Chavez Gets Standing Ovation From Professors, Union Organizers
After a UN speech in which he called US President Bush “Satan,” Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation with another anti-Bush speech at a New York college.
The South American leader spoke at Cooper Union last night before a packed audience including professors and union organizers.
Chavez proclaimed himself “a friend” of the people of the United States, but said he hopes next time, they’ll choose, in his words, an “intelligent president.”
He got the standing ovation for comments accusing Bush of committing genocide in Iraq.
Chavez is a dictator. The electoral system that put him into office is a sham, speaking out against Chavez in Venezuela will likely get you beat up by one of the dude’s party stalwarts, and the guy is talking about appointing himself President for life. And let’s not forget that he is a disciple of Fidel Castro, that he once called Robert Mugabe a “true freedom fighter” and that he supports Iran’s push for nuclear weapons.
If this guy were a leader in America his shameful manipulation of the electoral process and his efforts to suppress free speech would have these people cheering for him incensed. They would chafe at having to live under his rule, yet because he does some Bush bashing and makes a ridiculous claim about genocide in Iraq the useful idiots in the crowd are on their feet cheering.
And he probably would have gotten the same sort of reception at a meeting of American “intellectuals” at just about any other college campus in this nation.
It’s disgusting, and these people should be ashamed of themselves.
