Where's the outcry? Where's the American who understands the world outside our borders well enough to know whether or not anything Hugo Chavez says is even worth listening to, let alone getting upset over?
I guaran-damn-tee you that every American who does know the answer to that question (I grant that I do not; I know Venezuela is an OPEC member, but that's about all) also knows enough about politics to discount anything said in a public forum by a politician who's in the middle of riling his constituency up into enough of a frenzy to give him the broad dictatorial powers he doesn't already have and so desperately wants.
The majority of Americans don't give a rat's behind what some jumped-up little man in charge of some furrin' country says. Which is, of course, your point. :)
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I guaran-damn-tee you that every American who does know the answer to that question (I grant that I do not; I know Venezuela is an OPEC member, but that's about all) also knows enough about politics to discount anything said in a public forum by a politician who's in the middle of riling his constituency up into enough of a frenzy to give him the broad dictatorial powers he doesn't already have and so desperately wants.
The majority of Americans don't give a rat's behind what some jumped-up little man in charge of some furrin' country says. Which is, of course, your point. :)