# People who think President Obama dedicated a statue to Hugo Chavez. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164 "2012-10-09T02:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/21 "2012-10-09T17:21:06Z")
The fact that he hasn’t dedicated a statue yet is really only proof that he’s holding off until after the election when he can let his true feelings be known. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/22 "2012-10-09T17:42:58Z")
Can I just take this moment to brag that I was at Keene yesterday and [saw the President](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/254469_578360435285_301452893_n.jpg) speak? He was late, but it was a phenomenal speech he gave-- it brought many in the audience to tears, including many of the older UFW members who had marched with Cesar. A great and inspirational day all around, if I may say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/23 "2012-10-09T17:59:48Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks that the presidental team screwed up on this? Presumably the election date and expected outcome was known and I don’t think I’m going way out on a limb here when I say that they are aware of how things can be twisted so why would you do this in the same news cycle? Wait a week to dedicate the statue and this never existed. I’m of the opinion it was pretty clever to mark Columbus Day by a dedication honoring a Mestizo Mexican American. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/24 "2012-10-09T18:20:16Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > I’m of the opinion it was pretty clever to mark Columbus Day by a dedication honoring a Mestizo Mexican American. Several people were actually discussing this at the event yesterday. I thought it was a fantastic and subtle way to make right on that day. And **Moonlitherial**? There is no statue. They turned the grounds of La Paz into a National Monument-- his house, the offices, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/25 "2012-10-09T19:02:12Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > You do understand that the President was honoring Cesar Chavez, not Hugo Chavez, right? That makes it even worse. Our country faces a host of serious problems, and Obama wastes a day praising a retired welterweight?! A good sneeze would knock a fellowlike that down! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/26 "2012-10-09T20:54:22Z")
I’m not really clear on why the President felt the need to honor an ancient warmongering Roman dictator in the first place, honestly. And if he really wanted to honor him, why not just eat his salad? So much easier! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/27 "2012-10-09T20:55:40Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Can I just take this moment to brag that I was at Keene yesterday and [saw the President](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/254469_578360435285_301452893_n.jpg) speak? He was late, but it was a phenomenal speech he gave-- it brought many in the audience to tears, including many of the older UFW members who had marched with Cesar. > > A great and inspirational day all around, if I may say so myself. See? This is bullshit. Obama refuses to enforce illegal immigration. He has illegals sitting mere feet from him and he refused to deport their law-breaking asses. And on top of that he even feeds them Ceaser salad. Unfucking-believable. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/28 "2012-10-09T20:58:37Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > It wouldn’t be so bad if the Red Staters didn’t think the statue looked like [this](http://laydenrobinson.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/the_joker_cesar_romero.jpg). That’s because they don’t know what Cesar Chavez looks like. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/29 "2012-10-09T21:03:46Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > I think **AK** and **GIGO** were using the occasion of nutjobs discussing what fantasy Obama did in response to Hugo Chavez’s election to discuss what the real Obama did. I don’t think either of them was unclear on which Chavez is which. You are correct sir! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/30 "2012-10-09T22:42:07Z")
I don’t blame them. It’s impossible to tell [them](http://nbclatino.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cesar-chavez-hugo-chavez.jpg?w=640&h=421&crop=1) apart! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/31 "2012-10-10T00:00:23Z")
Stupid people. Everyone knows it was a statue to honor Hugo Weaving. What? Really? Cesar Chavez? The head ape from _Planet of the Apes?_ Why would they… _Labor leader?_ But what does a fictional ape have to do with… Oh, _Latino_. Nevermind. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/32 "2012-10-10T00:12:04Z")
They probably wouldn’t mind a statue of Hugo Weaving. Aren’t they all about shutting down government? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/33 "2012-10-10T00:56:49Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > I’m of the opinion it was pretty clever to mark Columbus Day by a dedication honoring a Mestizo Mexican American. In much of Latin America, Columbus Day is celebrated (or commemorated) as _El Día de la Raza_–The Day of The Race. It started as a day to celebrate Spanish heritage & has evolved to recognize the mixture of peoples that began on that day–for better or for worse. In the USA, it’s the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins September 15th, [on or about the date in 1821](http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/mexicanrev.htm) when most Latin American nations declared their independence from Spain. This information is coming to you from a Red State. I can’t speak for the inbreds in Alabama, Mississippi, etc.–but Texas has some knowledge of these matters. Not everybody in this Red State is a white idiot–we’ve got Hispanics/Latinos/Tejanos, blacks, smart whites, etc. We’re still outnumbered by the eejits. For now… Many Californians know their Chavezes–but not every Blue State resident does. (I know one gentleman who marched with Cesar Chavez in his youth. And I know a couple of \*Venezolanas \*who would probably have rude things to say about Hugo–if I asked.) ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/34 "2012-10-10T01:18:48Z")
Cool, **Bridget Burke**. I’ve been a red stater and a blue stater (currently in a reddish purple part of blue Illinois), but I remember learning and reading about Chavez, nonviolence and Gandhi all about the same time as a kid. Probably around 1969/70/71. As it happens, I lived in Texas at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Freakenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b782af/32.png) [@Freakenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freakenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/35 "2012-10-10T07:20:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Like Obama and Osama! Oh, bummer. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/36 "2012-10-13T11:30:48Z")
> [@Makeitstop](#): > > Ever seen them in public together? : I have a friend who was convinced that Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson were the same person, something that now we will never be able to clear up. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/37 "2012-10-13T12:28:00Z")
Why would Obama commemorate a statue of Che Guevera? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/38 "2012-10-13T17:23:29Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Why would Obama commemorate a statue of Che Guevera? Che was also born in Kenya. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/39 "2012-10-13T18:20:36Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Che was also born in Kenya. And died in Venezuela. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164/40 "2012-10-13T18:35:51Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > And died in Venezuela. Although he was recently sighted in the company of Elvis, in Hackensack, New Jersey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-president-obama-dedicated-a-statue-to-hugo-chavez/637164.md?page=3)