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Will President Barack Obama visit Venezuela in 2009?

Settled as No

Obama didn't make it.

Background:

Background: Obama and Chavez are getting along now. Will Obama travel to Venezuela in 2009?

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

 
Forecast history %
Yes
3%
No
97%
Settled as No on Fri 1st Jan 11:15am PST

Suspend date: Wed 30th Dec 2009 11:59pm PST
Settlement date: Fri 1st Jan 11:15am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Wed 30th Dec 2009 11:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 30%

Action history:

Created Sun 19th Apr 2009 5:37pm PST by candelario
Suspended Wed 30th Dec 2009 11:59pm PST : Suspend date reached
Settlement requested Fri 1st Jan 8:15am PST by jake: Settle as no. President Obama didn't visit Venezuela.
Settled as 'No' Fri 1st Jan 11:15am PST by sqlman[Admin]: Obama didn't make it.

Suspend date: Wed 30th Dec 2009 11:59pm PST
Settlement date: Fri 1st Jan 11:15am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Wed 30th Dec 2009 11:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled details

 

Predictions (31)

14 weeks ago
nashman20 predicted No (H$100 at 95%)
15 weeks ago
mork[Power User] predicted No (H$1,899 at 94%)
19 weeks ago
res2cue predicted No (H$20 at 92%)
23 weeks ago
rgroh1 predicted No (H$200 at 92%)
26 weeks ago
vonwalther predicted No (H$100 at 92%)

Comments (2)

He campaigned against private sector economic mismanagement, and the “harsh realities” of global capitalism. He pledged during his campaign to end corruption in both the government, and the private sector.

After he took office, he claimed that he had “inherited” the worst economic situation in his country’s recent history. And then, the new President sought to consolidate his power. Once privately-owned enterprises became government-owned and operated entities, and were “restructured” so as to become, essentially, “workers’ cooperatives.”

Not surprisingly, unemployment remained persistently high, even as the new was implementing his much-celebrated “reform” measures. And while private citizens had to struggle with the worsening economic conditions, government officials nonetheless continued to exert increasing levels of control over the nation’s wealth, and also continued to enrich themselves from that wealth, despite the suffering of “the governed.”

Does this seem like a description of the first 11 months of the Obama Presidency? What I’ve described here thus far portrays the conduct of President Obama and members of his Administration fairly succinctly.

Yet, this is actually a description of the ascendency of Hugo Chavez, the once freely elected President and now rapidly-morphing-into-a-dictator of Venezuela. In fact, you could call this a “textbook case” - this is my paraphrase of a description of Chavez that appears in “International Business: Competing In The Global Marketplace,” a text book currently used among M.B.A. students at many of America’s top graduate business schools.

---Austin Hill http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2009/12/13/what_are_president_obamas_actual_objectives
posted 12 weeks ago
  2 Erik
^5 NN....kinda scary, huh?
posted 12 weeks ago

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