Obama shuts down radio stations, nationlizes internet, car companies, banks, manufacturing

[The Straight Story]

After many negative stories on faux news, rw radio, and the blogosphere President Obama took over the media while promoting freedom of speech.

"People can disagree with me, as long as I agree with how and when they do it." he said.

One popular site, Democratic Underground, was on the list of those to be shut down as they questioned government involvement in 9/11 as well as the president's decisions over the war, banking bailouts, health care reform, and the influence of powerful lobbies.

Efforts to call for change were met with rebuke by the government and were labeled as an attempt to overthrow the government "Those who do not agree with me and want change are obviously plants by the KGB." Obama was heard to say.

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No, the above is not true at all of course, but replace Obama with Chavez and you can see why some of us on the left aren't going all ga-ga over him and his actions.

If bush had done what chavez has, what would we say? When do we stop praising a leader we like and start criticizing them?

[vadawg]

1. cue the venezualan public information office posters and their prepackaged replies.

[Syrinx]

2. I don't believe Chavez to be a good guy

And I don't understand why so many here do.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Because he's anti-Bush.

A few years ago, there were a group of DUers who semi-supported Ahmadinejad.

Why?

Because he was anti-Bush!

:eyes:

[Syrinx]

7. well that's a pretty dumb reason

:hi:

[boppers]

3. Exile Obama to Costa Rica! eom

[depakid]

4. "If bush had done what chavez has,"

Bush and Cheney have done so much worse- and they razz you, too. Yes, YOU. Right in the face.

[old mark]

5. Chavez is a dictator, pure and simple, as was Castro - just because they

claim to be leftist means very little - they are still undesirable.


mark

[Tejas]

8. Where are Chavez's cheerleaders?

If you're lurking, and we know you are........I told you so!

Chavez is and has been losing it!

[Peacetrain]

9. Chavez is a dictator.. period.. when the only way you can hold power

is through dictatorship.. that is the republican way..

[COLGATE4]

10. Thanks

Thanks for starting this thread. Many of us are tired to death of the incessant threads of those DUer's seemingly enamored with Chavez who is little more than a cunning, vile thug who managed to exploit a disinterested Venezuelan public with a cheap populism and get himself "elected". Since then he has been crystal clear in his goal to not only mimic but eventually supplant Castro as the leader of the far left and Marxist groups in Latin America, and has devoted millions upon millions of dollars which belong to the Venezuelan people to destabilizing democratically elected governments in the region. In addition he has openly and financially supported the vicious FARC guerrillas in Colombia. The man is an abomination.

[lame54]

11. Yeah, But, when he called Bush the devil - how cool was that?