Posted on 06/30/2009 3:06:32 AM PDT by Scanian
Standing unified with his amigo Hugo Chavez, President Obama appears ready to engage in a spirited defense of another leftist head of state, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was tossed out of power and out of the country over the weekend.
While it took days for Obama to pass judgment on events following Iran's presidential election, he swiftly expressed "deepest concern" over Zelaya's ouster at the hand of the Honduran government. A few hours after the ouster, Obama called on leaders in Tegucigalpa to "respect democratic norms," which would seem to be a call to restore Zelaya to power.
There is one small problem. Zelaya's removal from office was precipitated by his own illegal actions and attempts to undermine his nation's fragile democracy. Granted, any time a Latin American army takes a president into custody we hearken back to simpler times when generals hand picked presidents and if they got out of line, they lost their jobs, if not their lives. This situation is far more complex. And while Zelaya's ouster is an extreme reaction, the president's own moves are far more injurious to real democracy than those that the military, the Honduran attorney general, and supreme court took in trying to enforce the law.
The Obama administration cannot hold itself back from jumping into the fray, with Secretary of State Clinton parroting Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro regime in demanding that their ally be restored to power. We are truly judged by the company we keep.
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Anti American tyrants have always been a favorite of the hard core left in America. Nothing new.
Hey, Barry. Your Communist is showing.
When they removed him, they should have really removed him. This guy will be haunting them for years.
Removing him in a peaceful way was a good deed. No good deed goes unpunished.
0be must be having nightmares.
The clip I saw of him yesterday showed a distraught man ineffectively flailing against something he could not control. Like all elected dictators, he holds the election of himself as incontrovertible. I heard panic.
Good.
Sounds like a good clip to keep around.
You are correct. The king must not be wounded. The king must be killed.
He is dangerous in exile
Yep, The king must not be wounded, the king must be killed.
Primo example being Hugo Chavez, someone should have Chevarro’d that Pig Chavez!
I didn’t see it online, but it may be on YouTube. It was a few seconds on FNC, when I just happened to be watching. In the 6pm hour, IIRC.
I agree it should be archived.
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