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September 8, 2009

NY Post: Obama vs. Democracy

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Ralph Peters has an interesting article at the NY Post on the latest moves from President Obama's "thug-worshipping" State Department.

PRESIDENT Obama's State Department waited until the cusp of Labor Day weekend before publicly backing Latin America's dictators in their assault on democracy.

Our thug-worshipping diplomats figured they'd slip it by us. With the nation focused on barbecues and the beach, they announced that, if Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's client, Manuel Zelaya, isn't returned to power in Honduras, the United States won't recognize the results of that country's upcoming free elections.

Why was former president Zelaya driven from his would-be throne in Tegucigalpa? He tried to subvert Honduras' Constitution and set himself up as president-for-life.

In June, the elected legislators and the Honduran Supreme Court had enough. As Zelaya aligned with Chavez, the Castro regime, Nicaraguan caudillo Daniel Ortega and other extreme leftists, the Honduran government gave the would-be dictator the boot.

Acting under legal orders, the army peacefully arrested Zelaya and shipped him out of the country. No murders, no Chavez-style imprisonments.

It was not a military coup. An elected congress and interim president, not a general, run the country today.

But the Obama administration has decided that this "violation" is so dreadful that we won't even recognize future free elections in Honduras.

Well, President Obama's taste in elections is finicky:

* He'll recognize the utterly bogus results of Afghanistan's corrupt election.

* He initially blessed the results of Iran's rigged election. (He was for it before he was against it.)

* He hasn't spoken one word of criticism as Chavez continues to strangle Venezuelan democracy.

* He hasn't questioned the divisive, racist politics of Presidente Evo Morales in Bolivia.

* He hasn't demanded free elections in Cuba -- instead, he's easing up on the Castro regime.

But we're going to show those wicked Hondurans, by George! They can't boot out a crazy leftwing president just because he's trying to subvert their Constitution.

Honduras is a small country. But the principle and precedent loom hugely. Have we abandoned democracy entirely? In favor of backing anti-American dictators?

This is beyond madness.

Did our president's (self-avowed) Marxist friends convince him that Che Guevara really was a hero?

Just because the Bush administration tried to spread democracy doesn't mean that defending democracy is a bad idea. (More)

What we're now seeing in Obama's Honduran policy is simply a continuation of what we've seen since he first took office, it's simply a continuation of a theme, embrace America's enemies, especially leftist regimes, and insult America's allies. As The Real Sporer noted back in June of this year, the pattern is frightening, and calls into question just what President Obama's ultimate intentions are for the U.S.

Americans need to take a good hard look at the nations Obama perceives as allies and enemies of the United States. President Obama has been unable to find word one to criticize the demon regimes in North Korea and Iran, other than the academic discussions that such regimes' conduct may be destabilizing. However, from the day on which President Obama took office he has repeatedly insulted the British, the Canadians and the Israelis while supporting Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, China, Russia, and now Honduras.

While the Obama foreign policy objectives seem oddly inconsistent with the last thirty years of American policy (don't forget it was President Clinton who made regime change in Iraq official American policy) the pattern is even more frightening.

Even as these words are written, the Obama Administration allies have introduced Joint House Resolution No. 5 before Congress. HJ Res. 5 will repeal the 22nd Amendment to our own Constitution-term limits for the President. Apparently, President Obama now views himself as an acolyte of dictators Chavez, Ortega and Zelaya and not merely domestic racists, radicals and terrorists like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayres.

Perhaps the logical next question is just how stupid does Barack Obama believe Americans to be so as to allow his leftist agenda to continue beyond 2010.

Posted by Richard at September 8, 2009 9:26 AM

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