Strong: Obama, Chavez & Castro
In true Carter-esque fashion, el-Presidente Obama condemned the “coup” in Honduras. While Obama was slow to criticize the brutal repression and killing of demonstrators in Iran, he wasted no time coming to the vocal defence of radically left wing President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was removed from power by the military with the support of the Congress and the judiciary for trying to unconstitutionally extend his presidential term.
FNS reports: “It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections,” Obama said in the Oval Office after meeting with Colombian President Alviro Uribe. “The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don’t want to go back to a dark past.”
The past he refers to of course is the past that he and other far leftists see as one where “evil” America intervened and meddled in South America to the detriment of the proletariat. Obama subscribes to a historical realm of thought that views America as an agent of evil and oppression in the world rather than one that promotes liberty, justice, and individual rights.
Obama’s criticism of the events in Honduras rings hollow. He was cowardly in his statements on Iran when students and democratic activists were dying in the streets at the hands of the Basij, not unlike his lefty appeaser soul mate, Jimmy Carter.
So what really happened in Honduras?
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beentheredonethat Says:
When the thrills finally stop running down so many American’s legs they are going to be living in a very very angry country.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Cynapse Says:
Awww, boo hoo, Obama’s not a neocon expansionist. Shame that.
I think a lot of people will be relieved, BTDT. Too many Americans have had their reputations soiled by the megalomania of a few.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Cynapse Says:
Moreover, anyone who thinks Obama is a far leftist has no credibility in discussing South American affairs … or politics, really.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
Only time will tell. My money is on the thrills running out, just barely in time. Then we’ll see who gets passed the crying towel.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Cynapse Says:
Indeed we will. I don’t think Americans overall are as blood-thirsty and expansionist as some of these recent neo-con governments or chickenhawk pundits. In times of economic crisis, the public isn’t going to judge their leader on how many new countries he’s plundered – they’re worried about their own jobs. THAT is Obama’s challenge.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
beentheredonethat Says:
Well it so happens that I agree that the last thing on Americans minds is plundering other countries. Actually, plundering other countries is as alien to the average American thought process as it is to Canadians. It alwasy has been and always will be. Obama and the economy is the entire issue, agree again. Where we disagree is that I believe that Obama is going to destroy the American economy thru ignorance, inexperience and a firm belief in Marxism.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
hynd Says:
BTDT, you forgot his belief in global warming and the new act being pushed thru congress that will drop an atomic bomb on the recovery.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pm