An Ailing Chavez Prays For Time

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56. Not to leave any question unanswered. I call him Huguito the way I call Shrub Shrub.

One of the Huguito stalwarts here once berated me for dissing "a head of state" or whatever. I use my mild diminuitives to ridicule my political/philosophical enemies: LIMBOsevic, Shrub, Matt SLUDGE/PUDGE (although it's hard to go worse than "DRUDGE&quot .

But more seriously, my thing with Huguito is not just a "you just don't like (him)" triviality.


Regardless of whatever "gains" he claims to have made for the disadvantaged, he's a BULLYING THUG. What used to be called "a strongman." The PERONs (yes, I know they were in Argentina) did lots of charity junk and MUSSOLINI got the trains on time and HITLER loved dogs and LIMBOsevic loves Xmas. And murdering Che looked great in a beret. And, NO, my comment about Che does NOT mean I'm a supporter of the BATISTA a-holes, the CIA Cubans, the Rethug Cubans in Congress. I detest Gloria ESTEBAN and her hubby Esteban ESTEBAN or whatever his name is, too. Did you know she was attemptedly recruited into the CIA (she says she declined)? And the ESTEBANs have been fixtures at Poppy state dinners and countless B.F.E.E. events. Evo and especially Rafita (to keep the little names going) are on my lists, too.


Thugs do MORE DAMAGE to the window dressing beneficiaries' causes with their thugism than any good they do.

I'm reading Robert CARO's bio of Robert MOSES, with its profile of Al SMITH and of the Progressive movement, and the point is made about "practical politics" versus uncompromising idealism: SMITH had contempt for idealists who staged great theater for their causes but GOT NOTHING PASSED INTO LAW, whereas the political ART OF THE POSSIBLE made REAL, concrete gains in maybe-little piece by little piece. Same thing happened in 195(8?) when LBJ got the first Civil Rights law passed in a hundred years, while he was railed against by Libs for his having watered it down (to get it passed). (Talking here BEFORE his later, BIG deals.)