A surprisingly diverse comment thread for the HuffPo
Posted at 2007-11-30 10:39:37 [PermaLink]I will agree to Number #1, because there is absolutely no scenario whatsoever, wherein this gang could get 50% of the vote. Thanks for the laugh though.
Posted at 2007-11-30 10:51:29 [PermaLink]1) They will anyway. :)
2) What an odd question. No one's above criticism. It's a bonus, though, when that criticism is fair-minded.
3) Let's cross that bridge when we come to it. Sometimes taking things right out of time and space and asking, "what if" is a useless exercise. If that putative right-wing candidate used his powers to sell off state enterprises, that would be one thing. If he set up concentration camps and filled mass graves à la conservative hero Augusto Pinochet, then, no.
Dr. Dawg,
Let's talk about leftie heroes, mass graves and concentration camps. But the left doesn't think those things go together; never have, never will.
G.U.L.A.G.S, Dr. D. The template that started it all.
Posted at 2007-11-30 13:25:31 [PermaLink]Pinochet set up concentration camps? Care to provide some documentation? Pinochet wasn't a good guy, but he was no Castro.
Posted at 2007-11-30 22:25:02 [PermaLink]Interesting ... reading D. Dawg's comment while listening to Chuck Berry singing "My Ding-a-ling".
Time to hit 'replay'.
Cheers
"Pinochet set up concentration camps? Care to provide some documentation?"
You can't be serious.
"Pinochet set up concentration camps?"
Yes, and he killed and tortured people, too. And Salvador Allende was busy ending democracy in Chile, even before the coup, by, inter alia, eliminating independent media, but is this the new standard -- better the Pinochet?
Moreover, prior to the coup, Pinochet was perceived of as a man of the Left. He was promoted to the top position in the army by Salvador Allende. His economics may have been market-oriented, but he ruled more like a Stalin or Mao than a Madison or Jefferson.
Neither Allende nor Pinochet were any great prize. I wouldn't hold either up as a shining example for the future of Latin America.