“Follow Me, Comrade Obama!”

Mar 7, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

Chavez Tells Obama He Should Follow Venezuela’s Socialist Path

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez comments on U.S. President Barack Obama and the state of the U.S. economy. He made the remarks today on Venezuelan state television.

“It’s regrettable the crisis that the U.S. is living through. Millions of workers are being left in the street, thousands of companies are closing, in the U.S. there isn’t a single new infrastructure project. Go look for a highway there, the country has gone bust.”

“Now President Obama arrived with some announcements, hopefully, but the capitalist model and its perverse values have failed.”

“I recommend to Obama — they’re criticizing him because they say he’s moving towards socialism — come Obama, ally with us on the path to socialism, it’s the only road.”

“Imagine a socialist revolution in the U.S. Nothing is impossible.”

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a “higher” destiny and bring it out of “the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world.”

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a “socialist” for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of “21st century socialism” that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

“Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one,” he said.

“The American empire is coming to an end. It’s not about the end of the United States, or its institutions, or its people. That murderous, genocidal empire has to end and someday a leader will come that will better interpret that people … who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh … and lead it to a superior destiny, and not give it the sad destiny of a murderous power, an aggressor hated by the whole world.”
(Bloomberg)

Okay, I didn’t add “with video” to my title tag because these vids are in Spanish … and I had one stinking year of high school Spanish … So, if you are fluent, have at it:

Fausta Blog translates some as:

Video in Spanish, from a February 28, 2009 cadena, where Chavez says, among other things, “Obama, take care of yours [the American people] and I’ll take care of mine…To Mr. Obama..,show a little intelligence… Here the DEA supported the drug traffic.” Carries on about torture in Iraq, Americans killing Iraqi children, Israel committing genocide, and concludes with, “Go wash your ass, Mr. Obama. Go wash that ass.”