Following a meeting with socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, liberal actor Sean Penn slammed Republicans for disrespecting Chavez on the campaign trail.
Via the Associated Press:
Penn said he doesn't think "the use of those exploitive sort of demonizations will be very beneficial to this crew of candidates."
"That would be the least amongst their weaknesses," Penn said. "It's never predictable what can happen in an American election, but we certainly believe at this point that it's becoming increasingly clear to the American people that the policies of the far right are the policies of the rich, and that they are to the exclusion of the middle class and the poor, and that no society has a future on that basis."