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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=BXvMz1K0Q0I 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 t...

I like Dana, but here's why I won't be a Social Democrat

One of the less enticing characteristics of the Delaware blogosphere is the vituperative tendency of posters (anonymous and otherwise) to attack those they disagree with by parodying their political positions. Sometimes it's funny in a biting, over-the-top way, but it rarely moves the argument forward. I'm a Libertarian, and I expect to have to make my arguments stand or fall on their own merits, not the flawed perceptions of a Libertarian point of view that other people have. So it's always annoying when somebody bases his or her argument on, "well, those fringe Libertarians who believe in letting people starve are at it again...." All of which brings me to Dana Garrett and social democracy. Dana pulls the trigger as fast as anybody, and he doesn't equivocate about his beliefs, your beliefs, or my beliefs. And, as a result, he gets portrayed as either a Marxist, a Collectivist, or a Socialist no matter how much he sputters that what he is closest to bein...