Humor, Calderon-Salazar Style

Humor, Calderon-Salazar Style

Politicians are by nature gregarious, almost as gregarious as they are entertaining.

Showing that our own politicos don’t have a lock on the absurd, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon gave fair warning to Americans during his visit to the Land of the Gringos that Mexicans were getting upset with us over the illegal immigration issue. Before we go ahead and do something foolish, like securing our borders and asserting our national integrity, Calderon wants us to speak softly and drop Teddy Roosevelt’s menacing, big stick.

Calderon didn’t specifically refer to Teddy’s stick but he did declare that, “We need to change the general perception inside the public opinion in America and the public opinion in Mexico” because ”bad feelings are growing on both sides of the border. The anti-American feeling in Mexico is growing again” and we should all make nice.

He didn’t actually say that either. What Calderon did say was that, “What we need to do is remember each other–that we are neighbors, we are nice, and we are human persons. We contribute to each other’s prosperity.”

In a Q&A following a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Mexican president added that the “Dream Act,” would have been a great move a toward alleviating those Mexican “bad feelings” and negative perceptions toward America: http://tiny.cc/lv7kr

In a joint appearance with President Obama, Calderon also voiced his hearty support for Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

We certainly can’t permit those feelings and perceptions to fester and should, therefore, have passed the “Dream Act,” which would have rewarded young criminal illegals in our country. We certainly should endorse Obama’s package which would express the nation’s appreciation to the other 13 million or so, mostly-Mexican, criminal illegal aliens who have violated our laws by sneaking across the border, who have taken jobs away from legal residents, who have wreaked havoc in border towns, who don’t pay income taxes and have over-stuffed our prison systems.

Still, Calderon’s ideas could be implemented, with one stipulation: Mexico would have to repeal its own onerous immigration laws which make Arizona’s seem like an engraved invitation.

Among other things, those laws provide for the imprisonment and/or expulsion of any foreigners stupid enough to intrude on Mexican soil and the jailing of those who assist them. They also impose severe restrictions even on legal immigrants, requiring an unblemished character and a capacity to significantly contribute to Mexican society.

Until such repeal, we should regard Calderon’s suggestions for what they must be, a tongue-in-cheeky effort to induce American guffaws.

The United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar isn’t especially known as a stand-up comedian but he recently rivaled Felipe Calderon’s comical ideas in his statements on American energy independence.

With a straight face–politicians are awesome when they tell jokes–Salazar ridiculed the popular chant, “Drill, baby, drill!” and dismissed without answering a question on getting oil from the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. His non-response: “We don’t believe that you need to drill everywhere.”

No one had suggested drilling “everywhere.” . . .
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