Reply #13: "Elected once," Robcon? Chavez has won THREE elections for president

[Peace Patriot]

(not counting elections in which the voters have given him a reform-friendly National Assembly). Two regular presidential elections, and one U.S. taxpayer-funded recall election. And he has won them by increasing margins--the last (Dec. '06) with 63% of the vote.

And nothing the Bush Junta, and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, and their global corporate predator puppetmasters have tried--whether rightwing military coup attempts, or pouring our tax dollars through the USAID/NED into Venezuelan opposition groups, or badmouthing Chavez from here to kingdom come--has succeeded in thwarting the will of the Venezuelan people.

I see no reason why FDR shouldn't have run for, and won, FOUR terms in office. The people wanted and needed his leadership. Why not Chavez? Why is it a "rigged game" to RUN FOR office, and be VOTED up or down, for a third term, or even a fourth? MANY democracies do NOT limit the presidential terms. Ours is a rather peculiar system, in fact. Our two-term limit on presidents was engineered by rightwing forces in this country who hated FDR, and wanted to never again see a popular, leftist leader stay in power that long, and who have never stopped trying to undo the "New Deal" since that time. Now they are doing it through stolen elections and looting the federal treasury for generations to come. Do you call THAT democracy?

The rightwing and the robber barons called FDR a "dictator," too. It was bullshit then, and it is bullshit now. If Venezuelans want Chavez for a third term, it's their RIGHT to change their Constitution and re-elect him!

And when you call Chavez a "despot," it is the voters of Venezuela whom you are insulting--and disregarding.

Like Bush, you want it to be all about Chavez. But it's really not about Chavez. It's about the PEOPLE.