Forget Chavez. King Juan Carlos walked out of the hall when Daniel Ortega accused...

[1932]

...Spain of intervention in his country's elections and complained about some Spanish energy companies working in Nicaragua, to which Nicaragua owes considerable debts, which the country is unable to pay.

http://www.antena3.com/a3noticias/servlet/Noticias?destino=../a3n/noticia/noticia.jsp&sidicom=si&id=13286798

To translate, try this: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

[Gabi Hayes]

1. but, but...he's the biggest, bestest king there ever WAS!

just dig up Franco and ask him, who installed JC when he was a prince, even though the actual king was still alive

http://txikilike.blogspot.com/2007/10/medieval-england-sides-with-medieval.html

[1932]

2. and Ortega is rude for bringing up economic exploitation and interfering with elections.

[bbinacan]

4. His father, Don Juan

renounced his claim and backed his son. Here's some night time reading for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos

[Gabi Hayes]

6. does it mention in there why he renounced? or JC's special relationship

with Franco?

lots of Jews in Spain 'renounced' their religion a few hundred years ago, too

you could do a little night time reading on that

[bbinacan]

7. If he were as

close to Franco as you say, why did he push so hard for democracy and not follow in Franco's footsteps? Huh?

[1932]

8. Because there would have been a coup?

To praise someone for going from a dictatorship to a constitutional monarchy is OK, I guess, but sort of setting the bar low. What's wrong with totally abdicating?

I would be eternally impressed by any of the current crop of monarchs if they chose to abdicate.

[bbinacan]

9. There was a coup

attempt after he instituted the democratic processes. It failed.

[1932]

15. Are you askin why Juan Carlos chose to have elections rather than carry on as monarchy

with no elections?

That's the question I was answering.

[1932]

16. ?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. there are those who say he was involved in the coup, and chickened out

when he saw it failing

but me, I always trust the king. I always trust a man who was close to someone like Franco.


and what do you think the alternative to opposing the alternative to democracy might have been for him?

don't you think the Romanovs would have LOVED the chance to institute democracy in Russia, and live out their lives fat and happy on the public dole?

huh?

[bbinacan]

14. Ah, here comes info

from the ever elusive "those". I want to meet these people. Come to think of it, "Those" would have been a great theme for an X-Files episode.:rofl:

[fascisthunter]

3. The Irony is Amazing

once again, the privileged get a dose of reality.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. And Aznar was a fascist as were his father and grandfather.

King Juan Carlos had a moment of greatness. That does not give him a pass for all future actions.

[DCKit]

10. Somebody needs to remind Juan Carlos where his inherited wealth came from. nt

[EFerrari]

11. That would be impolite! And, we can't have that. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

13. but, but, but, isn't it their divine RIGHT?

it's amazing to see all the royalists here, yes?

BRING BACK KING GEORGE III

and his blue PISS!