Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (19476)	1/10/2008 10:21:55 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36921

Che Kennedy, Chavez’s useful idiot Examiner ^ \| Jan 3, 2008 \| Editorial WASHINGTON (Map, News) - John F. Kennedy would no doubt be horrified to see his nephew self-righteously shilling for a tin-horn communist dictator like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. JFK was a liberal on most domestic issues, but on foreign policy, he was an ardent anti-communist. Countless movies and documentaries have been made about Kennedy's shining moment, the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was October 1962, when he forced Premier Nikita Khruschev to blink first and withdraw the Soviets’ nuclear-tipped missiles from Marxist dictator Fidel Castro’s Cuba, just 90 miles south of Florida. Today, there is nothing at all bright about the way JFK’s nephew Joe – named after the oldest Kennedy son, who died bravely fighting the Nazis – is prostituting the family name on behalf of one of Castro’s closest allies and an avowed enemy of America. Joe Kennedy appears in radio and TV spots offering low-income Americans a 40 percent discount on a one-time delivery of up to 200 gallons of heating oil. "Help is on the way," a Windbreaker-clad Kennedy promises in the ad, "from Citgo and our friends in Venezuela." He never mentions Chavez, nor does he explain why Venezuela, with a 2007 per capita gross domestic product of just $6,900 (less than Croatia or Belarus) would send highly discounted oil to a country with a per capita GDP of $43,500. ................................................ Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., described Kennedy - a former congressman who was born into the family fortune and now heads the non-profit Citizens Energy Corp. – as "a public relations prop for the Chavez regime." (Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...