Banana Democrats

IBD Editorials ^ | June 29, 2009

[Kaslin]

Americas: During his campaign, President Obama made a big deal of criticizing leaders who are elected democratically but don't govern democratically. He's had a chance to show that it mattered in Honduras. He didn't.

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That's the sorry story as Honduras' now ex-president, Mel Zelaya, last Thursday defied a Supreme Court ruling and tried to hold a "survey" to rewrite the constitution for his permanent re-election. It's the same blueprint for a rigged political system that's made former democracies like Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador into shells of free countries.

Zelaya's operatives did their dirt all the way through. First they got signatures to launch the "citizen's power" survey through threats — warning those who didn't sign that they'd be denied medical care and worse. Zelaya then had the ballots flown to Tegucigalpa on Venezuelan planes. After his move was declared illegal by the Supreme Court, he tried to do it anyway.

As a result of his brazen disregard for the law, Zelaya found himself escorted from office by the military Sunday morning, and into exile. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro rushed to blame the U.S., calling it a "yanqui coup."

President Obama on Monday called the action "not legal," and claimed that Zelaya is still the legitimate president.

There was a coup all right, but it wasn't committed by the U.S. or the Honduran court. It was committed by Zelaya himself. He brazenly defied the law, and Hondurans overwhelmingly supported his removal (a pro-Zelaya rally Monday drew a mere 200 acolytes).

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[FromLori]

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/06/cubas-castro-venezuelas-chavez-and-usas.html

[SandWMan]

“Mr. Kettle, you are black!”

[Fester Chugabrew]

I smell an acorn.

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He had to support his buddies, Castro and Chavez.

[Don Corleone]

What’s the “Over and Under’ on us having another “FREE” election here in the USA?

[Lexinom]

How’s it feel not to get your own way for once, Mr. President? Is this how people who have all their lives had whatever they want handed to them on a silver platter deal with reality?: Cover their eyes and cry, “It isn’t so!”

[DNME]

So Zero and Hillary are openly opposed to a constitutional action? And their friends Chavez, Castro and Ortega are opposed as well?

How instructive ...