On Jan 9, 8:36*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:19:50 -0800, topbassdog wrote:
Some expert. *Chavez has been in power since 1998. *Want to guess what
oil prices were then? *You may not like him. *I don't particularly, but
he has won 3 elections. *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. *

With no disrespect. Chavez is still a two-bit dictator. I would say
that his *fat cat* opponents are under his ownership or possibly his
fist.

Leopoldo Lopez may have beaten Chavez at the polls and won this past
election. However ,Chavez had him banned, due to charges of
corruption, even though no evidence was of corruption were found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...elections.html

Concerning Hugo's *tweaking* of your President.
Personally, I'm not very concerned how he's *tweaked* the current
administration, but rather how he will tweak the next.