On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:50 -0800, topbassdog wrote:


Some expert. Â*Chavez has been in power since 1998. Â*Want to guess what
oil prices were then? Â*You may not like him. Â*I don't particularly, but
he has won 3 elections. Â*Somebody must like him.

It's easy to win an election when your opponents are totally powerless.

Or dead.

Huh? His opponents are the Venezuelan fat cats, and landed gentry,
hardly powerless. However, they lost at the polls. Chavez has won three
elections with an average of 60% of the vote. As I said, I don't
particularly care for the man. Although, I do enjoy how he is able to
tweak the nose of our current President.