Obama plans to discuss immigration, drug cartels and trade with Mexico, Canada

— President Barack Obama meets this weekend with leaders of Mexico and Canada at a time when drug-related violence, swine flu and the economic crisis are slipping across North America's borders like never before.

Obama, along with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, are expected to work on trade and immigration, drug trafficking and security, and clean energy during their first summit Sunday and Monday in ....Guadalajara.

"The bottom line is that what affects our bordering neighbors has the potential to affect us all, so we want to be certain that we have the tightest and best possible cooperation," said National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones.....

For Mexico, the North American Leaders Summit comes at a crucial time: Washington is debating whether to withhold money to help fight Mexico's powerful drug cartels due to allegations of human rights abuses by the Mexican military.

Mexican communities are living under siege with dozens of cartel-related killings each month. U.S. Justice Department officials say as many as 230 U.S. cities have been infiltrated by Mexican cartels and are hoping to prevent similar violence.

The leaders also are expected to take up the swine flu pandemic. Since spring, the Pan American Health Organization has reported more than 43,500 cases and 300 deaths in the U.S., 10,150 cases and 50 deaths in Canada, and 15,727 cases with 141 deaths in Mexico.

Leaders also will discuss the U.S. economic crisis that has sent devastating waves to its neighbors. Both Mexico and Canada send 80 percent of their exports to the U.S., which has severely reduced its buying power.

Other key issues are likely to include the Honduran coup, when Honduran soldiers exiled President Manuel Zelaya. Obama and other international leaders say the coup was illegal and have called for Zelaya's return.

Obama is in Mexico...If they'll keep him, I'd go for amnesty for the aliens here....

Evidently the ousted Honduran president, who is in Mexico, is pinning his hopes on Obama.

Hopes Pinned on Obama Zelaya stated clearly where international pressure needed to come from at this stage of restoring his government.

"If President Barack Obama really wants to turn back this coup, these coup leaders will last all of five minutes because the economy of Honduras, all our military, commercial and migration activities, depend on the United States." Emphasizing how the Honduran coup is a test case for the new government, he added, "We'll see the extent of his sincerity, force and democratic conviction."

Zelaya explained that the reason he agreed to enter into the mediation process under Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was to make the U.S. government continued to play a role in returning him to office.

"I recognize the force of the international community. When Sec. Hillary Clinton proposed Oscar Arias to me, I agreed because I wanted the U.S. to play a leading role."

As he's done everywhere else, Zelaya differentiated between the support from the Obama adminstration, which he did call "lukewarm", and forces in the U.S. government that openly support the coup.

Zelaya announced Mexican President Felipe Calderon offered support and agreed to discuss the Honduran political crisis with President Obama at the Summit of North American Leaders. Calderon received the ousted Honduran president with full state honors.

Zelaya continued once the shouting died down. "[Calderon] will be with President Obama in Guadalajara and the force with which the United States decides to take effective actions will also depend on this meeting." He said Mexicans must watch the talks between Calderon and Obama, because they will have an impact "on the destiny of Latin America." [snip]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/zelaya-tells-mexicans-oba_b_254294.html

No one cares about us. No one is fighting for our interests. Certainly not Obama, and certainly NOT the GOP.

The enemy you know is way worse than the enemy that acts like your friend only to stab you in the back.

Once Republicans have the numbers again in the future they’re not going to reduce the size of government in any meaningful way, ever. THAT’S A PROMISE. We’re on a one way path to larger and larger government.

The way Republicans talk you’d think when they’re in power they’d put half the federal government and spending on the chopping block. Surely that’s what the republican constituents want, right? I think politicians of both parties forget that they are not our leaders, they are our elected representatives. The difference being that we’re supposed to tell them what we want, not them tell us what we should want.

Democrats tax and spend, Republicans borrow and spend. Neither ever ever ever cuts spending.

Spending and our debt exploded under Reagen, and they exploded under Bush.

At the democrats advertize that they want to spend money. They get people that actually agree with their socialist agenda to vote for them. They are wrong, but atleast they advertize what they are going to do.

Republicans however campaign on cutting spending, cutting the size of the government. But once they get in power, do they slash the government at all, do they keep any of their promises? No, not even slightly. THEY LIE TO US CONSISTENTLY, TELL US EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, THEN STAB US IN THE BACK AS SOON AS THEY GET OUR VOTE.

They are the real enemy here. The size of the government, and the debt exploded under Reagen, and it exploded even more under Bush. Bush gave us Medicare Part D, the trillion dollar bailout of Wallstreet, and the 1.3 trillion dollar debt when he left office. He didn’t veto a single one of these, the republicans didn’t oppose any of these. They are reason we are in this mess.

Stop letting this continue.

NEVER EVER VOTE FOR A CAREER POLITICIAN, NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU, NO MATTER WHAT THEY PROMISE, THEY ARE LYING.

The only way we are ever ever going to get our country back is to elect in regular ordinary people, like Sarah Palin.

Heck I would happily support the one and only exception that proves the rule, the one and only politician that has ever ever voted against Reagen’s and Bush’s bloated budgets, government expansions and spending sprees, Ron Paul.

But if the GOP doesn’t nominate a real person, not a politician. If they nominate another RINO like Tim Pawlentiny, or Mitt Romney or anyone in the Senate or House, I urge you please, please, don’t vote for them.

Demand that Sarah Palin run as a third party candidate and vote for her instead. Even if it costs us the election, it will atleast send the GOP a message and maybe next time, they will put a real person, not a politician on the ticket.

Yes, it sucks to lose. But if we did this back in 2008, if we refused to vote for McCain and instead voted for a none-Rino. If we asked Ron Paul to run as a third party candidate and voted for him, then maybe we wouldn’t have wound up with another RINO/Career Politician like Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlentiny as our nominee in 2012.

The way Republicans talk you’d think when they’re in power they’d put half the federal government and spending on the chopping block.

But once in power, they never, ever, ever, ever come remotely close to doing that. Not even close. They lie to us.

So please, I beg of you, just say no. No politicians. Either we get a real person on the ticket, or vote third party.

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