Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Audacity of Hypocrisy



Our president does not want to meddle in Iranian elections. How interesting! He certainly does not mind meddling in Israeli affairs as he has ordered Israelis to stop settlement growth and is bullying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give up land won in the 1967 Six Day War when Israel was attacked by its Arab neighbors and kicked butt so quickly and so effectively that the war earned its appropriate name.

If Obama’s meddlesome ways in Israeli politics isn’t enough, now he has thrown his support behind the Honduran dictator President Manuel Zelaya and has, along with leftists dictators Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro, interfered in the Latin American nation’s political crisis. Zelaya wanted to defy his country’s rule of law by making himself president beyond the two terms stated in the Honduran Constitution.

Is this a prelude to what we can expect in 2016 if Obama can continue to deceive Americans into believing he is working for the good of our country and wins a second term?

Read about the hypocritical action taken by our president from Joshua Pundit:

Obama And The Honduras Shuffle

“To give you an idea of how far to the Left the Obama Administration is, we have the amazing spectacle of this President and his Secretary of State gnashing their teeth and making common cause with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Castro in their disapproval and anger over the removal of a Communist Latin American dictator!

Here's the story in a nutshell. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, an Hugo Chavez wanna-be, tried to unilaterally change the Honduran Constitution to allow him to become in effect president-for-life. To do so, he attempted to run through an illegal referendum.

The Honduran Supreme Court warned him that this was a violation of Honduras law, but Zelaya continued to try to muscle this through.

Since the referendum had been pronounced illegal by both the Supreme Court and the Electoral board the government refused to print the ballots and no private printer was willing to do so, so Zelaya actually had the ballots printed in Venezuela and flown in.

When the military (who would normally distribute ballots) refused to do so, Zelaya fired General Vásquez, head of the armed forces and his supporters took the ballots from the warehouse where they were being held and attempted to distribute them anyway in defiance of the Supreme Court, Honduras' electoral law and the Constitution.

In response the Honduran Congress, including members of Zelaya's own party reinstated Vasquez, passed a law against holding referendums 180 days before or after general elections and established a commission, which found Zelaya in gross violation of his country's laws. The Honduran Attorney General then requested Zelaya's impeachment. After the proceedings, The Honduran Congress and authorized the military to arrest him, remove him from office and put him on a plane bound for Costa Rica.

So this 'coup' was performed by the Supreme court, the Congress, the Attorney general and pretty much every branch of the Honduran government!

So what was Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's response to this? Do you even have to wonder?

‘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.

Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating "the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter" and said it "should be condemned by all." Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.’


Obama called the so-called 'coup' illegal and ‘a terrible precedent
.’

Isn't that just lovely? North Korean nukes? No comment. Iran butchers its citizens in the streets and foments Islamist terrorism world wide? Hey, we still want to extend that outstretched hand and the Mullahs have the right to nukes too, no? Syria murders political opponents, gets caught with an illegal North Korean reactor and supports and finances Hezbollah? Let's just restore full diplomatic relations and not quibble about little things like that.

But Honduras legally ousting a leftist would be dictator? Now that's crossing the red line
!

One might almost call Honduras the Israel of Latin America. At least as far as Obama and Hillary Clinton are concerned.”


Earlier I heard an American missionary living in Honduras state on talk radio that this so-called "coup" was nothing of the kind. Everything was done in an entirely peaceful manner.

3 comments:

Diogenes said...

Your boy "Joshua Pundit" is lying again. Is it that difficult for you to check things out just a little before you start siiming away?

Here's what Obama and Clinton actually said said:

" 'I am deeply concerned by reports coming out of Honduras regarding the detention and expulsion of President Mel Zelaya,' Obama said in a written statement.

" 'I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference,' Obama said.

"The White House also rejected any suggestion that the U.S. was involved in the coup, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the action taken by Zelaya 'should be condemned by all.'

" 'We call on all parties in Honduras to respect the constitutional order and the rule of law, to reaffirm their democratic vocation, and to commit themselves to resolve political disputes peacefully and through dialogue,' Clinton said in a statement."

And that is straight out of Faux News:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/28/obama-calls-order-military-arrests-honduran-president/

Neither Obama nor Clinton accused accused Honduras of violating the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, as your boy Pundit said. And not only did Clinton not say that Honduras should be condemned by all, she said just the opposite: that ZELAYA should be condemned by all!

Now, on Monday, Obama did say that the ouster of Zelaya was not legal. And guess what? He's right! What Zelaya was proposing to do, in changing the Constitution so that he could run again for President, was illegal. But the military arresting the sitting President of the country and expelling him from the country is just as illegal.

Certainly a good "Christian" such as yourself, Ms. Moore, must have heard of the old cliche "Two wrongs don't make a right"?

The American government is saying, in effect, that Zelaya is wrong in illegally trying to alter the Constitution, but the military is also wrong in tossing Zelaya out of the country. Our wish, in a perfect world, is that Zelaya be allowed to return to Honduras, finish out his term, and let the country move on, without needless violence and bloodshed. Why is that such an improper result for you?

Debra Moore said...

White House backing of Zelaya starts to draw criticism

http://mobile.thehill.com/leading-the-news/white-house-backing-of-zelaya-starts-to-draw-criticism-2009-06-30.html

Diogenes said...

Boy, that criticism is kind of surprising, coming as it is from Repubublicans in Congress. Who would have thought that they'd try to score some cheap political points by criticizing President Obama? Especially when THEY don't have anything to lose in criticising?