{"id":2815,"date":"2009-04-18T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2009-04-18T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:21:00","slug":"obama-cant-criticize-chavez-on-at-least-one-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/18\/2815\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama can&#8217;t criticize Chavez on at least one issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/Venezuelan-President-Hugo-Chavez-President-Barack-Obama-Venezuela-Press-Office\/ss\/events\/wl\/092208hugochavez\/im:\/090417\/481\/e31fffdd54ac4ded867a219268a52c5c\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/obama_chavez.jpg\" title=\"AP photo of Obama and Chavez meeting at the Summit of the Americas\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1891719,00.html\">From Time Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Those same Chavistas add that the U.S. has scant right to criticize Venezuela&#8217;s policy on its national capital when residents of Washington, D.C., still aren&#8217;t allowed representation in Congress.<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds similar to what a senior official in Hong Kong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0416\/p09s02-coop.html\">said a few years ago<\/a> to Representative Tom Davis: &#8220;Give your nation&#8217;s capital the right to vote and then come talk to us about democracy in Hong Kong.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Time Magazine: Those same Chavistas add that the U.S. has scant right to criticize Venezuela&#8217;s policy on its national capital when residents of Washington, D.C., still aren&#8217;t allowed representation in Congress. This sounds similar to what a senior official in Hong Kong said a few years ago to Representative Tom Davis: &#8220;Give your nation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,364],"tags":[1675,2221,2220,5702,2219,2222,6242],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonist","category-commentary","tag-barack-obama","tag-caracas","tag-congressional-representation","tag-dc","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-venezuela","tag-washington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":105,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}