On the March in Caracas - The silence on the subject is awkward

National Review ^ | February 23, 2014 | Editors

[GeronL]

Those things are becoming a challenge for this country too.

[PGalt]

Barack Obama’s physically clinging to the man who would later denounce him as a “clown”?

LOL/grimace….a circus clown or a John Wayne Gacy clown?

[nathanbedford]

The only thing wrong with Venezuela is that the wrong socialists have been running the country. Just as soon as they get the right socialists in charge it will be running as smoothly as Obamacare.

[EQAndyBuzz]

John Kerry on the deteriorating situation in Venezuela: “
Global Warming is killing the people of that great country. We need to immediately cough up another 2% of whatever salaries you... errr we are earning to help these poor dictators...err people. Yeah people.”

Another “unintended consequence brought to us by the left.”

How come the media isn’t asking Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte or Danny Glover’s opinion? They were the biggest proponents of this folly. Personally, I want to hear what they have to say.

[Prospero]

[PGalt]

Just as soon as they get the right socialists in charge it will be running as smoothly as Obamacare.

Exactly.

How come the media isn’t asking Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte or Danny Glover’s opinion? They were the biggest proponents of this folly. Personally, I want to hear what they have to say.

Citizen journalists could be in their faces 24/7 until comments are extracted from these tools just for more laughs. Check the laundromats. Look for disquised dissidents washing their Che t-shirts.

[Betty Jane]

Think how the situation would be different if each of those people had a gun.

[Former Proud Canadian]

"Which would be a much lower-cost proposition if there were, say, an expanded pipeline system connecting U.S. refiners to Canadian oil producers."

A secure energy supply allows a country to take the moral high ground in foreign affairs. Canadian PM Harper has formed closer ties to Israel while Obama/Kerry seek the opposite. Canada faced down an attempt at blackmail by the UAE over bases and landing rights. Canada closed the Iranian embassy as the US gets closer to Iran. Harper, seemingly, does not miss an opportunity to stand up to the Arabs.

There is more oil in Northern Alberta than in Saudi Arabia. Trans Canada is offering to pipe that oil to the gulf coast, at no cost to the US. If it had been approved five years ago, Keystone would be operational today. Why has Obama delayed it?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

It should be prepared to do more, including placing an embargo on Venezuelan oil.

Don't tell Joe Kennedy.

“Citizens Energy is ready to move forward with the heating assistance program as soon as the Venezuelans provide us with the oil. Every indicator so far has been that they will help out... We very much hope that the Venezuelans will come through as they did for so many years under President Chavez’s leadership"

Don't hold your breath, Joe.

[cripplecreek]

Unfortunately we have a marxist president and any meddling he does there is bound to make things worse.

[DoodleDawg]

It should be prepared to do more, including placing an embargo on Venezuelan oil.

So I want to pay more for my gasoline to show support for the opposition in Venezuela? Sorry, I don't care that much for them.

[txrefugee]

The NYT will run this photo with the caption: Millions Line Streets for Maduro.

[Carry_Okie]

If we have learned anything from the feckless foreign policy of the Obama administration it is that if the United States does not lead, someone will.

The Latin American policy of the Bush administration wasn't much better.

[cripplecreek]

We’ve mostly ignored central and south America for 20+ years and it shows.

[Bob Mc]

"The government has gone so far as to order the armed occupation of a toilet-paper factory, that commodity being in acute shortage, ..."

I wonder if this toilet paper shortage was brought on by "preppers" who knew where things were headed and began to stock up early on?

[gusopol3]

The listing of Jesse Jackson, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, etc., should have led with Noam Chomsky who certainly would be on a leftist Rushmore with Obama, Alinsky and Piven.

[Travis McGee]

[I want the USA back]

The left doesn’t like it. It’s the wrong people rising up against a oppressive regime. In the leftist mind, it should be the poor oppressed people rising up and ESTABLISHING a leftist regime, not protesting it.

So the left and the media ignore it.

[Victor]

"....Think how the situation would be different if each of those people had a gun....."

Think how different things could be in this country if all of the armed citizenry, which is substantial, were to suddenly march on Washington with weapons at the ready.