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   Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

   Chavez is an example of what can happen if parties become so entrenched that it takes a filibuster proof majority to rule. Without bipartisan ship, a party has the chance to give itself everything it wants, including changes to the constitution.
   We need moderates from both parties to keep us centered and moving forward. Otherwise, we go off the road to the left or the right, and possibly lose our way.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Posterboy for socialism. Works as long as confiscated oil money flows in. Chavez took $1 million a day as ‘pay’.
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   Michyle Glen said, 4 months ago

   Is Chavez alive?? Thats going to be the question.
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   rightisright said, 4 months ago

   I wish Lord Ears the same health chavez has, and chavez the same condition that che guevara has.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Chavez had gone too far. Even so he was much kinder to his enemies by following the law then they would be with him.
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   @rightisright

   You are a sick puppy.
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   omQ R said, 4 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   ‘he was much kinder to his enemies by following the law ’
   Er, no, not following the law, more like manipulating and amending laws to suit himself. Unless you’re saying he was less oafish than his adversaries. I wouldn’t bother trying to find too many redeeming qualities in ol’ Chavez.
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   Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

   Let us not forget that the USA under the cheney/shrub/rummy troika tried to perpetrate a coup d’etat against the legaly elected government of Venezuela. Fortunately Venezuela was able to thwart the coup and the USA had massive egg on its face.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   @omQ R

   Well he was no Alfredo Strossner by any means. And he fought against the USA trying to assert control in the Southern Americas.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    I tried to forget that. Now I won’t be able to sleep all night.
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    omQ R said, 4 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    & @Night-Gaunt And don’t forget that funny “It still smells of sulphur today,” speech in the UN a few years ago. ;-)
    I wouldn’t go so far as to say the US orchestrated the coup, merely gave its approving nod; still much egg on its face when it was thwarted 2 days later. I would say that he has been instrumental in scything away US influence in South America. But his time had come and gone a long time ago.
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    rightisright said, 4 months ago

    @Radish

    It’s a personal failing of mine: I want narcissistic tyrants to fail and liberty to succeed.
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