Chavez & Bush - The Culture Gap

Of course Bush and many many Americans are horrified at Chavez's comments, but the culture gap makes the comments all that more outrageous. While the rest of the world might laugh, America is ranting and fuming today. To be called a devil is one thing when you don't believe in such things; but when you are a member of the Armageddonists, "Here comes the Devil," Born-again, Christian Fundamentalist Party to which Bush belongs, the comments take on a more sinister touch.

And America has reacted in much the same way that a kindergartener would react to being called a devil. Instead of laughing and brushing it off for the wild rhetoric that it is, we have chosen to take the matter seriously and are now so worked up about the whole thing, that serious debates are being held by TV "experts" as to whether we should remain paying members of the UN. According to these folks, the fact that the rest of the world applauded at the end of Chavez's speech means that we are being "ganged up on." This is so hilarious.

Come on now. You've seen this before. If you think back to your early school-days, the same thing happened when the school bully was told off by the only brave kid in your class. And you DID applaud, didn't you?