Presidente reconquista.

"Yo soy Presidente George W. Bush, y yo apruebo este mensaje," stated President Bush at the beginning of a Spanish-language television ad. According to Lionel Sosa, an adviser to the Bush campaign, the ad shows that "all the Latinos are together, no matter where we come from."

The campaign ad could be taken as a foretaste of the American regional government that Mr. Bush and his handlers envision under the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. "The television spot, which features the flags of such countries as Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico, will be broadcast in the key states of Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, all with large Hispanic populations," noted an AFP report.

In keeping with this theme of a pan-American election, George R Bush, the president's nephew, toured American expatriate communities in Mexico in search of votes in early August. While there is nothing scandalous about canvassing for votes among U.S. citizens residing abroad, the younger Bush (whose mother was born in Mexico) took aim at the supposedly "barbarous" federal policy of arming Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns.

"Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. Bush said his uncle was not to blame for the gun policy, which has angered Mexicans," reported the AR "He instead blamed it on 'some local INS guy who's trying to be tough, act macho.'" Leaving our under-funded, under-staffed Border Patrol armed with non-lethal weapons--guns that fire capsules filled with chili powder--is hardly an act of applied machismo. The drug and alien smugglers, who are heavily armed and often supported by the Mexican military, haven't reciprocated this act of disarmament.

Furthermore, as Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier pointed out, the pellet guns were handed out as part of a joint U.S.-Mexican pilot project. Which means that the same Mexican government covertly supporting the drug and alien smugglers connived in the disarmament of our Border Patrol. It also means that George P. Bush, acting as a surrogate for the president, was trying to scapegoat the pitifully armed agents trying to defend our borders against smugglers and terrorists.