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Another day, another colossal Obama foreign policy disaster

By Russ Cote

I’m sure by now you’ve all heard of Honduran ex-President Manuel Zelaya’s bold attempt at a coup d’état in Honduras.  In talking with a friend of mine recently, I was literally shocked to hear that he supported Zelaya’s version of events and not the people of Honduras.  Now, my friend being an intelligent, rational Capitalist, I was particularly intrigued by how he could have come to such a demonstrably erroneous conclusion on this issue; the conclusion in fact reached by the White House, which, for my fellow craps players out there, should have immediately triggered the “bet the DON’T PASS line!” synapse in the brain.  A mystery was afoot.

Even accepting for the sake of argument that Zelaya’s expulsion from the country may have exceeded the constraints of Honduran law, how on Earth could any rational person side against the overwhelming majority of Hondurans, their entire elected legislature and their Supreme Court, and with a Chavez-stooge bent on illegally re-writing the Honduran Constitution to effectively pull a Hugo and make himself “President for Life”?  I must admit here that I occasionally become so bogged down in the facts and reality of a given issue that I forget there’s an entire industry out there called the “mainstream media” which operates on a business model consisting of embarrassing dead-celebrity worship and lie-peddling of a magnitude that would make a fake Rolex hustler blush.

I think the reason is a combination of the “mainstream media’s” slavish infatuation with Obama and their lust for overweight South American strongmen.  How else could an ideology that professes an unyielding love of democracy side with one man over an entire country’s desires?  A third, more obvious element to this mystery is that liberals in general have no conception of actual history prior to 1967.

Apparently this “mainstream media” I’ve been hearing so much about either hasn’t noticed the checkered Marxist history of South American countries over the past century, or has noticed but thinks socialist coup d’état’s resulting in tragic consequences for millions of people is the way to go.  Again, I think it’s a little bit of both, depending on how fully any given liberal believes.

Ultimately for our purposes here is that our Commander-in-Chief botched yet another foreign policy issue so completely as to make some of us wonder whether he thinks socialist coup d’état’s are the way to go. Hmmm. Recognizing that I’m a bit behind the news cycle on this one, I have to point out that Obama’s recent Russian footsie party makes his Honduran blunder seem downright quaint by comparison.

The rather flip tone of this post is not intentional.  I’m just honestly having trouble believing that the President of the United States can be so utterly clueless when it comes to making official U.S. foreign policy pronouncements. Iran, Israel, Honduras, Russia… what’s next? A champagne soiree with Kim Jong-Il?  More distressingly, if it in fact is not cluelessness but something more sinister, such as that Obama really believes that he’s making the right call, well then we have truly entered a parallel universe where up is down, left is right and where Keith Olbermann is charming and funny.

I can now safely say, after watching this Administration operate for the past seven months, that you can set your clock just as precisely by drawing the exact opposite conclusion as does Obama on any given issue as you can set a metronome by counting the number of Nancy Pelosi’s blinks per minute.

Less than 1284 days to go…

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