Jennifer Rubin discusses the success of the Honduran elections today at Commentary Magazine.
Ironically, the Honduran interim government wound up isolating the Obami — not the other way around. They smartly made their case to Republicans in Congress (”They won support from a handful of Republicans, who held up diplomatic appointments, weakening the State Department’s Latin America team”) and pushed forward with the only feasible solution — free and fair elections. Eventually the Obami were forced to back down: “As the crisis dragged on, U.S. diplomats got both sides to agree in October to allow the Honduran Congress to decide on Zelaya’s restoration. Until the end, Washington publicly supported his return. But after many delays, lawmakers finally voted Wednesday — no.”
There is a lesson there for small democracies. If they abide by democratic principles, sustain a united front domestically, and refuse to accede to the arrogance of Foggy Bottom and the White House, they can control their own destiny. (Hmm, seems to also have worked out in Israel.) That it should require such a Herculean effort to resist the strong-arming tactics of the United States is sobering and distressing.
Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades has more on the Honduran people’s victory over their Chavez-wannabe and the socialist tyrant’s supporters in the Obama Administration.
Sobering, distressing, heartbreaking, and infuriating. The President of the United States was helping to overturn a free and democratic government for no other reason than he wanted to help a socialist Chavista. This should be the blackest mark on Obama’s record so far (though by no means is it the sole count against him). But, hoo-hum, the Left and the legacy media (BIRM) just look right past it.
Well said.
December 6th, 2009 | 3:11 pm | #1
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ht Brenda
Comment on Milbank post
He who holds his chin up high,
And casts his gaze up toward the sky
Whose halo wraps his head in gold
His faux god image so tired and old
His angel minions start to scatter,
When what he says
just doesn’t matter.
His halo rusting
while they stare,
At the emperor in
his underwear
Who would renew the nation so
The Marxist way he wants to go
He stands burdened by self- adoration
On the very top of his crumbling nation
And so his cult -and that is us,
Are thinking of throwing him
Under the bus.
think i’ve seen it before, but
don’t recall where or when..
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December 6th, 2009 | 3:13 pm | #2
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December 6th, 2009 | 3:24 pm | #3
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December 6th, 2009 | 3:27 pm | #4
Ironically(or maybe not) the Chicago weathermen did everything to The Hondurans that the have for generations righteously condemed the “Evil Capitalist Colonialist Gringos” for. The leftees failed badly, but they sure tried. They did better with the Alinsky stuff in the US, but they have always been violent Weatherman thugs at heart and i suppose this debacle shows us what thugs they will become after their 2010 defeat in this country.
December 6th, 2009 | 3:49 pm | #5
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EdGi @3:27 pm #4
newsflash:
The Apollo Alliance has now ADMITTED that they
wrote the Stimulus Bill AND the Cap and Trade Bill.
Apollo Alliance
Meet Jeff Jones. Obama’s Author of Stimulus & Healthcare Bills
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Bernadine Dohrn
Jeff Jones
Billy Ayers
Celia Sojourn
For The Weather Underground
more here & in comments/older comments..
btw, that’s just a drop in the old proverbial bucket..
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December 6th, 2009 | 8:21 pm | #6
So we have domestic terrorists-felons writing legislation.
December 6th, 2009 | 8:24 pm | #7
Very happy for the Hondurans to make a stand for democracy and asserting their God-given rights for self-determination. The danger is Chavez gets the nod from Obama that he and his Chavistas buddies can attack Honduras without provoking US intervention.
December 6th, 2009 | 9:54 pm | #8
Obama….a giant skid mark in America’s underwear.
December 7th, 2009 | 3:45 pm | #9
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