[Kitten Festival]

This is incredible, riveting reporting about what is really going on in the cow towns of Venezuela that the msm is totally ignoring. Venezuelans cannot stand Hugo Chavez and want this antichavez candidate - who won't busy himself calling Bush 'the devil' - and instead focus on cleaning up Venezuela. It is one great read.

[Paleo Conservative]

Will Jimmy Carter be available to "certify" the results again?

[Nateman]

How can anybody win an election where the incumbent can fix the results any way he wants? It's going to take an overthrow like that which happened in Romania to get rid of Chavez

[rjp2005]

ROSALES! ROSALES! ROSALES!

When is the election down there?

[rjp2005]

I'm sorry - I meant - the "election"

[justa-hairyape]

Why in the world would Chavez make fun of 'cowboys' ? He did this when he said Bush walks like a 'cowboy'. Does Chavez even know or realize how important cowboys are to Latin America ? Chavez appears to care not one bit about the poor people of Latin America. Why in the world is he giving away Venezuela's assets to American poor people ? America is the richest nation on earth. We do not need his support.

[Porterville]

I like the Clinton Video Game better

[supremedoctrine]

Interesting---the Chavez government seems to impose some kind of sharecropping system on farmers. It makes good sense that with waning support in his own country, he came looking for a jumpstart here but instead found a last hurrah in his UN showboating. This guy is doomed: it's as though his unspoken fantasy was to be forcefully installed as President of the United States with the help of Harlem and Danny GLover.

[supremedoctrine]

BTW, thanks so much for finding and posting that: our attention has been directed lately with so much prolonged special focus on Chavez himself it's as though we already assumed he was President for Life, like Castro, and not subject to challengers.

[EternalVigilance]

I hope and pray that Mr. Rosales has good security.

Lefists in power are dangerous.

[RebekahT]

Considering Chavez jails his challengers, I'm not sure what kind of success this guy can have in an "election." But the good news is that there are people who are willing to challenge him - and we should help them (take that, Pat!). We better do it quickly before the people of Venezuela turn into the Cubans - despise their dictator but are almost entirely powerless against him and just waiting for the SOB to die.