A class act
AP, on Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez:
State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said Chavez’s plans under the law “have caused us some concern.” Chavez rejected Casey’s statement in his broadcast, saying: “Go to hell, gringos! Go home!”…
“What does the empire want? Condoleezza said it. How are you? You’ve forgotten me, missy … Condoleezza said it clearly, it’s about creating a new geopolitical” map in the Middle East, Chavez said…
“They took out Saddam Hussein and they hung him, for good or worse. It’s not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country.”
Holding up a newspaper with a photograph of him gazing at a string bikini-clad Brazilian dancing samba during a summit last week in Rio de Janeiro, Chavez laughed and said: “I didn’t know where to look … It was truly a thing of beauty.”
He’s a boor, and he’s absolutely destroying Venezuela, but he does have a point about summits.