Reply #95: Maybe he's just a guy.

[booley]

Who is trying to do what is best for his country.

and some things were good ideas. Others were questionable. And Others were misinterpreted by the world at large.

But while I don't hold Chavez as some kind of progressive messiah, I also don't see him being a Dictator. Not renewing television stations that advocated for the violent overthrow of the government and trying to make sweeping economic reform in a country that still has away to go before it's a first world country is hardly on the level of a Pinochet or a Peron. And while many may find his ties to Cuba and Iran troubling (I do), if making alliences with dictators makes him a dictator in turn then it does the same for Carter and Reagan and Clinton and Eisenhower and almost every other American President we have ever had.

I can't help but notice that everytime someone goes on about how Chavez is a dictator, their arguements rely on half truths and a double standerd and implying about what he "might" do.

Lets just worry about our own country right now.