Richardson Pays Homage To Hugo Chavez
Former presidential hopeful and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, in keeping with the new Democrat tradition of conducting private foreign policy, traveled to Venezuela to embrace one of America’s bitterest enemies in the Western Hemisphere.
And just like that, Chavez is all over it, promising to help in whatever way he could to entice the Columbian terror group, FARC, to release several US hostages the narco-terrorists have held since 2003.
It is significant to remember the reason that Richardson arrived in Caracas, hat-in-hand to ask Chavez to use his influenc
e with the narco-terrorists. As FARC’s patron, Chavez holds a lot of sway.
Last month, a computer seized following a raid on a FARC stronghold contained documents saying Chavez was planning to provide them with $300 million in support.
Richardson was NOT acting under the authority of the State Department and has no more authority than Jimmy Carter had when he met with Hamas in Damascus last week.
But the ordinary Venezuelan on the street doesn’t know that, so Richardson’s visit was a major propaganda coup for the Venezuelan dictator. So it was good for Chavez and elevated his standing in the neighborhood.
Which, for the politically uninitiated, makes it bad for America — and the officials who were actually elected to oversee US foreign policy. (Caracas is a long way from New Mexico)
But, US interests aside, it makes Richardson look good, it legitimizes the Chavez government and it hurts the Bush administration and the United States. What’s not to love?
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This action by Richardson is outrageous!
We watch the news all the time and surely didn’t see anything about this visit. It really irks me when American citizens take it upon theirselves to officially meet with other heads of state and/or torrorist organizations as though they are representing our country.
Lilium
27 Apr 08 at 11:39 am
I’m so glad I was one of the fortunate ones to have left the state of New Mexico; but not before spending about two years living down there.
I hate to badmouth New Mexico, because many of the people there are truly wonderful - and the landscape is some of the most beautiful country you’re apt to ever see anywhere (what with the red dirt and green trees, the white clouds and light blue skies), in which any angle a picture taken via camera can be enlarged, blown into a poster, framed, and place as a hanging in a bedroom or behind the sofa in the living room.
But insofar as the politics of the state goes - and that of this Richardson fellow - it really stinks and is who you know, and are a lot of interrelationship in association one with the other; kind of like what we hear when we read stories of GW Bush being related to the king/queen of England, or related to B. “”Hussein”" Obama etc.
Also explains a lot of why the politics of the state deliberately keeps many of its residence poor, and uses illegals as cheap labor (not much different from the communist Chinese) in that New Mexico is a safe-house, a sanctuary state for everyone and their brother to come on in irregardless of who you are, or who you might be, and nobody is going to ask you anything about it.
I actually felt and wished I’d been an illegal living in New Mexico, when one sees the benefits freely being given to them by the tax payers of New Mexico.
Great read, post, and blog Jack!
VinceB.
30 Apr 08 at 5:30 pm