Wikileaks: Obama Regime Knew Ousted Honduran Leader Was Socialist Pig – Backed Him to Please Chavez
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 3:16 PM
Unbelievable. The Obama Administration knew that Manuel Zelaya was an anti-democratic anti-Semitic pig whose goal was to become ruler for life like his buddy Hugo Chavez. But, Team Obama decided to support him for the greater good of Latin American relations. Barack Obama even cut off aid to Honduras in order to appease tyrant Hugo Chavez.
Birds of a feather…
(Michael Ramirez)
The news that President Obama cut off aid to American ally Honduras did not make many headlines. Barack Obama openly sided with Marxists Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega in punishing the government of Honduras.
The Wall Street Journal reported, via Weasel Zippers:
Lots of hypotheses have been floated to explain why the Obama administration went to such extremes last year to try to force Honduras to reinstate deposed president Manuel Zelaya.
Now the release of two WikiLeaked cables from the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa strengthens one of those theories: that the U.S. knew Mr. Zelaya was a threat to democratic Honduras but had decided the country should tolerate his constitutional violations in the interest of realpolitik.
Practically speaking, Hugo Chávez was the man to please. After a decade in power, the president of Venezuela’s influence around the region was notable. George W. Bush had clashed with him. Barack Obama was out to prove that they could get along, as evidenced by the warm handshake at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain in April 2009.
Honduras offered a bonding opportunity. Mr. Zelaya was a protégé of Mr. Chávez. Standing up for him as democratically elected was a way to score points with Latin America’s hard left.
But Honduras wasn’t willing to play the sacrificial lamb. When its other branches of government removed him from office last year, it caught Hugo Llorens, the U.S. ambassador, flat-footed. Saving face became the top priority.
Mr. Ford’s cable, written as he was turning his post over to Mr. Llorens after a three-year assignment in Tegucigalpa, supports this premise.
Instead of supporting Honduras Obama officials compared the interim leader to Napoleon. But, despite their work, the Obama Administration failed to prop the Chavez lackey Manuel Zelaya back into power.
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The Elector of Saxony commented:
The cartoonist above missed out the hammer and sickle on Obama.
Patman commented:
Smart power. Hope and Change. Govt transparency.
Maybe this Wikileaks might be a good thing for 1012.
ogee commented:
Hillary is behind this too.
czekmark commented:
Many more revelations like this and I’ll believe that Assange should be awarded a medal for his efforts.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Jim, as much as I like RightNetwork, you’ve kicked the tires and driven it around the block and it appears to be a clunker.
Either that, or you may need to have an expert come and evaluate your scripts (all 20 or so of them) and figure out which are slowing this site down to a crawl that makes FirstThings seem blazing fast.
Missy8s commented:
No surprise here, the Koffee Klatch Kids stick together, bow to each other, give each other secret handshakes, loving nods and coded glances…
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I’ve disallowed (in NoScript, a plugin for firefox) the following scripts:
Google Analytics
Facebook
ContextWeb
Doubleclick
Twitter
GoogleSyndication
FBCDN
and GoogleAPIs.
Still seems like a site that’s under a DDOS attack.
Refreshing my cache is a nobrainer, which I do every time I shut off my browser.
The only scripts I have yet to disable:
SiteMeter
GoogleAdServices
SpecificClick
Blogads
It seemed to go a tiny bit faster when I turned off the Facebook and FBCDN scripts, but only marginally. Half the time I have to wait and come back in another hour. Like the old BBS days when your favorite BBS had one telephone line.
Granny commented:
#8 Taq – I’m not having any problems with the site on a Mac. I would suggest that you download and install Spybot Search & Destroy from Safer-networking, install it, update it and fix whatever is slowing you down. It finds 100K+ worms, dialers, phone home cookies and so forth. Wouldn’t have a PC without it. Free – though he would appreciate a donation.
MVH commented:
I’m shocked. Shocked!, to find that
the godling Obamathe eager little puppy was trying to score points withthat pinapple head Chavezthe Big Dog.Taqiyyotomist commented:
Granny, I use SSD quite frequently. I even keep it (and a few other good cleaners, such as CCleaner, O&O Defrag, and more) on a thumbdrive so I can clean other, less tech-savvy folks’ computers with it.
My PC is cleaner than my kitchen sink.
Okay, maybe not the best analogy.
VeryConcerned commented:
It’s easy to know what the right thing is, it’s opposite of the piece of garbage Obama’s will.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I really should give Spybot (and JIM) a donation.
Very valuable services, both.
I’ve not run SSD in a few months, I use Firefox+Noscript, so it very rarely finds anything anyway. But I may do so before I go to bed tonight. Thanks for the reminder, Granny!
MrGoodWench commented:
This explains why Hussain wanted to take AF-1 to Venezuela..
Joanne commented:
Obama isn’t constitutionally eligible to hold Office, and where does he hang his hat at night? Is it any wonder who Obama supported and why.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Jim, I hope other folks donate to your fund. I do my part to spread the word about GP.
I’m a dishwasher and a handyman. Not a lot to give except advertisement. No car. No cable. Apartment-dweller. No 401k. No health insurance.
Feeling guilty, still, at this time of year.
kato commented:
It’s scary when one realizes that so many Americans were taken in by this left-wing blowhard. I never thought for a second that Obama would lead from the center.
That is, if “lead” is the right word. Obama has been nothing but a flunkie for left-wing and union agendas. His main commitment seems to be transferring as much wealth as possible to the perpetual parasites in this country. Hence, the 90+ percent approval rating from that demographic.
tommy mc donnell commented:
obama is a marxist just like his buddies. plenty of people said this before the 2008 election. the voters decieded to believe american tass instead. nothing obama does should come as a surprise.
RSweeney commented:
Obama still thinks he is at a community “organizer” meeting.
But he’s a little play socialist trying to obtain acceptance from the real murderous thing.
Would be hilarious in a movie, but as reality, a tragedy for America and the world.
We have a naive child as president.
ramapart ranger commented:
Obama AND Hillary totally ignored constitutional government in Honduras.
According to Article 239 of the Honduran constitutional, it is unconstitutional for any sitting Honduran president to do anything to encourage changing the constitution to allow for a second Presidential term, under penalty of immediate removal from office.. Zelaya ignored this and pushed for a referendum (he already had the ballots printed up—by Chavez, no less).
The Supreme Court of Honduras voted unanimously that he had to step down, as did the unicameral Honduran National Assembly by an overwhelming margin, even his own party voted that he had violated the Constitution and had to step down.
It was AFTER he refused to step down, that the military was asked by the Judicial and Legislative branches to remove Zelaya. This was NOT a “military coup” by any serious definition.
Neither Obama nor Clinton appear to possess the slightest understanding of the concept of “Constitutional Government.” Maybe they are just racists and think they know better than the brown people of Honduras what Honduras needs.
More at: http://stumpedagain.wordpress.com/obamas-honduras/
C-Christian Soldier commented:
betraying our freedom loving allies has become an habit -and not -just-with this regime!
BTW-I agree w/ # 6…liked the other site format-better…
just saying—-
C-CS
BS61 commented:
Jim DeMint was all over that coup! And the press were all over him for it. I guess he held up a few nominations over the Honduras party.
Anthony commented:
We have fallen very far down the rabbit hole. The Mad Hatters have their Stimulus tea parties while they watch the world burn. But we still have cards to play. Down with the White House. Down with Homeland Security. Down with the FCC. Tear it all down and start over. Tear down every marble pillar and split open every bureaucratic belly that has glutted upon our labors. We will not tolerate an administration that appeases are enemies and slanders our friends. It’s time to hit the streets.
Hotspur commented:
You’re wrong, Jim.
Obama’s move is entirely believable.
Chippy commented:
Poor little barry! Looks like the wheels are falling off the little red wagon.
Texmom commented:
Other commenters are right; Hillary was 100% with him on that. We might also see something come out about Puerto Rico. As you might recall, they pushed hard to get them voting on statehood for “some” reason.
jonnot commented:
To Texmom, #28,
You’re right…the push for Puerto Rican statehood, as well as the Dream Act, US entitlement programs and votes for prisoners, are all plans to add to the rolls of democrat voters. Who do you think these groups would vote for–given the chance–if not the democrats? These people will stop at nothing in order to advance their agenda…meanwhile, we have republican politicans who are willing to hand it all to them on a silver platter; which is, considering the results of the November 2nd elections, an utter disgrace!
OregonGuy commented:
Anybody else remember that SEIU was on the border with Zelaya?
Yeah, that SEIU.
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