tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631912103702174313.post5868799911586611817..comments2023-06-12T01:24:45.924-07:00Comments on Venezuela-Europa: FOX: US Venezolana de Televisión? Rumblings on US-VenezuelaKeplerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11125538872924743270noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631912103702174313.post-64686373841528584632008-10-12T11:31:00.000-07:002008-10-12T11:31:00.000-07:00Anonymous,I know many in Europe fell in love with ...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I know many in Europe fell in love with Chavez for a long time, like they did with Mugabe in Africa. May it be the same with Obama? Perhaps, but I do not think so. Chavez was from the beginning a coupster, a bloody coupster at that. He also declared himself an admirer of such a figure as dictator Pérez Jiménez. As for Obama, I haven't found so convincing the links the extreme right has presented to extremist groups (and if there are, we can also establish links between McCain and similar extremist groups).<BR/><BR/>I am not an Obama fan and I know Venezuelans will be the ones who have to clean up the mess Venezuela is in. <BR/><BR/>Still, I believe two things: Chavez will have more trouble dealing with Obama than with McCain as Obama will probably - as far as I can see - get a broader support also abroad.<BR/>Isolating Chavez in Latin America can help weaken Chavez.<BR/><BR/>Now, Venezuela, even if it was a democracy since 1958, never had strong legal institutions. The United States does have them. They may be very faulty, but they work. The United States cannot evolve so easily into a regime as Venezuela has, even if Obama turned out to be a Chávez (which I definitely doubt, I recognised what kind of menace Chávez was from the very moment I knew of his coup).Keplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11125538872924743270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1631912103702174313.post-33287937559731525922008-10-12T10:30:00.000-07:002008-10-12T10:30:00.000-07:00Perhaps you might consider the fact that either ca...Perhaps you might consider the fact that either candidate might be doing simply the expedient thing in the moment in order to achieve votes.As long as we live in a society where image is more important than substance we will have this problem.<BR/><BR/>However it should not be so important to be liked.<BR/><BR/>How often does being liked in order to win over the image battle contribute to the slippery slope of declining morality and entrapment?<BR/><BR/>Obama is quite popular in USA, just as Chavez once was....for years citizens of usa and EU thought that Chavez was the answer...see how wrong popular opinion was?<BR/><BR/>Did it make a difference what usa and eu thought?What difference was that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com