Pat Robertson Shares a Few Thoughts on Foreign Policy
What a vacation for President George W. Bush. A man can’t head down to Texas to clear some brush, read some hefty books, and maybe have some barbeque without fifty seven varieties of hell breaking loose. Sure, some pinkos were upset about sliding John Bolton into the UN during recess. While all the senators and congressmen were out on the playground, climbing and sliding and playing dodgeball, John Bolton and his mustache got under the tag and the umpire called him safe.
Week three and there’s Mrs. Sheehan, guntoting neighbors, coverage twenty four seven from the liberal media. Just when that fracas started to settle down, something moved Pat Robertson to suggest we take out the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Pat mentioned the Communist Threat, one of the tried and true bogeymen since Harry Truman dumped Dewey. Advisors to the President are divided over the salability of the Communist menace since the fall of the Soviet Union. However, they are all pretty certain that advocating the assasination of foreign leaders could alienate people.
Pat did apologize. I don’t know what Hugo Chavez is thinking now that televangelists are gunning for him. President Bush should be contemplating sending a special ops group to keep Chavez in one piece because if someone were to shoot the guy, plausible deniablity would shrink to fig leaf dimensions. We can’t have that, dad gummit. We’re on vacation.