Thread: Calderon Blocked From Delivering State-of-the-Union

Watch your blood pressure.!!

Calderon Blocked From Delivering State-of-the-Union
Mexican President Brokers Compromise to Speak at National Palace

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, September 2, 2007; 3:14 PM

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2 -- President Felipe Calderon, blocked from delivering the traditional state-of-the-union address to his nation's Congress, called Sunday for changing the format of an annual rite that has become a chaotic embarrassment for Mexico.

Calderon is the second consecutive president to be barred by hostile legislators from delivering the speech, though he was able to broker a compromise that averted the fistfights that stopped his predecessor, Vicente Fox, from addressing Congress last year. In an eleventh-hour deal, Calderon agreed to hand in a text of the speech Saturday, then address the nation Sunday at Mexico's ceremonial National Palace.

At the invitation-only event Sunday, Calderon vowed to press the United States to enact immigration reforms, push for Mexico to play a larger leadership role in Latin America and improve living conditions for the 40 percent of Mexicans who live in poverty. Ending economic inequality, he said, "is the most important challenge of our generation."

He promised reforms that would improve education and health care for the poor, though he was short on specifics or bold new proposals and said current programs will be fortified because they have been successful.

Calderon entered the National Palace's broad courtyard as one of the most popular Mexican presidents in recent history, with a 65 percent approval rating that narrowly topped Fox's rating at this point in his administration and was nearly double the mark achieved by Ernesto Zedillo, who preceded Fox. Calderon touted the arrests of dozens of top drug cartel leaders but warned that his military campaign was far from over.

"This is a long and difficult battle," he said, vowing that "the sacrifice of those patriots" in the military who have died battling the cartels "will not be in vain."

"The fight against organized crime is moving forward," he said.

Calderon's administration has been negotiating for a massive anti-cartel package that would be the biggest international foray by the United States into combating drug trafficking since the multi-year Plan Colombia, which allocates hundreds of millions of dollars to stopping cocaine producers and sellers in Colombia.

Calderon has pushed for Mexico to improve strained relations with many Latin American countries and to increase its presence in world business markets. In a speech interrupted sporadically by polite, but restrained, applause, he called for "more of the world in Mexico and more of Mexico in the world."

The Mexican government, he said, would continue to "energetically protest unilateral actions" of the U.S. Congress on the immigration front that he said "exacerbate the persecution of undocumented Mexicans in the U.S." He boasted that Mexican consulates in the United States have been fortified to protect the rights of millions of Mexicans living there illegally.

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

U.S. politicians have frequently accused Mexico of failing to produce enough jobs to entice young Mexicans to stay at home instead of risking crossing the border illegally. In remarks that seemed aimed at those critics, Calderon said 618,000 jobs had been created in the first eight months of his administration, equaling the best case scenario predictions for the full year.

Protesters massed outside, but there were far fewer than in months past when rage about allegations that Calderon won the election fraudulently stoked emotions in the capital. As he neared the end of his address, Calderon -- often serious and stiff in public -- broke into a smile.
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"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

Don't bet on it!!

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

...This should not and cannot go unanswered. This is an inflammatory statement that directly attacks American soverignity. Our government and our wussified president Boooosh should demand a retraction and expressly warn Calderon of severe military consequences if his reconquista ass doesn't recall his invaders.

"exacerbate the persecution of undocumented Mexicans in the U.S."

What a moron. They are illegal, you idiot. This is OUR country not anyone elses country and certainly not the country of anyone who is in our country ILLEGALLY.

Keep dreaming, you fool, and keep talking too, so that EVERY American citizen will understand just what you're trying to do to OUR country.

On illegal Guatemalans in Mexico, can this idiot say "wherever there is a Guatemalan, it is Guatemala!"??..

current programs will be fortified because they have been successful.

You mean like a new how to cartoon on border crashing featuring pendejo the talking coyote .

" He boasted that Mexican consulates in the United States have been fortified to protect the rights (what rights) of millions of Mexicans living there illegally.

Originally Posted by Like a bunch of little Alamos fortified so that

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

CALDERON IS AN ARROGANT FOOL! GRRRRRR!! HIS STATEMENT JUST MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm........

I understand there are quite a few AMERICANS living in Mexico. Therefore, wherever there is an AMERICAN, it is AMERICA. Lets deport all the Mexicans in Mexico to South America!!!!

The Mexican government, he said, would continue to "energetically protest unilateral actions" of the U.S. Congress on the immigration front that he said "exacerbate the persecution of undocumented Mexicans in the U.S." He boasted that Mexican consulates in the United States have been fortified to protect the rights of millions of Mexicans living there illegally.

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

Calderon is a fool. Rather than protesting U.S. immigration policies, he should be developing strategies to improve his third-world country so his people will stop invading us.

Furthermore, he is extremely delusional is he actually believes the U.S. "is Mexico" simply because millions of illegal Mexicans are here. The U.S. will NEVER be Mexico. For Calderon to make such a statement exemplifies his arrogance and the lack of respect he and his country have for America. It is also evident he feels he has Boosh in his pocket.

I wonder how much traitor Boosh was promised to sell out his country.

"Wherever there is a Mexican," he said, "that is Mexico."

WTF You have got to be kidding me!!!! This just can't go on!!! This is our MFGDC who the hell does this guy think he is!!!