Compare and Contrast: Obama’s Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his policies that helped the poor.King Abdullah was the dictator and tyrant who ran one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.

The effusive praisebeing heaped on the brutal Saudi despotby western media and political figures has been nothing short of nauseating; the UK Government, which arouses itself on a daily basi...