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Mexican leftist will never accept rival's win
Yahoo News & Reuters ^
| September 3, 2006
Posted on 09/04/2006 1:04:17 AM PDT by tcrlaf
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's leftist opposition leader said on Sunday he will never recognize his right-wing rival as president and vowed a "radical transformation" of the country by setting up a parallel government.
Mexico's electoral court is almost certain to confirm the ruling party's Felipe Calderon as president-elect this week, but Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador insists he was robbed in the July 2 election.
"We will never accept usurpation nor recognize a president-elect who is illegitimate," the former mayor of Mexico City told a rally of thousands of supporters in the capital's main square.
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TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: calderon; civilwar; election; leftists; mexico; obrador; obragore
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To: jonrick46
To: tcrlaf
This guy has truly gone off the deep end. Besides, I don't see what pisses him off so much about the current government. The "conservative" PAN government staunchly opposes the Iraq war, condemns the death penalty in every cirucmstance, supports gun confiscation, loves the UN, supportions the communist regime in Cuba, is silent on abortion, and loves the welfare state. If I was a leftist living in Mexico, I'd be pretty happy with PAN rule. Vicente Fox stands for everything Slick Willy believed in.
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posted on
09/04/2006 3:03:00 AM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(ILLINOIS ELECTION "CHOICES:" Rod Bag-o-$hit or Judas Barf Too-Pinka)
To: tcrlaf
When my kids were competing in karate I used to tell them to either win definitively or not come crying to me about the judge's decisions.
Why should there be a big concern about who takes control when the margin for victory is minute? After all, half the people *did* vote for the other guy!
The media simply works the citizenry into a frenzy for its own purposes.
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posted on
09/04/2006 3:29:16 AM PDT
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: BillyBoy
The difference is between Calderon, the "conservative" who will tweak socialism here and there and Obrador, the communist who will almost make Hugo Chavez seem moderate by comparison. Obrador and his cronies will become fantastically wealthy if he becomes "President for life", even as Mexico is reduced to stone-age conditions.
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posted on
09/04/2006 3:34:04 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: tcrlaf
On the up side. If a true Communist government takes over. Maybe they will build the wall and save us the trouble.
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posted on
09/04/2006 3:40:09 AM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(Merry Christmas!)
To: tomzz
FOUR things Vicente Fox President of Mexico did that bring terrible consequences.
#1. First Act of his Presidential term he was on his knees commending his tenure to office to the Image of the Virgen of Guadalupe at the Villa, Tepeyac.
#2. Removed the portrait of Enemy of the Catholic Church, leader of Mexicos Reform, Benito Juarez who called for Freedom of Choice in matters of religion from Veracruz, Dec 4, 1860.
#3. Bowed down as Head of State of all the Mexican people, before another Potentate of another State, the Vatican, kissing his ring.
#4. Has declared that the last day of his Presidency, he will make again a trip to the Villa, bowing in adoration and gratitude for the Virgen's Help.
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
09/04/2006 3:51:54 AM PDT
by
Roy Tucker
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"--Ayn Rand)
To: BigCinBigD
On the up side. If a true Communist government takes over. Maybe they will build the wall and save us the trouble. The issue will be, just where do "they" want the border.....?
This has been coming since 1835....we Texians better be prepared....
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posted on
09/04/2006 4:05:32 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: tcrlaf
Mexican leftist will never accept rival's win John Kerry is Mexican?
To: tcrlaf
Sounds a lot like Joe LIEberman. He still insists the 2000 election was stolen.
People on the left seem to have a part of their brains missing.
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posted on
09/04/2006 4:30:10 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: tcrlaf
There's never a good sniper around when you need him.
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posted on
09/04/2006 4:52:49 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: tcrlaf
Wow! Has this Mexican yo-yo been reading Al Gore's press releases and speeches since 2000? Certainly seems that way. Can we possibly get the Gore people to flee to Mexico, so all the left-wing crazies are concentrated south of the border? Just a thought.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article: "The Hazleton Case: the People vs. the ACLU"
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To: tcrlaf
Mexican leftist will never accept rival's winMexican leftist must be whacked.
Paully, you taqke care of it, aight?
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posted on
09/04/2006 4:55:08 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: tcrlaf
Mexico's leftist opposition leader said on Sunday he will never recognize his right-wing rival as president... QUICK! Somebody call Algore! His long lost brother has been found!
To: The Duke
Why should there be a big concern about who takes control when the margin for victory is minute? After all, half the people *did* vote for the other guy! . . . and your conclusion is: what? That Obrador should be allowed to take the office someone else (narrowly) won by the law, because he is willing to threaten chaos? Or is it that Obrador is whining like a spoiled brat in need of a spanking?
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posted on
09/04/2006 5:21:17 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: tcrlaf
This is going to deteriorate into a shooting conflict.
Obrador is no Zapata or Villa, but if he keeps trying to ignite the conflict, one will appear. I do not think that Obrador really understands that he is on the edge of causing a full scale revolution.
Lot of people are going to get hurt, probably including Obrador.
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posted on
09/04/2006 5:41:27 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: tcrlaf
I think that this is going to get pretty funky in the very near future... and not the good kind of funk, either. This guy is an unhinged lunatic, God help us all if he manages to seize power.
APf
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posted on
09/04/2006 5:46:45 AM PDT
by
APFel
(Individualism. The alpha and the omega.)
To: Aussie Dasher
""We will not only decide on our form of government ... but something very important will also be defined: the basic plan for the transformation of Mexico," said Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution."
This sounds like a revolution in the making. I don't think Obragore has that much muscle on his side. Campesinos with pitchforks won't do it. Still, this will be terribly destructive for Mexico.
You are correct. Get the fence up NOW. The refugees will be coming. They will likely come from the loosing side. That means a lot of loosers (leftists from Southern Mexico).
To: BillyBoy
I don't see what pisses him off so much about the current government.
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Possibly the fact that "the other guys" will be leaching money out of the public treasury instead of "their" guys. There's a BIG difference between the other guys stealing money and you stealing money. The other guys stealing money doesn't make YOU any richer.
The same thing with power. Someone else having power is not the same as you having it, no matter how close your respective political practices.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:03:03 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: BigCinBigD
The upside may be that a Communist Mexico will soon give us the excuse to send the US Army down there to solve their problem once and for all. We should not have left the last time we sent the Army there, but it did at least provide excellent training for the regular Army leader in the Civil War. This time the regular Army is well trained from Iraq and Afghanistan.
This will not be nation-building, this will be building the 51st state. Let's do everything they accuse of us, this time, and make the new state safe for free enterprise. Then Mexicans won't have to go so far to be in the US. We'll all be better off!
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:22:09 AM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(Patriotism to DemocRats is like sunlight to Dracula.)
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