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Obama Labels Hugo Chavez A Dangerous Demagogue

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Yglesias, Barack Obama said (and here Jeralyn on the same speech):

[D]emagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum [of a failed US Latin America policy.] His predictable yet perilous mix of anti-American rhetoric, authoritarian government, and checkbook diplomacy offers the same false promise as the tried and failed ideologies of the past.

I agree with Obama's assessment of Chavez. One of Obama's big blog supporters and a good friend of mine, Al Giordano, does not. Al does not mention that in his review of Obama's speech. I had a debate with Al about Chavez in ancient blogging history at Daily Kos, where his admiration and support of Chavez was plain and unstinting. More. . . .

There were many Chavez supporters in the Left blogs and I battled many of them over the years (a lot of Castro supporters too.) I wonder how they feel about Obama addressing the Cuban American National Foundation - or the Cuban "mafia" as people like Yglesias and others like to call them

Principles? Josh Marshall? Hello?

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).