Venezuela tells McCain "go to hell"

[im10ashus]

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's vice president on Monday told top U.S. Republican Sen. John McCain he could "go to hell" for suggesting that "wackos" were governing the oil-producing South American country.

Commenting on U.S. reliance on foreign oil supplies, McCain told Fox News Sunday, "We better understand the vulnerabilities that our economy and our very lives have ... when we're dependent on Iranian mullahs and wackos in Venezuela."

Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and an OPEC member like Iran, supplies 15 percent of U.S. energy imports. But ties between Washington and left-wing President Hugo Chavez have deteriorated rapidly since his 1998 election.

"He can go to hell," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said responding to remarks by McCain, a prominent Republican and a possible U.S. presidential candidate in 2008.

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http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=10941964&src=rss/domesticNews

[crikkett]

1. At least he wasn't told to go eff himself.

A la Mr. Cheney

[mdelaguna2000]

2. McCain = wacko

Impolitic goons like him make our economy far more vulnerable.

[phantom power]

3. The rest of the world is calling the GOP out on their egocentric bullshit.

And I love it.

[JacquesMolay]

4. Whacko. Says the man ...

... who was nearly indicted for being on the payroll of Keating in the 80's, who votes for tax cuts for the rich while the country freefalls into debt, who stands on stage hugging George Bush four years after he destroyed McCain's campaign in South Carolina by attacking his character.

Better a whacko than a moron.

Viva Chavez!

[Grateful for Hope]

5. This made me laugh out loud!

If anyone is "wacko", it's McCain.

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

6. Can I start flying the Venezuelan flag?

[phoebe]

7. please see posts at DU below - The VP knows what he's talking about

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x216208

National Endowment for Democracy and International Republican Institute of which McCain is the chairman.

[im10ashus]

8. Thanks for the link, phoebe!

:hi:

[no_more_rhyming]

9. Iran, Venezuela, Canada

Who's next...........

[im10ashus]

10. I am sure they have a list somewhere. The Distraction List. n/t