Wonderful: Obama grants visa to Burmese junta member — but not to Honduran leaders
posted at 6:54 pm on September 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
It figures that the one campaign promise he’s been diligent about keeping isn’t winning in Afghanistan but improving diplomatic relations with the world’s biggest degenerates.
Granting a waiver for Nyan Win to visit Washington is a diplomatic coup for a regime that is continuing, as this is being written, a military offensive against ethnic groups that has already resulted in more than one million internally displaced refugees and tens of thousands more pouring over the border into China, Thailand, India and Bangladesh; more than 3,200 villages burned, and most heinous — the use of rape as an instrument of war against women. The regime is actively engaged in war crimes. This is in addition to the oppression of Burma’s democratic freedom fighters and the everyday killings and murders that are standard regime fare. If a Burmese official of comparable rank has visited Washington in the last 20 years, no one I talked to can remember it…
What is he doing here and with whom is he meeting?
Look to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) for the answer to those questions.
On September 15 I reported on a closed-door meeting between Senator Webb and Secretary Clinton. Burma watchers raised eyebrows and speculated that Webb was making a last-ditch attempt at influencing the Burma policy review that State Department officials say should be released tomorrow by Clinton in New York City. Webb has been in the forefront of pressing the administration to engage with the regime and drop U.S. sanctions as part of a bizarre effort to check Chinese influence in that shattered country. Sources tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD that Webb enlisted Clinton’s help in obtaining a visa for Nyan Win during their meeting last week.
That’s from Goldfarb, in the highest of high dudgeon over this at the Standard. Follow the link for much more, including the WaPo-supplied detail that among Nyan Win’s “sightseeing” stops in D.C. this weekend were the Lincoln Memorial and … the White House. Exit question: Why is it that this monster gets to pal around with Jim Webb in Washington while Ahmadinejad and Qaddafi are looking for places to stay in NYC, and yet the leaders of the Honduras non-coup — whose next free election is on schedule for November 29 — can’t get visas to come here? You’re a disgrace, Barry.
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I can’t approve of this RINO post.
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Jim Webb? What the hell?
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM
and the hits just keep on coming….
stay classy there dear leader
cmsinaz on September 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM
You can suck up to AP all you want, he’s not going to call you.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Sucking up to AP or…. making fun of you?
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Good Lord.
These abominations are piling up by the hour.
And we still have three and a half years left?
turfmann on September 22, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Number one. I’ve never called AP a RINO. Besides, you lack the mental capacity for option two.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Maybe Barry wants to pick up some tips on how to manage an unruly populace.
a capella on September 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM
If you’ve never called AP a RINO then WTH are you worried about?
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I’m may be only 26 but never has one person brought me great shame as much as him, not even my junkie brother who stole everything from everyone
Doctor Zhivago on September 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM
This is going to get out of hand and we will be lucky to live through it.
PappaMac on September 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Our two-bit tin-horn dictator is getting boring.
tarpon on September 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Jim, get over the flashbacks already. You don’t have to cave into to the Burmese just because you once shot a Vietnamese.
Rocks on September 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM
what it is there say?
rob verdi on September 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM
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ted c on September 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM
http://www.webb.senate.gov/contact/
ted c on September 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM
SEN Webb loves to get email, letters and phone calls. He just don’t like to respond to them.
ted c on September 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM
As long as he won’t be called on it by anyone other than bloggers, nothing happened.
And DaveS, what is your malfunction? Send AP private emails or something. Yeesh.
WitchDoctor on September 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I think Barry wants to take notes…
… You know, just in case this voter fraud thingy and stealing elections just doesn’t play out.
Seven Percent Solution on September 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Can’t Barry go to Burma to apologize?
Mangy Scot on September 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
This guy is a total disaster. Friends and allies alike should be completely disoriented by now. Makes for a much more dangerous world when all of the rules have changed and precedent doesn’t amount to squat.
The Obama junta is the worst evvah!
R Square on September 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
This surprises you?
Oldnuke on September 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
It gets even better. Zelaya will be addressing the UN as the president of Honduras. I only hope that Micheletti et al. manage to prevent him from sneaking into Honduras a second time.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I’m looking out for you. Sycophantism doesn’t look good on you at all.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
FIFY
Knucklehead on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
What does AP have to do with this? He wasn’t calling himself a RINO.
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
DaveS is why we can’t have nice things.
portlandon on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Barry and Co. never met a leftist Marxist thug they didn’t like.
Until somebody catches them on a YouTube video shmoozing with these tyrants.
Good Lt on September 22, 2009 at 7:06 PM
portlandon on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
We should call AP out on his RINOism. He must be purged.
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Nice. And double bonus points for using a Fred! movie.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM
GOP should send a team of Congressmen to meat with the Hondorus leaders, like the Dems did with Syria
jp on September 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM
As are those who support the first American President who favors thugocracies over democracies.
Basilsbest on September 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM
It gets even better. Zelaya will be addressing the UN as the president of Honduras. I only hope that Micheletti et al. manage to prevent him from sneaking into Honduras a second time.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Are you serious, did he come into the US or is he addressing the UN from a remote location?
fourdeucer on September 22, 2009 at 7:09 PM
The Obama Douche…Now even Douchier!
Seriously, is it 2012 yet? Whether it’s the election or the end of the world that ends this guy’s reign of terror, it can’t come soon enough…
Battlecruiser-operational on September 22, 2009 at 7:09 PM
He is turning out to be the worst president save Jimmy. How can a man be so wrong in so many ways.
nyx on September 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Idiot! It’s clear where his sympathies lie.
ronsfi on September 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM
That’s actually a very, very good idea. If the Dems whined about it, it would force the media to actually cover this and try to justify the Obama position on it.
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM
OTOH, the fact that Republicans aren’t making a bigger deal about it makes me wonder if there is SOMETHING we don’t know…
DaveS on September 22, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I’m not sure I want to start down that road, even if Pelosi’s already driving down it.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 7:13 PM
FIFY
ted c on September 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Despots cling together.
the_nile on September 22, 2009 at 7:16 PM
True according to Trey Hicks at NRO. But I don’t know whether he will be making the address remotely. Maybe he won’t make it at all, although I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t. He was invited by the UN to address the General Assembly, though.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
How would this counter Chinese influence? US is never going to be as good a friend to Burma as China. Is it not better to support prodemocracy efforts in Burma and support India/Bangladesh as a counter to Burma rather than the Burmese Junta? Burma is also not extremely significant. I don’t get this calculation.
nyx on September 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM
He’ll talk to anyone except the Hondurans without pre-conditions.
unclesmrgol on September 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM
And people don’t think Obama is a Muslim Communist.
Zelsdorf Ragshaft on September 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM
He looks to me to be on a fast track to surpass Carter before his term is half over.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM
The world of Hopey/Changey,
whats up is down,whats right is wrong,Ugh!
Must be Obama’s schooling,as in,a Terrorist is
another mans Freedom fighter,or sumpin warped
like dat!!(Sarc).
canopfor on September 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Its a Tiny Itsy Bitsy country like Iran!!
canopfor on September 22, 2009 at 7:20 PM
By a man’s finger nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs — by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.
semloh on September 22, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Ok now it’s fixed
xler8bmw on September 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM
zeleya is holed up in the Brazilian embassy.
rob verdi on September 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM
At the rate Osama Obama and his goon squad are destroying our defense, economy and stature in the world, I don’t think we have three years left. I’m beginning to think the corrupt, anti-American nations he’s kowtowing to will take advantage before 2012.
Does he think ACORN thugs will defend our nation?
MrScribbler on September 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Obama is a jackass of all trades, master at none!
rjoco1 on September 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM
What a man does when he thinks no one is watching is a measure of his true character…
… by the way nostaw says “Hi”.
Seven Percent Solution on September 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Sadly, you might be right.
nyx on September 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM
I keep wondering how he could get worse and he keeps showing me.
America – supporting fascism, communism and oppression whenever self righteous democrats get in office. but hey at least he’s better then bush
Defector01 on September 22, 2009 at 7:27 PM
He is learning less and less about more and more and ultimately will know nothing about everything.
Tav on September 22, 2009 at 7:29 PM
The dictating arrogance is directed to small peaceful countries and other allies.
the_nile on September 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
That is just incredible, a little country like Honduras being stabbed in the back by Obama and the UN letting the deposed want to be dictator addressing them is just stupid.
fourdeucer on September 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Hey, it’ll make the Chicoms happy so it’s all good.
Anybody else detecting a pattern here? [/hy. sarc]
CPT. Charles on September 22, 2009 at 7:34 PM
BBC via AOSHQ. The Hondurans also said Zelaya can stay in there for 5-10 years, if he wants, which Ace speculates is how much jail time Zelaya’d get for his crimes.
The embassy is surrounced by Honduran troops, too. Go for it, Ian.
Wethal on September 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM
They have Global Communism in sight and they can’t allow any independent wanderers to buck the system right now as the rest of the world, led by our own president, is trying to wrestle the United States into submission.
Buddahpundit on September 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM
He was referencing a couple years ago when Pelosi went to Syria to hate on America.
BadgerHawk on September 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Talk about bizarre…
Jaclyn Smith of Charlies Angels fame supposedly shot herself in her Islas Bahia northern Honduras mansion in an apparent accident although they haven’t ruled out a suicide attempt in Honduras.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Organizational pattern of a Community Agitator
Extraordinaire,me thinks!(sarc).
canopfor on September 22, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Yeah, the UN invites Zelaya to address them as Honduras’ leader and signals to the rest of the world that illegitimate despots are perfectly accesptable while those who struggle to against them to maintain democracy are not. And Obama thinks the UN is the best force for peace in the world. I guess they also think that despotism is the best way to prevent war. No wonder Obama and his buds are all quasi-totalitarian at heart.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:45 PM
From the other Honduras thread
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 7:48 PM
To modify Kissinger’s quote, It is easy to be Obama’s enemy, but it is deadly to be Obama’s friend.
nyx on September 22, 2009 at 7:49 PM
From the other Honduras thread
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Hoping to get sloppy seconds ? eh there brown noser
CWforFreedom on September 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Nevermind. It was Jackyn Smith’s Body double who was married to one of the Charlies Angels producers who shot herself
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I’m starting to see Quisling-like tendencies.
Dusty on September 22, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Obama is just trying to get an angry rise out of Laura Bush, since ‘W’ is mostly mum about just about everything.
If I recall correctly, FLOTUS Laura Bush was very involved in trying to protect the Burmese monks, etc., during the unrest shortly before the election.
marybel on September 22, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Ha, you’re not going blind, its the one from yesterday that Ed started Professor.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Is there no end to this man’s vileness?
What next, Charles Manson as civil behavior Czar?
Archimedes on September 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Gracias!
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Once again, Obambi sides with the apes. When’s he going to build a memorial to Chairman Mao? Or how about changing the name of Miami to Castro City?
Percy_Peabody on September 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Thanks for clearing that up.
fourdeucer on September 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Where things stand down there as far as I know.
Micheletti formally requested that the government of Brazil either turn over Zelaya to Honduran authorities or give him amnesty and take him out of the country.
Brazil has refused.
Zelaya has been whipping up his supporters into a frenzy via cel phone and the Venezuelan television station TeleSur.
There have been mass arrests of Marxist Zelaya supporters that responded to his calls to violate the 26 hour curfew.
The Brazilian Embassy is now surrounded. Water, Electricity, and Telephone lines have been cut off. The security forces today cleared the area of Zelaya supporters and cordoned it off. The military brought in and have begun using a non lethal directed sonic weapon/device that makes the embassy almost untenable.
The embassy has about 300 Brazilian diplomats, Zelaya supporters and leftist journalists inside. They have a generator but are running low on supplies. They say they have 5 children inside the embassy but have not asked to let them out instead using them as shields.
The US Embassy has asked what it can do to help relieve the Brazilian embassy which is apperantly 1500 feet away.
Why is Obama offering assistance to Zelaya, Chavez, and Lula da Silva?
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I would suggest that Comrade Dear Leader Obama would be better to ask the British to dig up their 234 year old records on how to manage an unruly well armed populace. Ooops that didn’t work out too well. Sorry Barry – NOT
bill30097 on September 22, 2009 at 8:21 PM
birds of a feather…..
bill30097 on September 22, 2009 at 8:21 PM
They share the color red.
nyx on September 22, 2009 at 8:22 PM
It is disgusting how Obama is siding against the people of Honduras the way he sided against the people of Iran.
This is from the POS that waxed poetic about not interfering in the internal matters of Latin America.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 8:29 PM
More like what the Dems did with the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua when Reagan was President. (Remember the great pics of Tom Harkin and John Kerry shaking hands with Daniel Ortega)
I LOVE this idea. And the Republicans had better absolutely HAMMER Obama about this Burma visa. Of all the lowlife regimes in the entire world, Burma’s has to be at the very bottom of the pile. I am disgraced as an American that my government has allowed any Burmese official to enter this country!!!!!
rockmom on September 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM
The Honduran government must have made contigency plans for something like this because they have responded quickly to this latest Chavez/Obama threat and contained Zelaya in a box.
They closed all the airports so that Zelaya’s foreign sycophants could not land and have dropped a hammer on his Marxist supporters within the country.
This is the endgame by the way. I can’t see a situation where Zelaya walks out of this a free man let alone as President of Honduras. At this point he’ll be lucky if he walks away at all.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Because they are his ideological brethren.
When it comes to international affairs, it seems the more strongly he states something (e.g. commitment to missile defence for eastern Europe, commitment to winning in Afghanistan, support of Israel’s right to defend itself, etc) the more likely he is to against his ‘principle’.
Some days, reading the news leaves me feeling like I’m Alice in Wonderland or something.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Obama must have plans to prevent a free election from taking place in Honduras.
GaltBlvnAtty on September 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Any sign that the government is wavering, or that the military might stop supporting it? I hope not. I’ve been really impressed by Micheletti’s resolve.
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I’ve been wondering about that. The elections are just over 2 months away, so what the heck does Obama think he’s doing?
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
There have been delegations from Republicans in Congress in Honduras for the past 3 months.
Connie Mack and others were on one recently. While Ileana Ros Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz Balart, and his brother Mario Diaz Balart have been meeting with Honduran government supporters here in the states on a continuing basis.
There has been congressional pressure to release Zelaya’s incriminating DEA file that Obama has resisted.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 8:38 PM
From now on ALL measures of time, speed, and altitude shall be named after dear leader.
FontanaConservative on September 22, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Obama must have plans to prevent a free election from taking place in Honduras.
GaltBlvnAtty on September 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I’ve been wondering about that. The elections are just over 2 months away, so what the heck does Obama think he’s doing?
ProfessorMiao on September 22, 2009 at 8:37 PM
bill30097 on September 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Hey Allahpundit are you going to the Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally??????
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 12:00 noon
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th Street and 2nd Avenue
I wish I could go.
Cindy Munford on September 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I’m having a very hard time not reverting to my old salty language these days. POS is the very mildest term I’d use for our president. I’m multiply vexed right now. My daughter in law is Burmese with family still there. A senator from my state (Webb) is in some large measure responsible for getting visas for some inhuman genocidal perverts to enter my country while denying the rightful leader of a democratic nation permission to address the U.N. Oh and did I mention that I detest communists, have since I was a child. The actions of this administration in the Honduras affair is nothing less than criminal. I find the American press’s active complicity in suppressing this story to be reprehensible in the extreme. What is happening to my country.
Oldnuke on September 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM
He already said he will not recognize the upcoming elections no matter how monitored they are or who wins.
The Socialist candidate for the Presidency called Zelaya out today! Telling him he is deliberately trying to foment violence in order to try and derail the coming elections. It is into this disgusting undemocratic display that Obama has lent his support to Chavez.
elduende on September 22, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I will be there I just was invited to attend.
xler8bmw on September 22, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Seriously, you should demand a meeting with Webb and bring your daughter-in-law. This POS has to pay for this.
I thank God I don’t live in Virginia anymore. I may have the Senator from ACORN, but at least he isn’t selling out America to the single most evil regime on the planet. If I were there I would be sitting in the hallway outside Webb’s office every day like Cindy Sheehan until he met with me.
rockmom on September 22, 2009 at 8:51 PM
The Messiah is going to have to act fast, now that America has figured out that he is very much a Marxist. Tick tock.
shaken on September 22, 2009 at 8:52 PM
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