Video: The coup in Honduras was illegal, says Obama
posted at 5:44 pm on June 29, 2009 by Allahpundit
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The country’s supreme court disagrees, but oh well. The One hath spoken. Regarding the lip service he pays here to “democratic traditions,” does the fact that Honduras’s congress blessed Zelaya’s ouster and installed Micheletti as president factor at all into the calculus about how democratic this was? What about the fact that Zelaya was organizing his referendum towards anti-democratic ends, as a first step towards installing himself as a Chavez-esque strongman? And since Obama’s so worried about setting “terrible precedents,” how about the precedent of piping up in support of a Chavez stooge instead of simply staying out of this? He goes so far here as to say that Zelaya’s still the president of Honduras, which risks forcing an impossible situation where he’s returned to power despite all other arms of the government — military, legislature, and judiciary — being openly hostile to him. What could go wrong?
After thinking about this for 24 hours, I can’t see any reason for a strong reaction from the United States here except as a way for The One to prove he’s different from all the other yanqui presidents in the past. And if that means he has to side with Hugo Chavez, so be it. Exit quotation from Micheletti: “‘We can’t allow that this government take us to communism or socialism.”
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EFFING INCREDIBLE!!!!!
Harry Schell on June 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Obama: There is no authoritarian overlord that I won’t support.
lorien1973 on June 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Maybe he finished reading Chavez’s book.
lorien1973 on June 29, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Obama’s seizing property without due process was illegal.
Obama’s breaking bankruptcy law was illegal.
When Obama is held accountable for his illegal activities, I’ll care about what he thinks is legal.
Daggett on June 29, 2009 at 5:48 PM
It’s going to be a llooonnngggg four years, man.
Daddy-O on June 29, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Not only is Obambi well verse (supposedly) in US Law, he is also a legal expert in Honduras law too. Who knew!!! What a guy, he is sooooo smart and dreamy.
Lance Murdock on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Anyone want to wager.. Honduras is the next “war” for America?
upinak on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
$10 says Obama couldn’t point out Honduras on a map.
sherry on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Micheletti in 2012!!!
Misha I on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Gosh and if we had one of those free press thingees, this president would be grilled until all that remained would be an evil, polluting lump of carbon.
Patrick S on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Honduras= Honduran
Lance Murdock on June 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
I wish he’d quit meddling.
a capella on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I want to know when we can stage our own coup and throw this socialist out on his arse.
txsurveyor on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Which comes first, the Constitution or the President?
Speakup on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
A strong reaction to Honduras but a weak one for the uprising in Iran? Hum.
txag92 on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
But via Treacher.. he can see Russia from his crouch!
upinak on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
What in the world are Bama and his handlers using for brains? Or is it that any overthrow of a tyrannical leftist is wrong automatically?
My niece is in Honduras, daughter been there a number of times recently and the deposed little man had little chance of winning without Mullahs or Chavez to force him down the throat of the people. He is widely despised and distrusted, obviously for good reason.
Who is feeding the One his “intel”.
It would be hilarious if this was just TV…downright scary as it is. Gun sales may accelerate again.
Harry Schell on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Can we borrow Micheletti? NOW???
Daggett on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Obama is looking ahead to the 2012 elections………
…….. when he looses, he will come out and say,
Seven Percent Solution on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
This POS man just broke a law that he himself helped to write, and we’re supposed to trust that he actually cares about anything legal! Wow…
Keemo on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
The Precedent knows that the Honduran supreme court didn’t have the requisite empathy, which is more important than any silly, written law …
And be very aware that The Precedent is trumpeting referenda over the rule of law, on top of it all. If this doesn’t send the ultimate chill up your spine, nothing will.
This is the product of Harvard Law with some alleged concentration on Constitutional Law. I hope any respect anyonje had for Harvard has been tossed into the trash. This is an academic embarrassment worse than anything I have seen.
progressoverpeace on June 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
So, bho, if us tea party people are not all that happy with you and team, we are illegal? We are trying to save our Republic from total overtake by you. Are we bad? Seems you are selective in who you like and don’t. You are a slug slime, imo.
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letget on June 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
..well, I’ve been telling anyone who would listen, for three years, that Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SWT)(SAW) is nothing more than a Thug, Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi/Anti-Semitic/Anti-White Leftist Democratic Traitor Marxist-Muslim; anyone care to dispute now?
Dale in Atlanta on June 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
I find it appropriate that Our Leader would side against a coup – any coup.
If ya know what I mean.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Is it time to get Manchurian on Obama… Obama spoke at an internationalist socialist movement group in the mid 90s which is associated with the sandista youth…
ninjapirate on June 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
How… unenlightened of you!
And correct, of course.
Misha I on June 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
I don’t know why O-bey is bothering with Honduras. It isn’t a muslim country & He can’t pronounce it any different to make him sound intellectual and smarter than anyone else in the room…..
Pahh-kee-stahhnnn. (Pakistan)
Eee-rahhnnn. (Iran)
Eee-Rahhkk. (Iraq)
portlandon on June 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
This comment was left earlier today at http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/71672#comments
What is Obma talking about?
patrick neid on June 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Besides, we all know that Our Leader is an expert on Honduran law, and Honduran politics – he being a Community Organizer, who spent a little bit of time in Indonesia.
OhEssYouCowboys on June 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Wow, he’s so smart he even knows the laws in Honduras. What a tool. If the supreme court ruled what the guy was doing was illegal and via court order had him removed with the blessing of the legislative body please, tell me what was illegal about it? Besides Obama doesn’t like it.
boomer on June 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
He probably thinks they speak Honduran.
ICBM on June 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Great photo op and great captions. Can you imagine if they would have caught Bush in that pose.
sherry on June 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Whaddya gonna do ’bout it O?
CynicalOptimist on June 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Obama is like the scarecrow in the Wiz. If I only had a brain.
Mojave Mark on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Is it 2013 yet?
jimmy2shoes on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
I don’t think so, but it would be interesting to see Barry’s response if Hugo ever gets done bellowing/pawing the earth, and actually invades them. I doubt it happens.
a capella on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
ROFL!
Daggett on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Dear Exalted Chosen One (aka: “Dear Leader“),
ALL “coups” intended to topple governments are, by definition, “illegal”. Since this was NOT a “coup”, it was thus not “illegal”.
In fact the moron who was removed from power WAS committing illegal acts, and that is why the Supreme Court of Honduras ordered is removal!
Please go back to not meddling.
signed,
A fed-up citizen!
Justrand on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Sorta like Bozo himself. In January a dem congressman filed a bill to remove term limits on OUR President. Where do you think thats headed?
dogsoldier on June 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Does not matter what Obama says: No world leader listens to him or respects him. Sounds like Obama is itching for his Marxist buddies to starts a war or something? Doesn’t Obama know that he is spouting Russian propaganda?
izoneguy on June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
This does not surprise me one bit. It sickens and disgusts me, but it does not surprise me.
kingsjester on June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Hey, can we start a coup against Obama for the same reason?
Oops, forgot the idiots have Congress too.
Sapwolf on June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
The AMERICAN REVOLUTION COMETH.
easyone on June 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Obama’s a clown who is supporting the illegal, unconstitutional action of a foreign President who seems inclined to become a dictator, but at least he has the legal and philosophical support of Ed Morrissey.
Good Lord.
Jaibones on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Obama’s campaign money from the Gaza strip and West Bank was illegal but he took it.
bill30097 on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
And we thought Jimmah Carter was bad
gwelf on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Can someone please remind the President about his “no meddling” policy? Perhaps we should mail him that page out of the dictionary.
Kelli_D on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
And they can’t trust their law enforcement, for reasons they probably don’t have to explain. Removal of Chavez flavored goons in 3….2….1….
dogsoldier on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
I see Duh One is getting his gray hair again. I guess he needs to look, er, more experienced.
SouthernGent on June 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
illegal = you go against my wishes and fight against people who are my friends
Defector01 on June 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I’m ready. That or secession. I don’t think I can take 3.5 more years of this.
Daggett on June 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
THIS IS JUST ABOUT THE MOST ABHORRENT SENSE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY THAT I CAN EVEN THINK OF !! Arrgggh !!
I have GOT to stop pulling my hair out !!
(which happens every time I open or refresh HotAir)
Sigh.
pambi on June 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Message to US Military: There is a lesson here. Please don’t make us civilians do it as it may become the French Revolution redux.
Remember: Your oath is to defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC.
bill30097 on June 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Meddling where he should be butting out.
FireBlogger on June 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Bozo will only meddle in FAVOR of a marxist or a tyrant. You all know he’s returning ambassadors to Venezuela and Syria, right?
dogsoldier on June 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Obama is a fine one to talk about illegalities. Did he, or did he not, violate his own law, by firing Inspector Generals?
Perhaps he’s sending the message, that when the same is done to him, for violating the constitution, and trying to declare himself dictator, we’ll all know….”it’s illegal”.
Yo Obama! Bite me!!! When you abide by the Constitution, and the laws….then we’ll talk.
capejasmine on June 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Whatever could you possibly be inferring here? ;)
Daggett on June 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
WHO is keeping track of this man’s illegalities, in these 6 short months ??? Gotta be a long list !!
I’d contribute to THAT legal fund !!
pambi on June 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Micheletti can’t, but Bo sure can, and will. The same way Bo tested his campaign to conquer the election in Kenya, he’s now testing his strategy for entrenching socialism and communism in Honduras.
Honduras, gird your loins, bend over, and shake hands with the next world axis, Hugobama.
orville on June 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Laws be damned, it is very instructive to watch who he aligns himself with and those of us he is aligned against.
fourdeucer on June 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Thus all this acting up across the globe. NoKo,Iran,Honduras,Al Queda,etc. The tinpot dictators can SMELL the Chicken Kiev all the way from the White House.
portlandon on June 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Obama: uhh hey we’re all royalty you know.
Honduras gets it, America? Not so much.
Speakup on June 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM
My guess is Obama is sucking up to Hugo Chavez. It is also possible that he does not know what he is doing.
One thing is obvious, however, unlike Chavez, Zelaya does not control the military.
Terrye on June 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Yep
lorien1973 on June 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM
I can’t watch since I am at work but did he mention what would have been the proper course of action? I had heard on the news this morning that since the vote had been found illegal by legislature and court that Zelaya was going to get the ballots from Chaez. You don’t think they were going to be pre-marked do you?
Cindy Munford on June 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM
C2O2
Castro/Chavez/Ortega/Obama
FloatingRock on June 29, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Two socialists one coup.
the_nile on June 29, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Anybody see the pattern here; if a nation state upholds it’s democracy he meddles and tells them what they are doing is illegal. Israel and Honduras for starters.
I really would like to know who sat in his classes at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law. He is so ignorant that he couldn’t possibly have sat in any class.
chemman on June 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Obama *hearts* dictators!
Any socialist is a friend of Obama! Freedom lovers, get out of the way!
jencab on June 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM
I’ll go with door #2 there…..he has NO CLUE what he is doing…
cmsinaz on June 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I seriously think Bozo is going to have a mental breakdown before his ONE TERM is up.
txag92 on June 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Btw, can’t wait to hear the MSM’s spin on how “Got your back, Hugo!” is anything but socialist.
orville on June 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Barakito Obamalini’s mind set on this would blame a woman who resisted being raped, and who knows what else, for assault for defending herself. He is a piece of garbage.
MB4 on June 29, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Why doesn’t he simply tell Hondurans that they are now governed from Washington DC?
ElRonaldo on June 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Message to US Military: There is a lesson here. Please don’t make us civilians do it as it may become the French Revolution redux.
Remember: Your oath is to defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC.
bill30097 on June 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Somehow I get the feeling that the military would not rush to aid the One. He puts or brave men and women at risk by having to wait to engage as in the example in last weeks thread of a pilot asking six times for permission to fire. The policy of having to mirandize enemy combatants upon capture and threating to veto defense funding bills does not bode well for a loyal military.
HoustonRight on June 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM
pathetic
rob verdi on June 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
It really bothers me that Fox News is basing all of their coverage of this issue on Associated Press reports. I can’t believe they aren’t doing any original reporting on such an important event.
FloatingRock on June 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
cmsinaz:
I think that might be true. I think Obama is a student of revolutionary politics. He has convinced himself that the US has sided with the wrong people in the past, so he just knee jerks goes the other way without any real knowledge of understanding of the issue.
The man is a joke. He really is.
Terrye on June 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
C2O2
Castro/Chavez/Ortega/Obama
FloatingRock on June 29, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Can we regulate it out of existence?
txag92 on June 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Ogabe: “You’ve seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that, uh, indicates, uh, he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election. Uh, it’s not productive given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling…”
But its very productive, obviously, to have the US meddle in Honduras? WTF is wrong with your head?
I’ve had it with this pantload President, how the flock did this fool get elected?
Bishop on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
He’s already had the mental breakdown, we are experiencing it with him. When can we decontaminate the White House of this carbon contamination.
chemman on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
From what I can tell, Obama is merely echoing the sentiment of his primary foreign policy audience, i.e. Europe, where the situation in Honduras is currently being sold as a “military coup, possibly backed by the CIA to install a pro-US dictatorship”. No mention of the Supreme Court, Parliament, etc. in papers here.
Niko on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
He’s starting to make Jimmuh Carter look good.
But I’m detecting a clear pattern in his foreign policy…if you were a friend and ally of the US in the BM (Before Messiah) era, you are now SOL…If you were a enemy, hey were best buds now. List of nations he’s dissed and thrown under the bus:
1) England
2) Israel
3) Colombia
4) Honduras
New bestest buddies:
1) Khameni’s version of Iran
2) Venezuala
3) Cuba
4) Russia
5) Palestinians
AUINSC on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Didn’t have to if all he had to learn was to vote “present” – nothing you can’t mail while suckin’ back a few doobies.
orville on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Leaving an opening for his amigo Hugo to make a military move – preferably on the day of Michael Jackson’s funeral.
guntotinglibertarian on June 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM
no argument here….
cmsinaz on June 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I’ve wondered that myself. He is a walking conflict.
Patrick S on June 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
So please, please, please someone tell me that the press is going to ask him just why this is illegal and just how he squares this ‘quick to meddle Monday’ with his ‘don’t want to meddle Thursdays’. Please?
Hello??
(crickets….)
Thunderstorm129 on June 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Floating Rock:
I think the truth is most people just do not know the details, including Fox. It is just another latin American dust up like all the others, or so they say. And Obama will pretty much try to support everybody and nobody and end up on the wrong side. Like usual.
Terrye on June 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Yesterday (Sunday) ABC Radio News (on Sirius) reported this as a ‘military coup’ which had ousted the Honduran President with absolutely no mention of the supreme court or legislature position and without mentioning the fact that the military was executing a supreme court order.
ElRonaldo on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Did Honduras get in on any of the bailout money? If not, then why does Obama think he has any say in their affairs?
Maybe Obama had plans on moving GM to Honduras.. (sarc)
Keemo on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Careful Barry - Lets not be seen as dismissive or derisive, and for heaven sakes lets not meddle; Unless it’s our one ally in the middle east Israel. Then meddling is required to screw the Jew and have the back of the terrorists.
Kuffar on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Apparently his meddling did not do much good either.
Terrye on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
What coup?
unclesmrgol on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
You are usually a lot more subtle. Why don’t you tell us how you really feel.
chemman on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Who made him King Of The World?
bloggless on June 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Why not? He wouldn’t even need a birth certificate.
FloatingRock on June 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM
I would be willing to make a small wager that O’s disciples take a run at a similar stategy so that the One can serve more than 2 terms. Don’t be surprised to see this idea floated early in his (assumed) 2nd term.
oilbertan on June 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Barry is very proud of Zelaya and his tactics and does not want to upset this precedent for his actions in 2016 when Billy Ayers crowns him the clown prince of people’s republic of Oceania
phreshone on June 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM
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