Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) massacres Barack Obama’s obstinately hard-left Honduras policy with a devastating broadside of truth: While in Honduras, I spoke to dozens of Hondurans, from nonpartisan members of civil society to former Zelaya political all…

He is a Statist; liberty is antithetical to him. Thus his innate affinity lies toward liberty’s antipode: tyranny.

I told my friend to stop trying to force the square peg into the road hole with Obama. Quit trying to explain the uphill running water using the old principles. They don’t apply. Instead, try to look at Obama from the results of his actions and work backwards. What would cause him to back a socialist dictator? What would cause him to back Iran over Israel? What would cause him to stop the effort of containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. What would cause him to continue to force socialized medicine onto the citizens of America long after it has been proven to be a bad idea? What? If you write down his actions on a piece a paper and add them up, objectively, you can come to only one conclusion.

Obama is a far left radical socialist with communist tendencies and a sense of hatred for what America is. He is bent on making money for his friends and subjecting the country to decline. If you start from that perspective, his actions we have witnessed make sense. It wasn’t water was running uphill, it was we had the world upside down.

I wrote a book about this, http://www.revoltthebook.com

It will be published soon.

Shouldn’t the “most open and transparent administration in history” get a little less opaque about why it’s cutting off aid to one of the closest allies we have in the region?

(emphasis added)

Exactly

At the moment, it appears that Obama values Zelaya more than the rule of law and more than self-determination through democracy. Why?

[Hiss...]
[Sigh...]

Is this not the same kind of obstinacy we saw when Obama was publicly confronted with the success of “the surge” strategy he had opposed and he STILL STUBBORNLY refused to acknowledge that he could have been wrong about the strategy?

When I asked Ambassador Llorens why the U.S. government insists on labeling what appears to the entire country to be the constitutional removal of Mr. Zelaya a “coup,” he urged me to read the legal opinion drafted by the State Department’s top lawyer, Harold Koh. As it happens, I have asked to see Mr. Koh’s report before and since my trip, but all requests to publicly disclose it have been denied.

I’m at a loss as to whether Senator DeMint asked Ambassador Llorens for a copy of the report. It sounds like he didn’t, and if he’d just said “No, I haven’t read it — by any chance would you have a copy I could borrow?” might have gotten him exactly what he needed.

If he did ask Llorens for a copy and was refused, his statement would have been far stronger. Instead, I’m seeing ThinkSpeak here — he asked before and after the trip, but is silent as to whether he asked during the trip.

It sure would be nice to see what Koh wrote, and, I suspect, an important insight into the Administration’s thinking.

It’s looking to me like DeMint blew the possibility of obtaining priceless intelligence.

Nonfactor on October 10, 2009 at 6:04 PM

You post a 10 day old NPR interview with Jose Miguel Vivanco as proof of what troll? LMAO.

Actually, I’ve had personal run in with Vivanco and can tell you that he is an unapolgetic leftist mouth piece who hates America (I heard it from his mouth). There’s no leftist tyrant in the hemisphere he does not heart and coddle.

In fact, until Chavez got tired of him and threw him out, he was always in Caracas shilling for his leftist boy toy, going so far as recording pro FARC propaganda with TeleSur that is then beamed into Colombia. Pathetic.

Shouldn’t the “most open and transparent administration in history” get a little less opaque about why it’s cutting off aid to one of the closest allies we have in the region?

If you haven’t gotten the idea by now you should be considered almost to dumb to be entrusted with the right to vote!
Obama has dissed England, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Honduras, Pakistan by word or deed and has coddled Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China soon Afghanistan and Iran.

Pinnochio is destroying this country within and without and as he said will “fundamentally transform” us…. into a third world dictatorship where all are equally poor subservient and beholden to government . When will Americans wake up?
After its’ too late?

Free healthcare for all, ruining insurance companies and unionizing healthcare.

Cap and trade tax on energy dramatically increasing energy for individuals and business! The “poor” will not pay, its as much a “right as healthcare”.

Amnesty for 30 million illegals with the help of John McCain and Lindsey Grahmnasty and the Dems will have turned us into Venezuela with constituents who vote for free stuff for themselves at others expense, who are glad to turn their wages over to unions for political favor.

Wake up America the threat to Democracy worldwide sits in the majority in D.C. and cares not what the people think, do or say.
Tea Party? Sheeesh, there had better be a second amendment lynch mob to save the Republic!

On second thought, he already has Cuba …

Hmmmm. Back to the drawing board.

DeMint: What I heard in Honduras
While the White House and the State Department continue to insist that
Honduras removed its president Manuel Zelaya in a coup, Senator Jim
DeMint decided to do something rather basic — ask the Hondurans……

Think of it this way — if you were in Obama’s position, and you wanted to usurp power and become permanent president, wouldn’t you want to lay the foundation of being friends with people of like status?

Wouldn’t you want to plan ahead and be sure you’re on the same side as Chavez, Castro, etc, now? You don’t want to upset them NOW only to have to find some way to mend the fences once you become LIKE them LATER. You want them to be your official allies then.

the US has backed a megalomaniac intent on seizing complete power

Yes, but hopefully we’ll vote him out in 2012.

Most definately not…

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38738

katy on October 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Gee Katy…you could have warned us… now I have to go bath.

I have no idea “what happened to our country later” and speculation is useless, but it would seem to me to involve Pro-socialist strong-arming.

Starlink on October 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM

On the money!!! +

I don’t think it helps our side to go throwing around conspiracy theories about Barack Obama using Zelaya as a test case for himself. The reality is much more prosaic: Obama is simply a child of the 80s Left. These people have never given up their dream of a socialist revolution in Central America that would eventually lead right to our border.

rockmom on October 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Much as I would prefer to agree with your disdain of conspiracy theories, rockmom, the drive toward socialist revolution has been ongoing, sometimes more subtly and other times more blatantly. The process of getting the electorate to accept Statism has numbed us incrementally to what is taking place.

Too many Americans have been lulled into thinking that government grasps of power only take place in obscure nations “over there”. They do not see the gradual parallels taking place in our own nation, in many cases with our passive acceptance.

Our cities are tinder boxes of concentrated populations with their hands out, waiting for some of “Obama’s stash” as the interviewed woman in Detroit claimed. Such people are not concentrating on their loss of self-determination and liberty. They prefer to be comfortably numb until they get their next fix.