Hugo Chavez, Go Back To Venezuela And Take Danny Glover With You

So, Hugo Chavez, the outspoken President of Venezuela and South American whack-job comes to New York and blasts President Bush at the United Nations. Then he makes a speech the next day in Harlem at a church in which he continues to bash President Bush and Danny Glover, the actor of "Lethal Weapon" fame greets him there with open arms.

I'll be the first one to agree that President Bush hasn't been our best president and doesn't appear to be the brightest guy out there, but he is, after all, the President of the United States. In the past the Office of the President of the United States was respected world-wide, or rather, international politics was more civil.

For Hugo Chavez to come to the United Nations in New York, blast President Bush and get laughs from the United Nations audience and then to be allowed to go to a church in Harlem and continue it is just plain wrong! Before Hugo Chavez opens his fat face again, he really needs to look at his own country which has an unemployment rate of 12.3% and a per capita income of $5,800 but sits on top of an oil reserve. He should focus on making life better for the citizens of his own country instead of coming to the United States and taking shots at our President.

I wonder if he is compensating for his own failures and shortcomings (both public, personal and anatomical) by making the remarks that he does.

What is this world (and country) coming to when the leader of a small, third-world country can waltz on into the US and blast the President and an actor that got lucky with a series of movies but has been a hack actor prior to and since the Lethal Weapon movies supports him.

Here's where it really gets outrageous! The US pays Citgo (The US subsidiary of the Venezuelan State Owned Petroleum Company) $5 more a barrel over market prices based on a 20 year-old agreement according to the New York Times in an article titled Hugo Chavez Gets US Handouts published on August 20th, 2006! Looks like its time to ban oil imports from Venezuela to the US. We could claim that continued oil imports from Venezuela at higher than market prices are a threat to national security! I wonder if the citizens of Venezuela with the $5,800 per capita income would still keep Chavez in power then?

Based on the events this week that unfolded as a result of Chavez, I would love to see the following:

• Chavez gets a one way ride to the US Southern Border in the back of a truck and is told to find his way home (screw diplomatic immunity!)
• Danny Glover has his citizenship revoked and is sent packing with Chavez
• Citgo is shut down by US regulators and all oil imports from Venezuela are banned in the US
  
• The big Citgo sign near Fenway Park suffers an unexplanable loss of power
  
• The United Nations is given 30 days notice to vacate the property because the City of New York takes over the property by eminent domain to build a new stadium for the Yankees
  

These are just my thoughts but I bet a lot of folks are thinking the same way right now!

I'd love your comments on this one.