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Mexico's president tells Stanford grads: 'You must never, ever give up' on ideals
Stanford Report ^
| June 12, 2011
| CYNTHIA HAVEN
Posted on 06/18/2011 11:04:16 PM PDT by KittyKares
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Too bad he can't generate enough income for Mexico's citizens so they don't have to come here for work.
A side bar has a link to the commencement speech, but it does not seem to translate what he said in Spanish. This is all it reads:
Know there are many Mexican and Mexican-American students graduating today.
So, let me say to them and to all Latinos... (Speaks Spanish).
To: KittyKares
the only thing impossible seems to be controlling illegal immigration
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:06:50 PM PDT
by
chrismich2610
(Is America Finished?)
To: KittyKares
Calderón is just another marxist who has zero control over his own country. He’s in bed with the cartels.
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:10:29 PM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: KittyKares
The president of Mexico speaks at Stanford’s commencement? Isn’t that unusual?
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:13:01 PM PDT
by
babyfreep
To: KittyKares
"It is possible to prevent climate change and foster growth simultaneously,"Well, sure, but do they really want to renew virgin sacrifices at the Mayan temples in the Yucatan...?
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:13:16 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: KittyKares
If you never give up, you to can be the President of a third-world nation run by drug lords whose biggest export is it's people that leave in order to take the resources of their neighbors to the north!
To: KittyKares
Within Mexico, however, he is also known as a champion who has taken on the tax system, the judicial system, arms control, and financial and immigration reform.
Yeah, whatever he and the rest of the Mexican leadership are doing, it isn't working. Mexico has proven oil reserves, vast national resources and is an immediate neighbor of the most powerful economy that has ever existed, with free trade access to that economy - and yet Mexico is a basket case.
It takes monumental governmental incompetence to manage that. Calderon and his colleagues should be an object lesson on how even the most favorable situations for governance can be screwed up.
To: KittyKares
"Know there are many Mexican and Mexican-American students graduating today. So, let me say to them and to all Latinos...".
Race, race, race,... as goes La Raza.
GIMME MORE STUFF. WE WERE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS LAND UNTIL THE EUROPEONS came. You owe us! Actually, you weren't. Go back far enough and your ancestors were just another tribe that crossed the Bearing Sea to filter down in north america and build monuments for stupid gods and sacrifice humans for dumb ass beliefs.
You DO realize that the awful Europeons provided the language you now speak? Sure you know what that language is.
POP QUIZ: What language does Brazil speak? No fair Google. You got 60 seconds.
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:34:53 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(:)
To: KittyKares
This president is different than almost all those who have preceeded him; unlike all the others he isn’t corrupt and is trying desperately to establish the rule of law in his country. I am not a big fan of Mexican society - it’s proven to be lawless, corrupt, unproductive, etc., but I know plenty of individual Mexicans who are decent people and only want a better life for their families. Unlike so many other politicians, Calderon is attempting to make a difference. He was wrong to criticize Arizona, and I don’t think the Mexican economy is anything to write home about, but he’s trying to make a break from the past, and I give him great credit for that. I fear it will all revert when he leaves offices, but for once, Mexico will have had a president who genuinely attempted positive change. A successful Mexico is in everyone’s interest.
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:47:33 PM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: A Navy Vet
POP QUIZ: What language does Brazil speak? No fair Google. You got 60 seconds. ANSWER: Portuguese
Question to you: WHY?
:o)
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posted on
06/18/2011 11:51:24 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
To: Cowboy Bob; A Navy Vet
Senor Navy Vet is just making sure you are on your toes !
BOM DIA !
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posted on
06/19/2011 12:14:12 AM PDT
by
onona
(I stand with SARAH !)
To: americanophile
Calderon is attempting to make a difference. He was wrong to criticize Arizona, and I dont think the Mexican economy is anything to write home about, but hes trying to make a break from the past, and I give him great credit for that. I fear it will all revert when he leaves offices, but for once, Mexico will have had a president who genuinely attempted positive change. A successful Mexico is in everyones interest.Sorry, but we don't need a foreign president telling us what to do. Mexico has their own strict border policies and to have El Presidente act like a vicim is disgusting.
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posted on
06/19/2011 12:23:19 AM PDT
by
KJC1
To: KittyKares
My ideal was to take over the world, build a giant spaceship and populate the Milky Way, but I’ve had to scale back a little because of the recession.
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posted on
06/19/2011 1:08:28 AM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
To: KittyKares
This clown should only be allowed to comment on stuff he knows about, prostitution, marijuana, cocaine, and chiclets. Otherwise he needs to STFU and get his country in order and quit lecturing us about what to do
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posted on
06/19/2011 2:40:30 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
To: KittyKares
I came out of Walmart and as I got in my car I get acosted by what looked like a nine month pregnant hispanic woman with a toddler in tow hitting me up for money by showing me a handwritten sign and saying “please”.
Same thing happened to us inside a diner two weeks ago, where the pregnant lady went from table to table with her sign. Only that one was from India or Pah-ki-stahn.
Job well done Homeland Security. We are becoming a freaking third world s-hole.
To: KittyKares
What? Did Stanford decline to invite Obama?
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posted on
06/19/2011 3:29:33 AM PDT
by
Victoria_R
(Believers in VERY small government: Count Mountjoy/Benter in 2012!!!)
To: KittyKares
Did each graduate get a "gift bag" with a few ounces of weed as a going-away present?
Cheers!
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posted on
06/19/2011 4:14:11 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: KittyKares
Mexico—that global beacon for environmentalism and conservation.
To: Flycatcher
King Canute halts the tide.
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posted on
06/19/2011 5:27:18 AM PDT
by
Melchior
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Mexico has proven oil reserves, vast national resources and is an immediate neighbor of the most powerful economy that has ever existed, with free trade access to that economy - and yet Mexico is a basket case. It takes monumental governmental incompetence to manage that Amen brother! Somebody finally said it. ANY country that is butt up against the United States should be worth ten times what it is and poised to have a booming economy. But Mexico is among the most corrupt nations in the world that is basically run by an oligarcy of families. You cannot build a house on soft ground as you cannot elevate a country when the entire system of commerce and government is corrupt.
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posted on
06/19/2011 6:17:33 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(And, therefore, isn't Jim (Robinson) the original Blog Father? - FReeper Aevery_Freeman)
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