Obrador declares himself Prez of Mexico!

Washington Post ^

[BlackJack]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The leftist contesting Mexico's July 2 election on the grounds of vote-rigging declared himself president on Wednesday and said his supporters would step up a campaign of civil disobedience next week.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the vote count to conservative rival Felipe Calderon by a tiny margin, said in a television interview that a rally on Sunday in Mexico City would show his backers have the energy to keep up protests.

"I am already president. I won the presidential election. I am president of Mexico by the will of the majority of Mexicans," Lopez Obrador told Univision's "Here and Now" show, scheduled to be aired on Thursday.

"I think the people will not tire," he added. "We are going to beat (our opponents) because the people are on our side."

[Canedawg]

//clears throat


I am the President of Mexico!

[So Cal Rocket]

Lock your guns up people, the illegals are going to be stealing them to go fight a civil war. On second thought, we need to PROVIDE arms if they are heading south! ;-)

The more likely outcome is that the number of folks fleeing the hellhole of Mexico will double or triple if there is any kind of uprising there...

[dangus]

How does one say "Reichstag" in Mexican?

[freedumb2003]

How does one say "Reichstag" in Mexican?

"El Reichstago"

[nopardons]

bttt

[henbane]

ObraGore ??

"I am already president. I won the presidential election. I am president of Mexico by the will of the majority of Mexicans" Lopez Obrador told Univision. . . .

Now all Lopez has to do is go out and buy a podium and rent a hall.

Worked for Al.

[nopardons]

LOL

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"ObraGore?"

Love it! Patent that QUICK, LOL! ;)

[citizencon]

Carter, Gore and Kerry will be the guests of horror in his delusional presidential inaugural...

[pissant]

Meester, ees jos Algore een un sombrero

[AZLiberty]

Karl Marx (slightly paraphrased): "All great, world-historical facts and personages occur twice: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

[mirkwood]

[Dustin Hawkins]

Someones been paying too much attention to liberal Democrats...

[StJacques]

Thank you for the ping Enterprise, I appreciate it. I have translated an article from a Mexican web site that updates this story giving the response of the PAN party, which obviously is negative. I posted it about two hours ago, you can find it at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672854/posts

I read an article in Spanish on the web site of Mexico City's El Universal newspaper earlier today giving the full details of the Univision interview mentioned in the linked article at the top of this thread. I believe this could mark the beginning of a dangerous downward spiral for Mexican politics because Lopez Obrador seems ready to tear the whole thing down if he doesn't win.

And let me give my assurance to anyone who may be in doubt, Calderon genuinely did win the election. UN observers (not that we trust them), European Union observers, other Latin American observers (they had to kick the Venezuelan observers out before the election), U.S. observers, and the press worldwide have all stated that the Mexican elections were conducted very fairly and honestly.

For anyone else who doesn't know, I have been tracking the post-election controversy in Mexico for the board and I have translated somewhere between 15 to 20 articles from Mexican and Latin American web sites over the past few weeks, since the July 2 election. You can track these down by going to the forum's search engine, doing a keyword search, and using the unique keyword -- STJTRANSLATION. You can get a good handle on what has been going down in Mexico from the viewpoint within the Mexican press.

[livius]

This is really stunning. I wonder if he honestly thinks he has enough support in Mexico to simply declare himself the winner and get the government turned over to him.

I believe this could mark the beginning of a dangerous downward spiral for Mexican politics because Lopez Obrador seems ready to tear the whole thing down if he doesn't win.

I hope you're not right, but his behavior is pretty amazing right now and it's hard to see what else he could be aiming for.

[Enterprise]

And thank you again. I believe you said some time ago that this could happen!

[StJacques]

"I believe you said some time ago that this could happen!"

Yes I did and I would have preferred to have been wrong, believe me. I had pretty much written Calderon off about last March and it wasn't until early June that I saw some indication that Calderon had surged and I began to have hope. I have always known that Lopez Obrador was genuinely dangerous and just based on what I saw from the numerous articles I read leading right up to the election and over the two to three days following it I knew there could be trouble.

I really hate the Left. I mean, I know we all do, but I really hate them! I've lived in South America and spent a lot of time in Mexico and I know how hard these people are struggling to make a life for themselves and, just when it seems they are ready to takeoff, here comes the Left to mess everything up for them.

[Nuc1]

Bet we find Chavez and Castro behind this.

[river rat]

The INSTANT this Communist sonuvabitch calls for civil disorder to overthrow the election --- the authorities should shoot his ass dead........as an example of the consequences of that scenario...

In front of TV cameras if possible..

Semper Fi

[livius]

Oh, I'm sure they're back there somewhere.

Did anybody happen to see the recent photo of Alvaro Garcia, the Bolivian VP, holding a freeze-dried llama fetus that Little Weirdo Evo (another product of the Chavez-Castro love match) was going to "offer to Mother Earth" before some event?

Alvaro Garcia is a communist, but he's an educated man, and the expression on is face, as he stood gazing down at the dried llama fetus between his hands, was priceless. Plus you had the feeling he wanted to hurl it across the room and go wash his hands.

These people would be funny if they weren't so dangerous.