The Cockiest guy I have ever met in my life - Vincente Fox on Bush

[RamboLiberal]

Some Friend, W's Mexican Amigo

At the White House, the president has got to be muttering "some friend" when he pores over the new autobio from his old buddy Vicente Fox, Mexico's former leader. That's because Fox raps his border pal as stubborn and "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life." Revolution of Hope, out next month, is a well-written, well-researched book about Fox's political career and presidency, which coincided with George W. Bush's. While he expresses a kinship with W, he breaks with the prez on the war and slams the GOP's immigration platform. He blames Bush's stubbornness on Iraq for bad international relations, calls his Spanish "grade-school level," and admits he didn't think Bush would ever become president. "I can't honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House," he pens.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/9/16/some-friend-ws-mexican-amigo.html

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

1. And apropos of nothing.

[NJCher]

2. huh?

And appropriate for nothing? Is that what you're saying?

I think it's kind of funny. I remember when bush made a trip there early in his residency. Made such a big deal out of what good friends he was with Fox--how they had such a rapport. So it's funny to see what Fox really thought of the cowboy.



Cher

[Bluebear]

4. Exactly what I am saying!

The man is cocky with nothing to actually be cocky about!

He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple, as Ann Richards said :)

[wordswinker]

11. First the gardeners, then the butterflies . . .

It's everywhere!

[Swamp Rat]

12. Chauncey Gardner for president!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Anything about * being scared of horses?

[Hieronymus]

5. Bush must be lying drunk this week, as everyone has come out with

how they really feel about him. This one is fabulous. Spanish at grade school level.:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Didn't george brag about being the "first spanish speaking pResident"?

:rofl: Too funny!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. 80 % OR MORE OF THE PEOPLE ON EARTH WOULD LIKE TO

KNOCK THE CHIP OFF HIS SHOULDER

[bdamomma]

20. * is making the world a mess. that is for damn sure.

this one weasly man can't no one challenge this idiot?

[Zookeeper]

7. Fox has his own special brand of arrogance....

expecting a neighboring country to open its borders to take Mexico's poor off the hands of he and his rich cronies. (While still expecting their loyalty and money.)

I thought Fox and Bush were a matched pair, except that Fox is a lot smarter.

[provis99]

8. you're right. Its the pot calling the kettle black.

Fox is just as cocky and dopey as Bush. Maybe his reflections on Bush reminded him of himself, a little too uncomfortably.

[ecstatic]

22. my first thought exactly

"There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States," he said in a speech broadcast in part on local radio and reported on newspaper web sites.

F*ck them both.

[Greyhound]

9. Just one more example of why we are regarded as imbeciles in the rest

of the world. This waste of oxygen, that almost half the morans that inhabit this country viewed as deserving of the highest office in the land, has been nothing but a joke to everyone that has ever spent more than a few minutes with him.

Not only are 50 - 60 million of the flock, that even bothers to vote, so simple that this charlatan appeared to be leadership material, but there is a whole sector of the population that wants to establish some sort of legacy, other than criminal buffoon, for this miscreant. Some of them are right here on DU, too.

But we're a "superpower"?

Does anyone wonder why Putin and some of the others are starting to think we can be easily knocked off?

Wake up! Soon.

[Mythsaje]

10. Maybe so...but roughly half of the population

that also bothers to vote ISN'T stupid.

[Greyhound]

13. Perhaps not stupid, but certainly selfish, cruel, and indifferent to the suffering

that has been inflicted on tens of millions of the world and our own citizens. The evidence is all around you, every day, and while we continue to ignore what is happening, as we blithely go about our own business, the rest of the world is watching and judging.

The Chinese are not our friends, never have been, the Russians have not forgotten how we let them starve and sat by as the criminals sliced up their national assets, the Indians have not forgotten how we let our corporate criminals kill tens of thousands of them and then proclaimed them innocent. They all hunger for vengeance and they see that their opportunity is rapidly approaching.

So, explain to me, and more relevantly, the people of the world, just how bright we are.

[Mythsaje]

14. Who is WE, Kemo Sabe?

Got mouse in pocket?

I never gave my assent and I damn well haven't been silent about it.

What small soapbox I have, I use.


And "going about our business" is what some people call "living a life." Everybody has one, until they don't.

[Greyhound]

15. You know exactly who "we" is and thinking that the rest of the world will

care whether you or I were among the few that objected is naive at best.

Excusing the cruel indifference that is epidemic in our nation as "living a life" is just another excuse and won't serve us any better than "we didn't know" did the Germans.

[Mythsaje]

17. Maybe they won't care...or know...

But *I* know.

[trusty elf]

16. I, Shrub=Hubris

[Judi Lynn]

18. You remember right after he was elected he went to Canada to attend a meeting

there, and latched onto Vicente Fox, boasting to his Canadian host that Vicente was going to be his very first official guest in the States! It seemed so tacky to tell him that the Mexican President was his first choice as a guest, it was appalling.

Who can forget how obnoxious he was pretending he was falling on the at Chichén Itzá? It must have seemed like such a long day for Vicente Fox.


Very glad Fox spoke up, better late than never. It's never too late to distance from this imbecile publicly. I hope they ALL come forward to step away from him while he's still in office!

[NJCher]

23. hadn't seen those

I remember the visit but I didn't know the imbecile pulled that childish stunt. What an ass. Thanks for the pics.




Cher

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. He who knows him best...

Haya en el rancho grande, haya 'donde viviiiiiia...

[moondust]

24. End-stage frat boy syndrome.

He believed he was entitled to the White House, Mr. Fox, along with everything else: A son of Manifest Destiny.

[PDenton]

25. Fox is still a cynical dirtbag

If we have Bushler, he is Mussolini.