The defeated left-wing candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has held an unofficial swearing-in ceremony.
During his “inauguration” in Mexico City, Mr Lopez Obrador said he was launching a “parallel government”.He claims he was the victim of fraud in July’s election – a view shared by millions of Mexicans.
But some of his supporters think his alternative inauguration is ill-advised and politically irresponsible.
Gee, ya think?
Mr Lopez Obrador has promised he will do everything he can to hamper the government of Mr Calderon, who succeeds President Vicente Fox on 1 December.
“Those neo-fascist reactionaries better not think they’ll have room to manoeuvre,” he told his supporters on Saturday.
“We’re going to keep them on a short leash.”
Due to its peculiar history, the north and south of Mexico are polarized, with Chiapas and Oaxaca states representing the more radical, late-blooming liberation theology leftism of the country. Such a ceremony, held in the Zocalo, the historical stage of the country, has the chance to cause serious problems. If part of Obrador’s “parallel government” strategy stretches to his attempting to create a new police or militia, this has the potential to become hairy-scary very fast.
Much of Mexico’s oil, under the aegis of the national oil company, Pemex (Petrolios de Mexico) is located in remote areas where the liberation theology leftism sells well. Do you think that Hugo Chavez will keep his mitts off? I don’t. Fomenting strife in Mexico in an attempt to replace the government with a Chavez-friendly regime would isolate Central America, particularly the Panama Canal, by Jimmah.
Remember the good old days when someone like Obrador would simply be arrested, tortured and executed?
Clearly, if anyone needs some executing, it’s a major politician who proudly and actively commits treason.
Jimmy Carter’s seal of endorsement on Obrador’s parallel government coming in 5…4…3..
Ok, I’m not suggesting anything, I’m just airing this out.
Has anyone seen Lopez Obrador and Nasrallah in the same room?
Hummm, and I thought our moonbats were nuts…
It’s a good thing we are making rapid progress on the border fences.
Now you’re pro-fence…
Hmmm. Didn’t realize that it was American conservatives against the fences in Israel . . .
Build the fence. Make it high, long and deep. Man it with sturdy men pitiless as the sun, armed and determined.
Monkyboy, I think your only problem is that you fail to grasp your own stupidity. Really, in the future, next time you see something you disagree with and you come up with some clever retort, just say to yourself, “The clever retort is not in actuality clever. I just think it is, because I am extremely stupid.”
It will save everyone time, and time is the stuff life is made of.
Can I have the three seconds that it took to read your clever post back, PTiaToR?
When you return all the time it takes me to get past your droppings, m-bot
Think of the time you spent reading my post to be an investment; if it keeps you from writing one post, you’ll save time in net. And then there’s indirect benefits, like fewer people shaking their heads and saying, “Wow—what an idiot monkyboy is.”
On the other hand, there will also be fewer people laughing hysterically and saying “Wow—what an idiot monkyboy is,” or adding a bit int thier prayers: “Thank you, God, for not making me as butt-stupid as monkyboy.” You also reassure people on the other side: if monkyboy believes a thing to be true, I personally feel more confident it is not.
There’s also a certain amount of scientific joy to be had—you may well represent the quantum unit of human inteligence on the internet—technically, you can read and post, but you have repeatedly proven you can neither follow arguments, nor can you make them.
I mean, Jesus—the amount of sheer unintentional entertainment from your mile-high balloon fence rivals that produced by Plan 9 From Outer Space, in terms of the entertainment / time ratio.
So that’s something, at least.
That long? You’ve committed the sin of being a bore. Now go away.
I think what you are suggesting is a template for understanding Balloon Fence Boy. He could be a resource more valuable than Wikpedia (ok, damning with faint praise.)
Just like George Costanza, who snagged his Yankees job by doing the opposite! Try it out.
Apply this rule to Balloon Fence Boy and you shall forever be rightious.
Or, at least, uncovered with feces…
Hmmm, given the proliferation of horizontal marketing, content, advertising, and cash flow thru these Internets, I agree, Piator. I propose monkyspunk begin a blog, subscribe to AdSense and/or related innovative revenue generators, and sell subscriptions.
<cough>Hapless</cough> customers would pay their twenty cents a month, summarize monkyspunk’s(tm) opinion each morning, and immediately believe the very opposite.
Assuming monkyspunk is as glib and literate on his own fucking blog as he strives to be here, it’s bound to return tens and tens of loyal customers, plus entire dollars a month from Google.
Meanwhile Rove rules and we can see to the business of raising value for our Bechtel shares while sitting around in our villas in our shorts, reading PW and other neocon Rethuglican sites!
I say either kill all the world’s bad people of convert them to Christianity. Pretty sweet(tm).
Hehe.
Thanks, and I’m kind of impressed how monkyboy is proving the “monkyboy principle” on the NYT thread. But please—I’m Ptiator. Piator was someone else.
It’s the “t” that makes a difference.
My koan for the day is, “Is monkyboy stupid because he is always wrong, or is he wrong because he is stupid?” I’m sort of a process guy, so I think it’s the former.
The nice thing about monkyboy haunting this site is that he makes me look smart.
Well, relativly speaking.
OK,OK, then…I don’t look like the dumbest person in the room.
Yeah, monkyboy’s sort of like the fat chick who hangs out with pretty girls. With him in a thread, my cat could type “kshjandnjds” and still elevate the level of discourse.