Hugo Chavez, the current president of ailing Venezuala, has been in the news lately. I am hereby recognizing him into our Arrogant Jerk hall of fame. “Why?” you ask? Oh let me count the ways…
For starters, isn’t the “I hate Bush” bandwagon a little full these days? Let’s be realistic; this bandwagon is a political soap box that is used to get headlines because it spurs a good deal of press and attention from both sides. Otherwise, there really isn’t any better reason to hate Bush now than to hate whoever will get the baton next.
Hugo would do well to quit attacking our president, buck up, and try to act respectable in a community of elite leaders who at least share a level of respect for each other where otherwise none is offered (this blog is duly noted). His sword slamming at the pulpit is less than credible and aligns him well with fanatic oppressors of the recent past.
Today it is reported that Hugo will stop at nothing to bring his country to socialism. Because THAT works. He may as well commit to bringing back bloodletting as a cure for cancer, and burn some books for good measure. His country won’t need them any time soon if this is where they are headed.
As leader of Venezuela he has greased the skids of poverty, racing over 80 percent of his starving people to starvation. Venezuela is one of the most oil rich countries on the planet. They have so much money they can’t possible have enough to do with it. Oil-a-plenty Kuwait finds a little money in the coffers to provide public education through college (and good ones, too). Perhaps Hugo thinks Nigeria (killing thousands of its own people while pumping oil right past them) is a good example of humanitarianism, or perhaps he sees an opportunity to leverage oppression, starvation and state run slavery as civilized. Someone get this guy some Ayn Rand, and quick!
Today he also declared that Jesus was the greatest socialist of all time. Wow; that was a bold one. It takes some serious Arrogant Jerk balls-o-steel to pry at your nation with such a blatant attempt at name dropping. Jesus wanted a perfect world, and I think it is pretty clear that his philosophies would take a deity to pull off (honestly; we have been fighting over the idea since He left).
Hugo is hardly equipped to make it happen because he’s an Arrogant Jerk of The People and not the Son of God.
