Richardson: Chavez Can Be Trusted
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I have always liked Bill Richardson. Even when he stabbed the Clintons in the back and endorse Obama, which took guts by the way. I mean, Bill Clinton took this unknown congressman and made him a US Ambassador to the UN and then gave him a cabinet spot. He then rode that success to become the Governor of New Mexico. Then when his wife is running, the Governor see a sinking ship and sides with her opponent. Great drama and I have cheered him on.
That was until he said today that Hugo Chavez can be trusted to help free US hostages in Colombia.
Yeah, he can be trusted to twist our arm. This is the same guy who wanted (along with Ahmadinejad) a $100 Barrel Oil to fund the transformation of Venezuela from a democracy to a socialist dictatorship. At the UN Assembly, he had the audacity to call our leader El Diablo. Worse yet, Chavez is friends with FARC.
Maybe he could free the US hostages, but he'll want something in return. And I am sure he'll want something both Bush or McCain will never be able to give him (maybe Obama or Clinton would be willing to sell our soul to the dictator Chavez, but that's another story).
First Jimmy "Mr Malaise" Carter visited Hamas (now Cater is denying anyone told him not to go, which we all know is utter bull) and now this...
What the heck is with these Democrats and their middling in foreign policy? I thought Article I, Section 8 gave the Federal Government, not the States or Individuals, power of foreign policy?
Frankly, I don't remember Republicans doing this during Clinton's years in the White House. I think there should be a law against people who act on behalf of the U.S. Government without the approval of the federal government. I don't know, maybe we can call it Treason!
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Or liked him, either. He's one of the biggest weasels ever to run the Department of Energy, and when America grabs for their empty wallets and wonders why we don't have nuclear power or an aggressive campaign to satisfy our needs for either conventional or alternative energy, and especially why we've left it to the French to develop thermonuclear fusion, there is nobody in the world more culpable than Bill Richardson.
During the last throes of the Clinton Administration Bill Richardson presided over the baseless prosecution of Wen Ho Lee at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- a trumped-up and absolutely baseless crusade based on fantasy charges that he was transferring secrets to the Chinese. Bill Richardson did that to find a convenient scapegoat and distract attention from the Clinton Administration's legions of problems, and make them "look tough" on espionage by prosecuting a completely innocent man for something he didn't do. That's Bill Richardson's legacy.
Wen Ho Lee received a 1.6 million dollar settlement from the government and 5 media organizations as a result of Bill Richardson's desire to suck up to his suckwad of a boss.
Richardson should have been in this picture between Sandy Burglar and Madeline Halfbright as their little footstool.
On the balance the Bush Administration has been better than the Clinton Administration was on alternative energy and sustainable energy. They've been nowhere near as aggressive as I would like. The very first thing George W. Bush should have done in his first term was to get nuclear power back off the drawing board and inject a large amount of money into fusion research. Now their opportunity is past -- squandered.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aren't going to do it.
Are you listening, John McCain?
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If Chavez did not have oil dollars to throw around in South America and the Caribbean and Vermont, he would not have a say in anything.
His ownership of the CITGO corp allows him access to far too many pols in the USA. Oil and its influence pervades his whole reason for being. Power, control and influence drives this South American pol
In my opine, it is not worth the sweat to even consider this individuals influence on our systems.
He will pass, as so many others of his ilk. A year from today, he will be passe'.
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I mean, geeze.
How dumb can you get?
I'm not saying there is no way Chavez would ever do such a thing, it would depend on what was in his political best interest, but to say he could be "trusted" to do such a thing is nothing short of insanity.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas