Venezuela has decided...

[mburbank]

I think your being somewhat cynical of the Carter folks. He and they said there was no evidence of fraud whatsoever.

Visa vi our current administration and Chavez, a litttle backstory. When he was ousted in a military coup we said he had it coming. When he was shortly thereafter restored by an alarmed public, we said he should take the whole thing as a lesson or something bad like a military coup might happen again. We funneled tax dollars through various pro democracy agencies to support the opposition ( which wante to recall a democratically elected leader) and when they lost in a landslide, we were on of only a handful of countries not to send our congratulations.

All because we so pationately believe in democracy.

If you go back a few pages you can find OAO parotting a lot of Neocon screed about how evil Chavez is and how much his on people hate him and how popular the recall is.