Elections spell beginning of end for Vicente Fox

Mercury News ^ | 7/11/03 | Denise Dresser

[NormsRevenge]

Mexico's midterm elections confirm what many had suspected: Vicente Fox's presidency is over.

Trapped once again by a divided Congress in which his party failed to obtain a majority, Fox's reform agenda doesn't stand a chance. He will continue to live at the official residence at Los Pinos but he won't be able to enact any changes from there. He will kiss babies and inaugurate events, but none of this will amount to anything. He will talk about pending legislative initiatives but they won't be approved.

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[BillyBoy]

>> The remaining three years of Fox's term will amount to little more than a Potemkin presidency, in which a popular president serves as a front for a paralyzed government <<

Popular? This guy is as popular as his clone in the U.S., Jim Jeffords.

That's what happens when a politican sees his campaign "promises" as meaningless rhetoric designed to get himself into office. Vicente campaigned as a conservative reformist outsider, and governed as a buiseness-as-usual backstabbing socialist jerk.

To heck with CA recall, this guy would be clobbered by the voters if MEXICO had recall!

[bjcintennessee]

Years before he became president, I read an article about Fox and vaguely recall that he attended college in the US (?). When he returned to Mexico, he was full of hopes and dreams of improving the economics and lifestyle of his people.

Maybe if his party had been in the majority he could have made a difference. Instead, the only way he could improve Mexico's economy was to push for an open border -- tantamount to working for foreign aid except that we get invaded and get to pick up the tab.

[cookcounty]

"Vicente campaigned as a conservative reformist outsider, and governed as a buiseness-as-usual backstabbing socialist jerk. "

Exactly. He disappointed a lot of people, especially in Mexico. He's good-looking but completely ineffective---sort of a Mexican JFK.

[janetgreen]

Maybe if Vicente had paid more attention to the needs of his country rather than trying to export all his people north, he wouldn't have been such a failure.

[texastoo]

I really hate to tell you this so late at night.

I was reading about the Mexican elections a few days ago and at the end of one of the articles, it stated that Fox hopes his LEGACY will be the immigration accords with the US.

No doubt his compassionate friend will help him.

[NormsRevenge]

Mexico is a country that is paying the price for years of corruption at the highest levels of govt all the way to the lowest levels of its bureaucracies.

It is sad to see the wanton disregard for its people and the waste of so many natural resources that could have lifted all of its people's standards of living and made the fleeing of Mexico and the all the illegal immigration the only option for so many of its own.

Payback is a bitch. Fox should step aside, much as Davi$ in California should, rather then allow this situation to only deteriorate further as he sits like a duck in mud up to his eyeballs, imo.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

I'd feel better about this but one of the reasons his former supporters withdrew support is because he failed to get legal status in the US for their peons. They havn't given up their objective.

[texastoo]

"---sort of a Mexican JFK"

Well, if he quoted JFK "ask not what your country (the US) can do for you but what you can do for your country (The US). That would be a very good reason to lose the election.