Chavez a hero
In response to Keith Hansen’s column “Obama receives endorsement from Hugo Chavez,” he left out some important facts.
In 2006 Chavez offered to sell oil to the United States at a greatly reduced price. (According to the U.S. Departmengt of Energy, Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia.) This was back when the price of oil was skyrocketing, but President Bush said no and continued to pay the high prices to the Saudi’s.
It is no secret that President Bush was indebted to the U.S. oil industry.
In spite of this, Chavez did deliver cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States and Europe when it was needed.
When Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, Hugo Chavez again offered to send help to the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas. President Bush said no, we don’t need your help.
Chavez has been elected by the people of Venezuela and he has reached out a hand in friendship to our presidents and our people. President Obama was the first U.S. President to accept his hand in friendship, so Chavez said “if I could vote in the U.S.A., I would vote for Obama.” Makes sense to me!
Mr. Hansen claims that “Hugo Chavez has never been one to hold back.” It may be so, but I wish the GOP and their followers would hold back and stop grasping for straws everywhere they turn, because they do not have anything of substance to write about.
Tell me something really important to make our country a better place. I really don’t care who Chavez would vote for in the big scheme of things. But I am proud that President Obama was neighborly to him.
Sara Dunlap
Brainerd
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Houston
Comments (23)
Add commentBush needed to pay back the
Bush needed to pay back the Saudi royal family for all the times they bailed him out of his many failed business ventures. I guess Bush was "too big to fail" in their eyes.
I wouldn't be surprised if money that we send the Saudis for oil doesn't find it's way back into the Bush bank accounts.
Here's something great
Something really important to make this country a better place would be that we have to bring down the debt, cut spending or your grandchildren are going to be saddled owing huge amounts of money.
Jobs for your grandchildren and other grandchildren so that they can pay the debt that we are leaving them.
More private sector jobs to pay for the government that some people crave.
And last, but not least, foreign policy to protect this country and our Ambassadors.
Yes, this is all important and will make our country a better place.
re: Chavez a Hero
1) Chavez NOT a hero (we can agree to disagree on that point)
2) According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.gov/countries/index.cfm?view=reserves), Venezuela does not "have more oil than Saudi Arabia". Saudi Arabia: 262.6 Billion bbls
Venezuela: 211.17 Billion bbls
A close second agreed, but if we are to accuse others of "leaving out important facts" maybe we should have our facts straight. Just sayin'.
I was unable to locate any oil reserve data on the U.S. Department of Energy website, but would not be surprised if two governmental agencies had conflicting data.
The resident communist
posters on here would call him, Castro and their brother Barry Soretto all heros.
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the Obamacrook is getting too much publicity for his illegal acts. He's now complicit in the blackmail of defense contractors. Maybe a special session for impeachment??????
Nice way to hoodwink soon to be unemployed workers and force the employer to violate the law. The Obamacrook is a very lowlife creature.
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Fairly unbalanced here's a
Fairly unbalanced here's a fact that the recent lying republican email deliberately omitted.
The defense contractors are working on EXISTING contracts and there is NO REASON to send the workers notices of potential layoffs because the MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GUARANTEED. Any reductions to military pork barrel spending is on FUTURE CONTRACTS THAT DON'T EXIST YET.
This is just military contractors playing politics with OUR MONEY. They feel they are ENTITLED to our tax dollars.
Just one more LYING republican email debunked but it won't stop republicans from forwarding it to other republicans. I really think republicans like to be lied to because it makes them feel alive to be angry all the time.
Speaking of Staying Alive...
"it makes them feel alive to be angry all the time"
So then what is your reason Fish, because you are the most "angry" person on this site.
Hugo will soon be joining
Hugo will soon be joining Barry in the unemployment line. Venezuelans, like some A mericans are starting to realize what a couple of lying socialists those two are. They can both pump gas at the Citco station in Chicago.
AWAC and oil reserve
The EIA is part of DOE so it's on the EIA site that you will find DOE's oil reserve info.
Venezuela has a huge deposit of pre-oil(kerogen) on the banks of the Orinoco River. It is like the oil sands(tar sands) stuff up in Alberta. Nobody knows exactly how much oil is there so you can say that Venezuela's oil exceeds that of Saudi Arabia without being contradicted. The Saudi oil is much easier to access and retrieve at lower cost.
US companies like Conoco Phillips were working the Orinoco deposits, but Chavez grabbed all their assets before anyone could fully estimate the oil potential.
Rolf
What emails?
I'm curious about all these Republican emails. No one that I know or myself have gotten any of these emails.
It seems more Democrats get these emails and know more about them than anyone.
Is it possible that there is no such thing as "republican emails"?
Regarding Chavez, and this writing, I can't even imagine speaking positively about Chavez at all.
I hope that it is just that the writer is uninformed not a communist.
It will be interesting to see how the big election turns out today or whenever it is settled.
All the more reason...
to become energy independent for national security and controlling inflation.
BTW, milk went up $.25/gallon last week. Do you think the cows demanded a raise?
Dumb and dumber...
"President Bush said no and continued to pay the high prices to the Saudi’s."
We only get about 20% of our oil from the middle east. More than that comes from Mexico and Canada.
Fishhead,
it's not an E-Mail. You are a lier. It is national news and in many reputable newspapers. You Lie and Obama Lies. Get help for that habit.
I also wonder about all the
I also wonder about all the money chavez is borrowing from China and how that may figure in.
Will it change if the other guy wins?
If the other guy wins, will he end up losing or losing his life?
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