Official "Morales and His Personal Qualities" thread: Is Evo Morales a narcissist?

[sibelian]

Does he have a poledancing girlfriend?

fire away.

[HiPointDem]

1. racist. sexist. latin.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. ok.

He looks a little too much like Machmoud Amanapullasnowdenjob for my taste.

[lunasun]

7. Well Morales is almost 6ft tall - other guy is like 5'3 at most but brown is brown

[lunasun]

3. I read he was angry over the plane thing ! What is up with that????

Angry - yes , really tells it all
scary guy don't you think?

[sibelian]

9. EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE.

nuff said.

[backscatter712]

34. He's an Angry Brown Person!

Quick, call the cops!

[QC]

4. Garage full of boxes. n/t

[Matariki]

8. !!!

[limpyhobbler]

5. it's been reported he has a bad case of dandruff. nt

[Zorra]

6. No! El Indio is the best! Check it:

Evo Morales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales

Juan Evo Morales Ayma or El Indio (English: The Indian), (born October 26, 1959), popularly known as Evo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈe?o]), is a Bolivian politician and activist, who has served as President of Bolivia since 2006. Politically a democratic socialist, he leads the Movement for Socialism party (MAS) and the Cocalero trade union. His administration has focused on the implementation of leftist reform, poverty reduction and combating the influence of the United States and transnational corporations in Bolivia.[1]

Born to an Aymara family of subsistence farmers in Isallawi, Orinoca Canton, Evo undertook a basic education before mandatory military service, in 1978 moving to Chapare Province. Growing coca, he joined the cocalero trade union, rising to prominence in the campesino (rural laborers) union, campaigning against the United States and Bolivian government's attempts to eradicate coca as a part of the War on Drugs. Entering electoral politics in 1995, he became leader of MAS, focusing on issues affecting indigenous and poor communities, advocating land reform and redistribution of gas wealth. Gaining increasing visibility through the gas conflict and the Cochabamba protests of 2000, in 2002 he was expelled from Congress, though came second in that year's presidential election.

Elected president in 2005, he instituted land redistribution and nationalisation of key industries, scaling back U.S. involvement in Bolivia while building relationships with other nations in the Latin American Pink Tide and joining the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. Winning a recall referendum in 2008, he instituted a new constitution before being re-elected with a landslide in 2009, furthering leftist reform and joining the Bank of the South and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Morales has received international acclaim for his support of indigenous rights and anti-imperialism, and has been named "World Hero of Mother Earth" by the General Assembly of the United Nations.[2]

[Kurovski]

13. Obviously all a fabrication. No one can do all that.

My decades here in the states has taught me that such things are impossible in a true Democracy.

Stop with your fantasy-land lunacy!

[LondonReign2]

10. Undoubtedly puts his phone in the refrigerator

[sibelian]

21. They have phones in South America?

And refrigerators?

[idwiyo]

26. He is a multi-super-billionaire with multiple bank accounts in People's Trust of Arizona.

Of course he has a fridge and its a Sub-Zero walk in style!

[sibelian]

29. ...

that'll teach me to be facetious on the Internet....

[Kurovski]

11. Evo sent Christmas cards to Fidel Castro.

He has said that Marlo Thomas is pseudo-feminist and that "Charity is for the poor to pay to the wealthy".

[HangOnKids]

12. I heard he lets his dog crap on your lawn, and likes Antiques Road Show.

Fucking Commie!

[Kurovski]

14. It's worse than that!

He crapped on my antiques, and fed my dog to the lawn.

we have a clear-cut case of a demonic psychopath.

[HangOnKids]

15. Holy Fuck

Jesus, some people...

[byeya]

22. He kept my baseball when it rolled on to his lawn.

[sibelian]

16. He thinks eating chicken causes baldness and gayness!

TRUE!



http://www.examiner.com/article/eating-chicken-causes-homosexuality-according-to-bolivian-president

Dearie me. Well I'm gay and kinda bald and I eat lots of chicken. What does it all MEAN?

[idwiyo]

31. I wouldn't be surprised if he is a homophobe, but I'd like to know what it was that he actually said

This article claims it was mistranslation:
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/04/28/bolivian-president-apologizes-to-spanish-gay-and-lesbian-organizations

“Under no way did it ever cross the mind of President Morales to attack the rights of homosexuals” when he linked hormones and genetically modified crops and its alleged consequences with a diet based on chicken, said Iván Canelas to the La Paz press corps.
“The chicken we eat is full of feminine hormones and that is why when men eat these chickens they undergo deviations from their masculine being”, said Morales last week during the inauguration of an international grass roots alternative climate change forum held in Cochabamba.
Canelas said that President Morales had written a letter to an organization in Spain that brings together lesbians and gays. “We respect their sexual freedom and ratify our respect for what is established in the Bolivian Constitution.”

There must be a transcript of his speech somewhere. I will try to find it and get someone here to translate it.

[sibelian]

35. Well, if it references a letter

presumably the letter is publically available....

?

dunno where I would find it

[JaneyVee]

17. He's a bit "out there" you could say.

[HangOnKids]

18. Out where Janey?

And who is this you? You?

[JaneyVee]

19. Out "there", beyond reality, sometimes.

Evo Morales: 'Chicken causes baldness and homosexuality'.

[Scurrilous]

20. He's a hero.

Add him to the Pantheon. Stat!

[Aerows]

23. I heard

he once held a baby and it cried.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. There's a La Paz cab driver who thinks he's distracting from domestic problems

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3165966

so clearly the entire incident must be ignored ...

[sibelian]

25. Well, well! Apparently he's a parasite...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023176246

I did wonder.

[SidDithers]

27. He's just like Harriet Tubman...nt

Sid

[Jesus Malverde]

28. He' a drug cartel head

Per his wiki he's head of the Cocalero trade union. Which controls the coca-aine trade in Bolivia.

[Marr]

30. I heard he moved his things in boxes. And has a garage.

[Marrah_G]

32. His personal qualities mean nothing

He was a head of state who was held by another country on the say so of yet a third country and those countries attempted to bully him into allowing his plane to be searched.

Our country was WRONG, the countries in Europe were wrong for acting upon our countries bad behavior.

Morales is a peer, an equal to our President.

Obama needs to apologize for our country, if he does not he will be seen as being arrogant and contemptuous towards of one of our neighbors.

[sibelian]

33. Yes. That's what I think.

And, interestingly, the expected tsunami of nonsense about him has been... not as large as I thought it would be...