Zelaya landing aborted, to try again today?
posted at 8:55 am on July 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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The Latin American crisis in Honduras escalated yesterday as deposed president Manuel Zelaya attempted to force his way back into the country, despite the Honduran government warning to stay out. The military blocked runways, forcing Zelaya to fly to Managua, Nicaragua instead. Zelaya’s supporter showed in force at the airport and clashed with the military, leaving one dead and 30 injured:
In a high-stakes standoff that played out in the skies over Honduras, the airplane carrying ousted president Manuel Zelaya was forced to circle the nation’s main airport twice before flying away Sunday evening after coup leaders who deposed Zelaya blocked his landing with troops on the runway.
The turn-back of Zelaya’s white jet left thousands of his supporters shouting in disappointment and anger. Minutes earlier, security forces fired tear gas and bullets at the crowd to keep demonstrators away from the airport, which was surrounded by soldiers and military vehicles.
The Red Cross said people 30 people were wounded in the melee, but there were conflicting reports about fatalities. An Associated Press photographer reported that one man was shot in the head.
Why not let him land? Apparently, the military and the new government worried about making an arrest on the tarmac with Zelaya’s traveling companion, U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, and a second plane carrying the the presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, and the Secretary-General of the OAS. A show of military force aimed at foreign heads of state would be a cassus belli, a handy excuse for an invasion by foreign troops. Unfortunately, the decision on that strategy shut down air traffic across Honduras.
Rumors had Nicaraguan troops approaching the border, presumably in an attempt to reinstall Zelaya by force. Later in the day, though, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega denied it, and Roberto Micheletti acknowledged that only a few troops “without their commanders” had drifted towards the border. Micheletti warned Nicaragua and other nations not to interfere with what Micheletti deemed an internal matter, or the interference would produce “bloodshed.”
Many people may not have known that Zelaya’s flight started from Washington, where he apparently has set up his office in exile. White House officials told the Washington Post that they expect him to return to Washington after the aborted attempt to return to Honduras. However, Zelaya says he’ll try landing in Honduras again instead, perhaps as early as today. Micheletti said that they would allow Zelaya to land when the former president was ready to turn himself into authorities “quietly”, and not before then. It looks like we’ll see another standoff soon, and more demonstrations by Zelaya supporters at the airport.
The Right Scoop has photos of the protests, including one graphic pic of the protester allegedly shot by the military or the police in the head.
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Have Hillary give him a lift on her broom.
Bambi and Hills have done everything in their power to prop this criminal up and still the Honduran people resist.
Bambi’s pathetic weakness is not always bad news.
NoDonkey on July 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM
The O.A.S, Chavez, and every other leftist thug is trying to impose a dictatorship on that country even if it means Civil war. All of this with the support of Obama, our President. Although I suspect the Obama-Clinton folks are going to get nervous after yesterday’s bizarre performance by Zeleya.
rob verdi on July 6, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Wow, our president is an asshole. This whole thing would have been over with if Bush were prez.
rollthedice on July 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM
This will only end in 2 ways. Democracy will fall to mob rule backed by Washington or Zelaya will be shot. Why is no one drawing attention to this modus operandi from Communists everywhere. There was/is an inherent lust for power and expansion and this time the US President is thoroughly aligned with the communists in South America!?!
lm10001 on July 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM
If Bush were in charge, Zeleya would not only be back in office by now, but the Honduran Army would be kissing his feet begging for forgiveness.
KillerKane on July 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM
That’s what I said, but without the swear words.
Our president is a jerk.
rollthedice on July 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM
So, what’s The One Lightworker’s next “meddling” move?
Reinstall Zelaya by force? Then what? Arrest the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress en masse?
What makes him think that any of the government or military would listen to/do anything that Zelaya says?
And what happens when Zelaya declares himself El Presidente for Life, with the apparent blessing of the US?
Techie on July 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Smart power in action
VelvetElvis on July 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Why not shoot it down and make it look like an accident?
Aristotle on July 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Where is the outrage over Obama’s siding with undemocratic dictators? For that matter, where is the outrage that Obama has been attempting to invalidate the US Constitution? Isn’t he as guilty as Zelaya?
Headin’ for Obamageddon.
RandyChandler on July 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Velve
That must be it, the Obama Administration just appears to be completely incompetent and corrupt.
Which is a clever cover for their abject confusion, vote selling and influence peddling.
NoDonkey on July 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
No, Bush would proabably be on the side of the people. Bush knows democracy when the sees it, and he knows dicktators when he sees them too. Zelaya is a chavez-loving-dictator-wannabe.
therightscoop on July 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Maybe he couldn’t land,because there was,
Hillary Snipers’ in,on,and around the tarmac!!(sarc).
canopfor on July 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Um okay…says you?
cozmo on July 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Obooba’s not incompetent. He is proceding according to plan to fascize the US and as many other nations as possible.
Corrupt, yes. Incompetent, no.
Akzed on July 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
What makes you say that?
Akzed on July 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Too bad the US doesn’t have a president right now.
Vashta.Nerada on July 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Why not shoot it down and make it look like an accident?
Aristotle on July 6, 2009
Because you probably couldn’t sell that, even to the troofers, and you know what idiotic crap they believe.
SKYFOX on July 6, 2009 at 9:17 AM
I see a photo op here…Manuel Zelaya riding in a jeep, back into the country, with Obama riding shotgun wearing his Castro fatigues and leftist headband.
Jeff from WI on July 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
can we keep the plane our prezzie is glitzing around the globe in from landing back in the states? please?
Ris4victory on July 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
So much for democracy in Latin America.
PrecedentOsamabamaBidenHussein wants to spread totalitarian socialism everywhere.
davidk on July 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
It’s nice to see President Obama siding with tyrants who don’t respect their constitutions.
LFRGary on July 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM
If the head of the UN is onboard when they shoot the plane down, Honduras gets double points.
MarkTheGreat on July 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM
You know, just after Obama was elected I said I thought he would rule in a similar manner to Chavez–only without the violence. That is, Obama is a socialist at heart, and intends to nationalize as much of the economy as he can and promote collectivism abroad.
The fact that Obama would wilt away from genuine oppression and yet come out so strongly in support of a Chavez puppet dictator (Zelaya) further confirms it. This is really horrifying. I fear for this country more and more each day, I really do.
Outlander on July 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Let the planes land… all of them. My thinking is you kill cockroaches where you find them…
CC
CapedConservative on July 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM
The mockery of the rule of law, sovereignty of nations, and respect for constitutional republics by this Administration, the media, the UN and OAS, and way too many Americans is a travesty.
Zelaya made his own bed…he violated the trust of the people of the Nation he had taken an oath to protect and defend, and laws he took an oath to obey.
Yet, after more than a week, he is able to get most actors to agree that he was “toppled” in an illegal “coup” and that he is right and the Constitution and laws of Honduras are wrong. The hubris. The thuggery.
Guess our President respects that sort of thing…and apparently, too many others, as well.
coldwarrior on July 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM
It is outrageous that Obama has allowed that criminal Zelaya to use the U.S. as his base of operations. And why is no one in the U.S. Senate standing up for the right of the Honduran people to conduct their own internal affairs in accordance with their own laws?
AZCoyote on July 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM
the actions of the oas and the un in this situation have confirmed all my fears about international orgs and their lack of respect for national sovereignty.
Chiasmos on July 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM
How many trips can you get out of 1929 Ford Tri-motor
Jeff from WI on July 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM
The AP photo of the guy “shot” in the head is a staged fraud. Notice the hand clenched in a fist, the knee bent showing muscle contraction,the eyes shut( compare to the open lifeless eyes in the video of Neda) and the small dribbles of blood underneath his head not a trail of blood as you would expect. The AP has been had again.
freedup on July 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Bush was likely involved in the ouster.
faraway on July 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Obama is worse. He also breaks laws, including one he helped create (method of firing IG).
Only in our case, we have a slobbering media, a thoroughly corrupt congress, a liberal SCOTUS, and almost powerless people.
Daggett on July 6, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Let him land! He’s leaving a huge carbon footprint. Think about the children!!
whitetop on July 6, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Wow, everyone! Jake Tapper is on it today! /sarc
Stick to the news.
bluelightbrigade on July 6, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Ogabe to order U.S. Marines to “facilitate” the peaceful integration of Zelayo back into the Honduran political structure.
Bishop on July 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM
President Obama has messed this up far, far worse than the Iranian situation.
BadgerHawk on July 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM
The only law that matters now is Obambi’s Law of the Jungle. The apes have taken over. Forget Atlas Shrugged. We’re in Bad Day at Black Rock.
Percy_Peabody on July 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Oh, please tell me this is not true. I despise Obama more every day.
Daggett on July 6, 2009 at 9:47 AM
The Castro brothers, Chavez, Ortega, the UN,the OAS,if your on the same page as all these clowns you are most definitely a clown yourself.Clown in Chief President Bozo Obama.
freedup on July 6, 2009 at 9:48 AM
During the aborted landing, Zelaya was speaking live from the plane with a reporter on the ground at the airport. Also, Hugo Chavez spoke at length with the reporter. Both claimed that “the Right” in all nations was a threat to peace and democracy all over the world and must be opposed. Both dictators pointed to the US as their ally in this. Chavez said Obama was a prisoner of the right in the US. There was a not so thinly veiled call for action against the Right in the US, as these problems can happen anywhere.
(all thanks to translations by elduende.)
There will be no schadenfreude when Obama and the other world thugs go down. There will be only pure, unadulterated Freude (joy).
Sic semper tyrannis Now, as ever.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Some of us were on the “Obama Senate bypass treaty” thread yesterday, watching the Honduras situation unfold on a live feed of Telesur (A Venezuelan propaganda channel)http://www.journal-post.com/forum/video/677-telesur-live-video-stream.html
If anyone is interested there is a running commentary of what was happening in Honduras yesterday afternoon and evening on the other thread.
nevertheless here is my final post last nite.
Most amazingly for me were the attitudes of Zelaya and Chavez regarding Obama.
This past week there has been litte doubt, based on the statements and actions of Zelaya, Ortega, The Castros, Chavez, Morales, Kirchner, and Correa that they condsider Obama a kindred spirit and has thus enabled this travesty by his behavior.
However, yesterday afternoon, was illuminating for us here in the US. Both Zelaya and Chavez, but primarily Zelaya, confirmed in impromptu on air interviews in the heat of the confrontation that they see Obama as an ideological ally. This was for me the first time that such statements had been made by both of these thugs. Obama’s actions and his allies attitudes will now serve as an indictment of his complicity in the coming Honduran Civil War (all sides are gearing up for it as I type).
This is not over by a long shot, Honduras has dealt a severe blow to the global left they have challenged the ditates of the Sao Paolo forum and that is something that global alliance cannot countenece, and so now they will respond and thanks to Obama his new allies feel emboldened.
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Zelaya’s family hiding out in
CubanAmerican embassy in Tegucigalpa. No shi*t.JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Sic Semper Tyrannus, Thus always to tyrants, is the Commonwealth of Virginia’s motto.
and i am very sorry that we voted for Obama.
kelley in virginia on July 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM
This country is standing up for the rule of law.Something our country should try for a change.
thmcbb on July 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Great summary. Tks. again. My guess is that Obama will lead the “int’l community” in a military response in Honduaras, under the auspices of the OAS, or UN or some other leftist int’l org. Obama will cement his place among the rogues, and will formally declare war on half the American people in so doing.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Not your doing of course, but proof that we don’t know our own history. If your state was choosing a motto today, it would never choose that. Don’t feel too bad. I live in the “Empire” state. What a joke. We make nothing but bad intellectual property.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
There seems to be so little outrage over this. This isn’t about Honduras principally, it’s about Obama, and it’s about the left’s control over the institutions that provide legitimacy and legality to certain actions.
Hitler is trying to grab the Sudetenland, and Obama isn’t even Chamberlain, he’s Stalin.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Not another attempt to fly back in until the pilot finishes his crop duster job.
Jeff from WI on July 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM
It’s true and on Drudge right now.
Ogabe also plans to airdrop Mrs. Lieutenant in this dress over the airport before Zelayo arrives in an effort to blind the Honduran anti-aircraft crews.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//090706/480/08dd404d195f4d12b33f87317346826b/#photoViewer=/090706/480/08dd404d195f4d12b33f87317346826b
Bishop on July 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Because half the glassy-eyed fuds who voted for Ogabe have no idea it’s occurring due to the reduced media coverage, and the other half are busy saying, “Well, Ogabe must have a plan and knows what he’s doing.”
Bishop on July 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM
We’ll see what happens. Zelaya and Chavez have overplayed their hand on this. They should have been more circumspect about pressuring Honduras and the Obama support they have.
It might be a measure of their desperation that they tried this stunt yesterday. They may be setting the stage for an armed revolt or an invasion by ALBA countries. The situation as it stands now is going to spiral out of control and only has negative connotations for Obama. My feel is that I think he hopes this crisis disappears from the front page, he can’t afford this “distraction”.
I’d love to hear what Hilary is going to say about this. Paging Sidney Blumenthal….
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM
So where exactly is the filthy liar in the White House when all this is going on- including a deposed despot running his office in exile from DC????
He’s in Europe taking the kids to see the Kremlin and Pope. Not to mention giving away our nuclear weapons and backdooring God knows what deals with the people who have a vested interest in keeping America weak.
I mourn for my country and hate the morons that voted this evil third-world-dictator in as it’s leader.
highhopes on July 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Thankfully, the WSJ’s O’Grady is still on the case, just as she was on June 29, the day after Zelaya was escorted out of the country.
Here’s hoping that Ed will recall fondly the effort he put into Claudia Rosett’s coverage of the U.N.’s oil for food scam reporting, get off the foolish “coup” meme and start providing some useful commentary. There’s serious trouble gathering in the Southern Hemisphere.
Barnestormer on July 6, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Haven’t you figured it out yet? Hillary is strictly a figurehead SECSTATE. The White House is controlling all the media and foreign relations information that is coming out of the Obama regime.
highhopes on July 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM
elduende,
Your insight and expetise on these and other matters concerning Central and South America are greatly appreciated.
thomasaur on July 6, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Agreed.
myrenovations on July 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM
expetise s/b expertise
sheesh
thomasaur on July 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Lol! I know that. but knowing the Clintons talent for self preservation, they must be scrambling for a way to jump from this nightmare ship, without killing thier political future while doing it….maybe they are waiting til the Israel situation explodes….
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Thanks for the compliments. Not “expertise” exactly but maybe a bit of insight… ;-)
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 10:22 AM
True enough, but it’s a widely shared talent of the political class. Their special variant seems to be persuading others to happily serve as disposable PFDs, to be left floating in rough seas, as they wade safely to shore.
Barnestormer on July 6, 2009 at 10:28 AM
If leftist thugs Chavez and the Castro brothers like this assclown Zelaya so much, maybe they should take him into their countries where he can smoke their lousy cigars, chug his car around using their lousy oil and retire in whatever they determine to be comfort in their respective dictatorships.
pilamaye on July 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM
That is an awesome analogy. Kudos.
Vashta.Nerada on July 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Like I’ve said before, raise and call. Arrest the lot of them, and hold them hostage against an invasion.
LarryD on July 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Because he has foreign officials who are intent on violating Honduran sovereignty accompanying him. More specifically, even if they allowed only Zelaya’s plane to land, it still signals that the UN’s authoritah trumps Honduras’s.
Christien on July 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Article 239 of the Honduran constitution, as translated by a Spanish-speaking Wikipedia editor, and as yet unchallenged by any opposing editor, in the article on the “coup” (emphasis mine):
The moment Zelaya proposed changing the constitutional provision against re-election as President, he ceased to function as President. In fact, according to Article 42, Section 6 (Google Translation), Zelaya has also forfeited his Honduran citizenship.
Sadly, the Honduran constitution doesn’t seem to have, among its 378 Articles, any description of an impeachment process, so the Supreme Court ordering the military to remove him is probably as legit as anything.
The Monster on July 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM
What Honduras represents: No more cakewalks for Chavez and his allies.
There is much more at stake here than meets the eye. Up until last Sunday, Chavez, operating under the tutelege of Castro, had implemented the dictates of the Sao Paulo Forum; where the Latin left, after the collapse of the Soviets, and left with no patron, drew up contingency plans to seize power using traditional methods but would then quickly transition to Stalinist models of governance…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foro_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo
Chavez has been very succesful at this, collapsing nation after nation in Latin America for over 10 years. Now the Hondurans have shown democracy movements across the hemisphere how to short circuit the leftists, unmask them, remove their impunity, and make them fight for real.
The left has no patrons anymore. Sao Paolo was an effort to come into power through the backdoor. That has been stopped cold. Even if Honduras collapses into civil war the point has been made. No more free lunches for the left. You want dictatorial powers then you are going to have to fight for it. That’s messy and expensive and without a superpower patron, very hard to do.
That’s why there is much more at stake here than just Honduras and why Zelaya and Chavez are scrambling to reclaim the initiative.
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Yes, it is an automatic trip wire offense. That is why calling it a coup is so silly. Zelaya knew the consequences before he violated the constitution. Pretty straightforward. The actual logistics of removing him physically are irrelevant.
a capella on July 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM
With your explanation in mind and considering Obama’s overt support of Zelaya, this would be an obvious indicator he approves of what Chavez has been doing for the last 10 years.
a capella on July 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM
What are you talking about? The Honduran Army’s involvement was limited solely to removing the would be dictator from the country at the order of the Judicial and Legislative branches. They didn’t take over, this wasn’t a coop. Zeleya attempted to modify the constitutional limit on terms for executives, something the constitution expressly prohibits, and the rest of the government took action to remove him in accordance with their constitution. Bush wouldn’t be trying to stick him back in power, he wouldn’t be supporting him, and he sure as hell wouldn’t be hosting him.
Stomper on July 6, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Great. It unmasks the leftists’ plans in C. and S. America, and it also unmasks Obama’s real sympathies, just as his actions re. Iran did, and probably as his actions re. Russia will show. The media hid who Obama was, but he can’t act and remain completely hidden. They’re still trying to make nothing out of the US role in all this, and our help and cooperation to leftist dictators, but as you say,events in little Honduras has much significance, and I have literally prayed that Obama pay an enormous price for his perfidy.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Obama is Chavez. Honestly, same agenda, same beliefs, same class and racial issues. They are the same person on a diff. scale.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM
the media will do nothing to illuminate obama’s real agenda. the only reason helen thomas said anything is because she was probably having a TIA & thought she was speaking to a Republican administration.
we may know what Obama’s agenda is (or can only guess at its true horror), but the media will not disclose it.
and even if the media got on “our” side, who, other than us, would even care?
kelley in virginia on July 6, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Let me teel you a story…
My suspicions regarding Obama are well founded. This all flew under the radar screen here in the states but everything I’m going to write here is open source information.
I was in South America in February of last year when there was a leftist conference in Quito, Ecuador. Among the particpants were the FARC, and American leftists of all stripes but figuring prominently at the conference were representatives of, then candidate, Obama’s presidential campaign and Congressional socialists. Assurances of common cause were given to the FARC by these Obama mouthpieces. There were 4 guarantees given to the FARC.
How I know this that in March of last year, again while i was down there, the Colombian army attacked and killed Raul Reyes in ecuador, the FARC’s number 2. Colombian intelligence then raided and captured his laptops at his basecamp. Those captured laptops precipitated a crissi between Colombia and Venezuela and had to be authenticated by a series of computer forensic experts from INTERPOL.
Inside these 4 laptops were documents and emails between Reyes and all sorts of savory and unsavory characters. Among these emails were a series of missives between Chavez and Reyes discussing the conference in Quito and the results of Reyes meeting with Obama’s people.
Ideologically speaking Obama has no problems with Chavez and his allies. Take from that what you will. Before I got back from South America I had decided Obama was an enemy of our nation.
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Thanks for your translation work and your commentary!
INC on July 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Honduras Abandoned:
INC on July 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Especially since the military was acting under an order of the Honduran Supreme Court, and with the approval of the Honduran legislature. And the fact that the military allowed the next-in-line civilian in Honduras’ official order of succession to take over as president gives further lie to the silly fantasy that this was some sort of “military coup.”
AZCoyote on July 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Seems to me that would be an excellent cudgel with which to beat Obama about the head and shoulders. I wonder who from AK might be brave enough to do that?:)
a capella on July 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM
If you go to youtube list of WH press conferences, all are there listed by date except the one with Helen Thomas. That one is gone.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Great idea. I hope she does it. I hope Rush and Sean and Levin et al start calling him HUGO OBAMA. It’s so apt because both are really tin horn dictators, not nearly on the grand scale of Stalin or Mao. They should be exposed and ridiculed.
HUGO OBAMA. IF YOU LIKE VENEZUELA, VOTE FOR OBAMA!
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM
How long are we going to put up with this Marxist jerk embarrassing us as President of the United States?
Ernest on July 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM
1294 days, officially. Subject to change. We hope, sooner.
coldwarrior on July 6, 2009 at 11:29 AM
elduende: I took the liberty of posting your
post over at Scrappleface, with attribution, of course. Your translations, observations, and insights are invaluable. They must be shared beyond this board.
onlineanalyst on July 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Ed,
How can a blogger reprint this kind of OBVIOUS LIE and then ramble on like it is the truth?
Do you really think the people reading this blog do not understand how slanted this reporting is?
Freddy on July 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Thanks. I think. That stuff has a ton of grammatical and spelling errors…oh well. The more people know the better.
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM
It makes me sick to think that the leader of the free world is not standing up for Honduras in this case, and seriously freaked at the idea that our armed forces might be used against them, even if only as a threat.
You know all that leftist agitation about the US using force to prop up regimes for ideological purposes? Looks like another case of projection: if the left is protesting something, then they have already done it, are doing it, or plan to do it.
Count to 10 on July 6, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I don’t know if this was mentioned last week (it’s from July 2) but this is an excellent article by Octavio Sánchez, a lawyer, is a former presidential adviser (2002-05) and minister of culture (2005-06) of the Republic of Honduras.:
Excuse the repeat if you’ve seen it.
A ‘coup’ in Honduras? Nonsense.
INC on July 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM
elduende,
onlineanalyst on July 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM made me think I should let you know I’ve been posting your comments as well at Be John Galt. They’re invaluable. Thank you.
No one cares about the grammar. We just want the news.
INC on July 6, 2009 at 11:39 AM
thanks INC!
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Remember the Shi’ite Storm that came down on Bill Cunningham for using Obama’s middle name warming up a crowd for McCain?
Mark Levin responded by calling him “Barack Milhouse Obama”, but I think he should change it to “Barack Hugo Obama”, which keeps the initials the same.
The Monster on July 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM
You’re welcome, but the thanks go to you!
INC on July 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM
I remember a discussion here at HotAir about the seized FARC laptops and their information that Obama would be the next US president. Our media never followed through with this story by investigating its veracity or implications re who was supporting Obama outside of our country,
onlineanalyst on July 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Yes, I remember that sequence of events and some of the details. Wasn’t there an American congresscritter involved in some of that? Seems I remember that as something yielded from the laptops?
a capella on July 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM
another brilliant Obama statement, this one just in from Russia. Major Garret says:
Obama is either insane, or bought and paid for.
JiangxiDad on July 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM
It almost caused a war between Colombia and Venezuela because there were a lot of incriminating plots and relationships in those laptops. In fact the Obama part was an afterthought really.
Amazing thing was that he hadn’t clinched the nomination for 3 months yet. Our media were not about to derail candidate Obama especially since he was in a death dance with candidate Hilary at that point.
Question is why didn’t Hilary’s dirty tricks squad not exploit it? Could Hilary have been worried of her own past? Or could she have wieghed the potential blowback more costly than the damage it could do to Obama. could she have been tarred as “desperate” to bring out such wild accusations against Obama?
Well I guess now we’ll all just have to suffer together.
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Congressman McGovern (Mass) was the most visible in a number of contacts in violation of the Logan Act with the FARC but there are others…
elduende on July 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM
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