Say Anything Blog

Which sounds like a good justification, until you realize (as Obama apparently doesn’t, or at least doesn’t care) what is actually going on in Honduras.

Here’s what Obama has to say on the matter:

“America supports now the restoration of the democratically-elected President of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies,” the president told graduate students at the commencement ceremony of Moscow’s New Economic School. “We do so not because we agree with him. We do so because we respect the universal principle that people should choose their own leaders, whether they are leaders we agree with or not. “

The president’s remarks came in the midst of a speech in which discussed “America’s interest in democratic governments that protect the rights of their people” and supported Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s call for judicial reforms in his country.

The problem with this is that Zelaya was removed for basically trying to declare himself dictator for life in Honduras, much as Hugo Chavez has done in Venezuela:

The military, judiciary and Honduran congress removed the country’s president because he was attempting to illegally extend his tenure in office. – attempting a bloodless coup – in usurpation of that country’s constitution. The people of Honduras – in the form of that country’s military, judiciary and congress – stood up to tyranny by exorcising the Marxist cancer that threatened that nation’s sovereignty. Yet, the leader of the free world – and his secretary of state – sided with the tyrannical, calling for the reinstatement of ousted despot who tried to destroy their democracy.

Any time you’re on the same side as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Daniel Ortega it’s time to recognize that you aren’t on the side of freedom, liberty or representative government.

Personally, I side with Thomas Jefferson who said in our Declaration of Independence:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

It seems as though Obama doesn’t support the right of Hondurans to throw off the despot they’ve been saddled with.

Update: Now Obama’s Secretary of State is going to meet with the deposed thug.