Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, reading from his handwritten notes of Obama’s U.N speech, told the General Assembly on Thursday how moved he was by the new U.S. president’s assertion that no country should dominate another, but he expressed frustration that Obama has not acted more firmly to implement that policy.
“Well, what are you waiting for? Lift the savage, murderous embargo” on Cuba, he said. “Are there two Obamas? I would like to believe the Obama I listened to yesterday.”
“It doesn’t smell of sulfur here anymore. It smells of hope,” he said. “Obama, come over to the socialist side! Join the axis of evil, and we’ll build an economy at the service of the people.”
Chavez said Obama reminded him of president John F. Kennedy, whom he said he admired for his intelligence.
“I hope God will protect Obama from the bullets that killed Kennedy,” he said.
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