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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (5311)	9/21/2006 8:35:26 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

You need to chill out. I post a feel good article to you about Patrick Kennedy and Jim Ramstad and I am rewarded with a rant. Thanks for nothing. It is my understanding that there are no ex-alcoholics, just alcoholics that are in recovery. By the way, I don't think that Cheney is or was an alcoholic. You have no compassion. Dealing with addictions is difficult. It looks like Hugo Chavez has been reading your material. Chavez extends anti-Bush tirade on visit to Harlem Sep 21 4:11 PM US/Eastern Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez launched a new personal attack on President George W. Bush, using a visit to a church to call the US leader an "alcoholic" and a "sick man." A day after Chavez used the UN bully pulpit to call Bush "the devil" a "tyrant" who acts like he owns the world -- prompting broad condemnation in the United States -- Chavez was equally vitriolic as he spoke at the Olivet Baptist church in the New York neighborhood of Harlem. "Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups," declared the left-wing Venezuelan leader. "He walks like John Wayne." Bush "doesn't know anything about politics, he got there because of Daddy," said Chavez, referring to Bush's father, George Bush, US president from 1989 to 1993. "The United States should choose a president with whom you can talk and work," said Chavez. Chavez was in Harlem to announce the expansion of a program to send cheap Venezuelan heating oil to poor New York families. Chavez infuriated US officials with his sarcastic United Nations presentation Wednesday in which he said "yesterday the devil came here," referring to Bush's speech from the same stage 24 hours earlier. "And it still smells of sulphur today, this table that I am now standing in front of." Chavez then crossed himself, brought his hands together as if in prayer and looked up to the ceiling of the assembly chamber, prompting noticeable applause. For former president Bill Clinton, the language that Chavez used in his United Nations speech was unfortunate. "Obviously I think he made a mistake to do it. I wish he hadn't done it," said Clinton on Wednesday. "He's not hurting us, just himself and his country." Washington's UN ambassador John Bolton dismissed Chavez's speech as a "comic strip approach to international." The US news media on Thursday was surprised to find Chavez's UN remarks harsher than those by Iranian President President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Iran who? Venezuela takes the lead in a battle of anti-US soundbites," read The New York Times. The Washington Times featured front-page side-by-side photographs of Bush next to Chavez with his hands joined in prayer at the UN podium. USA Today compared the Chavez speech to Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev's famous 1960 shoe-banging UN speech, and Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat's 1974 UN speech, delivered with a gun on his hip. Charles Rangel, an opposition Democrat who represents Harlem in the US Congress and a harsh Bush critic, was not impressed by Chavez's rhetoric. "You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and you don't condemn my president," he told US media on Thursday. "If there's any criticism of president Bush, it should be restricted to Americans whether they voted for him or not," he said. "I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president -- don't come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president, that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our chief of state." Late Wednesday at an event at Cooper's Union college in Manhattan, Chavez urged Americans to "wake up" and fight to change "for the good of humanity." He also urged the crowd to "recover the heroic essence of the founders of this nation . . . who did not give their lives for an Empire to be born here." Chavez emphasized that there was a clear difference between the US government and the American people. "One thing is imperialism and another thing is the people, the American society," he said. breitbart.com