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Singing President? Win the World with Song and Humor....

Have you ever seen a singing President? Songs for a president? I have complied a group of videos illustrating Hugo Chavez singing, knowing he cannot win a war with us, he is winning the world through humor and song, here he is singing for the hell of it and jostling with Condoleeza Rice who he actually likes but who comments on him weekly I thought you might enjoy them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQN54awEFfw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZGtHlRiLw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFq-iqQXik&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCDVKb8_UJw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1MxZoaV3I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H1E3lX7bEY&feature=related

But as president, he is the first president of Venezuela to establish a musical mission to the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBa7IR_vBjg

Proving to me that a Simon Bolivar complex is not always and in all ways a bad thing to have, news casters and angry folks in America not withstanding. There are many questions about what he is trying to do and many accusations that he is a dictator, but when you listen to him, if you understand Spanish, you see he is trying to communicate joy to an impoverished people that that sense of joy could be their future by embracing republican, liberal democracy and communicate the joy of that freedom across all levels to give the poor whose poverty is grinding, some hope.

He screams socialism, but when I reviewed his platform, it is no more socialist than John Carney's platform or gubernatorial bid in Delaware.

He is giving hope to people and representation to people many for the first times in their lives. Do you think a million and a half people would show up at the white house to protest if Bush was captured by the CIA? That is what happened to Hugo during a 2002 coup d' etat in his country. It may seem strange to say anything positive about "socialism" on a libertarian website, but how can you not like singing socialism? h/t to Dana for being a social democrat and making me investigate this in more depth.
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