Wednesday, February 7, 2007
It's very nice that Joe Kennedy's "non-profit," Citizens Energy, provides subsidized oil to people who need it (hell, I could use some)...but isn't it a little over the line to allow himself to be used as a promotional vehicle for Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Citgo? We're taking a little bit of cheap oil to run cover for a man who's inevitably going to be creating more poor people and more strife around the world, and more difficulty for America and her other citizens. Isn't Kennedy just taking a payoff to do promos for a guy who's ultimately going to end up getting American soldiers killed? Where are the limits here?
Go to this page and click on the first few videos to see what's been running on Boston area TV lately to see what I mean.
Rudy Giuliani said no to Alwaleed Bin Talal, don't tell me Joe couldn't have found another way. Where's some of that Soros money? It's one thing to take the money, we knew about that. It's quite another thing to do promotional spots for the dictator.
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I've noted previously the strangeness of a country with its own rampant poverty issues giving a country like ours charitable contributions (more of an in-kind trade for the publicity, but be that as it may...and not that we're not happy... Read More
Will Joe organise a food drive for the Venezuelans who subsidized his home heating?
"CHAVISTA FOOD SHORTAGES"
http://www.publiuspundit.com/?p=3163
"After years of braying about ‘food security’ - Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has accomplished the opposite of that: widespread empty shelves for basic food stocks like meat, throughout Venezuelan retail stores, duplicating Soviet-style food shortages. The next step will be rationing.
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