Let's call his bluff!

Eliminate the middle man : Vote Satan in 2008!

And since when did an unelected religious lunatic demagogue have a "constituency?"

Since said person's head is so far up his ass that he truly believes the shit that he's spewing makes sense. He also believes that G-d himself wants him to be right in everything that he says, so his idiot followers will follow like sheep.

I'm leaning Satan 2008 right now, I like an honest man.

Satanism is the new democracy

I don't understand the importance of these remarks. I hate Falwell (and admire Flynt) as much as anyone here, but those remarks do seem very tongue-in-cheek, and can hardly be equated with saying, even in jest, that someone fucked his mother in an outhouse.

They're also true. Hillary's candidacy would be better for these people than Gay Marriage, Mexicans and The War on Christmas all put together. It would drive every right-wing Christian in this country screaming tooth-gnashing mad. 2000 and 2004 would look, by comparison, like the very models of secular, honest democracy.

This is coming from the man that blamed 9-11 on gays and lesbians and tried to out a Teletubby.

I personally don't give credence to anything he says.

-TM

Hillary is not my ideal candidate, but I fully support anyone who draws the ire of that asshole.

so people flip when chavez calls bush the devil, but when a local fanatic says that a political opponent is worse than satan everyone has a good giggle. interesting.

I say Hilary should sue him, SOLELY for the purpose of hitting him with his own failed Lawsuit when Falwell argues for his first amendment right to jest. That way it's on the pubilc record of the Court that Falwell is a complete jackass.

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Or at least thats what Id do. I would go THAT far to bitch slap a complete asswipe.

well , Jerry calling Hillary the devil is WAY more like a funny caricature.

Chavez comments are just too real.

It's spooky.

The thing about Chavez's comments is that with another President, even someone as over-the-top as he is wouldn't have made him.

Bush's disastrous foreign policy and tendency towards verbailzing blatant stupidity doesn't just give Chavez cover to say and do things like that, it actually got him a few cheers from the General Assembly.

The political shifts in South America are another side-effect of the Bush presidency. We've largely ignored them during his two terms. We've been too absorbed with the Middle East and the "Axis of Evil." While I don't think that lefty democracies that help educate and feed the people down there will be a bad thing (hopefully getting smart and shifting gears in a more market-based direction once the educational improvements get the populace in a position to actually be successful in that direction), we've also right now got the Chinese chumming up with Central and South American governments in a big way.

Chavez's mouth is kind of a dual-edged sword though. His putting his two cents in has actually cost some of the leftist opposition leaders votes in recent elections, even possibly costing them the election. So basically, while Chavez is currently our second worst enemy in the hemisphere, he's an even better "friend" than Castro inasfar as helping pro-U.S. candidates win elections.

China is the world's fastest-growing economy, and basically the world's largest. They're after South America's resources, though not really their markets just yet. South Americans are seeing their economic future, and it's a good bit more Chinese than American.