Hillary Clinton speaking to a group of wealthy supporters: 'Take that, Venezuela!'

[IndianaGreen]

From 2007 DU archives:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3886868#3887201

Hillary Clinton speaking to a group of wealthy supporters: "Take that, Venezuela!"

In what’s sure to be the first of many star-studded events for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, about 1,000 well-heeled New York Democrats gathered last night for a sit-down dinner at the Sheraton to get their first taste of the Clinton '08 campaign machine. Ron Howard, Chelsea Clinton, and Moby mixed it up with a slew of Wall Street types and the state's congressional delegation. Charles Rangel and Chuck Schumer warmed up the crowd, who paid $1,000 for a plate of filet mignon, risotto, and spinach served with Cabernet Sauvignon. (The good seats were $4,600 each.) But everyone was just waiting for the Clintons (or just Bill?), who took the floor accompanied by Jesus Jones's "Right Here, Right Now." The former president jawed on for a good fifteen minutes, lauding his wife and comparing her to Eleanor Roosevelt. Reluctant to yield the stage, he finally did — just so a raspy-voiced Hillary could launch into her stump-speech points: health care, lower college tuition, and pulling troops from Iraq. The audience warmed when she talked about how the couple conserves energy up in Chappaqua: He replaces lightbulbs, and she mutters to herself with every flip of the switch, "Take that, Iran! Take that, Venezuela!"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/hillary_and_bill_make_the_buck.html

In the video of her speech, broadcast by ABC News and posted in DU at the time, Hillary stated that the values of the Bolivarian revolution were "not our values." In that statement Hillary clearly aligned herself with the Venezuelan elites.

Take note that Hillary took pains to lump Venezuela with Iran, while not mentioning Saudi Arabia.

Hillary is also an enabler of terrorism! Unlike Dennis Kucinich and other progressives, Hillary has chosen to remain silent on Venezuela's extradition request for Cuban-exile Luis Posada Carriles to be tried for his acts of terrorism.

Posada Carriles is a CIA-trained operative implicated in a series of terrorists incidents, including the bombing of the Cubana Airlines civilian airliner that killed 73 people on October 6, 1976. In November 2000, Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama for preparing a bomb to explode in the University of Panama’s Conference Hall, where Fidel Castro was scheduled to deliver a speech.

[Peace Patriot]

1. How absurd and childish! "Take that, Venezuela!"??

She sounds like some of the more lame-brained posters here at DU who reflexively repeat rightwing "talking points" about Venezuela, without any understanding of, or empathy for, the people of Venezuela, whose lives have been significantly improved in so many ways--vastly improved education, health care, wages, public participation, economic growth, election transparency. The people of Venezuela give Chavez 60% approval ratings FOR GOOD REASON. Sec of State Clinton might as well be slapping elderly Venezuelans, and children, and working people in the face, when she says, "Take that, Venezuela!" How appalling!

[IndianaGreen]

2. Equating Chavez to Ahmadinejad really took the cake

and it shows how out of touch our own elites are.

[Billy Burnett]

4. Speaking to the American base calls for childish and reptilian brain level communication. Us or them

Because once we start getting all analytical and conversing in facts a different version of America comes to the fore. Manifest Destiny requires a large set of blinders that will ultimately have us all walking off the side of a cliff, leaving in our wake many trails of tears.

[EFerrari]

3. I don't even want to remember that embarrassing campaign.

It was beneath her.

[StevieM]

5. Supporting Hillary Clinton's magnificent campaign for president was the proudest experience

of my life. You can call it embarrassing if you want, but that's not how her supporters (half the voters in that election) saw it. And Obama sure seemed to want that "disgraced" candidate out on the campaign trail for him.

Steve

[EFerrari]

6. Hillary would have been better off if she had'nt hired that scumbag

Mark Penn -- a scumbag whose firm has lobbied for free trade agreements in Latin America and whose colleagues routinely take on projects to contravene democracy there. Mark Penn has been anything but magnificent in Latin America.

ETA: I apologize for bringing up that campaign. I shouldn't have done that.