[Egregious Philbin]

I just think we need to be careful about saying who is destroying democracy and who isn't. Supporting a coup is a bad thing for us to be doing. Coups are not democratically elected.

[livius]

Boy, are you two guys ignorant!

Why don't you go back and do some research before visiting us from DU?

Chavez was elected (so was Hitler) but changed the entire system after his election. He has rewritten the constitution twice and has replaced virtually everybody in the judiciary and parliament.

Even so, there is a clause in the VZ constitution that grants opponents the right to give him what amounts to a vote of no-confidence. This is what he is refusing. He knows he'd lose.

As for Gore, even the rabidly pro-Dem Miami Herald ran the scenario about 10 different ways (with chads, without chads, etc.), and Bush still came out ahead. Stick that in your bong and smoke on it.