Liberty Maven

It’s is pretty sad when the world’s most famous socialist Hugo Chavez starts saying that the leader of the supposed free market U.S. is a leftist. What is more troubling is that his words are not quite that far from the truth.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked George W. Bush as a “comrade” on Wednesday, saying the U.S. president was a hard-line leftist for his government’s intervention of major private banks in the U.S. financial crisis.

Chavez, who calls capitalism an evil and ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro his mentor, ridiculed Bush for his plan for the federal government to take equity in American banks despite the U.S. right-wing’s criticism of Venezuelan nationalizations.

“Bush is to the left of me now,” Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. “Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks.”

We’re all socialists now, apparently. McCain pays lip service to free markets then votes in the opposite direction. Obama is quite blatantly socialist leaning. Capitalism is breathing its last air.

The American nationalized ice cream truck is coming by your house ringing its anti-liberty bell… ding ding ding… what flavor of socialism would you like today?