Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard"

[cal04]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday lobbed a litany of insults at U.S. President George W. Bush ranging from "donkey" to "drunkard" in response to a White House report branding the left-wing leader a demagogue.
Chavez is one of Bush's fiercest critics and has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of seeking to oust him from the presidency of Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and a supplier of around 15 percent of U.S. crude imports.

"You are a donkey, Mr. Bush," said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast. "You're an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you're a drunkard," Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president. A White House report released last week on pre-emptive force in national security described Chavez as a "demagogue" who uses Venezuela's oil wealth to destabilize democracy in the region.

Washington is increasingly at odds with the former soldier over his close alliance with Cuba and Iran. U.S. officials dismiss his anti-U.S. tirades as rhetoric meant to stir nationalism before presidential elections in December.
Chavez's remarks also came after Venezuela's El Universal newspaper printed an interview with U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield, who reiterated his government's concern over growing ties between Venezuela and Iran.

Tensions between the Washington and Caracas rose in January after Venezuela expelled a U.S. naval attache on espionage charges and the U.S. State Department responded by removing a top Venezuelan diplomat from Washington. Chavez was elected in 1998 on an anti-poverty platform, and has used billions of dollars in oil revenues to finance development programs for the poor as part of his self-styled socialist revolution. He won a overwhelming victory in a recall referendum in 2004, but his critics at home and in Washington say he is centralising power in an increasingly authoritarian system and cracking down on political opponents.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6560915&cKey=1142803221000

[Rex]

1. Hey now! Donkeys are kewl. If you meant jackass, then call him that!

Love this line from 'Washington', "...centralising power in an increasingly authoritarian system and cracking down on political opponents." Sounds like the BFEE is jealous! :eyes:

[Up2Late]

31. Probably a bad or deliberately wrong, translation...

They probably meant Jackass, but either couldn't print it, or wanted to make it less offensive to the "typical media consumer."

[ClintonTyree]

2. A slap in the face........

to the noble donkey. Jackass.......jackass is the best description I think. He thinks, as do many others, that bush has taken up with John Barleycorn again. I do believe he's correct. The pressure has gotten to bush and the White House liquor cabinet's hinges are well oiled, along with bush.

[saigon68]

3. HE FORGOT CHIMPANZEE

[WestSeattle2]

4. Say wa???

Yeah, the US knows nothing about using wealth to destabilize regions, now do we. I'm sure the irony of that WH report was totally lost on its authors.

Well speaking to the point of this post, I've often said that GW reminds me of friends who I've known who struggle(d) with alcohol. The man is a dry drunk! Watch how he responds to difficult situations.

The way he lashes out in irrational tirades, his immature emotional responses, his innate refusal to accept responsibility for anything. The dude is a walking, talking example of a dry drunk. And he sits in the Oval Office.

If people really look at this man's life, it's really nothing more than a series of failed efforts. Whether it's academically, (a legacy kid is admitted to prestigious schools when his grades were dismal), in the business world, (how many failed businesses and scams?), or in politics, (he left the Texas state budget a disaster when he moved on up, and now he's doing the same on a national scale). Everything he touches he ends up ruining, and his daddy's buddies have had to jump in a rescue him.

Were it not for his last name, the man would be driving an 18-wheeler from El Paso to LA every week. The fact that he is such an arrogant snot truly baffles.

Yup, Chavez hit the nail right smack on the head.

[Rex]

6. Welcome to DU!

"Hello?!?! Jack is that you? I've got Mr. Scotch over here so let's party! Hello!?"

[mithnanthy]

22. Is that pix photoshopped?

......turn the phone around,George! Or is he just "lookin import'nt"? Ugh!

[Nostradammit]

11. I wouldn't trust GW with an 18-wheeler

He can't manage a Segway, can you imagine the damage he'd do with 36 tons of steel and cheese?

[Lisa]

19. he would have been fired long ago, for driving the truck into the ditch!

Much as he's done to the country.

Excellent observations about GW and possible "dry drunk" behaviour ... I thought it was interesting that various people who have been there themselves, like Martin Sheen, have expressed concern about this as well.
http://www.counterpunch.com/mccarthy1019.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,787772,00.html

Welcome to DU, WestSeattle2!

[cliss]

28. Hi, West Seattle.

Welcome to the DU! :toast: and a nice post it was.


I agree with you. This dude is a poster child for Dry Drunk.

[kiraboo]

45. Welcome to DU!

I agree with you completely.

[SammyWinstonJack]

50. I seriously doubt he could handle such a demanding task as driving

an 18-wheeler even across town, let alone across half the country. :evilgrin:

[Robeysays]

55. i've always wanted to do this...

:hi: welcome to DU. im soooo cool now... :D

[dingaling]

5. Chavez

should learn to shut the fuck up. He is getting too carried away with GWB and stooping down to GWB's level. By trying to match the Bush Administration word for word, he runs the risk of becoming just like them. Also, his support of Iran is ridiculous. Ahmad.... is just a different version of GWB.

[movonne]

7. I think he should keep it up...so there you are two opinions, that is

the way democracy runs..the difference is version of this is that Chavez is working (so far) for the people...GWB is working for the corporations and Oil.

[Solon]

9. Stooping down to Bush's level?

Don't make me laugh, in order for Chavez to even begin to debase himself in that manner he would have to invade one, perferably two nations based on nothing but lies and then kill about a quarter million people. Until then I don't see why anyone can compare the two at all, Chavez can tell Bush to go fuck himself with a cactus, and Bush fully deserves that namecalling.

[Pastiche423]

20. I hope Chavez never shuts the fuck up

His words are like music to my ears. He gives me hope, knowing at least one REAL leader cares about his country and his country's people.

Yes, President Chavez, most of us in the U.S. know that our pResident is an ass.

VIVA CHAVEZ!

[pacalo]

23. Speaking the truth doesn't translate into stooping to the boy king's level

Just sayin'.

[1932]

33. I think there's absolutely no chance that Chavez's government will

become just like Bush's government. None at all. Zero.

[ronnie624]

36. "GWB" as you call him

is responsible for invading and destroying a country that had never attacked nor even threatened the U.S. Thus is he also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people as well as the contamination of their country with radioactive material. Hugo Chavez has never done anything even remotely similar to the above mentioned war crimes.

Perhaps you could elaborate on the logic which leads you to believe President Chavez "runs the risk of becoming just like them" simply because of a few poorly translated remarks.

[arikara]

52. To stoop to bush's level

Chavez would have to have the chimp airlifted out to some island and have his henchmen take over the white house. That's a thought... I wonder how many of the American citizens would march on the capital to get him back?



We come ta save our preznit! Hey... where iz everybody???

:rofl:

[manic expression]

56. Are you serious?

Chavez is insulting someone who deserves it. He is not stooping down to Bush's level, he is saying what needs to be said.

How has he "matched the Bush Adm. word for word"? How is insulting a foolish, incompetent and reactionary "president" becoming of their ACTIONS? It isn't...at all. Try getting a clue.

[TankLV]

57. He need not only to keep it up, but to push it and push it to the next

levels!

God bless Hugo!

[tatertop]

8. Viva Chavez!

He talks the talk AND he walks the walk
and I like it.

[unda cova brutha]

54. he's my choice as a write-in candidate in 2008

[reichstag911]

10. You go, Hugo! n/t

[madrchsod]

12. what he should do is for one week is cut the wholesale price of citgo

gas by at least a dollar a gallon....that`s one way to really piss off bush

[long_green]

13. Our President is not a donkey!

nm

[pacalo]

24. You give the boy king too much credit. He isn't a bonafide "president".

Ask Diebold.

[daleo]

30. Just a drunkard then. n/t

[0007]

42. That's right donkey's don't have five thumbs and don't look like

monkeys.

[corporatemedia]

14. Next month's one-word poll: Incompetent, Idiot, Ass/Donkey, Drunkard.....

[rfranklin]

15. I think he's only the anal orifice of the donkey...

I believe in using precise language of a scientific nature.

[shanti]

16. donkey....

oh! he meant an ass! :evilgrin: i can dig it! :rofl:

[WinkyDink]

17. Agreed! Leave the donkeys alone!

Anyway, they're OUR symbol!

[cascadiance]

43. Perhaps he wanted Bu$h to feel that as a personal insult!

Even though we don't like our symbol being used to describe Bu$h, perhaps it was meant as an insult to Bu$h to call him that, though I agree a "donkey's ass" in that instance would be more appropriate! Then the double meaning would have good double meaning from all of our perspectives!

[Lisa]

18. he used "Mr. Danger" again!

I confess, that's my all-time favorite nickname for Bush.

[ronnie624]

37. It is also my favorite nickname for Bush.

Apparently "Mr Danger" is an "economic hit man" style character in a Venezuelan novel written in the 1920s. One day I must find a copy and read it.

[IntravenousDemilo]

38. So it isn't for "Nick Danger, Private Eye",

and Chavez isn't just a fan of Firesign Theatre?

[ronnie624]

39. LOL. Your username is very funny.

I am not absolutely certain about the origin of the name "Mr. Danger". My belief that it is the name of a character in a novel is based upon the post of another DUer.

[IntravenousDemilo]

40. Thanks. It was either that or SmellTheGlove.

I wonder if it was Senor Peligro in the original.

(How do you make a tilde over an "n"?)

[Vidar]

48. "Nick Danger Third Eye" actually.

[IntravenousDemilo]

62. You are correct!

And I just watched it the day before I posted, too...damn...

Nice to see a fellow Firesign fan. Are there a lot of us here, do you think?

[Flanker]

53. In case you are currently looking for it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0844611948/102-9328091-0052139?v=glance&n=283155

[ronnie624]

58. Thank you very much! n/t

[struggle4progress]

21. Venezuela's Chavez hits back at Bush, calling him a 'coward'

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez called U.S. President George W. Bush a "coward," a "donkey" and a "drunkard" Sunday, unleashing a torrent of insults days after Bush labelled him a demagogue.

Chavez also said world opinion is turning against the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and offered a public prayer that Washington cease to pose a threat to the world.

"I'm going to tell you something Mr. Danger: You are a coward, do you know that?" Chavez said, referring to Bush. "Why don't you go to Iraq to command your armed forces? It's very easy to command them from so far away." <snip>

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=21493

Perhaps the sight of Chavez praying in public will appease the wingnuts ...

[rodeodance]

25. nominated

[cmdrzog]

26. I admire Chavez's restraint

He spoke only good compared to what truthfully could be said.

[Peace Patriot]

27. Oh, those Chavez "critics" will say anything, as long as the reporter

carefully leaves out any evidence whatsoever of what these "critics" "say," and never provides anything in quotes or a name to go with it.

"He won a (sic) overwhelming victory in a recall referendum in 2004, but his critics at home and in Washington say he is centralising power in an increasingly authoritarian system and cracking down on political opponents."

He won a overwhelming victory in a recall referendum in 2004, but.....

but

but

but

but

his "critics" at home say....

he is

"centralizing power

in an

increasingly authoritarian system..."

wassat? wassat? an "increasingly authoritarian system?"

"increasingly"--from where to where? spectrum of not-authoritarian to increasingly authoritarian", please! facts? evidence?

"authoritarian" --as in, say, the President openly breaking the law, committing felonies, and vowing to continue doing so?

or, as in the President arresting and jailing thousands of unnamed persons, on no charges, and torturing them?

and

"cracking down"...

hm-m-m, cracking heads? jailing? executing? shutting down newspapers?

wassat? "cracking down"?

"on political opponents."

Who? What? Where? When?

----------------------

This phrase keeps showing up time and time and time and time again, in the war profiteering corporate news monopoly press. "Increasingly authoritarian." No evidence. No names. No quotes.

Personally, I think it came from Cardinal Castillo Lara, the Opus Dei fascist prelate of Venezuela, who spent his career in the Roman Curia, running Vatican finances, until he was forced to resign during the Vatican banking scandals of the 1980s. HE has said, and I quote, that Hugo Chavez is "increasingly authoritarian."

"self-styled socialist" and "self-styled leftist" are also phrases of choice by the Bush lapdog press. Yeah, and elected by millions of people--the great majority of Venezuelans who just so happen to want that "self-style" of government that shares the country's oil profits with the vast poor population, builds schools and medical clinics in poor areas never before served by government, and represents ALL of the people of Venezuela, not just the Bush-ass-kissing, tiny, rich oil elite.

Self-styled.

And Bush is a "self-styled conservative" with an $8 trillion deficit. Why don't they call BUSH a "self-styled SOMETHING"? How about a "self-styled son of a bitch"?

Chavez was ELECTED by his people--in the most highly monitored elections in the world. Bush was "selected" by the Supreme Court, and then by Diebold and ES&S with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote tabulation software owned and controlled by Bushite corporations! He is a "self-styled" and "self-selected" ILLEGITIMATE president. Chavez is the genuine article.

God, I hate these so-called journalists. Whores. Liars. Polluted minds.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[1932]

34. That's a five star post. Thanks for taking the time to write that up.

:thumbsup:

[ronnie624]

59. Superb rant! n/t

[daleo]

29. An insult to the noble donkey

And many fine drunkards.

[LynnTheDem]

32. 3 words;

"Chavez was elected"

[Catrina]

35. I admire Chavez' restraint. Considering that the Bush administration

illegally participated in an attempted coup d'etat of a democratically elected Chavez, merely tossing a few names Bush's way, shows the inner strength of a man who is a strong and real leader.

Consider the actions of Bush, not democratically elected, who used fabricated evidence of a perceived threat to invade a sovereign nation.

Chavez would be perfectly within his rights to demand the extradition of certain members of the Bush administration for trial for their participation in the failed coup (failed because the people of Venezuela meant it when they voted for Chavez and proved it when they helped overthrow the puppets of this administration who tried to deprive them of their choice for president.

I like his challenge to Bush to actually go fight in a war he supports. I bet he was referring to Bush being AWOL during the Vietnam war ~ which, according to some of his college roommates, he fully supported.

[pberq]

46. Viva Hugo!!! K&R

[K8-EEE]

41. Centralizing power? Authoritarian? Cracking Down On Opponents?

THAT'S what Chavez's critics say? Or Bush's critics?

[Massacure]

44. Don Quixote!

[hyphenate]

47. Hmmmm

Main Entry: 1dem·a·gogue
Variant(s): or dem·a·gog /'de-m&-"gäg/
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek dEmagOgos, from dEmos people (perhaps akin to Greek daiesthai to divide) + agOgos leading, from agein to lead -- more at TIDE, AGENT
1 : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
2 : a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times




The pot calling the kettle black, it appears to me.

[Vidar]

49. Chavez & his compatriots give me some measure of hope for the world.

[classysassy]

51. Burro Bush got the booze

yo, Mr Chavez stop telling the truth about our great leader.

[0rganism]

60. Is it just me, or does Chavez seem to be enjoying this?

From what I've seen, in documentaries and news footage, the guy has a sense of humor.

[Peace Patriot]

61. I agree--Chavez is a funny guy! When they asked Chavez about Pat

Robertson's suggestion that the Bushites/US should assassinate Chavez, Chavez said, "Who's that? I never heard of him." I laughed out loud when I heard that--also, when I heard that Chavez was offering cheap heating oil to the poor of the US this winter--this was just after the oil barons' Katrina price gauging. A sincere offer--and he followed through with arrangements with several US state governments. But I just had to laugh at his audacity--his throwing "Christian" values right in Bush's face. It's so beautiful!

Go, Hugo!

:yourock: :rofl: :rofl: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl: :rofl: :yourock:

[jackieMN]

63. He Needs To Be Corrected

"Captain Asshole" is a better name for him.