Venezuela tells McCain "go to hell" for wackos jibe

[kpete]

Venezuela tells McCain "go to hell" for wackos jibe
Mon Jan 23, 2006 03:50 PM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's vice president on Monday told top U.S. Republican Sen. John McCain he could "go to hell" for suggesting that "wackos" were governing the oil-producing South American country.

Commenting on U.S. reliance on foreign oil supplies, McCain told Fox News Sunday, "We better understand the vulnerabilities that our economy and our very lives have ... when we're dependent on Iranian mullahs and wackos in Venezuela."

Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and an OPEC member like Iran, supplies 15 percent of U.S. energy imports. But ties between Washington and left-wing President Hugo Chavez have deteriorated rapidly since his 1998 election.

"He can go to hell," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said responding to remarks by McCain, a prominent Republican and a possible U.S. presidential candidate in 2008.

"Maybe he has got nothing to do over there in the United States," he said.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=10941964&src=rss/domesticNews

[bballny]

1. quite amazing

How are elected officials think it is OK to insult anyone.

[jobycom]

4. Yes. They hate us for our freedoms

or maybe for the liberties we take?

[jobycom]

2. Man, I've been telling McCain to go to Hell for years now, and no one

covers it when I say it. Oh well, as long as someone tells him.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

3. McCain should read some Dale Carnegie books

How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Unfortunately, the repug version is How to Make Enemies and Intimidate People.

[arcane1]

5. grrr... no comment on this one

I don't wanna end up in a database :grr:

VIVA CHAVEZ!!!!!

[marmar]

6. And he's got a lot of nerve...

We're governed by wackos with access to nuclear weapons.

[K-W]

7. "U.S. officials dismiss that as populist rhetoric"

Thanks reuters, Im glad you told me what "US officials" think instead of the truth.

And I love that in the US people are so deeply indoctrinated that calling something populist rhetoric makes it desmissable. Some democracy we have here. Our elitist rhetoric is so much better.

[phoebe]

8. google International Republican Institute (IRI) +see why VP was so angry

McCain happens to be the Chairman and then look up National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and see how closely the 2 are linked.

see the link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Deja Q]

9. If only America learned the first time around...

:(

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[shanti]

11. TWO retards?

hmmmmmmm

[LynnTheDem]

12. I second your

hmmmmmmmm