Communist Genius Can’t Figure Out Clock

(T)Hugo Chavez is, quite literally, too ignorant to figure out how to change a clock. I'm not making this up. While explaining his "brilliant" idea for egalitarian sunshine - his plan to set Venezuela's clocks back one-half hour to provide "a more fair distribution of the sunrise" - neither Chavez or his brother, the education minister, could explain how to do it. The told people to move the clock ahead a half-hour.

"I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead, let them call me whatever they want," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "I'm not to blame. I received a recommendation and said I liked the idea."

The shift will allow children to wake up for school in daylight instead of before sunrise, Chavez said.

That may seem reasonable to many Venezuelans but ordering the change with little notice and scant public education has raised questions over how much thought was given to the plan.

It also highlights how the anti-U.S. president's governing style can sometimes be eccentric, improvised and rushed in his self-styled revolution to turn one of the world's biggest oil exporters into a socialist state.

Chavez himself has not had time to get to grips with the practicalities of the clock shift.

In his live show, he called on his brother, the education minister, so that the two men could explain the measure. But they mistakenly told Venezuelans to move their clocks forward at midnight on Sunday, when the policy is to move them back.

No, "crazy" isn't the word we thought of, (T)Hugo. This guy can't figure out a clock change but promotes himself as an economic genius? We're going with "stupid". We'd like to help (T)Hugo with a little mnemonic: Spring back into the fall ahead.

That should keep him busy for days……