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...also true that two of the campaign's most successful gambits have hinged upon implicit or explicit criticisms of Clinton: An e-mail solicitation prompted by CNN's coverage of the "beat the b**ch" episode, during which McCain played along with an overzealous questioner who used an obscenity to describe the former first lady, and his debate zinger that contrasted Clinton's earmark support for a Woodstock museum with his own experience in the Woodstock era - "I would have gone, but I was tied up at the time...
...shut up?' JUAN CARLOS I, King of Spain, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar a "fascist" during a summit in Chile...
...Venezuela, Chávez's weak political opposition is gleefully playing and replaying video of the summit exchange - especially delighted that the King used the informal, less respectful form of Spanish to address Chávez. They'll no doubt hope to use it to erode support for a raft of controversial constitutional reforms Chávez wants - including the elimination of presidential term limits - before a Dec. 2 referendum. Still, Chávez has come through past diplomatic outrages unscathed - in fact, just weeks after calling U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at the United Nations last year...
Back in Caracas today, Chávez is conveniently leaving the comments of Zapatero, who is supposed to be one of his leftist kindred spirits, out of the discussion. "What Zapatero said must have really bothered Chávez," says Venezuelan author and Chávez biographer Alberto Barrera. "It broke with the leftist fundamentalism on Latin America that he demands all his allies follow...
...pointed up a fact about Chávez's revolution that chavistas are too reluctant to acknowledge. Venezuela, with its vast oil wealth, can afford to indulge socialism and eschew foreign investment; but most other Latin American nations can't. Their economic growth still depends on the kind of capital that global competitors like China and India are raking in, but which Latin America seems unable or unwilling to garner. The chavistas rightly argue that the distribution of capitalism's fruits has been grossly unequal in Latin America - which is a large reason why leftists like Chávez have...