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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
He's Latino - I thought it was shorter than normal.  |
Por supuesto. Latino politicos have that tendency, especially the leftist like Castro and Casto JR. (aka Chavez).
The only time he got real emotional during the speech was when he was talking about going home to Medellin to pay his respects to his Dad who was killed by FARC in the early 1980s. Unlike other politicians who are driven by greed and the lust for power, he is motivated to end FARC and thereby bring a level of security to the country that hasn't been seen in a number of decades. I'm all for him. Plus the guys got BRASS BALLS. He doesn't remain seated in the Presidential Palace waiting for his four years to end so he can then immigrate to Spain to live out his retirement. Instead he is often flying several times a week to remote villages, often places where his detail has the limited ability to control the area. In fact, he has survived numerous assignation attempts since taking office back in 2002.
Moreover, he holds town meetings at those remote locations and if the populace voices a legitimate complaint about lack of government services, he's been known to pull out his cell phone and make a call to the cabinet secretary who’s responsible for handling the matter. The guy gets results.
Finally I can personally attest to the fact that things have changed in the past four years since he took office. I've traveled to some locations in Colombia in the last two years that I would have avoided in the late 1990s. If a politician can affect that type of change and yet still maintain democracy and personal freedom, then I think the man deserves every vote he gets!