Calderón Wins, Baby Suri Lives, Mexico Dies?
Beautiful, no?The United States has been waiting, chest clenched and about to stamp our heavy foot in anticipation for the results of the democratic mingling between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Also the Mexican elections. Suri in a moment.
The conservative candidate has been declared the winner of the contested Mexican elections. But Mr López Obrador will fight on for "the people".
The former mayor of Mexico City did not give any immediate public reaction, although in recent days he has made it clear that this is far from the end of the story. In speeches foreseeing the adverse ruling, he has begun to transform his claims of fraud into an active challenge to the legitimacy of the country's institutional order.
Calling Mr Calderón a "usurper", Mr López Obrador has floated the idea of forming a parallel government "of the people to rival that of the political mafia and white-collar criminals". Such fiery talk has some observers talking about insurrection and others fearing a violent rightwing backlash. - Jo Tuckman in the Guardian
We've seen these tactics before by close losers in crucial elections. Although, I doubt the United States will be funding laser light shows for Mr López Obrador as they did for Victor Yushchenko in the Ukraine. Nonetheless, this makes much more plausible the idea that the Mexican government is going to fall apart underneath the weight of its corruption. If you thought the incentives for Mexicans to immigrate to the United States were great now, just wait.
Chris Roach has pointed out that the United States seems to be one of the few nations on this continent that endures the results of contested elections well - imagine Nixon or Gore calling for a parallel government "of the people." You can't. Somtimes its good to be an American.
More importantly, Baby Suri exists, or at least Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have received a facsimile of what their child might look like from the Church of Scientology.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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he complaints included President Fox's use of the state apparatus to favour the governing party candidate during the campaign, as well as negative advertising that compared the leftist candidate to Venezuela's controversial President Hugo Chávez. The magistrates identified some of these as problematic but did not consider them serious enough to question the legality of the election. -
Source: Photographic Proof: Suri ExistsElsewhere, Holmes calls Suri a "glorious girl" who is the "miracle of our life," bats down rumors of a rift between her family and Cruise, and explains that Cruise bought a sonogram for her doctor's use, not his. (According to Holmes, it was easier for the M.D. to come to their house, rather than the paparazzi-tracked couple to go to the doctor's office. Her explanation might come too late for sonogram-aspiring Californians who might be outlawed from purchasing such equipment by a Cruise-inspire
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Actually, I *can* imagine many other people--admittedly not politicians themselves--doing such a thing or at least attempting it. Economically the U.S. is beginning to resemble Argentina; demographically and politically, Mexico. This does not bode well for our future.
Whoops! They'll never have to abide an adverse decision. Those immigrants will ensure that the future will be characterized by leftism, as far as the eye can see, and beyond even the highest powers of thought. About the only positive outcome one can anticipate from this is that libertarianism will be decisively refuted, and all of the fictions of market idolators exploded. The downside is that only a dwindling number of cranky intellectuals will remain able to comprehend this.