It's welcoming to read the public denouncements (and private ones) of Hugo Chavez from members of both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party ("DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS CRITICIZE CHAVEZ").

The most efficient summation I've read is this:

The New York Daily News Page 1 headline on Friday told Chavez to "ZIP IT!", and the New York Post called him a "JERK!" and the "Caracas Crackpot."

I also think this is the first time I have ever agreed with much of anything said by Congressman Charles Rangell (" CONG. RANGEL CONDEMNS CHAVEZ'S ATTACK ON BUSH"), as to this part:

I want to express my extreme displeasure with statements by the President of Venezuela attacking U.S. President George Bush in such a personal and disparaging way during his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly.

But then Rangel goes off into liberal generalities, as he can be relied upon to do:

...the Venezuelan government has been instrumental in providing oil at discounted prices to people in low income communities who have suffered increases in rent as heating oil prices have risen sharply. By offering this benefit to people in need, Venezuela has won many friends in poor communities of New York and other states.

That's not the answer. It's counterproductive to try to placate madmen, quacks, "crackpot" "jerks" such as is Chavez. Especially since the beguiled worm and his wormy associates have every intention of inflicting all possible harms upon anyone deemed to threaten their socialist-dictatorship-feigning democracy, if not already.

No, the answer, the correct response to this worm is one of total rejection.

Chavez even substantiates his wormy intent if he's so much as attempted to be put aside:

Chavez repeated his warning that he would halt oil shipments if the U.S. tries to oust him. He added he would like to see a U.S. president "who you could talk with."

The kooky-crazy-man is attempting to foment support for his grab -- and that by Iran's more monstrously disturbed kooky crazy man, Ahmadinejad -- of power and influence in the United Nations, and Chavez I am sure is out to make himself into Castro-Part Two, The-Next-Egomaniac-of-Latin-America (if not already)

I was among a few other lone voices among bloggers and media in general attempting to expose Hugo Chavez's madness a while ago -- last year specifically -- but at least what Chavez's egomanical "U.S. Tour" has accomplished is that the general U.S. public is now aware of him and what it is he seeks. It's not "aid to the poor," that Chavez seeks, it's more attention for Chavez's poor mental health and spiritual corruption he's after. Explain why and you understand madness.

From EUPHORIC REALITY (thanks to AMERICAN DAUGHTER for the link):

BOYCOTT CITGO.

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About Hugo Chavez, from a Salon blog by an author who is Venezuelan...

While Chavez was talking about peace and the rights of people, he continues to neglect his own country where, since Chavez took over in 1998, 90,000 people have died on homicides as murders have tripled in these eight years Chavez has been President. To put it in perspective this is more deaths under the "caring Chavez" than in the armed conflict in Colombia (73,000), The Persian Gulf War (63500), the Chchen war (50,000) or the war in Afghanistan (33,000).

And those who die come from the lowest social strata, the "pueblo" that Chavez claims to care so much for. Meanwhile, 44 Venezulans die daily in homicides as Venzuela has 40 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants per year, an achievement that can be blamed completely on the Chavez Government which has tripled the numbers in eight years by ignoring the problem as well as its total incapacity to attack it. Venezuela now has the dubious honor of being the number one country in the world in deaths by firearms according to UNESCO.

Meanwhile, the country's judicial system, the cornerstone of Chavez accomplishments in the first three years in office can claim the following:

-- 90,000 monthly crime complaints are filed and processed.
-- There are 98 cops per 100,000 people, less than one third of what is needed.
-- Prosecutors handle 3,000 cases monthly each
-- Judges decide on 1.6 complaints per hour
-- 93% of homicides go unpunished.
-- Deaths by confrontation with police have increased by a factor of 5.
-- Kidnappings have doubled in eight years.
-- Over half the judges are temporary.

Thus, our "caring", "daring" President spends his time abroad insulting others and accusing them of the same crimes he is responsible for in Venezuela: (h)is total neglect for his people as he travels and has become an absentee President, who in the end cares only about his personal project and not the "peace", "rights" or welfare of his Venezuelans citizens. Hopefully, he will spend sometime here in the next few months and leave his US$ 83 million Airbus parked, stop buying more weapons, planes and helicopters and worry about and work for his own people. But I doubt it.

The rest is simply a charade. But that is all we have seen for the last eight years.

READ THE WHOLE THING and earlier entries related from Satan's Poop, Inc. Paila Master, author of the Salon Blog, THE DEVIL'S EXCREMENT.

"VENEZUELA'S CHAVEZ: 'U.S. HAS LOST IN IRAQ'" and other rotten, unpleasant smells from south of our border and beyond reason, from the lost without a compass, gluttenously disturbed, indigestible and perpetually acidic Hugo Chavez.

I think God gave the world Hugo Chavez so we could see what good taste, good cookery and temperance in all thngs are by seeing what they are not.

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Hugo Chavez Joins Activist Sheehan to Bash Bush

Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, who she says she so woefully feels self pity for having lost, fought voluntarily and confidently in the Iraq War, which he believed in, against a miltiary dictator very similar in behavior and policy and politics to Hugo Chavez of Bolivia, who now kisses and hugs with Cindy Sheehan before the world's media. A run for the Senate pales in responsibility compared to the degree this woman has betrayed her son's legacy while cavorting with one of the world's leading narco terrorists. Which means nearly as badly that she's also betrayed with perseverance the United States of America.

Would that our national security might prevent her from returning to the country. Chavez and Castro certainly have room for her permanently -- along with some fruit baskets -- in Bolivia or Cuba or both.

Hear and view how little Cindy Sheehan knows about anything and even less about herself with the depth of self-pity and the destructiveness of irresponsibility, video composite:

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