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To: JMJJR
"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras," Obama said.
"It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections," Obama said. "The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don't want to go back to a dark past."

And he got in another cute insult against the country of which he is nominally POTUS:

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.

22 posted on 06/30/2009 8:43:54 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Seems 0bama will exert economic pressure on Honduras to that Hugo Chavez clone back in. His fingers are all over this


33 posted on 06/30/2009 9:37:23 PM PDT by dennisw ("stealth tribal warfare" is what the Sotomayor nomination is about)
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