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If one wanted to be cynical, one would say that Chavez engineered the defeat, knowing that he could get what he wanted through the Assembly, and now can always point to this as an example of an election he lost for those who want to accuse him of fixing elections or being a dictator. |
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Sean
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If they report he "narrowly lost" then he truly must’ve gotten destroyed in the vote...
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shark
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Where’s Carter when you need him?
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looker
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You know what I find funny is that so many Leftists LOVE Hugo, but accuse Dubya of wanting to be a dictator and/or to cancel the ’08 elections. How come it’s good for Chavez but wrong of George? |
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Joe
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"You know what I find funny is that so many Leftists LOVE Hugo, but accuse Dubya of wanting to be a dictator and/or to cancel the ’08 elections. How come it’s good for Chavez but wrong of George?"
In one word, racism. "Little brown people" are never responsible for their own actions to the leftofascist creeps. It’s the "white man’s burden" all over again. |
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Written By:
E. Brown
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Still, interesting he admitted to a loss.
Sean is right, that’s more or less the way he’s playing the cards on this one, that it shows he’s not a dictator.
Unless he’s going to claim fraud the other way after making ’discoveries’ about the election process. Then he can claim they did get the plebiscite after all, and his willingness to concede defeat was proof that he wouldn’t have been a dictator if the people really didn’t want it.
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looker
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It was too big a margin—the vote could not be fixed!!! Even so, you should consider Chavez a "dictator-for-life" like Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Chavez has never had trouble changing the rules when he needed to. This vote just tells him that he will have to use other means than popular plebiscite.
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Written By:
Al Fin
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I think he was hoping to ride popular support into legitimizing his dictatorship. Sort of like Hitler did.
This is a setback in that he no longer appears undefeatable and he will have to backdoor his goal to be President for Life making it slightly harder to defend at International forums. |
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Haha so he’s a dictator except when he’s playing at not being a dictator ? Seriously though this is good news. What’s worrying is that he seems to see it as a personal matter between him and his opponent organisations, rather than a democratic expression of the will of the people. I think he’s lost the plot... |
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Blewyn
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I think he was hoping to ride popular support into legitimizing his dictatorship. Sort of like Hitler did. Precisely. Now, after a short pause, he’ll move on to plan B. |
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McQ
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Haha so he’s a dictator except when he’s playing at not being a dictator ? I’m seeing it, just having a hard time believing it.
Give it a couple of weeks and I’ll bet it gets interesting. |
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looker
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Haha so he’s a dictator except when he’s playing at not being a dictator ? In a word, yes.
Going into this he knew there were two ways to get his way.
Option 1 was a national referendum. The obvious advantage there is he could claim a level of legitimacy that would be hard for his critics to fault. The downside was he stood the possibility of losing. But Chavez, egoist that he is, felt that possibility was remote and he could talk enough supporters to vote his way to see it done. He totally miscalculated and that didn’t work.
But he always had option 2. Pass his constitutional amendments via the National Assembly. The obvious upside there is its a sure thing. The just as obvious downside is he can’t claim the legitimacy he so badly wanted by doing so.
But don’t bet that he won’t now go to the NA. He’s not going to peacefully give up power and leave what he’s trying to accomplish partially done. And that’s what dictators do. |
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Written By:
McQ
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All he needs to do it bundle the vote with something for the people who seek more of the govt dole, and he’ll nail it.
If bush promised a limo and a full meal for every meal for life, and cell phones and HD TVs for everyone, bundled with the amendment to make him Pres for Life, he’d get it.
Because The Masses are Stupid. |
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Scott Jacobs
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"Because The Masses are Stupid."
I don’t know if I would phrase it quite like that, but I know that at least 50% of the masses are below average. Except in Lake Woebegone. |
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timactual
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I too am shocked at his concession. I’m afraid that he might not be as stupid as I had hoped. Mankind has historically benefitted greatly by the fact that most tyrants’ meglomania drives them to self-destruct sooner rather than later, and it’s usually just a question of how many they’re going to take with them when they do. Chavez has just demonstrated that he is capable of temporarily suppressing his ego and will to power when it is in his best political interest to do so. Which means Chavez might be around for a while, extending and deepening the economic damage he will ultimately inflict upon Venezuela.
Dang.
yours/
peter. |
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Written By:
peter jackson
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I was also taken aback by his swift concession, I would have expected him to start whining about American imperialist agents having suppressed the democratic wishes of the noble proletariat or something like that. However, 49 percent of the electorate voting FOR this blatant attempt to concentrate power in himself is still startling.
Let us hope that the people from the "poorer neighborhoods" where Chavez got fewer support than he must have hoped, that those people have realized the true nature of the man who has tried (and will surely keep trying) to take away what liberty they still have. |
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Greg
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