Posted on 07/30/2006 6:07:14 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
MEXICO CITY - A month after losing Mexico's closest presidential race in history, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallied with hundreds of thousands of supporters Sunday and said he would live among 47 makeshift campsites to pressure for a vote recount...
...Organizers of the Sunday rally said they had met their goal of 2.5 million protesters, but some capital police put the number at half that. Many demonstrators flooded subway stations on their way out of downtown even before Lopez Obrador spoke...
...Cab driver Juan Carlos Granados, 31, said he has been bringing supporters in from the nearby state of Hidalgo. "Some seem like they genuinely want to be here; others clearly are forced to attend," he said.
Granados himself donated his time and money because he said that otherwise, he could lose his taxi license from the PRD city government. "I have no choice, but I'm not sure I can do this for too long," he said...
...Hortensia Macias, 42, a PRD supporter from the neighboring state of Mexico, said that sooner or later, the dispute was bound to get violent. "As time goes by, frustration grows," she said, as she sat on a downtown street smoking a cigarette. "I like that it's peaceful so far, but I'm ready for a fight. I'm ready to see some blood."
(Excerpt) Read more at grandforks.com ...
For you to read and paste to the list if you would be so kind.
Another giant crowd turns out in Mexico City to call for recount
The candidates amped up the rhetoric Wednesday - Lopez Obrador declared himself "president of Mexico," while Calderon's camp said Lopez Obrador is bordering on "messianic."...
...One young woman dressed in white hung from a wooden crucifix. Her yellow sash read "Democracy."...
Despite Sunday's massive turnout, a poll published Sunday showed concerns over Lopez Obrador's movement.
The poll, sponsored by the Reforma newspaper, showed that 58 percent of Mexicans don't believe Lopez Obrador when he says he'll respect the decision of the electoral court. Fifty-seven percent believe his protest campaign could spark violence.
Also, 59 percent said they believe he has acted "irresponsibly" since the July 2 elections, compared to 28 percent who said the same of Calderon.
We will blockade airports, we will take over embassies
Sara Zepeda
Lopez Obrador supporter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5229762.stm
Ah, the Left is up to its old tactics, as usual. It's no wonder that they along so well with Islamists. Both groups consist of barbarians.
What's wrong with Obrador, he sounds like you could trust him... /s
Machine translation from an article from http://www.informador.com.mx/
below:
"I reiterate, I am not ambitious, a vulgar one, the money does not move nor interest me, the power only has sense when it is put to the service of the others", Obrador said.
It's amazing how leftists think that power is their birthright, regardless if they can't win elections. When was the last time conservatives threatened violence and bloodshed when one of their candidates lost a democratic election?
After 2000, foreigners couldn't hesitate to laugh at our system. Yet no one is insulting the Mexicans. I guess they aren't white enough or something.
iran + chavez + castro = obrador
Mexi-ping
Check out this pic of Chavez and Amadi-Jihadi
Love at first site lol.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060730/wl_nm/iran_venezuela_dc_1
Rent-a-mobs never impress me. Neither do coerce-a-mobs.
Ping
She sounds charming ...
So when's this guy going to do a Power Point movie presentation?
Well, we'd have been expecting too much for Obrador to start singing "I had to let it happen, I had to change. Couldn't stay all my life down at heel. Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun." Would've been funny though.
This situation hots up and our borders could be literally stormed by refugees. The problem: how to move them all into San Francisco, Seattle, and Massachusetts. (Free plane tickets at the border?)
I think George Soros and Hillary are setting up 2008 for this kind of thing.
Guy just can't face up to the fact that he lost.
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