FOXNews - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appearing Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his 'devil' reference hurled a day earlier at President Bush during a speech at the United Nations.

"They told me that I should be careful after I called him the devil - and I think he is the devil - because he might kill me" Chavez told a crowd packed into the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem.

Chavez, who was introduced at the podium by activist-actor Danny Glover, was visiting the church as part of ceremonies to announce the sale of discounted home heating oil to qualified low-income families.

The appearance came a day after Chavez delivered an insult-riddled speech at the U.N. General Assembly in which he called President Bush the 'devil.'

As Chavez spoke in Harlem, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel railed against the Venezuelan leader for choosing his New York congressional district to launch an attack on the president of the United States.

"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and criticize my president," Rangel said from Capitol Hill.

He added that "it would be crazy to think that Americans do not feel offended" by Chavez's remarks.

New York Governor George Pataki called for a united front by Americans from all political parties to stand together against Chavez.

"This person has no right coming to our country to criticize our president," Pataki said in a phone interview on FOX News.

"He can take his cheap oil and do something for the poor people of Venezuela."   More ...

When I first heard about a second day of Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running around in New York City firing insults, I was furious. Who would allow this? To some extent, we must allow them to speak at the United Nations, as they are member nation representatives.

However, to have them traveling around New York, and not in the confines of the UN Building, I thought was unacceptable. Both "leaders" have expressed their disdain for this country on multiple occasions. Today, they both continued the same rhetoric.

But now, I think it is a brilliant political maneuver for President George W. Bush to allow this crap. Now the Democrats are forced to look like they are concerned about this country and its president. They seem just so sincere, since they have said almost as much. I don't believe the Dems have ever called Bush the devil, but maybe.