Good Things Do Happen

Amazing that Chavez and his gang of thugs even allowed this to happen

CARACAS, Venezuela - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

"I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense," he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.
Opposition activists were ecstatic as the results were announced shortly after midnight — with 88 percent of the vote counted, the trend was declared irreversible by elections council chief Tibisay Lucena.
Some shed tears. Others began chanting: "And now he's going away!"
Foes of the reform effort — including Roman Catholic leaders, media freedom groups, human rights groups and prominent business leaders — said it would have granted Chavez unchecked power and imperiled basic rights.

Chavez reminds me so much of the Clintons. Anyone who opposed anything they did or wanted to do was branded an "extremist". Anyone who criticized them or felt that they had brokken the laws was branded a "hater". Newt Gingrich and Kenneth Starr were singled out for especially ferocious treatment.

The left are no friends of democracy. They CAN'T STAND it when someone disagrees with them.