Mexican President Defends His Wife, Says They Are a "presidential Couple"

Associated Press ^ | March 6, 2003 | Associated Press Staff

[Pro-Bush]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox defended his wife's political campaign appearances and social work Thursday, saying he and the first lady are a "presidential couple." Martha Sahagun, the president's former spokeswoman who married him in July 2001.

Sahagun resigned as Fox's spokesman after their wedding and took an unpaid post as head of the charitable fund for Mexico's family welfare agency.

[Pro-Bush]

Vicente Fox married his former spokeswoman.

Didn't anyone tell Fox that it is Taboo to mess around with the hired help...Look at what happened to Bill Clinton.

Oh yeah, Your right, he got away with it, but it will follow him for the rest of his life.

[The Old Hoosier]

"The man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery..."

He caused quite a stir taking this gal down to see the Pope.

[Bogey78O]

We are the President!

[Pro-Bush]

We are the President!

Huh? Of Mexico? No comprende amigo.

[Bogey78O]

It's a line Hillary used in defense of her stonewalling of Whitewater.

[Pro-Bush]

Gotcha..Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Fox is a Charlatan, like clinton. When will we-they ever learn?

[BillyBoy]

>> "The man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery..."
He caused quite a stir taking this gal down to see the Pope. <<

Gotta love how apologists for this clymer (who's about as "Catholic" as Ted Kennedy was) try to evoke his religion whenever he does something screwy like sue the U.S. for executing vicious murderers? I doubt Vicente knows nor even cares what the Pope has to say. Ever notice he always critizing our capital punishment laws, but NEVER our abortion laws?

Vicente Fox is truly the Jim Jeffords of the PAN party.

[cyborg]

So I guess you won't be coming down to the Ethical Humanist Society's awards day for Jim Jeffords in NYC? I wonder...

[Pro-Bush]

Re: Vicente Fox is truly the Jim Jeffords of the PAN party

I think Bush realized this as well early in his presidentail term in office.

Pacific News By Martin Espinoza, Pacific News Service, July 25, 2001

http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/jul/0725dollars.html

Excerpt:
Integrating Mexico into a North American market is an attractive prospect for Fox; recent Mexican migration to the U.S. has helped bolster Hispanic buying power to $348 billion. According to the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, last year companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Phillip Morris, McDonald's, and Sears, Roebuck & Co., spent a combined total of $2.4 billion on TV, radio, and print advertising in the Hispanic market. That's a growth of 25 percent from 1999.

While Fox has dollars on the brain, American politicians such as President Bush are more directly concerned with the votes America's new citizens will cast in future elections.

[Ben Ficklin]

Martha is the PAN's "most likely to win" candidate for the next Mexican presidential election.