NEW Grand Theft Election Ohio: Robertson vs. Chavez INQUISITION

The Far Right just keeps tossing these soft balls, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. Here is the latest from Grand Theft Election Ohio. Enjoy (but dont stare into Robertson's eyes too long, or he will suck out your soul).

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/050826.htm

Home page for Grand Theft Election Ohio:

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/index.htm

Guardian article about Chavez and why the * Administration may well share Robertson's sentiments (and might even have sent him out there to proclaim a Christian death sentence on him). At the very least, the far right loonies have now opened the door to discussions of how we could have avoided the war in Iraq if we didnt have the rule against assassinating foreign leaders.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1555809,00.html

Equally worrying for the Americans is the time Chávez has devoted to the Middle East, successfully courting the governments that belong to Opec, the oil producers' organisation, some of whom have been labelled by the Americans as "the axis of evil". Today's high oil price has much to do with increased demand from China and India, and from the Iraq war, but the spadework that has given Opec fresh credibility was put in by Chávez. Soon he will be helping to show the new Iranian president, using the Venezuelan example, how to increase the revenues of a state-owned oil company and channel them into programmes to help the poor.

Chávez is widely popular today, but for much of his presidency he has been a contested, even a hated figure, arousing widespread discontent within Venezuela's traditional white elite. Yet although his rhetoric is revolutionary, his reforms have been moderate and social democratic. He criticises the policies of "savage neo-liberalism" that have done so much harm to the poorer peoples of Venezuela and Latin America in the past 20 years, yet the private sector is still alive and well. His land reform is aimed chiefly at unproductive land and provides for compensation. His most obvious achievement, which should not have been controversial, has been to channel increased oil revenues into a fresh range of social projects that bring health and education into neglected shanty-towns.