Honduran 'revolution'

[Caroline]

Is anyone watching this?? It's a sorta iranian revolution in our own hemisphere. Obama is siding with Chavez, so is Clinton, in opposing this. IS THIS SCREWED UP OR WHAT??

Weasel Zippers: Obama Stands Side by Side With Chavez, Castro, Ortega in Demanding Leftist President of Honduras be Reinstated....

Freaking Leftists stick together. I've about had it with president hOtdOg.

[Caroline]

HELL-OOOO

[Misty]

Hmmm...so he doesn't want to get mixed up in Iran's politics, but he's got no problem choosing sides with the Honduran president?

[Caroline]

update: Obama and clinton tried to prevent the leftist Zelaya's ouster. zelaya wanted to serve another term which is not in the Honduran constitution. Chavez is an ally of Zelaya.

Hot Air Blog Archive WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president’s ouster

[Caroline]

I don't know but i'm thinking it might be a good idea to take a look at this...look at the meddling that Obama and his administration has been doing over the past THREE weeks. See what Zelaya tried to do. Could this possibly be a road map to the same thing in this country in 8 years??

Hot Air Blog Archive Coups, interference, and the shifting standards of Obama

[Caroline]

Coup or Protecting the Constitution:

A Coup Or Protecting The Constitution In Honduras? - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

That (Deposed President Mel Zelaya) acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.
The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.
Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order.
The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.
It remains to be seen what Mr. Zelaya's next move will be. It's not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too.

[TxBrewer]

I cannot believe the lack of coverage on this.
Oh well, just another blatent example of the state run media shaping public opinion to favor the progressives (in this case the CHOSEN ONE).

[candygirl]

Obama has no problem taking a stand on Honduras but he won't take a stand on Iran.

Obama is on the side of tyranny.

[Drummond]

Originally Posted by candygirl

Obama has no problem taking a stand on Honduras but he won't take a stand on Iran.


Obama is on the side of tyranny.

Couldn't agree more !

Apart from Obama's determination to side with hardline Leftie leaders anyway .. it occurs to me there's an added dimension to Obama's chumminess with the likes of Chavez .. namely, that Chavez is buddies, I understand, with Ahmadinejad ?

So it pays Obama, if he wants to maximise his suck-up-at-all-costs agenda with Iran, to keep in with Chavez, to do all Chavez would expect of him at any and all times. This may be what's behind Obama's current stance.

.. Isn't it 'nice', eh, to sacrifice all principle just for the sake of political expediency .. and America's new (if Obama can manage it ..) far weaker standing in the world ? And to have - if I'm right - CHAVEZ pulling Obama's strings ???

[In case anyone's interested .. this is the British Daily Mail's take on the latest information ..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1196068/Interim-Honduran-leader-sets-curfew-Barack-Obama-expresses-deep-concern-growing-crisis.html

Quote ..

Micheletti also hit back at President of Venezuela and Zelaya's ally , Hugo Chavez, saying 'nobody, not Barack Obama and much less Hugo Chavez, has any right to threaten this country.'

He admitted that he had not spoken to any Latin American heads of state, but said, 'I'm sure that 80 to 90 per cent of the Honduran population is happy with what happened today.'

Officials said the Obama administration had in recent days warned Honduran power players, including the armed forces, that the U.S. would not support a coup, but Honduran military leaders stopped taking their calls.]

[JStang]

Originally Posted by candygirl

Obama has no problem taking a stand on Honduras but he won't take a stand on Iran.

Obama is on the side of tyranny.

Exactly!

Forget taht the Supreme Court and legislature ordered the military to remove him. No, he was a socialist, so it was a "coup"