DeMint's views prevail - on reversal of U.S. policy toward the Honduras coup (Thank God)

Rock Hill Herald ^ | 11/23/09 | editors

[pissant]

The Obama administration appears to have adopted a more pragmatic approach to the overthrow of the government in Honduras, and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., played a key role bringing that about.

Immediately after the military coup on June 28, which removed President Mel Zelaya from office, the United States called for Zelaya's immediate reinstatement.

“We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the democratically elected president there,” Obama said the day after Zelaya's ouster.

His reluctance to back the coup was understandable. The United States has a long history of supporting military dictatorships and strong-arm leaders in Latin America while helping them — both overtly and covertly — to quell popular uprisings.

Often, these relationships have been ones of expediency for the United States. But with the evolution of more democratic governments throughout the region, the United States has had to adjust.

Unfortunately, not all democratically elected governments in Latin America have been friendly to the United States. Honduran President Zelaya had aligned himself with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, an outspoken critic of the United States and a close ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro.

[pissant]

A win for the good guys over the Marxists Obama and Zelaya.

Hunter/DeMint 2012

[ArrogantBustard]

Immediately after the military coup on June 28,

Liar.

[rhombus]

His reluctance to back the coup was understandable.

He'd recently got caught with his pants down and offered no support to Iranian dissidents so when Honduras legally removed their president, Obama over-reacted by calling it a coup.

There, fixed it.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Give the Zero a break. He knows nothing except what his commie handlers tell him.

You expect him to form opinions and think for himself based on fact and rule of law?

Come on..

[RobRoy]

Zero loses again. I swear, the only people he can convince of anything is welfare moms, “Weak” minorities, single women, “White guilt” liberals and homosexuals.

That will get him elected (apparently) and that is about it.

[Star Traveler]

Obama may be in office, but he’s just going along for the ride... LOL...

[pissant]

With a little extra fudge from SEIU/ACORN/Soros

[ArrogantBustard]

I expect the anonymous "editors" who wrote this piece to refrain from mislabeling the legitimate constitutional actions of a republican government as a "military coup".

Silly me ...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Obama shot from the hip on that Zelaya Failure, without all the facts in, just as he did on that Harvard Police Arrest case. Glad to see some Republicans are knocking some sense into this Administration.

The more pissed off Chavez and Castro and Danny in Nicaragua get, the better.

[pissant]

I’m sure the marxist Obama is pissed too.

[antiRepublicrat]

What’s with “overthrow of the government” and “coup”? It’s the same government, minus a power-hungry president.

[pissant]

They just were smart enough to nip baby Hugo in the bud.

[Guyin4Os]

They have to twist the meaning of the term "coup" to use it to describe what happened in Honduras. It was the President himself who was attempting a coup by forcing reelection that the constitution does not permit. The Honduran legislature, the Honduran Courts and the Honduran military simply enforced the law in removing the president so he could not conduct a takeover of the Honduran govt.

Senator DeMint is a hero for preventing the 0bama government from being complicit in Zelaya's effort to usurp the Honduran constitution.

[The Citizen Soldier]

Obama shot from the hip on that Zelaya Failure, without all the facts in, just as he did on that Harvard Police Arrest case.

Yep, he has this tendency to jump to conclusions. I find this indicative of people who have been coddled all their lives and have never had to make difficult decisions.

Then there's Afghanistan.

On the other hand, since his knee-jerk tendencies are almost always wrong...

[camp_steveo]

Here’s the report that the Dims are probably wetting themselves over...LOL

http://schock.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Schock_CRS_Report_Honduras_FINAL.pdf

[broken_arrow1]

DeMint is a True Patriot!

DeMint-Palin 2012! (not necessarily in that order)

[Louis Foxwell]

Once again our Looney Tune president spoke out of his prejudice against democracy. He has been consistent in this respect in every off the wall, thoughtless judgement coming out of his mouth.

[camp_steveo]

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/2big2fail/0bama-chavez.gif

Sorry, but I don’t know how to post an image. This is hilarious though...:D

~SC