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On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:50 -0800, topbassdog wrote:
Some expert. Chavez has been in power since 1998. Want to guess what
oil prices were then? You may not like him. I don't particularly,
but
he has won 3 elections. Somebody must like him.
It's easy to win an election when your opponents are totally powerless.
Or dead.
Huh? His opponents are the Venezuelan fat cats, and landed gentry,
hardly powerless. However, they lost at the polls. Chavez has won
three elections with an average of 60% of the vote. As I said, I don't
particularly care for the man. Although, I do enjoy how he is able to
tweak the nose of our current President.
Unless the new President embraces Hugo and Raul, Fidel's little brother,
he will end up getting his nose tweaked too.
Can anyone give me a decent excuse why we still have the embargo against
Cuba? Because the south florida cubans are a strong voting block and our
politician are **** scared of them? Cause daddy hated them? Cause they're
commies?
The last doesn't hold water with the way we cuddle up to the China.
They still have not made good on the properties confiscated by Castro.
Democracy is a farce. Why support a dictatorship? While "daddy" hated
them, was not for no reason, Castro was quite willing to put nukes on
Florida's doorstep. Let them stew until they evolve into something better.