The U.S. vs. Honduran Democracy (Disgusting Obamanista Interference in Honduras's Democracy)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 03/29/10 | Mary O'Grady

[MissesBush]

The image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wielding what resembled an oversized mallet while leading a mob of congressmen across Capitol Hill on the day of the health-care vote is the stuff of nightmares. It is also instructive. As a metaphor for how the Democrats view their power, the Pelosi hammer-pose could not be more perfect.

Just ask Honduras.

Last year, the U.S. tried to force the reinstatement of deposed president Manuel Zelaya. When that failed and Team Obama was looking like the Keystone Cops, it sent a delegation to Tegucigalpa to negotiate a compromise.

Participants in those talks say Dan Restrepo, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, let slip that the U.S. interest had to do with American politics. The Republicans, he said, were using the administration's support for Mr. Zelaya, an ally of Venezuelan Hugo Chávez, against the Democrats. It's not going to work, Mr. Restrepo is said to have informed the other negotiators, because "we have the power" and would be keeping it for a long time.

It can't have been comforting for Hondurans to learn that while their country was living a monumental crisis, fueled by U.S. policy, Mr. Restrepo's concern was his party's power. For the record, an NSC spokesman says "Mr. Restrepo didn't say that." But my sources are more plausible considering what has transpired since.

Four months after a presidential election, reports from Honduras suggest the Obama administration remains obsessed with repairing its foreign-policy image by regaining the upper hand. The display of raw colonialist hubris is so pronounced that locals now refer to U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens as "the proconsul."

[MissesBush]

I thought Obama and the Democrats promised to be less "bullying" in the world and to end the appearance of the US as heavy-handed. I thought they were going to end the "alienating" of US allies. Yet the Obamanistas are trampling on relations with Israel, the UK, Germany, France and Honduras among others as they blow kisses to America's enemies instead. If only Obama had been this tough on Iran's Mullahs as they were massacring their own people in the streets last summer and fall. But then Iran isn't an ally.

Can you imagine if Bush had engaged in this kind of bald faced intimidation and interference in a Latin American nation to get a right wing tin pot restored to power? The Democrats and their organ grinder monkeys in the media would never let up on the hue and cry they'd create over it.

[EagleUSA]

Anything to support dictatorships.....it is part of the “fashionable” DemocRat ideology.

[Servant of the Cross]

a squeamish editor erased the fourth hammer&sickle.

[wayoverontheright]

It's easy to see that the common denominator involving those countries that the Obama administration supports, versus those that it opposes, is whether or not there is an embrace of capitalism.

Zelaya wanted to socialize the now relatively free Guatemalan economy, thus he was supported. Israel? An island of capitalism in a sea of managed economies must be cut down to size.

Chavez and Castro are coddled while England and Germany are treated rudely. It will be interesting to see what negative measures accrue to Chile now that they've elected a conservative President.

[Bitsy]

Do you think that 0 is a chavez wanta be?

[EagleUSA]

Do you think that 0 is a chavez wanta be?
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You have the answer to that question by judging him STRICTLY BY HIS ACTIONS, his respect for the law and our Constitution, and his connection with the American people.