Babalu Blog: Dodd's 'Democrat' Tightens His Grip

November 17, 2008

Dodd's 'Democrat' Tightens His Grip

Great op ed piece by our friend Mary Anastasia O'Grady on El Burro Chavez, the same guy Chris Dodd called a "Democrat" ... well looking on how the US Democratic party is today, Hugo would fit right in.

Hugo Chávez's threat last week to bring tanks to the streets if his side does not win key states in Sunday's gubernatorial elections is chilling. But it is not surprising. It is only the next logical step in what is the Venezuelan president's drive to seize all power and silence all dissent. * * * Venezuelans saw this coming. From his earliest days as president in 1999, Mr. Chávez began working to destroy any checks on his power. On April 11, 2002, after weeks of street protests against this effort, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched again in Caracas. Nineteen people were shot dead in the streets by government supporters. When Mr. Chávez asked the military to use force against the crowd, the generals refused and instead told him he had to step aside.
One might think that all Americans would have supported the demand to stop the bloodshed. But Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd threw a fit over Mr. Chávez's removal. The self-styled Latin America expert insisted that since Mr. Chávez had been initially "democratically elected" in a fair vote, he should have been immune from challenges to his power, no matter the abuses. To this day the senator calls the event a U.S.-backed coup, even though a State Department Inspector General's report found that the charge was false. Even the Organization of American States accepted the change in power.

Read the entire article here.

Posted by Cigar Mike at November 17, 2008 09:14 AM

Comments

What can I tell you Mike,

Mr. Dodd is also one of the main players responsible with the current financial mess we're in.

Plus during the eighties he was one of the most vocal opponents to Ronald Reagan's support for the Nicaraguan Contras.

What bewilders me the most is that the people from Connecticut keeps reelecting this communist to office.

Posted by: FreedomForCuba at November 17, 2008 11:22 AM

FreedomForCuba, Dodd isn't a commie, he's just a naive come mierda.

Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at November 17, 2008 11:43 AM

Come-mierda, definitely. Naive, no. Try arrogant prick who thinks he knows better about Cuba than Cubans themselves. There's a lot of that going around.

Posted by: asombra at November 17, 2008 11:50 AM

Being Cuban is no picnic, but being Venezuelan (meaning anyone who ever voted for Chavez) must really suck these days.

Posted by: asombra at November 17, 2008 12:01 PM

Cigar Mike,

Mr. Dodd record of Communist support goes way back and that's why I stated my views about him.

Anytime there has been an American President doing something to stop the spread of Communism in Latin-America for the last 20+ years, there has been Mr. Dodd leading the pack opposing it.

Trust me, I have seem plenty coming from him in this area for that long.

He's anything but, naive as he has a long track record of supporting the unsupportable.

To me he's one of the many political figures we have in America that deep inside are Communists supporters in nature (maybe not Stalinist type of Communist but nevertheless)yet they don't reveal it (rather mask it as very liberal Democrats) because they know very well that there will be a political price to pay the moment they do so.

Posted by: FreedomForCuba at November 17, 2008 12:06 PM

well let us hope and free that this numnut is not working in the state department under the new admin.

Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at November 17, 2008 01:10 PM

"The self-styled Latin America expert insisted that since Mr. Chávez had been initially "democratically elected" in a fair vote, he should have been immune from challenges to his power, no matter the abuses."

WTF?! Dodd is actually so stupid that he doesn't realize this IMMEDIATELY invites comparison to Hitler, who also came to power through the formalities of (a non-free and -fair) democratic election.

Posted by: Dave J at November 17, 2008 07:36 PM