The Obama Bus
So here’s another, and perhaps the final, chapter in the Obama-drama in Honduras. After essentially demanding that there be some kind of avenue by which Zelaya could be returned to power, contingent on a determination by the same governmental bodies that legally removed him from office over the summer, the State Department has signaled that it really might not matter if that occurs, and that the US will unconditionally recognize the, previously declared unrecognizable, Honduran elections scheduled for the end of this month.
The U.S. has repeatedly pressed for Zelaya’s reinstatement. President Barack Obama was explicit in a speech this summer: “America supports now the restoration of the democratically elected President of Honduras.”
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Wednesday that the United States considers what happened in Honduras a coup and that Zelaya should be reinstated, but he said the focus now should be on implementing last week’s deal between the ousted president’s representatives and the interim government of Roberto Micheletti.
Hold on with all of that “coup” talk Ian. Maybe that’s what you and President Obama think, but the Congressional Research Service took a much different point of view in Spetember, finding that Zelaya was removed legally, in accordance with the Honduran Constitution. And anyway, your pronouncement has been superceded by someone above your pay grade.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is asking the Obama Administration why, after pressing for his reinstatement, it now says it will recognize upcoming Honduran elections even if he isn’t returned to power first.
In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Zelaya asked Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton “to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d’etat has been changed or modified.”
His request came after Washington’s top envoy to Latin America, Thomas Shannon, told CNN en Espanol that Washington will recognize the Nov. 29 elections even if the Honduran Congress decides against returning Zelaya to power.
Clearly Zelaya hears the back-up alarm on the Obama bus beeping; my advice would be to move out of the way since far more intimate “allies” have ended up under that bus since Mr. Obama came on to the national scene.  This whole embarrassing sequence of events has proven to underscore just how amateurish the administrations idea of SMART POWER! is in actuality. And not only that, but it reveals all of the highminded talk about “not meddling in the affairs of other nations” to be hollow blather-”Just Words!”; and, a convenient excuse to vote “present” during the Iranian post election uprisings instead of strongly supporting freedom as Reagan did vis-a-vis Poland in the 1980’s.
Thank goodness, in the end, the US is standing behind the free choice of the Honduran people. And Mr. Zelaya, enjoy your new office, along with the rest of the people that suddenly were “no longer the [insert name here] that I knew”, under that bus!
Hugo Chavez could not be reached for comment…
(Graphic courtesy of radioactive liberty)
Yet another embarrassing screw-up from our allegedly “intellectual” president. But to be fair, the Obamessiah can hardly be expected to understand the Honduran constitution when he doesn’t even understand the American one.
Good point Mike.
Understand it? I don’t think he and Biden have even read it.
What a dick-time to insert Reagan’s name, eh Rocketman.
Hahahaha, Reagan the retreater and his penchant for killing Central American women and babies. Hey, sometimes you have to kill ‘em women and babies so you can send ‘em missiles to Iran.
Boy, those were the days of American diplomatic pride, huh.
Commandante Daniel “Sandinista Maximillo” Ortega! Duly elected president of Nicaragua! Three cheers for democrazy democracy! Where’s Reagan now?
Care to address the point at hand, sir? The Hondurans legally removed their president for violating their laws, and our President (PBUH) tried to force them to take him back. And now our goverment is backtracking on that.
Just guessing:
From some of the postings I have read, the spokesman for the Honduran Supreme Court mentioned 18 crimes against the state… Just guessing but I think Zelaya will leave the Brazilian Embassy the same way he came in…. In the trunk of a car..
Ignorant Sir, the Honduran Constitution does not allow its military droolers to kidnap the duly elected President and escort him by gunpoint to Costa Rica.
Our deft government attaches are resolved to keep unnecessary bloodshed and violence to a minimum, then to facilitate the transfer of Presidential power via a free and fair election.
Care to join Dan and Bob in the Honduran Revolutionary Forces of Freedom? I’m offering to film your arrival on Honduran territory, to film your press conference in which Dan will announce that he’s read parts of the Honduran Constitution and from now on the Honduran Revolutionary Forces of Freedom will be final word in Honduras.
I’d simply love to film you three freedom fighters and the long line of Hondurans of all stripes who line up and patiently wait until it’s their turn to butt-fuck one of the three Gringos who think its they who call the shots in Honduras.
I’m serious.
Yeah thor, stick to the point. Regale us with tales of Obama’s SMART POWER!, because after seeing it at work here in Honduras, it soesn’t seem too smart nor even organized!
How SMART! is it to keep calling it a coup when CRS has said it isn’t? Kinda like declaring the surge in Iraq a failure even though it worked?
Here’s a clue, no matter how many times the liberals repeat their fantasy reality, it doesn’t make it so. They watched Dorothy click here heels together and transport back to Kansas one too many times…
mmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmm…
Why did we even need a surge? Oh yeah, because the BOOOOOOSH military genius had us marked down as celebrated liberators all while RINO-losers, like McCain, told the President for years we needed more soldiers there.
DUUUUUUH-POWER! How’d that work for out for ya?
“You Liberals!” How about I’m not a Liberal, most especially not a liberal squealer who squeals nothing but the pettiest politics, sort’a like you do, Bob.
Cluck-cluck-cluck! Go Bob Go! You not-Liberal Code Pinker!
Read more carefully; I said “the” liberals, not “you” liberal. I believe you might choose a turn of the phrase along the lines of:
YOU LIE!, but that’s not my style…
We’re not talking about the surge in this thread. Why did Obama and state department spokespeople keep calling it a “coup” after that had been refuted by CRS? And, if they had such courage in that conviction, why is the bus noe backing over Zelaya?
Admit it, this has been an embarrassing learning experience for Obama.
Admit.It.
No, Bob, Honduras is nothing more than one of the many of your lame attempts to paint the red door black.
You come across as a hyperventilating stooge.
Zelaya was elected there. That should be a clue as to why you’d get your I’m-a-half-white-hero-American-r-winged-jeeenyus ass beaten in the streets of Tegucigalpa.
Most don’t think highly of your jeeeenyus there.
And by the way, I’ll buy your plane ticket to Honduras when that day comes when you’re actually willing to fight for Honduran Freedom!
HAHA!
The Hondurans are free, now that Obama has backed off of having Chavez’s crypto-stooge reinstalled.
And I’ll applaud them on that decision, though I think they should be more honest about the erroneous pronouncement that the CRS cleared up…
Ethics!, Honesty!, Transparency!
Remember the declarations?
WE’ll FIND WMDs! BOOOOSH! They’ll celebrate us after we kill them!
Remember those declarations?
Anytime your ready to bet your neck on Reagan’s legacy, let’s go to Honduras together. I’ll take pictures.
Just as I thought…
You can’t bring yourself to utter the words, “Obama made a mistake…”
I call out Rethugs! on theirs too, as well as congratulate Obama on his successes-you might recall I got linked by Insta-Glenn for that once.
C’mon, have some intellectual honesty. I mean, you’re so much better than I, and I can admit when I make a mistake…
That’s pretty sad, but I’ll help you.
Repeat after me; “Obama made a mistake”.
Repeat after me: I, Bob, will say anything, no matter how stupid, if I think it’ll make me sound cool in the know-nothing r-wingy tea-bagger deluders.
I think Obama and the State Department – you know them, they’re the ones who worked for BOOOOOOSH and who are still there working – did a great job in Honduras.
In your wittle make believe world of goggled politics-as-religion righteousness, you got fucked. You wanted stab those Hondurans in the face, they think differently than you, and who are they to dare stand in opposition to your GOD!
Kill Chavez! He mocked BOOOOOOOSH tey Genius! Kill Chavez! Kill Venezuelans who voted for Chavez too! Love us or die, motherfukkkers!
You, my friend, are a jester.
It’s funny you would call me a jester, ‘cuz I got a pretty good laugh out of that first line; how I’ll say anything yada-yada-deluders…
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