This must be algore's autobiography.
Posted on 10/27/2007 11:58:44 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday his native country and the United States would benefit from electing a female president.
The reason, Fox said, is that women in leadership have different characteristics than their male counterparts. These traits have long been embraced by businesses across the world, he said, but they have yet to take hold in government.
``Maybe it is because having kids is such a special thing. ... (Women) think about the future more, they think about their children,'' he said during a lecture at Buena Vista University in northwest Iowa.
During an afternoon session with about 800 students and faculty, Fox took questions and offered a free range of opinions on issues such as corruption in Mexico and the merits of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Fox said he was an honest leader, setting himself apart from former Mexican leaders by being the first to release his personal finances to the public.
Fox also reminded the audience of his commitment to remain in Mexico after he left office. He said his decision prompted criticism from people who were not used to his style.
``We decided to go against the culture that a former president is not allowed to participate. We decided to stay in Mexico. We decided to work for the future,'' said Fox, who ended 71 years of Institutional Revolutionary Party rule with his historic election in July 2000.
He later added, ``It's like Don Quixote said. 'Sancho, if dogs are barking than we are advancing.' That is what's happening in Mexico right now.''
When asked by a student if the United States was losing its greatness, Fox seemed to take a jab at President Bush.
``The core values that make this nation great are just that, core values,'' he said. ``It is just that, sometimes, they are lost and need to be recuperated.''
Fox also complained of the United States' trade arrangement with Mexico, saying that Americans are slow to accept that the ``world is flat'' a reference to Tom Friedman's best selling book about globalization.
``God did not create borders,'' he said. ``He did not create divisions.''
At an evening session with about 220 invitees, Fox defended Mexican immigrants in the United States as ``those who take risk, those who will leave their families and go out to work for them.
``That's why I admire so much the Mexican people here,'' he said. ``They make your life better, maybe they build your homes. ... They are here because they are needed.''
Fox repeated his skepticism and concern about the United States' plan to build a wall along its southern border.
``That was not the spirit of those who came to found this nation,'' Fox said.
``This is a land of immigrants, a great nation, a leader in the world. That's why I don't understand building a wall.''
Fox was scheduled to attend another campus event Saturday morning before departing.
*snort* So Vicente is stumping for Her Heinous, now?
I totally agree. The more that this swine irritate the citizenry, the better chance they wake up.
No RINOs and No Democrats ought to put Vincente Fox-in-the-henhouse in his place. Huh, I wish.
Lording it over a nation of people who he and his kind fail at providing for because it is easier to let US Citizens do it for them.
Yup! They are more vicious when their nest is attacked and they sit down to pee.
Yep, we could use a Margaret Thatcher or a Golda Meier to slap all you socialists back into the funny pages where you belong.
Who the hell invited this bozo?
Go pound burritos!.....
....and since when does another country’s past leader ideas mean anything to us?>????
In fact, when do the ideas and thoughts of any other nations leaders mean anything>>>> we are the United States of America, most powerful nation on earth, we don’t take orders from other countries, never have and best not try it in the future!!!!
Oh like Mexico did with you as it’s leader.
Go soak your head, Fox, and stay out of our business.
Hillary is unqualified except to be a front and you know it.
Go elect a female president in Mexico then, Dude! Americans will decide who is elected not Mexicans
This must be algore's autobiography.
It’s no wonder Mexico is so screwed up Fox is a babbling idiot just like Chavez. There must be something in the water thre that messes up their brains.
We need a “Women” to run if a women is to become President Mr. Fox. Hillarys credentials are in question so let the DNA testing begin.
She sure does!
Other than peeing up a wall, is there anything that these people will admit that men are inherently better at?
Call me when you eliminated your southern border, you stinking hypocrite!
So, does that mean Fox would have been a better president of Mexico if he’d had a sex change operation?
Leadership isn’t about gender, it’s about LEADERSHIP.
Those whose talk and efforts indicate otherwise are sexists, schemers or Useful Idiots.
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