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To: Brumar89 who wrote (251726)5/26/2008 1:08:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793822
 
No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum.

I don't read this as a gaffe because Obama is not saying that Chavez came to power because of American missteps in Latin America. He is saying that Chavez extended his influence in Latin America because of American missteps. So that's a defensible position.

Isolating and meeting with Chavez at the same time would be quite a trick, however.