>The far right are quite a hateful bunch.
>

>The Curious Behavior of Hugo Chavez by Paul J. Shlichta
>
>Hugo Chavez's abrupt switch to moderate and rational
>speech is understandably disconcerting. Belligerent
>egomaniacs do not suddenly lapse into reasonableness,
>although they may slyly pretend to do so. Therefore,
>in a recent American Thinker blog item, Thomas Lifson
>speculated that Chavez's real motive may be to defuse
>forthcoming evidence of his involvement with FARC.
>
>However, I suspect that [...] the real explanation may
>too simple to be obvious.
>
>Hugo Chavez wants Barack Obama to be our next
>president. So do Vladmir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
>Osama bin Laden, and all of the enemies of the United
>States. Obama is an Americaphobe's dream come true: a
>nice compliant let's-sit-down-and-talk president who
>will submit to endless negotiations that will
>accomplish nothing while giving our enemies time to
>carry out their schemes for undermining us.. Of course
>they cannot actually praise Obama; even Fidel Castro
>had the good sense to qualify his endorsement. But our
>enemies realize that they can help his campaign by
>ceasing to threaten or even by seeming to reform.
>
>The smartest thing that Chavez and Co. can do this
>summer is keep quiet and not make any waves, so that
>the American public will forget that we have any
>foreign enemies. McCain will then appear to be a fool
>and a warmonger for ranting about threats that will
>seem to have disappeared. And if Obama is given the
>luxury of not having to respond to such problems and is
>allowed to confine his campaign to domestic issues, his
>chances of victory will be greatly enhanced.
>
>The sole exception to this conspiracy of silence may be
>Islamic terrorists, who, despite warnings to the
>contrary, still believe that the American people can be
>cowed by terrorism-perhaps because their own people are
>so susceptible to it. Nonetheless, they may be shrewd
>enough to perceive the advantage of lulling the
>American voting public into a false sense of security
>by curbing their activities until the election is over.
>Even Ahmadinejad seems to be quieting down a bit and
>one of his underlings, the commander of the Quds terror
>group of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, has declared
> that he will bide his time until he can deal with the
>"next president"-and you can guess who he's hoping that
>will be.
>
>I predict that this will be a quiet summer. That
>terrorist activity in Iraq and Afghanistan will
>diminish and that our enemies elsewhere will not say or
>do anything to alarm us. But we must not be fooled. And
>we must not allow the voting public to be so blatantly
>hoodwinked.
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