Forty Percent Of Mexicans Want To Come To The US! 1337

Yes, as well as mayors. And sometimes they're absolutely AWFUL in those positions (see below); therefore, your blanket statement above displays a lack of familiarity with the realities:

1. Bill Richardson - currently governor of NM -- had oversight of the lab at Los Alamos when Wen Ho Lee was allegedly (with substantial amounts of supporting documentation to back it up) committing espionage; at the very least, on Richardson's watch there were serious security lapses.

2. a Chicago Congressman (whose name escapes me at the moment) heavily involved in supporting and encouraging illegal immigration (i.e. the flowuting of US immigration laws) to the extent that one may reasonably conclude that he represents the interests of the Govt of Mexico more than any of his US-citizen consbreastuents.

3. That former Texas mayor (last name starts with "C") who later joined the Clinton cabinet -- lied to the FBI, paid hush money to mistress.

4. Antonio Villaraigosa -- allegedly formerly a street thug; travelled to Mexico (took his kids out of their US schools -- private, just like the Kennedys' kids and the offspring of other extreme liberals have always attended) to do so) to bow down to the then-President of Mexico and thank him for his meddling in California politics and efforts to block the implementation of Proposition 187, which California's US citizens had pbutted by a large margin. Agree with this post? Please consider PbuttING IT ON!. "So, likewise, a pbuttionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter . . . It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others . . .

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government . . . Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . . .

"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and pbuttionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."