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Chavez and Putin are rivals to the Unitary Executive (read: Autocrat) promulgated by the NeoCons and implemented by the Busheviks. Chavez and Putin are wildly popular among their own people, far more popular than Bush has been through most of his tenure in office, and that popularity may mask some of their more Autocratic ways.
Bush has long said he doesn't need to be popular -- I guess because he's just so darned right after all -- and he's gonna do what he wants, and he dares anyone to do anything about it, which they won't. He knows that. So he trolls the depths of unpopularity, but it's no matter to him and his cronies and henchmen. They have the Power and no one is going to do squat about it. Tyranny.
Obama seems to be very much more popular than Mr. Bush, and he will inherit all the same "unitary" powers the Busheviks accumulated to the executive office. Rather than rivaling Putin and Chavez, more than likely he will see them as comrades.
Now wouldn't that be interesting.
