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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs there no MERCY for BIDEN? Yesterday heckled, today harangued by the president of Mexico
Original title: Is there no mercy for BIDEN? - one day he's heckled for doing something, now harangued by AMLO
"AMLO" is Andres Manuel LOPEZ Obrador, not my coinage, is widely known by those initials, and widely accessible via Google. But I digress. OP continues now:
*** AMLO ain't nothing if not a windbag. Here, BIDEN and other presidents are zapped for not having press conferences, but AMLO holds droning monologs, unless I'm mistaken, *daily*, for (hours? ) .
So, flipping the outlets looking for the Committee, I landed on a channel with AMLO reading off of a sheaf of papers (I'm sure TelePrompters could handle Spanish text), while BIDEN is in a hostage chair. I came in late, but now it's been going on for twenty minutes. Plus as AMLO reads in Spanish, the length is doubled while the translator does the job sentence by sentence. For sure the format could be the earpiece simultaneous translation, but that would lessen the torture by half and we can't have that now can we.
AMLO is having a blast, laughing, at last having an audience to talk to instead of his hours of monolog. I could pick up several mentions of FDR, heartening that he approves of *something* since he's uncooperative about everything else, like not even just *words* of support for Ukraine.
*** So yesterday, the father of a victim of gun massacre heckled BIDEN for "not doing enough" about gun management with the little law done in 30 years, like, does he think *Repukes* would do more?!
*** So MERCY for BIDEN, please, Zeus or whoever might dribble some mercy.
Marcus IM
(2,210 posts)There were several LatAm country's leaders raising a kerfuffle over the non-invite. Imo, silly to not invite them.
I'm in Miami, where this was a huge topic of political discussion.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)It's not personally aimed at BIDEN. Plus he wrapped things up with effusions about wanting good feelings.
Marcus IM
(2,210 posts)As I mentioned, I'm in Miami, where the shit is stirred so easily.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)But I have no standing to speak for others, but welcome to DU.
Marcus IM
(2,210 posts)Threatening Mexican product boycotts if the protesting Mexican/LatAm leaders got their way.
Always working a "blame Biden" angle.
Thanks for the welcome.