White House Calls to Congratulate Obama’s Ideological Brother Hugo Chavez on Election Win
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 6:47 AM
White House press secretary Jay Carney congratulated the Venezuelan people on their recent election, despite exit polls showing the opposition to President Hugo Chavez winning. Chavez was several points behind in the exit polling but the Marxist managed to win the general election by a million votes.
Chavez wants to wipe the American empire off the map. Obama just wants to change it into a third world socialist state.
As Investor’s Business Daily noted, Chavez built his Marxist dynasty on the 47% rule.
Mitt Romney was blasted last month for warning about the intractable nature of chronic government dependency. But Venezuela’s election Sunday, which Hugo Chavez won handily, shows how right he was.
Against all odds in a normal democracy, Chavez won re-election to a fourth term against a strong opponent Sunday. The margin was 55% to 44%, putting Chavez in line to become the third longest ruler in the history of the hemisphere, outmatched only by Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner and Cuba’s Fidel Castro, if he survives the six-year term.
It was a curious thing, given that Chavez is a colossal failure as leader — his radical Marxist program serving up shortages, crime, incompetence and corruption, and his alliances with the world’s rogue states and terrorists making Venezuela a pariah state.
It was even sadder because his rival, Henrique Capriles Radonski was a credible, fresh-faced challenger who ran a disciplined, sharp campaign, vowing to align Venezuela along the path of neighbors such as Brazil.
Yet Chavez’s 11-point margin was higher than any poll or exit poll, and while it’s true he tilted the playing field by dominating the airwaves, flinging cash for votes and playing dirty tricks with the ballot itself — placing Capriles’ picture by a party not affiliated with his political alliance — it wasn’t quite outright fraud, as far as is known. Tellingly, Capriles’ team knew all this and still thought it could win.
It didn’t. What brought Chavez victory was an unexpectedly high 80% turnout, which amounted to favors called in because of his culture of dependency, making it easy for Chavista redshirts to round up votes from both the slums and from Venezuela’s government workers. That’s about 43% of the electorate, his base, that’ll vote for him no matter what.
Read the rest here.
Chavez won using the Obama plan and Obama hopes to win using the Chavez plan. No wonder he’s increasing dependency on the government in leaps and bounds. No wonder Obama’s pushing food stamps on illegal aliens. It’s all part of the new Democratic Party plan. It works in Venezuela. Obama hopes it will work here at home too.
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Granny commented:
Chavez also refused to allow the polls to close because he was losing by a landslide. He must have needed some extra time to doctor the numbers.
crackermike commented:
Sooo, I guess Obama DID vote for Hugo.
Joe Blow commented:
You knew Obama would do it as soon as you heard Chavez (magically) won the election. I’m sure there was no voter fraud and there won’t be any in November……….yeah right.
The real Wow commented:
#1 October 9, 2012 at 6:52 am
Granny commented:
Granny, not only to doctor the numbers but also to bus in voters. There are also reports that some voting machines came with around 1700 votes already in them and the books that are kept. Also votes – in small numbers where there were few voters and in large numbers where there were many voters – were skimmed off. These are all being reported by those working at the polls as witnesses. But who will do anything about it in a country that is totally under Hugo’s thumb. This is a snapshot of where we are headed if we let government take over and make our decisions for us.
The real Wow commented:
#2 October 9, 2012 at 6:55 am
crackermike commented:
Maybe not Obama, but Superman probably did.
George commented:
I predicted (over at RealClearPolitics.com) that Obama would be quick to recognize Hugo Chavez’s dubious victory in order to help legitimize it. Sure enough, the congratulations came out almost immediately.
Questionable socialist victories get faster support from the Obama administration than popular anti-Islamist uprisings. Obama’s foreign policy is an unmitigated disaster.
Limousine Barry commented:
Congratulations Hugo!
Now, tell me exactly how to stuff the ballot box so that nobody notices!
More, cemetery votes? More Absentee ballots? More Black Panthers at polling stations?
Let me in on your ballot box magic!
Bill Underwood commented:
I’m sure Chavez called to congratulate Dubya when those Ohio votes “mysteriously” appeared and pushed that sack of crap over the finish line in ’04.
valerie commented:
#4 October 9, 2012 at 7:43 am
The real Wow commented:
NPR is reporting something totally different: how voting turnout was huge and joyful, and how the machine numbers correlated with voter roles, and how the numbers on their face (80% turnout, failure to correspond with pre-vote polls) looked suspicious, but there was NO EVIDENCE of any fraud.
Seriously. That’s their story.
Old One commented:
The countries of Latin America that were Spanish colonies are with one exception terminal toilets eg Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico. Argentina is collapsing under Fernandez Kirchner’s peronist socialism & fascism. Venezuela once thanks to oil wealth was Latin America’s wealthiest country, and Mexico just returned the totaltarian, corrupt,drug trafficer protecting PRI to power.
Spanish America is a flawed culture. The once far poorer countries of the Far Eeast & South Asia will be prosperous societies while Spanish America declines into festering, fetid misery, & decay socially, politically, culturally.
valerie commented:
This is close, but it is NOT the transcript of the story I heard. There were other remarks in it, absolving the Chavez campaign of any vote fraud.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/07/162486075/venezuelas-hugo-chavez-wins-re-election
Nor is this:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162493658/chavez-wins-another-term-as-venezuelas-president
Another entity you pay for, and what it is proud of, at least up to 1997.
http://www.kpfk.org/aboutkpfkpacifica-/92-historyofpacificaradio.html
The real Wow commented:
#9 October 9, 2012 at 12:14 pm
valerie commented:
#4 October 9, 2012 at 7:43 am
Valerie, my comments are based on anecdotal information, people who were witnesses at polling stations and what they saw. You have to know how things are done there. Yes, voter turnout was huge… many bused in by the Chavez campaign. How many of these voted 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times under different names. The voter roll has never been cleared so you have the dead voting. How do you explain powering up a voting machine and it already has votes tallied? Elections have not been clean and clear for ages, and less so under the dictator. I speak with some authority… lived there for 26 years and married to a Venezuelan who is now a proud American. Officially nothing will be said or done to keep the peace, but the murmuring is there. Oh, there were also reports of vote skimming, a few here, a few there and lo and behold, Hugo’s vote count magically increased after lagging behind until the doors were kept open after closing because there were still “voters” in line. How do you explain more voters in the voter rolls than could be accounted for by demographics, population and young people coming of age???
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