I enjoy your analyses and commentaries on the banking system and the economy.
However, your comments on politics reeks of profound naivete and a complete lack of historical knowledge.

” Obama talking to Chavez is an outrage” Are you kidding me? Are you telling us that a trial lawyer that defend a suspected serial child rapist is showing outrageous behavior? no..he is doing his JOB. Whether we like it or not is an entirely different matter.

WTF do you think politics is all about? Choosing only the ones we LOVE? This ain’t dating Sir!!

Do stick to your field of expertise and everything shall be fine.

You mean the last 8 years? That is how you define “in the past”?

Wow! How’s that for historical comparison? At least, we now know where you stand politically.

How about you Hoffer? Do you have any facts that support Whalen’s assertions?

Infantile.

Pffaaawwww….wah?!? The Washington Times?!? Lord aw’mighty.

Excuse me, I need to clean the coffee off my desk.

Hugo Chavez is the enemy of all people who respect human rights and the rule of law. The fact that Barack Obama would even speak to this man is an outrage. He would put a bullet in your head as soon as shake your hand. I worked in VE and Mexico for over a decade and have many friends in the country. Last time I was there as a stringer for the Washington Times, was almost arrested at the airport. Chavez is the latest in a long line of failed dictators in VE. He will be replaced by another junior grade army colonel eventually.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2003_Nov_24/ai_110364125/

Best,

Chris

It is unfortunately undermined by the weird Obama-is-a-communist-narcotrafficker-enabler editorial.

It’s strange to flag a story about state corruption in FL and then blame the President who was not in office when Sanford was in business. It’s especially weird to do that before first looking at the Florida governor (whose Administration presumably appointed/oversaw the people who approved this deal) or the state legislature (who presumably had oversight/confirmation powers here).

Also, it’s a joke to suggest condemning the Honduran coup makes one a “chavista.” Everyone and his brother has condemned the coup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reaction_to_the_2009_Honduran_coup_d‘état)–certainly not out of love for the President there, but because they know that military coups in that part of the world have caused untold human suffering.

And yes, maybe in the past the US would have supported such a coup. In spite of what the experience of disappeared husbands, stolen children, murdered nuns, and the grinding poverty that results from political instability should have taught us about supporting coups. Personally, I’m glad we’re staying out of this, and I’m even gladder that we’re joining everyone else in condemning it. Coups are bad news.

Is there any govt official that is not complicit to one degree or another? And how totally morally blinded do we have to be to brush this off as a dime novel fiction.

Oh, I know. We have enough problems right here on main street as it is. Lets leave Latin America to the banditos. Not our problem unless they start crossing the border to shoot people.

Thanks for the expose Chris. I buy it.

Re: garbage, you might first consider that the Venezuela operations of Stanford reportedly were more significant than those in the US. You might also ponder the parallels of the facilitator role played by Jeb Bush in FL and Chavez in Venezuela vis-a-vis Stanford. Indeed, if your colorful accusations against Governor Jeb Bush are correct, both Chavez and Bush were clients of Stanford — in a political sense. Best, Chris