Obama has come out in support of ousted left-wing Honduran President Zelaya. He said that he won't recognize Zelaya's eviction from the country by the military and won't recognize the man the Honduran Congress voted in as the replacement, Roberto Micheletti.
On the surface that seems like a pretty American thing to do, even for Obama. But upon closer examination, clearly spelled out in this article in the WSJ, it seems that the ousted president was trying to act more like his Venezula buddy, Hugo Chavez. Seems Zelaya wanted to go against the Honduran constitution and force a referrendum upon the country to vote for a change to the constitution to allow him to stay in office for a second term. Something the Honduran constitution doesn't allow.
So when you really look at the facts, something Obama and the MSM conveniently ignore, it seems that it wasn't a coup by the Honduran military at all. The military was just following the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress. Zelaya was not following the constitution, was trying to do things not allowed by the law and the Supreme Court and Congress did the only thing they could and that was to force him out of the country. He was breaking the law!
Obviously, with the direction Obama is taking America, with unprecedented, some would say illegal, takeovers of businesses and industries, he certainly doesn't want to be seen supporting legitimate action taken by the other two pillars of a government to oust a left-wing, socialist dictator. Maybe that's why Obama is joined in his protest with Castro and Chevez! Two other left-wing dictators that don't follow the law. Hmmm?
Obama can't support or allow a government to follow it's constitution and kick out a left-wing despot. Might give people in America some ideas about what they may have to do to get rid of him as he keeps abusing and ignoring the checks and balances set up in our Constitution.
But with a complicit Democratic Congress abdicating their duty to check excesses in the Executive wing and with Obama now able to staff the Supreme Court with sympathetic judges, we may never have the opportunity to do what the Honduran government did.
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I was expecting something about the cap and trade bill. DSj
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