November 28, 2006

Joe Kennedy Teams Up With Hugo Chavez

It seemed the Kennedy family had bottomed out with the irresponsible degenerate Chappaquiddick Ted. But Joseph P. Kennedy II has managed to sink further still.

In jarring contrast to JFK's courageous stand against communism, Joe Kennedy has formed an alliance with socialist strongman Hugo Chavez, a brutal thug who openly models himself on totalitarian dictator Fidel Castro and whose regime has been steadily tightening its grip on the throat of what remains of democracy in Venezuela.

An ally of every enemy America has, including Iran's ayatollahs, North Korea, and of course Fidel Castro, Chavez relentlessly denounces the United States. When he is not characterizing our President as "the Devil" to the other corrupt thugs at the United Nations, he is providing discount heating oil to American communities shameless enough to accept it. The idea is to make us look bad, and to convince the willfully stupid that only socialist thugs care about the shivering poor. This sort of propaganda has been helpful in the quest by leftists to sow seeds of totalitarianism throughout Latin America. Recently they've gained ground in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.

Former Massachusetts Congressman Kennedy, who is expected to run for Governor or Senator at some point in the future, has teamed up with Chavez to milk the heating oil charade for publicity. He actually has ads on television boasting of his involvement in an enemy regime's propaganda campaign against his own country.

Obviously, if Chavez had any legitimate interest in helping the poor, he would let up on the socialism so that his own country might stop sinking ever deeper into poverty despite high oil prices. Annual inflation in Venezuela averaged 20% from 2001 to 2005. Chavez's contempt for property rights has made investment virtually impossible, resulting in an ever-shrinking middle class.

Though Venezuela is still nominally a democracy, Chavez has announced that he will rule until 2021. Elections are so characterized by violence, intimidation, and fraud that only Jimmy Carter is willing to endorse them — and even Jimbo would have qualms if Chavez weren't a leftist and rabidly hostile toward the USA.

In the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela is ahead of only Cuba when it comes to press freedom according to Freedom House. It is also second last in Transparency International's corruption perception index.

Yet Kennedy characterizes his complicity with Chavez's anti-US propaganda gimmick as "morally righteous." Falling back on the relativism that has replaced the notion of right and wrong in liberal minds, allowing them to excuse any abomination, he dismisses concern for Chavez's totalitarian tendencies by smirking that there has been "ample room for improvement in the ways that people get elected in Venezuela as well as in Florida."

It's merciful that JFK didn't live to witness this.

On a tip from Varla.

Posted by Van Helsing at November 28, 2006 10:07 AM