Obama Allies Rally With Ousted Honduran Leftist (picture of Zelaya, Castro and Chavez)

Gateway Pundit ^ | July 1, 2009 | Jim

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Latin American Marxists Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez rallied with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in Managua yesterday.
Barack Obama, who supports Zelaya, did not make the rally.

Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya poses with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro (L) and Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez (R) during the Central American integration meeting in Managua June 29, 2009. (REUTERS/Miraflores Palace)

The new Honduran leadership lashed out at Hugo Chavez yesterday.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

Hondurans are understandably afraid that, backed by Chávez agents and money, it could lead to similar antidemocratic subversion there. In Tegucigalpa yesterday, thousands demonstrated against Mr. Zelaya, and new deputy foreign minister Marta Lorena Casco told the crowd that "Chávez consumed Venezuela, then Bolivia, after that Ecuador and Nicaragua, but in Honduras that didn't happen."

It's no accident that Mr. Chávez is now leading the charge to have Mr. Zelaya reinstated, and on Monday the Honduran traveled to a leftwing summit in Managua in one of Mr. Chávez's planes. The U.N. and Organization of American States are also threatening the tiny nation with ostracism and other punishment if it doesn't readmit him. Meanwhile, the new Honduran government is saying it will arrest Mr. Zelaya if he returns. This may be the best legal outcome, but it also runs the risk of destabilizing the country. We recall when the Clinton Administration restored Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, only to have the country descend into anarchy.

As for the Obama Administration, it seems eager to "meddle" in Honduras in a way Mr. Obama claimed was counterproductive in Iran. Yet the stolen election in Iran was a far clearer subversion of democracy than the coup in Honduras. As a candidate, Mr. Obama often scored George W. Bush's foreign policy by saying democracy requires more than an election -- a free press, for example, civil society and the rule of law rather than rule by the mob. It's a point worth recalling before Mr. Obama hands a political victory to the forces of chavismo in Latin America.

The Honduran government said it will arrest Zelaya if he returns to the country.

As Charles Krauthammer said, "Look a rule of thumb here is whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro twins you ought to re-examine your assumptions."
Exactly.

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And to think that Barry calls himself a Constitutional law professor. His complete lack of upholding the fundamental principles of freedom and democracy makes not only himself look like a moron, but America, as well. His further lack of complete misunderstanding of Latin American constitutional law is beyond measure but fitting one of his own vested arrogance.

I hope that the new leaders of Honduras send him a beautiful bouquet of STFU flowers...

[WayneS]

Barack Obama, who supports Zelaya, did not make the rally.

If the man had any decency at all he would have Fed-Exed them a life-size cardboard cut-out of himself for the "los quattros amigos" photo-op.

[TigersEye]

Zelaya looks a lot like Saddam Hussein. I wonder if the Iraqis are done with that rope?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

His further lack of complete misunderstanding of Latin American constitutional law is beyond measure but fitting one of his own vested arrogance.

I think Obama knows exactly what he is doing. He got in another jab at the USA in his statement supporting the marxists:

Speaking of the past, Obama noted that the U.S. has "not always stood as it should" with democracies in the region. That, too, seemed to draw on the doctrine he promised to the region while in Trinidad in April, a view that the U.S. strengthens its hand by confessing when it has strayed from its own values.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

yup, and all the 3rd worlder commie minions will be clamoring for Obammie

Soon to come: World Takeover by Obammie-no useless term as POTUS

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

yup, and all the 3rd worlder commie minions will be clamoring for Obammie

Soon to come: World Takeover by Obammie-no useless term as POTUS

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

yup, and all the 3rd worlder commie minions will be clamoring for Obammie

Soon to come: World Takeover by Obammie-no useless Second Term as POTUS

[Oldpuppymax]

We finally know Hussein’s view of democracy— ignore the Constitution, proclaim yourself president for life and claim that anyone against you has staged a coup!