Chavez's gift to Obama swiftly becomes best-seller

Started by garbon, April 19, 2009, 12:56:56 PM

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April 19, 2009, 12:56:56 PM Last Edit: April 19, 2009, 01:40:07 PM by Neil


QuotePORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on [url="//amazon.com"]Amazon.com[/url].

It's an astounding jump for "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano.

The paperback edition was ranked 54,295 on the online retailer before Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language edition of the 1971 book on Saturday. It had jumped to No. 5 by Sunday.

The English hardcover edition is listed as out of print.

Galeano's book documents how foreign interests have dominated and afflicted Latin America since the Spanish conquest. It's a favorite among leftists.

:bleeding:

I did like this though:
QuoteAn aide to Mr. Obama later suggested the U.S. president was unlikely to read the book, given that it was written in Spanish.
:D
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#1
April 19, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Can Obama speak or read any foreign languages?  Surprised he doesn't know Spanish to be honest.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
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garbon

#2
April 19, 2009, 01:04:42 PM
From wiki:

QuoteBesides his native English, Obama speaks Indonesian at the conversational level, which he learned during his four childhood years in Jakarta.
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The Brain

#3
April 19, 2009, 01:22:13 PM
Whoa. A president who supposedly had some edumacation doesn't even fully speak 2+ languages?

FAIL
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April 19, 2009, 01:22:55 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 19, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Can Obama speak or read any foreign languages?  Surprised he doesn't know Spanish to be honest.

Well Spanish is widely known among people who live in Hawaii and Chicago.
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#5
April 19, 2009, 01:25:07 PM
Indonesian? Great.

Merkel: Barack, how about this new arms deal?

Obama: WINDJAMMER ORGASM!

Merkel: Excuse me?

Obama: FOOT TWIST CATAMARAN!
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#6
April 19, 2009, 01:25:26 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 19, 2009, 01:22:55 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 19, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Can Obama speak or read any foreign languages?  Surprised he doesn't know Spanish to be honest.

Well Spanish is widely known among people who live in Hawaii and Chicago.
It'd be useful as a community organizer in Chicago, though obviously the South Side around Hyde Park isn't the most Hispanic part of the city.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

The Brain

#7
April 19, 2009, 01:32:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 19, 2009, 01:25:07 PM
Indonesian? Great.

Merkel: Barack, how about this new arms deal?

Obama: WINDJAMMER ORGASM!

Merkel: Excuse me?

Obama: FOOT TWIST CATAMARAN!

:w00t:
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Neil

#8
April 19, 2009, 01:38:31 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 19, 2009, 01:25:26 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 19, 2009, 01:22:55 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 19, 2009, 01:02:07 PM
Can Obama speak or read any foreign languages?  Surprised he doesn't know Spanish to be honest.

Well Spanish is widely known among people who live in Hawaii and Chicago.
It'd be useful as a community organizer in Chicago, though obviously the South Side around Hyde Park isn't the most Hispanic part of the city.
Only if you were interested in non-blacks, which Obama obviously wasn't.
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#9
April 19, 2009, 05:56:21 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 19, 2009, 01:32:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 19, 2009, 01:25:07 PM
Indonesian? Great.

Merkel: Barack, how about this new arms deal?

Obama: WINDJAMMER ORGASM!

Merkel: Excuse me?

Obama: FOOT TWIST CATAMARAN!

:w00t:

:lmfao: :lmfao:
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#10
April 19, 2009, 07:46:47 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 19, 2009, 01:25:07 PM
Indonesian? Great.

Merkel: Barack, how about this new arms deal?

Obama: WINDJAMMER ORGASM!

Merkel: Excuse me?

Obama: FOOT TWIST CATAMARAN!
:lmfao: Awesome!
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#11
April 19, 2009, 08:14:26 PM
Considering the content of the book, was this a gift or another way of giving us the middle finger?
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Viking

#12
April 19, 2009, 08:16:22 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 19, 2009, 01:04:42 PM
From wiki:

QuoteBesides his native English, Obama speaks Indonesian at the conversational level, which he learned during his four childhood years in Jakarta.

We need bmollson here to tell you the language is called Bahasa.
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#13
April 19, 2009, 08:20:00 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on April 19, 2009, 08:14:26 PM
Considering the content of the book, was this a gift or another way of giving us the middle finger?

Well considering that not so long ago he called Obama "A poor ignoramus," I think it is pretty much a slam dunk.
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garbon

#14
April 19, 2009, 08:20:41 PM
Quote from: Viking on April 19, 2009, 08:16:22 PM
We need bmollson here to tell you the language is called Bahasa.

It isn't in English.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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