Posted: 9/21/2006 8:07:51 AM EDT
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Just saw Danny Glover embracing Hugo Chavez on stage at a church in Harlem, of course the crowd applauded. Why can't we get asshats like Glover to move to Venezuala? |
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So did the faculty, students at Cooper Union. Article doesn't ID the school, previous ones did. Sept. 21, 2006, 5:06AM Chavez launches Bush broadside at U.N. By IAN JAMES Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President Bush "the devil" in a fiery speech to the United Nations, but later reached out to an audience of Americans, saying he sees himself as a friend of the United States. The leftist leader, long at odds with Washington, appeared to be making one of his boldest moves yet to coalesce international opposition to the Bush administration. Chavez began Wednesday's speech noting that Bush spoke from the same podium a day earlier. "The devil came here," Chavez said. "Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of." He then made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if praying and looked up to the ceiling. Chavez's words drew tentative giggles at times from the audience, but also some applause. He later spoke to hundreds of New Yorkers who filled a college hall Wednesday night, saying he hopes Americans choose an "intelligent president" in the future. "I'm not an enemy of the United States. I'm a friend of the United States ... the people of the United States," Chavez said during his speech to an audience including union organizers and professors. "They're two very different things _ you the people of the United States, and the government that's installed there." He drew a standing ovation when he said Bush committed genocide during the war in Iraq. "The president of the United States should go before an international tribunal," Chavez said as applause filled the hall at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He compared the Bush administration's actions to those of the Nazis. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said earlier that Chavez's remarks in the United Nations were "not becoming for a head of state." "I am not going to dignify a comment by the Venezuelan president to the president of the United States," Rice told reporters. The main U.S. seat in the United Nations was empty as Chavez spoke, though U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said a "junior note-taker" was present, as is customary "when governments like that speak." The Venezuelan has become Latin America's leading voice against the U.S. government, and his speeches were reminiscent of crusading addresses by his mentor Fidel Castro of Cuba and the late Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Chavez accused the U.S. of planning and financing a failed 2002 coup against him, a charge the U.S. denies. And he said the U.S. tries to impose its vision of democracy militarily in countries such as Iran and Iraq. He called U.S. consumerism "madness" at a marathon news conference, saying Americans have wasteful habits in using oil and energy. He held up a satellite photo showing the world at night, with bright light emanating from the U.S. and other wealthy countries. The United States continues to be the top buyer of Venezuelan oil, bringing the South American country billions of dollars in earnings that help fund Chavez's popular social programs. Accusing Bush of neglecting the poor, Chavez started a program last winter for Venezuela's U.S.-based oil company Citgo to sell discounted heating oil to poor American families. It distributed more than 40 million gallons of oil last winter to low-income Americans, and Chavez announced a doubling of that this winter. Singer and activist Harry Belafonte introduced Chavez at the event, while former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark also attended, among supporters who waved Venezuelan flags and chanted Chavez's name. The Venezuelan leader signed autographs as a crowd rushed to him after the speech. He also referred to his past threats that he could cut off oil exports to the U.S. if it tries to oust him. "Believe me, if I were to decide tomorrow to stop sending oil to the United States ... the price would go up to $150, $200 a barrel. But we don't want to do it, and we aren't going to do it," Chavez said. "We ask only for respect." Chavez lambasted the U.S. government for trying to block Venezuela's campaign for a seat in the U.N. Security Council. He said if chosen over U.S.-favorite Guatemala in a secret-ballot U.N. vote next month, Venezuela would be "the voice of the Third World." The U.S. argues that Venezuela _ closely allied with Iran, Syria and Cuba _ would be a disruptive force. He also said the U.N. in its current system "doesn't work" and is "antidemocratic." He called for the world body to be overhauled, saying the U.S. government's "immoral veto" had allowed recent Israeli bombings of Lebanon to continue unabated for more than a month. Israel's foreign minister, meanwhile, warned on Wednesday that Iranian leaders pose the biggest threat to the world's values because they "speak proudly" of their wish to destroy Israel and pursue weapons to achieve that objective. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at the General Assembly session that the international community must stand up against Iran, which she claimed is pursuing the weapons to destroy Israel, a reference to its suspect nuclear program. Chavez, for one, has backed Iran's nuclear program, saying it has a right to peaceful nuclear energy. Israel's conflict with the Palestinians also was on the agenda. The Security Council was scheduled to hold a ministerial meeting Thursday that Arab leaders hope will help revive the peace process. The African Union said it will extend the mandate of a peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region through Dec. 31, avoiding a showdown for now over Sudan's refusal to permit the United Nations to take over the mission. Sudan's government vehemently opposes the introduction of U.N. forces in Darfur, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million since 2003. The U.N. has called it the world's worst humanitarian disaster. ___ Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer, Nick Wadhams and Kim Gamel at the United Nations contributed to this report. |
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Did they all sing L'Internationale? Well at least the left in this Country is showing its true colors for everyone to see… don’t dare question their Patriotism, as if you could question something that does not exist … When are the apologist going to chime in and say it ain’t so |
He would be one of the elite that Chavez regularly rails against (and incites the people against) in his speeches. Even more so since he would probably use some of his $$ to buy land. Don't we have an arfcommer whose mother-in-law is a landowner in Venezuela? |
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Let's see, Chavez said 1/2 the people in the US are so stupid that they elected a "stupid" president. Actually we elected the devil according to him. It must be kind of fun speaking like that to people in a church. Once more, Anne Coulter is right, liberalism is a religion. The dogma, "Bush is the devil": pretty much confirms it for me. Let's make up some Hugo Chavez for President signs. or Danny Glover for President. Democrats still need a candidate. Oprah shows a lick of good sense to be adamant against running, to the extent she's suing people that are trying to draft her. Way to go O, kick some moonbat ass!!! |
Constitution of the United States PREAMBLE We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Hey Chavez we are the government of the United States not President Bush, not the House of Representatives, not the Senate. They only represent us the people of the United States if we don’t like any of the above they are gone. They work for us the people of the United States. So quit insulting me, my family, and friends and get out of my country 
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You need to buy me a new keyboard...lmao |
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Regading Cooper Union: they rent out their "Great Hall" to whoever will pay for it. This was where Lincoln made some speeches, so it is irritating that someone like Chavez is speaking there. But it doesn't mean the school or the students endorse him. LIke most places in academia, the staff is probably very liberal, but don't tar the students with that brush. I know because my son is a senior there. Funny thing is this school is very small, with only engineering, architectual and art colleges. Very non-political for the most part---well the art students are probably more than others, but that school is also the smallest. Anyone who gets into Cooper Union does not pay tuition---the school was endowed by Peter Cooper. Tough to get into, and tough to be in---this is no party school. Lots of very bright, if not brilliant kids there. Also they come from often modest or immigrant families. My son works during the summer, and part time during the year to pay his non-tuition student fees, commuting costs ($200/month), books (engineering books are quite pricey!), lunch money, plus his "going out money". And my son is totally not interested in politics of any sort. I'll be wanting to watch Fox News, or whatever to see what's going on in Lebanon this past summer, and all he wanted to do was watch the Yankees, or Mythbusters. . . |