Jim DeMint's Report From Honduras-->Obama Is Wrong

WSJ/The Lid ^ | 10/9/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Soon after Former President Zelaya was deposed for trying to go around the countries constitution, the "Nobel Peace Prize winner" took a position against democracy, contra to the Honduras Constitution and on the wrong side of history.

“America supports now the restoration of the democratically-elected President of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies,” the president told graduate students at the commencement ceremony of Moscow’s New Economic School. “We do so not because we agree with him. We do so because we respect the universal principle that people should choose their own leaders, whether they are leaders we agree with or not." President Obama 7/9/09

While not proven, the suspicion is that the President's stance is driven by a desire to "suck up" to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

The President and his Democratic compatriots felt so strongly about keeping the lid on what is really happening in Honduras Sen. John (why the long face) Kerry,the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tried to block Sen. Jim DeMint from taking a trip to Honduras. And now that DeMint is reporting back from Honduras we know why. The people of Honduras are firmly behind the ouster Zelaya

[Rocky]

So, Obama is batting a thousand. Wrong on everything. The economy, Afghanistan, the climate, the Constitution and now Honduras.

We live in interesting times.

[Major Matt Mason]

Hondurans are therefore left scratching their heads. They know why Hugo Chávez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers oppose free elections and the removal of would-be dictators, but they can't understand why the Obama administration does.

Because Obama is simply showing himself to be what most on our side have known all along - that he is, at best, a Socialist, and at worst, a Marxist. He has the mind of a Third World dictator.

[Pikachu_Dad]

True, but it is our media that is broken.

[supremedoctrine]

Expect him to keep on batting a thousand.
“Wrong on everything” is the exact verbiage I put on my tea party sign.
Obama is the first President in American History who Americans were manipulated into voting into office at the behest of large parts of the rest of the world.
He may wind up satisfying them as little as he satisfies us, but it won’t be because he’s finally come over to “our side”: it will be because of massive incompetence.
THERE IS NOTHING AMERICAN ABOUT HIM.
NOTHING AT ALL.
THAT SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
As such, he will reap what he has sown.
And so will the rest of the world, for better or worse.
I hope it’s a learning experience for them AND us.

[Venturer]

Obama says the people should choose their leader, then he turns around and says that he wont support the person they pick in their next election if they dont put a would be dictator back in power.

This boy hasnt got a clue.

[Republic]

America will NEVER do well under a leader who cares MORE about what other nations 'feel' about him ( or her ) than what his OWN people feel about him.

Liberals are concerned with popularity and SCREW the woman about to stoned to death or the children about to be raped and killed in some other part of the world. As long as the tyrant likes America, that is all that matters.

[piytar]

Obama, a socialist dictator wannabe (at best) is supporting another socialist dictator wannabe Zeleya and his actual dictator buddy Hugo Chavez. Period, end of story.

[Yardstick]

Wow! Outstanding piece by Senator DeMint. That's the best summation I've seen so far of the situation in Honduras and why the Obama administration is wrong.