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Chavez: I am like Jesus, si?

The king of Spain told Venezuela’s socialist tinpot dictator Hugo Chavez to “shut up” last week.  Hugo’s response?

Hugo Chávez is not shutting up. Venezuela’s president stepped up his verbal counter-attack against the Spanish king yesterday by comparing his wounded pride to the suffering of Jesus Christ and Latin America’s colonial oppression.

Three days after Juan Carlos urged Chávez to “shut up” at a summit it was the latter doing all the talking while the king retreated into silence. The “explosion” of royal disdain betrayed an enduring colonial superiority complex, the president said upon his return to Caracas. It echoed not only 500 years of imperial power and abuse, but also the persecution of Christ.

Should he accept the king’s injunction to shut up, “the stones of the people of Latin America would cry out”, said Chávez, paraphrasing a comment by Christ in Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion. The Venezuelan information ministry issued press releases identifying the relevant part of the Bible. 

Oh my God!  Or, in this case, I guess it should be “Oh my Hugo!”  We already knew the guy was a megalomaniacal dictator suffering from delusions of grandeur and a messiah complex.  Comments like this only further prove it.

By the way, it’s curious to see a man who has dissidents shot quoting Scripture, don’t you think?

November 13, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hugo Chavez, shameful