Chavez Quotes Christ, Calls Palin 'Beauty Queen That Knows Not of What She Speaks'
"The poor little
thing, you have to feel sorry for her ... she is a beauty queen that that they dress up like a figurine … But as Christ said, 'Pardon her, she knows not of
what she speaks.'"
CARACAS: President Hugo Chávez on
Friday criticized the candidate for the vice presidency of the United States,
Sarah Palin, for having called him a dictator, and
commented that she is a "figurine" who "knows not of what she
speaks."
"The poor little thing, you have to feel sorry for her
... she is a beauty queen that they dress up like a figurine," the
Venezuelan leader remarked ironically of the Alaskan governor's history.
"But
as Christ said, 'Pardon her, she knows not of what she speaks,'" he said,
during a campaign stop in the oil-rich state of Zulia
(in the West). Palin, John McCain's pick as his
number two for the White House, said this week that "Chavez is a
dictator," and that imposing additional sanctions on the nation of Venezuela would be one way to deal with it.
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The Bolivarian leader, who maintains tense relations with
what he calls "the Empire," expelled the U.S. ambassador to Caracas,
Patrick Duddy in September for maneuvering to destabilize
the country and repeating the now famous phrase: "Go to hell, stupid Yankees!"
on numerous occasions.
But despite the diplomatic
rupture, Chavez said "he's willing to talk" with the new U.S. President
"whoever is the winner."
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To refute Palin's vision of his socialist plans, Chavez recalled a
statement by his Brazilian colleague LuizInácio Lula da Silva: "Lula was
asked to respond to the question, 'Is Chavez a tyrant?' and he said, "But Venezuela
has far too much democracy for that," recalled the president.
The Venezuelan president, who is
trying to turn the fifth largest oil exporter into a "socialist state,"
has opined that the current financial crisis is "the death of capitalism,"
and he has criticized the great powers for "trying to revive something that
has no life."
