Ms. USA booed on stage in Mexico

Raargh!

So?

So d'ya think Miss USA would have finished higher if she hadn't fallen on her fine keester?

She'd have won if she had appeared with a donkey.

In Mexico? Shocking!

Most of Latin America despises the US no big newsflash.

Didn't a latino win?

Why did we even bother sending Miss USA?

Miss Japan won this year and USA still has the crown for most pageants won followed by Puerto Rico and Venezuela .

Because unlike other limited countries, the USA encompasses many cultures, as long as they're white.

Yeah. That explains why they're literally dying to get here.

The really really po' people. Do you really think the starving masses of Mexicans who jump the fence are sitting in the audience of the Miss Universe pageant? Those are the educated well fed middle and upper classes.

Then that must have been all of them.

So why do they dispise us? I've spent some time in Mexico City and Belize and never noticed it.

Nah, there are plenty of wealthy people in Mexico. Just that there are about 150 times more poor people.

I never understood the dislike but when you speak to people they are angry because of US interference in their government and the governments in the rest of Latin America, they're still pissed about the sneaky taking of Texas and they don't appreciate being perceived as good for nothing wetbacks. That's probably it. Plus we Latin people are always very nice to tourists, but during international competitions there is no love. Kinda' like when Argentina plays England in the footy or Puerto Rico plays against the US in basketball.

They're pissed off about all those illegal Americans sneaking across the border and picking their chili peppers.

Sneaky taking of Texas?

There was nothing sneaky about it. Mexico got its ass kicked. In public.

Guess you haven't seen "Taco Towers" in Coronado (San Diego, USA) -- million dollar ocean view condos owned by the Mexican middle and upper classes. Not to mention the fancy digs of other Latin Americans in Florida.

Yeah, the U.S. is so despicable they all want to live here.

OMG THEIR JUS JELLUS OF TEH FREEDOMZ N AMERICA, LOL!

They're mad because we manage to have rich people without the majority of the population starving half to death, and freedom without the threat of revolution -- and our natural resources are no better than theirs.

In other words...Inferiority complex. Well deserved.

Miss USA is booed onstage, and all of a sudden, the world's come undone. I cannot imagine a more trivial issue occupying hate radio, and yet there it is.

Imagine if you will, any other country defying U.N. requirements and invading another country on the slightest of evidence. Nil, as a matter of fact, regarding WMD's. I'm surprised it's taken this long for the sentiments of the world to be clear even to the numbskulls on the radical right: America has lost more than this war. It has lost its reputation.

It won't be easy for it to get any of it back.

Yep, I think it's pretty clear you aren't Enterpriser with that sentence.

Why was Ms. USA booed?

I thought politics weren't supposed to enter into these competitions. How fucking rude can people get?

Yeah, and the Olympics are politics-free, in theory. In practice, they're not. The fact is that people are people all over the world and they don't forget what they've learned just because a contest is not supposed to be political.

I want to turn the light of scrutiny not on those who booed Miss USA, but on ourselves. Haven't we been the ones who have made the apolitical, political? Plenty are the times when in athletic competitions, there are chants from the stands: "U-S-A! U-S-A!" In the end, we are the ones who, having led by example, have made supposedly nonpolitical competitions a contest of nations. So why should be the Miss USA pageant be any different?

The nations of the world have simply taken us at our word. We have remade the competitions in which we participate, in our own image. How can we complain when it's that very same image that is criticized after we've foisted it upon the world?

Of course, it's unfair to Miss USA that she was booed. In the grander scheme of things, however, there are lesson to be learned. Something about reaping what we, as a nation, have sowed, comes to mind.

Really? Ms. USA being booed is the most trivial thing you can imagine? C'mon, your imagination can't be that limited.

I agree with you with one exception, I don't remember Iraq ever claiming to have had any evidence/justification for invading Kuwait.

Then you have a faulty memory. The U.S. ambassador gave her tacit approval in a meeting with Saddam Hussein.

Though, you know perfectly well I was referring to the WMD argument. Where are the WMD's?

Excelsius, most of the posters here don't need a lesson that there weren't any WMDs. Most of us, save a very few opinionated holdouts, figured that out years ago. We weren't cheerleading the war in the first place.

In that case, I apologize. I should have known better than to assume otherwise.

Thank you.

De nada.