Mexican Sore Losers

More on what's going on south of the border. My favorite quote was:

This was the reality testified to by 1,800 district advisers, 970,000 representatives from all the parties, 24,769 national observers and 639 international observers. Nevertheless, López Obrador is unwilling to accept his personal defeat (although, of course, he considers the elections that produced unprecedented victories for his party to be valid).

In other words, just like a lot of the attacks on the last two national elections in the US, the losers want to pick & choose which parts of the votes are valid and which parts are not. While the Democrats focus so much of their time on Ohio, they don't look at states like Pennsylvania where their margin of victory was just as a slim as the Republicans' in the other state. I'm sure if we drilled down on each and every county in Pennsylvania we'd find just as many discrepancies. So, do we hold the election again, and again, and again, until the Democrats win (We can call that the Washington State model)? That's apparently what is being requested in Mexico.
This does not sound like the person I'd want running my country.

He went to the Zócalo (that theological-political spot in the historical center of Mexico City) to declare: "We've won the presidency." Days later, after release of the official tally by the Federal Electoral Institute (the independent citizen body that since 1996 has been successfully organizing fair elections at every federal level, reversing a long history of fraud), López Obrador summoned the "people" to an "assembly" at which he called President Vicente Fox a "traitor to democracy" and used the most ominous word in the Mexican political dictionary: "fraud."

I can't say I'm crazy about the thought of someone like that running the country next door either. Because, after all,

This denigration of the respected Mexican electoral system (which had just announced the triumph of hundreds of PRD candidates), and the incendiary speeches that have followed seriously threaten the peace in Mexico.

OK, name a leader from the 20th century that this might describe:

The charismatic leader who incarnates Truth, Reason, History and Virtue, the leader who will save Mexico from oppression, inequality, injustice and poverty, who will "purify national life": Andrés Manuel López Obrador.