Posted on 07/26/2006 4:42:00 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Mexico City, Jul 26 (EFE).- Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told the biggest Spanish-language television network in the United States that he is president of Mexico "by the will of the majority," though election authorities have yet to rule on his challenge of results that gave the victory to his conservative opponent.
Officials results showed Felipe Calderon with an advantage of 0.58 percent over Lopez Obrador in the July 2 balloting, but the leftist is demanding a vote-by-vote recount.
Mexico's electoral tribunal has until Sept. 6 to declare who will be sworn-in Dec. 1 to succeed conservative incumbent Vicente Fox for a six-year term.
In an interview set to air in two parts Wednesday and Thursday on the Univision network, Lopez Obrador said he is his country's president "by the will of the majority of Mexicans" and that election authorities were seeking to rob him of his victory.
His remarks, made in an exchange with Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos at the U.S. broadcaster's bureau in Mexico City, came a day after the boss of Mexico's powerful teachers union referred to Calderon as "president-elect" in a public address.
Elba Esther Gordillo, who is close to Fox, told reporters afterward that she misspoke, but her words filled the front pages of the capital dailies on Wednesday.
The labor leader was recently expelled from the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and has been working since election night to persuade state governors and others from her erstwhile party of the virtues of an alliance with the National Action Party of Fox and Calderon.
Lopez Obrador asked Calderon to join him in calling for a comprehensive recount of all 41 million ballots cast on July 2, but the rightist declined, countering with an invitation to his opponent to enter a dialogue.
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Both dolts.
Maybe him and Al can hold an "Almost President's Summit"..Ha! Loser.
So that's why Obrador came to Washington State! To see how Gregoire did it!
AP will report this as another sign of a Democrat majority in '06.
Say a lie LOUD enough and LONG enough and it become truth.
Why do you think that the left kept saying...
KERRY IS A WAR HERO
KERRY IS A WAR HERO
KERRY IS A WAR HERO
KERRY IS A WAR HERO
KERRY IS A WAR HERO
Its a global Marxist tactic straight from the Frankfurt school of fellow travelers
hah! lol!
He thinks Because he is a Commie, He has Been ordained by the people.
What a Lunatic! he has just shown that He is Insane and should never be given any Power whatsoever!!!
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
El Payaso Loco!!!!!
Hey, here's an idea: Let's get all the wannabes into one place and let them "solve" the world's problems. We could have this kook, Algore, John Freakin' Kerry, Saddam Hussein, the list is almost endless.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Typical leftist strategy and philosophy...
Gore and Kerry wake up every morning feeling presidential...
The "MeanBearPig" episode is on Comedy Central in about 45 min.
"What a Lunatic! he has just shown that He is Insane and should never be given any Power whatsoever!!!"
He is trying to pull a Chavez.
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