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Obama says Honduras coup was "illegal"
2009-06-29
Didn't even take him 10 days to decide.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama says Honduras coup was "illegal" and Zelaya remains the president.
That's all Brietbart has for now. Obama was, I guess, brief.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Obama - 0
Actual functioning foreign congress - 1
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-06-29 21:51  

#8  Just proves Oblahblahblah knows NOTHING about being a president (Small P on purpose) He's getting by on bluff alone. Absolutely NO experience.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-06-29 21:14  

#7  Think of the precedent, folks.

Will Obama and ACORN have help from the Venezuelan air force if they try to stage their own sham election and give the Zero a third term in 2016? Ridiculous? Sure, but it is no different from what they are trying to force on the people of Honduras. After all, the One was "democratically elected."
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-06-29 20:44  

#6  Well, we have a new entry in the political dialectic. According to the ever evolving leftist meme of statecraft, a president who is "democratically elected" can disregard the legislative and judicial branches, get help from a foreign military, and stage what amounts to his own sham election if he wants an additional term (unless of course he is a Republican and this is the US we are talking about).

That, friends, is an inescapable and logical inference from the reaction to the Honduran constitutional crisis in liberal, media, and other leftist circles.
We probably cannot save Honduras from an authoritarian caudillo in the Castro/Allende/Chavez mold at this point. Our population is too heavily indoctrinated with misapplied and loaded terminology (like "coup"), weasel words, and common bigotry.

Indeed, we will be lucky to save ourselves.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-06-29 20:40  

#5  Wow, Obama can overule the supreme court of a foreign power on a matter of law.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2009-06-29 17:28  

#4  Crooked politicians GOOOOD! Military people.... BAAAAAD! BAAAAAD! BAAAAAD!
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-06-29 17:19  

#3  Obama - that statement could put some US students, on a working trip, there in a position where everybody will be after the American students.....
Some really nice kids you jerk!
Posted by: 3dc   2009-06-29 16:59  

#2  We can't get straight answers from him about our own Constitution, but the Honduran Law he knows inside and out in less than a day.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-06-29 16:56  

#1  I thought possession was 90 percent of the law...
Posted by: Jarong de Medici3580   2009-06-29 16:41  

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