December 1, 2006

HOMEY NEEDS A VP:

Harper's visit to Mexico seen as boost for Calderon: PM will be the highest-ranking leader at president's contentious inauguration (ALAN FREEMAN, 12/01/06, Globe and Mail)

It may not win him any votes back in Canada, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on the way to making a political friend for life with his attendance today at the inauguration of Felipe Calderon as Mexico's new and already embattled president.

With Mr. Calderon's leftist opponents vowing to disrupt and even stop the swearing-in ceremony, saying the conservative's July election victory was fraudulent, the presidents of Peru and Ecuador have bowed out of a ceremony already short of big foreign political names.

Mr. Harper, scheduled to be in Mexico for just 15 hours, has already been promised a seat in the front row of visiting dignitaries, who include former U.S. president George Bush and Spain's Crown Prince Felipe.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 1, 2006 8:38 AM
Comments

How soon til a successor to Gore and Kerry pulls an Obrador and tries to start a parallel gvt. in this country?

Posted by: Jim in Chicago at December 1, 2006 10:23 AM

Jim:

John Conyers has already held faux impeachment hearings in some basement in D.C.

Posted by: ratbert at December 1, 2006 11:29 AM

What is with these latinos and their military sashes?

Let it go, how undignified. If you don't want to be oppressed, throw off the oppressors' garments, dude.

The fisticuffs were good, tho. They could use some lessons from the SorKs or IL pols on how to really throw a right jab.

Posted by: Sandy P at December 1, 2006 12:31 PM
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