtf: In what alternate reality?

Was Holt behaving in an undemocratic manner in 1967, was Howard in 1999?

Many nations have plebiscites to decide on constitutional changes. Perhaps it is constantly hearing suggestions like this that fueled the OP's understandable sarcasm in this matter.

Watching Americans, who like to consider themselves progressive foam at the mouth over Chavez would be side splittingly hilarious you can share in the ignorance of the shared fates of Allende and Torrijos. For people outside the US and not subject to a farcical media and corporate Democrats the mouth foaming is nothing less than ominous.

[lvx35]

8. Nobody would give a SHIT about this if he weren't sitting on 77 billion barrels of oil.

And wasn't one of the major suppliers of oil to the US. Not sayin' y'all don't know this, just sayin'.

[malaise]

10. I expect

loose lips on MSM as they spin away this result, but Hugo loseswould have been the correct Subject. :hi:

[EFerrari]

11. That was close!

lol

[kevinmc]

12. Right-Wingnuts proved Wrong Again ...

So much for the BS that Chavez is a dictator and that he rigged the elections ...


Chavez defeated over reform vote

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has narrowly lost a referendum on controversial constitutional changes.

Voters rejected the raft of reforms by a margin of 51% to 49%, the chief of the National Electoral Council said.

Mr Chavez described the defeat as a "photo finish", and urged followers not to turn it into a point of conflict. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7124313.stm