Cancer hasn't dimmed Hugo Chavez's electoral hopes

[dipsydoodle]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- With less than six months left until Election Day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hardly hit the campaign trail. Instead, he has been consumed with his fight against cancer, repeatedly traveling to Cuba for treatment and publicly vowing to defeat his illness.

While cancer would end the presidential ambitions of many politicians, Chavez's struggle against the disease has in fact become his main rallying cry. Cancer could serve as a political asset if his health holds through the October vote, and that's the big "if" hanging over Venezuelan politics.

Last week, Chavez offered his starkest outlook yet as he wept while holding hands with his parents at a Mass and then pleaded to Jesus Christ to give him more life.

"Give me your crown, Christ," Chavez said in live footage broadcast nationwide. "Give me your cross, 100 crosses. I'll carry it, but give me life because there are still things left for me to do for these people and for this homeland. Don't take me away yet."

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[Judi Lynn]

1. You gotta say he's game, to keep on going, knowing the neo-liberal perverts are reveling

in his misfortune, being so short-sighted they don't realize their lives aren't guaranteed, either, even in their snug little insulated ass-hole nests.

I'm certain he always has believed he would be downed by an assassin's bullet or car bomb, etc. long before he would have time to contract a serious illness. He still kept going, knowing it was possible, if not likely any day.

He's very well aware of how things had been going for the poor in Venezuela, ever since the parasitic scum took over and started living off the labor, and the helplessness of the poor. That's why he knows, and the PEOPLE know how much he is needed. One has only to observe how things were going before him, not for the maggot, over-sated oligarchs, but for the masses of human beings living in that country.

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Hats off to AP and to Reuters for staying true to form, and rolling with sloppy, conspicuouss, unsightly joy in the struggling and suffering being encountered by this man.

[txlibdem]

2. Reuters/AP, staying classy as always

What a sickening display of yellow journalism and lack of human empathy towards a world leader.

[Judi Lynn]

3. You'd think they'd be too embarrassed to stoop that low, wouldn't you? Ugly people.

Twisted, dirty way to make a living, pretending to be journalists.

[txlibdem]

4. A true journalist would spit on the idiots and corporate brown nosers of today

There isn't a true journalist left in America.

That's why I rely on the BBC and other outside sources.