Chavez calls on Obama to follow path of socialism

[Regis Philbin]

http://drudgereport.com/flashco.htm

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM

Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.

[pinky]

And, of course, Obama will run this country the way Chavez says he should. :rolleyes:

Drudge needs to find another real story to break. He might get some respect then.

[Venisenvy]

This is like quoting a terrorist when he says "death to America" of course chavez wants a social revolution in the United States, he wants one everywhere. Soooooo?????

[Sasha Reigne]

I have learned to not fault Chavez for his hatred towards the US, and I dont necessarily have a problem with him stating what he thinks the US should be doing seeing as how the US has been interfering in Latin American politics for decades.
I just hate that you know Rush and Hannity are going to grasp onto this and yell that this proves Obama is a socialist

[Venisenvy]

The thing is Chavez is just as bad, funding FARC etc... he is interfering with other latin american countries way worse than the US has done in recent times.

[ConnieB]

And he is going to get Socialism here in the USA as we are already on that course thanks to Obama. If you guys can't see it, then for once I'm going to say it...you are blind!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are supporting this socialistic change it's even worse. America is not about the government controlling things....that is why many people came to America to get away from control. America is about choice and freedom and that is slowly being taken away and Americans are letting it happen.

[LesterX]

Yes, Connie, anyone who dares to disagree with your personal assessment of Obama is blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What choices and freedoms has Obama taken away?

[db44]

Ooh, you're right Connie. All us Obama-ites are coming to get you. Better start a militia. :rolleyes:

[WannaBreatheYou]

Yes, Connie, anyone who dares to disagree with your personal assessment of Obama is blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What choices and freedoms has Obama taken away?

I guess Connie didn't think that The Patriot Act took away from personal freedoms.

[lions1mew]

I guess Connie didn't think that The Patriot Act took away from personal freedoms.

Damn right. That one piece of legislation took away more freedoms than Connie could EVER envision. Socialism Dubya style!

[pinky]

I guess Connie didn't think that The Patriot Act took away from personal freedoms.

She also didn't think that the prescription program and the initial bailout funds were socialist;;;;;;;;;;;;; nor did she apply that label to No Child Left Behind,,,,,,,,,, in which the federal government took over ratings of ALL public schools in the country..........

[WannaBreatheYou]

She also didn't think that the prescription program and the initial bailout funds were socialist;;;;;;;;;;;;; nor did she apply that label to No Child Left Behind,,,,,,,,,, in which the federal government took over ratings of ALL public schools in the country..........

Snort. No child left behind my aching ass. THAT program was such a friggen joke it wasn't even funny. It's STILL a joke.

[pinky]

Actually, parts of the law are good. Until schools were required to report on all the subgroups in their students, some districts were actually encouraging some of their special needs kids to stay home on standardized testing days, so they wouldn't look like bad schools. Now, the student population is broken down into a number of subgroups, like special ed, and the schools are required to report those groups separately, as well as in their total performance.

But some of the requirements, notably the one that says that 100% of a school's students must be able to pass the same test (ironic coming from a President who can't pronounce a simple word like "nuclear"), are ridiculous, and will NEVER happen. And for the government to say that parents of students in "failing" schools (define failing: I would argue that a certain Ivy League college that passed a doofus with "gentleman's C's" ought to be considered a failure) would then be given money to send their kids to another, private school is absurd, unless you're going to require the same things from the private schools that you do from the public schools....keep the discipline problem kids, the lazy ones, the ones from homes where education isn't valued, and require that they take the same test as the one administered to the public school kids. Level the playing field, and then watch what happens.

[WannaBreatheYou]

Actually, parts of the law are good. Until schools were required to report on all the subgroups in their students, some districts were actually encouraging some of their special needs kids to stay home on standardized testing days, so they wouldn't look like bad schools. Now, the student population is broken down into a number of subgroups, like special ed, and the schools are required to report those groups separately, as well as in their total performance.

But some of the requirements, notably the one that says that 100% of a school's students must be able to pass the same test (ironic coming from a President who can't pronounce a simple word like "nuclear"), are ridiculous, and will NEVER happen. And for the government to say that parents of students in "failing" schools (define failing: I would argue that a certain Ivy League college that passed a doofus with "gentleman's C's" ought to be considered a failure) would then be given money to send their kids to another, private school is absurd, unless you're going to require the same things from the private schools that you do from the public schools....keep the discipline problem kids, the lazy ones, the ones from homes where education isn't valued, and require that they take the same test as the one administered to the public school kids. Level the playing field, and then watch what happens.

Even the teachers here in Washington state HATE the test that they give the kids, that the kids have to pass in order to graduate. There are no levels, everyone, regardless of their level in math, reading, etc. have to take the same test. The kids who are taking remedial math take the same test as the kids in Advanced Calculus. It's ludicrous, and the teachers LOATHE it.

It was much better when I was a kid and we took the MATs in 6th, 9th and 12th grades.

[Sasha Reigne]

I actually liked the idea of parents being allowed to take their kids out of failing schools and receiving help to send them to good but expensive schools.

[WannaBreatheYou]

I actually liked the idea of parents being allowed to take their kids out of failing schools and receiving help to send them to good but expensive schools.

School vouchers? I'd love to send my kid to private school but can't afford it, period. Hell, it's all about just surviving right now. But with his ADHD, I think the smaller class sizes would help him tremendously.

[pinky]

I actually liked the idea of parents being allowed to take their kids out of failing schools and receiving help to send them to good but expensive schools.I'm not completely against the idea of that, however the public schools are at a disadvantage compared to the private ones. In a private school, if a student is disruptive, violent, disrespectful, etc, that student and his/her parents get called to the principal's office, where they're told that the student is no longer welcome to attend that school. Case closed.

For that same student in a public school, there would be MONTHS of investigation by the child study team, while the student is still attending the school and raising hell; then, IF the study team finds that the child should be placed in another school or program, and IF the parents agree to this, the student can be moved to an alternative school or into a program for emotionally disturbed students (or some other classification, depending on the issues). Then the school district is required to pay big bucks to educate this child in this alternate, more expensive situation, plus provide transportation to and from the other school, possibly as the only student on that route, until the child is 18, or even 21 if there is a disability that falls under ADA.

The same issues hold true for those students who are simply academically challenged.

If the government is going to provide vouchers, then ALL the schools with students receiving voucher money ought to be subject to the same guidelines.

[MissAugust]

And he is going to get Socialism here in the USA as we are already on that course thanks to Obama. If you guys can't see it, then for once I'm going to say it...you are blind!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are supporting this socialistic change it's even worse. America is not about the government controlling things....that is why many people came to America to get away from control. America is about choice and freedom and that is slowly being taken away and Americans are letting it happen.


Rush, is that you?

[db44]

Rush is looking for wife number what now, five? Maybe Connie should join Reg in the Mormon church and marry Rush along with her current husband. :devil: