Posted on 05/04/2013 2:55:23 AM PDT by markomalley
President Barack Obama cited in his address to the people of Mexico on Friday a deceased Mexican writer who wrote that the United States was “the protector of tyrants,” condemned “North American imperialism” and expressed sympathy with an anti-American regime.
Obama repeatedly referenced Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in his speech Friday at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, which he visited on the second day of a three-day tour of Mexico and Costa Rica.
“In modern times, Mexico’s blend of cultures and traditions found its expression in the murals of Rivera and the paintings of Frida, and the poetry of Sor Juana and the essays of Octavio Paz,” Obama said.
“And Paz once spoke words that capture the spirit of our gathering here today — in this place that celebrates your past, but which this morning is filled with so many young people who will shape Mexico’s future. Octavio Paz said, ‘Modernity is not outside us, it is within us. It is today and the most ancient antiquity; it is tomorrow and the beginning of the world; it is a thousand years old and yet newborn,’” Obama said.
“And that’s why I wanted this opportunity to speak with all of you today, because you live at the intersection of history that Octavio Paz was referring to,” Obama said.
Octavio Paz called the United States the “protector of tyrants” in his 1982 essay, “Latin America and Democracy.”
“The United States has been one of the principal obstacles we have encountered in our efforts to modernize ourselves,” Paz wrote in his essay. “In Latin America, the United States has been the protector of tyrants and the ally of the enemies of democracy.”
Paz also noted in his essay that he understood the anti-Americanism of the Nicaraguan government at that time.
Paz wrote in a 1987 essay for his literary magazine Vuelta that his pro-democracy viewpoints should not be confused with “the defense of North American imperialism, nor with that of Latin America’s conservative military regimes.”
Based on his Anti-American stance, this president is confirming that he is just one more terrorist that our Government failed to fully examine.
Would a free press permit such dangerous rhetoric to go unchallenged? What ever happened to a government by the people?
Please be sure to keep your Congress Critters aware that you are paying attention. They don’t have to agree with you they just have to know that their ability to filter information isn’t working. Remember, their first job is to get reelected!
If you want your long screeds to be read learn some basic HTML. Paragraphs every 2 or 3 sentences will make here have limited attention spans, weak eyes, and a bad attitude. Make it easier for us.
This is the kind of illiterate, uninformed stupidity we expect from uneducated adolescents. That it is coming from the leader of the free world demonstrates how far we have fallen into reactionary ignorance.
Tyrants around the world are quivering with excitement. Finally Useful Idiots have taken over the citadels of the US. Global oligarchy is right around the corner.
I can think of no instances from history where a culture practiced self immolation like the US does. In Mexico, one often hears “Viva Mexico”. Most countries and cultures are proud of their heritages, but not progressives. For the life of me, I cannot understand where this self-hatred comes from.
Chicano Spring. He’s set off just about everywhere else into chaos. Why not the North American Continent?
Kind of beat me to it - I was going to accuse the Secret Service with protecting a tyrant
The product of these policies are what we, are witnessing today, as in "the chickens are coming home to roost," so to speak, with Obama being the one to drive the final nail in the coffin, to once and for all, destroy "this Great Experiment."
Unfortunately these conditions will continue to prevail until We the People rise up and insist on a restoration of limited representative government, as was originally intended in the constitutional charter.
In Obama’s case I don’t think it’s “self”-hatred since he is a foreigner.
In the other cases I think some sort of guilt has a lot to do with it - they feel guilty for being on the winning team.
And then there is a power grab - they want to realign who has the power over all that we achieved - and to get that they try to discredit all that we are.
Well, about 52% of Americans deserve what they voted for, while the rest of us have to suffer.
Yes, you are right on the money and I am terrified as well. The only saving grace is the Grace of God...I believe that he will make this right in the end...
I fear that will be true.
“Standing alone, we’re still the nations that produced giants of leadership like Washington and Hidalgo, giants of freedom like Lincoln and Juarez, and giants of the spirit like Carl Sandburg and Octavio Paz. But as great as our two nations are when we stand together, we are never taller than when we stand for principle.” George H W Bush
They when the Mexican kids arrive in the U.S. they are taught to hate the USA in our own American schools. Geeze! ( sigh!)
Says the country that protected Trotsky ( or at least tried to).
They are silent because they want the same thing and are part of the plot.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
The same socialists took a country that should be rich—oil, peerless agricultural potential, favorable weather two coasts with fishing and tourism and proximity to the world’s largest, most open market—and somehow produced mass poverty. No wonder Obama gushes over it.
Well put. He seems to be doing his best to turn us
into mexico.
If I were Obama, I’d be wiping my ass with everyone too.
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