This is an absolute moral and political disgrace. Any claim that the Obama administration is not seeking to spread socialist tyranny throughout South America has been proven a bald-faced lie.
Via Instapundit
Yes, I am feeling particularly testy today.
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Fortunately, it appears to be a nonissue, since elections will be held in a month anyway.
So, everyone gets to save face, and in a month Zelaya’s gone.
Price, I hope you’re right, so I’m gonna reserve judgment a bit, and wait to the elections.
What we have learned is that Fidel/Chavez/Orgtega/Zelaya have a new tool to game the system and accrue power — hold referenda on life tenure, fight/claw/game the elections to win — look to weak US administration to acquiesce in the results.
I want to give Obama and the Dems every benefit of the doubt on many issues, but this handling of Honduras is very, very sketchy. But, hopefully, the elections next month will serve as a restoration.
–HB
What’s so troubling here is that any reading of the Honduran Constitution, broad, restrictive or otherwise indicates Zelaya was properly removed from office- only Zelaya, the predicable “President For Life” club and our own inept/clueless administration refers to those events as a coup. And with Chaves, Castro and now Ortgea pulling hard there is no guarantee the called-for elections will either be held or be fair.
Thank-you, President Obama and Secretary Clinton for the Cluster-F*ck foreign policy you have created.
It also set the stage for Ortega in Nicaragua to pull pretty much the same stunt, knowing the US would support him if anyone opposed it.
Lovely.
I still attribute this administration’s response and handling of the situation to ignorance and incompetence.
But day by day, their actions force me to consider that it might be better explained by an intentional bias in favor of socialist policies.
Either way, it pisses me off to no end.
I am actually quite pleased. The history of Honduras – teh original, literal banana republic – is one in which a tiny, tiny elite have held all the power. Zelaya came to power with their consent only, then began a more populist governance which angered them. The pretext of the referendum he proposed, which was non-binding and would not have even applied to his own administration, was what they needed to dismiss him and install a lackey of their own choosing.
Chavez is a socialist but Zelaya was no Chavez. Zelaya isnt perfect either, but he was the rightflly elected leader of the nation and the way in which he was deposed was a gross violation of process.
I’ve been following this issue in some detail and its really disturbing to me how quickly others who I normally would expect to be defenders of constututional law and due process have been so quick to leap to conclusions about Zelaya based solely on his association with Chavez. The two arent remotely in the same league. And ultimately, it was the people who chose Zelaya, even if he was a true blue socialist.
blaming Obama for any of this in my view is nonsense.
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