"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."
"This race is hotter than the Devil's anvil."
"Let's see where it goes from here. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows."
"Put on a cup of coffee, this race isn't going to be over for a while."
"This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach."
"This will show you how tight it is — it's spandex tight."
"This race is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford."
"These returns are running like a squirrel in a cage."
"[This race is] closer than Lassie and Timmy."
That's how the always colorful and often weird Dan Rather described the U.S. presidential races on election night 2000 and 2004.
The same could be said about Mexico's presidential election on Sunday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's presidential election was too close to call Sunday, with a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative free-trader both declaring themselves the winner. Officials said they won't know who won for days.
Electoral officials said they could not release the results of Sunday night's quick count of the votes, which they previously said would happen only if the leading candidates were within one percentage point of each other. Luis Carlos Ugalde, president of the Federal Electoral Institute, said an official count would begin Wednesday, and a winner will be declared once it's complete.
Felipe Calderon, 43, of outgoing President Vicente Fox's National Action Party, had been running an exceedingly close race with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 52, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
Although both Calderon and Obrador said they would respect the results, both claimed to be the winner.
Does it really make a difference which party will take over the reins of the government?
Either way, millions of Mexicans will continue to leave the country and slip into America.
And with an official vote count beginning on Wednesday, it could take a long, long time before all the votes are tallied.
Will there be millions of absentee ballots to be counted? There must be.
Is it politically incorrect to say "absentee" ballots? Is that insensitive?
Would "guest hard-working, lettuce-picking, grass-cutting, toilet-scrubbing, American tax-paying visitor" ballots be more appropriate?
Who knows?
To quote Danny boy, "We don't know what to do. We don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon."
3 comments:
Those Rather quotes were brutal.....I almost pee'd myself reading that idiots remarks.
CBS should have fired him on the spot.
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As far as Mexico goes, it can get worse.....And probably will. Especially if that Commie POS wins.
Which is why we must work on CONTROL first......Border Control
And the only way to truly control the situation is with a Border Wall.......Manned with troops.
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Thanks for the laughs, Mary.
It's too bad that we won't be treated to anymore election nights with Rather at the helm.
We'll just have to hang on to the memories. :)
I'm with you on the wall, Pero. I've made that case here before. I think on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 construction should have begun to seal our southern AND northern borders.
I definitely think that Bush dropped the ball on securing the borders.
I think it would be a much more effective strategy to streamline the path to citizenship than just to continue to ignore all the people slipping across the borders illegally or set up some guest worker thing.
We can't have people coming in illegally and then demanding services. We need to know who they are. What we need to do is have an immigration policy that's as tough as Mexico's is.
If Bush were up for re-election, against Hillary for instance, I don't think he would suffer because of his handling of immigration. As poorly as he's managed the issue, I doubt conservative voters would allow a lib to take over.
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