Ah, Mexico

Now this is the way to treat a rigged election. From Raw Story:

Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate said he will form a resistance government if election authorities acknowledge his conservative opponent as the winner of last month’s election. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has charged that the election was rigged, made the announcement at a rally of his supporters Sunday at Mexico City’s Zocalo plaza, a day before the Federal Electoral Tribunal was due to release the results of a partial recount of the ballots in the July 2 election, which Lopez Obrador lost to Felipe Calderon by a margin of 0.58 per cent.

The leader of the Mexican left and a former mayor of Mexico City called on his supporters to meet in a National Democratic Convention on September 16 if he fails to be declared the president-elect to decide what form their resistance movement should take.

Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution has contested the results ever since the election, calling out his supporters to demonstrations that have numbered more than 1 million people and to erect barricades and tent cities in the capital.

Wow, a whole million. Here all it took was a busload of goons banging on the door where they were counting the chads. Or not counting them, I forget which. Who can keep track of these things? But just a few hired shouters was all it took, plus a lot of media attention, a knife in the back from Lieberdoofus, and a partisan Supreme Court. That, and Big Al wouldn’t kill. The other guys would have, if they’d had to, and that’s the side that always wins.

But Obrador, man… “will form a resistance government.” With up to a million in the streets for a single demonstration, hell yeah, I guess so. I’m all for it, but things are liable to get messy. (Just don’t kidnap any border patrol agents, or Cheney might hire the Israeli Air Force to bounce the adobe and flattened tin cans.)

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