The Leftists' Model President, Hugo Chavez

Chavez is driving his country into the ground, closing media outlets that disagree with him, so now all media is State controlled. Most if not all businesses are nationalized, including US and other foreign companies, so they aren't turning a profit, in turn reducing receipts to the government. Because of that the government is broke and the people are impoverished even more than when he came to power. Still, Hollywood knuckleheads like Oliver Stone, Robert Redford, Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Streisand, Danny Glover, Harry Belfonte, to name a few, plus several people in the Democrat Party and Obama Administration, just adore this character.

Update to Chavez's nuttiness. Chavez has a crush on Simon Bolivar and has changed the name of his country from Venezuela to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He's also redesigned the national flag.

Moving into the "disturbing" column, Chavez had Bolivar dug up on July 16th. He claims that he and Bolivar are one, that he's the reincarnation of the "Libertador" of Latin America. He has an empty chair in the Cabinet meeting room for the spirit of Bolivar.

It's no surprise then that Leftists identify with Chavez.

If Chavez and the Left knew anything about Simon Bolivar, they might not be so quick to jump on that band wagon. Bolivar brought democracy to "Gran Columbia" comprised of Bolivia, Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru, Ecuador using the US Constitution and the American Founding Fathers as his governmental model. Chavez and the American Left are doing everything they can to repudiate the US Constitution and the Founding Fathers.