Here's what I would have said to Hugo Chavez, had I seen him at the last

[sabrina 1]

77. Where is this hero worship you keep talking about?

You say there is some difference between our obscenely wealthy elected officials and assuming there is any truth to it, Chavez because the 'left 'worships him' and I guess we don't have any hero worship here for our wealthy, political leaders. Reagan, eg, isn't a 'GOD' to half this country?

There is no hero worship on the left for Chavez, there is a reaction to the propaganda from the West for a leader of an oil producing country whose people used the democratic process to elect him, over and over again. The reaction you see is to the attempt to negate the right of the Venezuelan people to choose who want as their president, by the US Backed attempted Coup against yet another democratically elected leader because he intended to share his country's oil revenues with the people who own them.

How anyone on this board can jump from people condemning our interference with sovereign nations who have done nothing to us, to the right wing lies used to try to influence public opinion, to 'hero worship' is beyond me.

So straightening out lies that we KNOW can lead to illegal invasions, or coup d'etats especially in that region of the world considering our criminal support for the most brutal dictators, is now 'hero worship here on a democratic forum'?? Explain this please. I have never seen a Liberal Democrat engage in hero worship of any leader, here or anywhere else. They are generally way too intelligent not to understand that no human being is perfect. That is generally the purvue of the ignorant, far right, see Reagan again.

I think it's time we actually discussed these phrases people throw out there, and get to the bottom of what basis in reality they have.