The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Even if it's only giving people headaches. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is at it again. He's planning on taking the presidential oath of office even though he lost the election and is a loser all the way around. This is a guy who just will not go away.
Tens of thousands of supporters were expected to cram into Mexico City's vast Zocalo square to see Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador take an oath of office in a ceremony that has no legal weight but could mark the start of new street protests.
Ruling party conservative Felipe Calderon won the July 2 election by a razor-thin margin and Mexico's top election court threw out Lopez Obrador's claims of massive fraud,
The leftist crippled central Mexico City for several weeks after the election by setting up protests camps, but his campaign has since faded.
At his swearing-in ceremony on the anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Lopez Obrador will detail his plans to run a parallel government and may call for new protests against Calderon.
Lawmakers from his Party of the Democratic Revolution have vowed to prevent Calderon from taking office in the Chamber of Deputies on December 1, and Lopez Obrador says his rival cannot rest easy.
This is not how things work in a democracy - or a federal republic which is how Mexico is organized. In related news, my 14-year old daughter has proclaimed herself Goddess Empress of the Universe and expects tribute from everyone. She's got you beat there, Ammy old boy. Probably a bit higher degree of legitimacy, too.
World news | Gaius Monday, 20 November , 2006
By BubbaB, Monday, 20 November , 2006 @ 5:05 pm
…And this is different from any 14-year old girl, how?