Obama’s Handling of Honduras Coup Cripples U.S. Influence in Latin America(100% ineptitude)

The international community, including the United States, was quick to condemn the ouster of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya as an assault on democracy.

In fact, it was much more a last-ditch effort to protect the nation from the Hugo Chavez admirer's assault on democracy, according to Ray Walser, senior policy analyst for Latin American at The Heritage Foundation.

After Zelaya was forcibly removed from office by the military on Sunday, President Barack Obama said the ouster was illegal and would set a "terrible precedent" of transition by military force.

Obama's immediate and forceful response to events in the Central American nation stood in sharp contrast to his initially restrained reaction to the disputed presidential election in Iran. It also puzzled some that he would denounce a leader backed by Chavez while declining for days to declare that the election results in Iran were fraudulent.

Zelaya's removal brought to mind another point: "The fact a military coup occurred apparently against U.S. wishes suggests how American dominance in the region has waned," the Christian Science Monitor observed.

Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Latin America Project coordinator for the Cato Institute, told the Monitor: "The days when the U.S. had a decisive say in the region about what happened in a particular country — whether it had a coup, or a leader friendly to the U.S. survived — are long gone."

In addition to Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also denounced Zelaya's ouster, saying the situation in Honduras has "evolved into a coup" and calling for a return to "the rule of law in Honduras."

But Walser insists it was the rule of law that opponents of Zelaya were seeking to enforce when they overthrew the president and sent him on a plane to Costa Rica.

I wonder if he wants to condemn the military overthrow as he sees it perhaps happening here in US?

Snippet from press media in Canada!

I would like to see the U.S. Armed Forces engaged in a similar action here!!

"Behold the man. Behold the coward.

By contrast when Honduras’ legislature and supreme court acted to remove President Manuel Zelaya, a close ally of Chavez, who had fired the head of the army and attempted to stage a coup by violating the Constitution, Obama and his people have been working around the clock to restore Zelaya to power, even while stating that they want the whole thing to be “free from external influence and interference” (the hypocrisy on that line alone is almost enough to choke even Chavez himself). The question is why?

But of course it’s not that difficult of a question. Not when you think like a coward. Not when you think like Obama.

Why wouldn’t Obama panic at the sight of a Congress and Supreme Court removing a left wing Socialist President who violated the Constitution in pushing to make himself el-presidente for life, by violating term limits. Let alone the military dumping said President across border.

Obama no doubt has nightmares of waking up on a C-31 transport to Kenya, after enough of his wrongdoing leads him to being booted out of the White House by what remains of the American legislative and judicial infrastructure.

Today Manuel “ALBA” Zelaya. Tomorrow it could be Barry “Hussein” Obama. And Barry knows better than anyone else the full catalog of lies, crimes and scandals brewing beneath his regime. Obama’s rise to power has been part of an American hemisphere trend that covers the likes of Chavez, Zelaya, Correa, Silva and even the return of Kerry’s old buddy, Ortega, to power in Nicaragua. What all of them have in common with Obama is a left wing socialist agenda that ignores the rule of law. An attack against Zelaya, could in Obama’s mind be seen an attack against him equally.

If the rollback of socialist tyranny begins in Honduras, it might spread. If Brazil, Venezeula and Ecuador follow-- might not the democractic revolution spread to America as well, and make the Prince of Chicago’s throne shakier than ever?

That is how a coward thinks, and Obama is nothing if not a coward. And like all cowards, he knows how little he deserves what he has, and how easy it would be for him to lose it all. A gang of greedy and deluded followers, and a nationwide 24/7 propaganda blitz can only do so much. After all there isn’t a socialist tyrant in the hemisphere who hasn’t had the same thing. And yet the latest of them is enjoying a well deserved vacation in Venezuela. A profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who serves his own ends first and his host country’s, last.

Heavy hangs the head that wears the ill-gotten crown. From one corner of the globe to another, Obama flits back and forth, delivering speeches and posing for photos. Like a rat rubbing against a rosebush, hoping some of the loose petals will attach themselves to him so that he can appear more like a rosebush and less like a rat, Obama hopes that going through the motions of being a world leader will actually get people to confuse him with a world leader.

Yet his mumbling silence on Iran speaks far more eloquently about the sort of man Obama is, than all his scripted speeches ever could. Obama has been compared to JFK, but what he represents is no profile in courage, but a profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who serves his own ends first and his host country’s, last. Who proclaims, Ask not what I can do for your country, Ask what your country can do for me. And above all else, a craven coward."

How come we always get such from foreign countries' media and not from the Slimes, Compost or LA Slimes???

Those medias are more involved in who got the death-story of M.J. first than real issues as mentioned above. The U.S. journalism died long ago!!!

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