It's only damning of socialism if the US's current problems are also damning of capitalism.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Chavez is finished.

"Finished" in what sense?

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Finished as in anything resembling an effective and productive leader in Venezuela. His popularity has plumetted. He's become nothing more than a voice of predictable anti-US rhetoric.

You think he'll remain impotent for the next three years?

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

A bore? Tell me you do not find him entertaining: YouTube - hugo chavez vrs bush


You may have seen this already actually, but I still find it funny.

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"...Follow the crystal star to the pyre of the flame; there exists the dwelling of the spreading fire. The heart of this life rests upon the fate of that place, and what begins there sends a contagion to the rest of the universe.
As long as the fire burns we shall never be free..." (The Shadows of Yavara, Final Reclamation)

Oh yes. Very entertaining, but a bit of a one trick pony.


;)

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Incompetant is a more accurate word.

One does not reach Chavez's position by being incompetent.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

Ron Paul comes to mind. 22 years of doing absolutely nothing.

Plenty of incompetants in government leadership positions. Chavez is just one of the more vocal and ostentatious of the lot.