Cheney: Hugo Chavez is the President of Peru.

[babylonsister]

Is the warmonger losing it?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/02/cheney-hugo-chavez-is-the-president-of-peru/

Cheney: Hugo Chavez is the President of Peru.

This morning in a speech in Dallas, a reporter asked Vice President Cheney about his views on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Cheney responded that the people of Peru “deserve better” leadership:

MODERATOR: Our attention is focused on Iraq, Iran and the wider Middle East. However, much of the world is watching closely Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. How concerned are you about his influence?

CHENEY: We have — I’m trying to think how to state this diplomatically.

(LAUGHTER)

Diplomacy is hard sometimes.

(LAUGHTER)

We have refrained from making public pronouncements about Mr. Chavez — I think, for good and legitimate reasons. He’s a — obviously, an individual with his own agenda. And he spends a great deal of his time worrying about us and criticizing the United States.

My own personal view is that he does not represent the future of Latin America. And the people of Peru (sic), I think, deserve better in their leadership Alan García. (At least Cheney didn’t call Africa a “nation.”). But that’s obviously a matter they’ve got to resolve for themselves.

For the record, Peru’s current president is Alan García. (At least Cheney didn’t call Africa a “nation.”)

[MADem]

1. What HO!! Could it beeee??? Have they found OIL in Peru?????

That's the only way I can account for such a clumsy error!!!

[babylonsister]

3. LOL! nt

[LakeSamish706]

2. lol.. Now thats funny and scary all at the same time...... Geez.. n/t

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah

No wonder the Coffin resigned from his office. Darth is fugging dead weight. :rofl:

Someone else posted that he looked really bad yesterday.

[Bobbieo]

7. Cheney/Bush are worse than stupid. They don't have to care what they are saying

and I don't see anyone stopping them. That is the scary part!!

[LakeSamish706]

5. Well now I really think that we should be expanding on Dennis Kucinich's...

idea of checking both Bush and Cheney for mental problems...

[stellanoir]

6. Wows

He has truly outdone himself in terms of furthering falsehoods in his constant proclivity of demonstrating that he doesn't know squat about the rest of the world.

He did get one thing right though for a change. . ."diplomacy is hard sometimes." He just omitted the phrase "when we are continually threatening to bomb the crap out of the rest of the world."

So deranged.

[rAVES]

8. Deserve better leadership....

ie: one who will sell them out to my greed.

[Guaranteed]

9. Kick....this is pretty funny. nt

[Dr. Strange]

10. Where are the Chavez apologists now?

He's not a dictator, they said. He's a great leader, they said.

And now that he's taken over Peru? What do you have to say now?

[JackRiddler]

11. That's obviously not what he says in the transcript.

"My own personal view is that he* does not represent the future of Latin America. And the people of Peru, I think, deserve better in their leadership** Alan García."

*-Chavez
**-omits the word "than" (a minor misstatement, or possibly transcript mistake)

Two sentences, different topics. Cheney doesn't like Chavez. And he also doesn't like Alan Garcia. No suggestion in the transcript that Cheney thinks Chavez is (also) president of Peru, unless you want to read something false into a transcript that's abundantly clear.

If you applied this method universally to transcripts of spoken words, you'd be constantly coming up with such supposed whoppers from everyone.

You bet Cheney knows who's president in each of those countries (also where the oil lies).

[1932]

12. They all look the same to him.