Øbama's New BFFs

I glad to see that I'm not alone in my analysis of the situation regarding the Iniquitøus Pig* Øbama and his reaction to the situation in Honduras.

(You'd think that after a good night's sleep, I'd have gotten over last night's name-calling rage...but you'd be wrong.)

Douglas O'Brien writes Dancing to a New Tune in Latin America

While it took days for Obama to pass judgment on events following Iran's presidential election, he swiftly expressed "deepest concern" over Zelaya's ouster at the hand of the Honduran government. A few hours after the ouster, Obama called on leaders in Tegucigalpa to "respect democratic norms," which would seem to be a call to restore Zelaya to power.

There is one small problem. Zelaya's removal from office was precipitated by his own illegal actions and attempts to undermine his nation's fragile democracy. Granted, any time a Latin American army takes a president into custody we hearken back to simpler times when generals hand picked presidents and if they got out of line, they lost their jobs, if not their lives. This situation is far more complex. And while Zelaya's ouster is an extreme reaction, the president's own moves are far more injurious to real democracy than those that the military, the Honduran attorney general, and supreme court took in trying to enforce the law...

...In Honduras, the Supreme Court declared Zelaya's moves illegal and ordered the military, in a law enforcement capacity, to prevent the referendum. The legislature has followed the law by naming an interim president and declared that this fall's scheduled presidential election will go forward as planned. And the courts have declared the military's actions legal.

The facts of this situation point to a president who abused his power, sought to circumvent the nation's constitution, ignored the ruling of the courts and incited lawlessness. The country's fledgling democratic institutions provided checks and balances to the president's power and stood up for the rule of law. In a region with a long history of left and right coups and iron-fisted rule, the United States should applaud the functionality of Honduras's government.

Sadly, the knee-jerk reaction in Washington has been to follow the lead of Chavez, Castro and Ortega, who will now, apparently call the tune in our Latin American policy.

Will the Insufferable Prick** Øbama start wearing a Che t-shirt in the Oval Office, too?

Would it surprise anyone?

The Gunslinger

*with apologies to swine. **with apologies to penises