Our esteemed president is frequently noted for his easy way with “regular folks,” and his generally down home sensibilities. If only he could match the folksiness of the sort on display in this gem from the lips of Hugo Chavez (during his weekly television show Alo, Presidente!):
Yesterday I left Miraflores [the presidential palace] at three in the morning and stopped to buy a hot dog and I remembered a book I read a short while ago. The hot dog was damn good, I really like them with garlic sauce, it reminds me of when I was a kid in Sabaneta, no one could make garlic sauce like my grandmother, nobody. Anyway, the book described how the upper classes always lived the Country Club lifestyle, looked away and never caring what happened to the people living on the other side of the fence –hey you [pointing to a woman in the crowd] how do you make garlic sauce?
Or try this:
We all know about the adventures and misadventures of the CIA –that’s a reference to a comic book, by the way –above all in this continent. But the CIA has lost a little of its James Bond image. Mind you, James Bond isn’t what he used to be. In fact, he’s never been the same since Sean Connery stopped playing the part. And what about Tarzan? His reputation has taken a bit of a battering. And Dracula? Not the same since the days of Bela Lugosi. Or Superman –what bad luck that actor had. Batman just disintegrated. And as for Robin …the CIA as well, I think the same phenomenon has affected all of them.
Now that´s talking to the people!
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