Starting with, oh, Clinton, I guess, plus Nixon, there’s been speculation from here and there about whether the sitting President was going to actually leave office when his term was up.
Most of that speculation was pure nonsense, of course, and there was never any real reason to think they wouldn’t.
Now, however, we have President Hussein Obama, and his support of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
The Honduran Constitution imposes a one term limit on the office of President.
Zelaya wanted to continue by calling a special referendum. As it happens, though, the Honduran Supreme Court, the Honduran Legislature, and the Honduran military think he shouldn’t.
So, he has been ousted by the military, following what appear to be entirely legal orders from the Court.
And what does our President do? Our President, who says nothing about the wacko NorK Dear Leader? Who waits for days to issue a weak statement mildly criticizing the Iranian government for brutally suppressing protests against what is almost certainly a rigged election? Who’s chummy with Commie Dictator Fidel Castro and Venezuelan Commie Dictator Chavez (the later of whom achieved Leader For Life status with a similar maneuver)?
Why, The Big O promptly rebukes the Honduran Court, the Lege, and the military for following their laws, declaring this a coup against a legitimate leader.
Obama’s made it clear he sides with Commie dictators who illegally grab and keep power.
Tell me again why, exactly why, it isn’t fair to ask if Obama, the product of a Commie upbringing and a corrupt political machine, won’t go quietly when it’s his turn?
This story is all over the anti-statist blogosphere, but Gunslinger has some particularly lovely invective:
The people and the Supreme Court of Honduras have made it clear they will not allow the rogue president to violate that country’s constitution.
And our rogue “president”, with his brother dictators of Cuba and Venezuela, has the temerity, the venality, the wickedness, the pure evil to publicly say that Manuel Zelaya is the “rightful” president of Honduras, and should be reinstated.
I was screaming at the television. Mr. Reasonable Sounding, the filthy, lying, totalitarian is saying that an incipient dictator, who, in defiance of the will of his people, the constitution of his country, and the decision of its Supreme Court, was seeking to extend his term of office, no doubt with exactly the same goal as his buddy in Venezuela is in the right.
I am convinced that Høllow Man is afraid the American people may, within the next three and a half years, rise up in the same way and remove his own, damned, traitorous self from office and hang him from the closest tree.
Barack Øbama is intolerable, execrable, unendurable, insupportable.
Every word out of this douchbag’s mouth, and every action he takes, is an insult and a threat to our heritage, our history, our Founders, our exceptionalism, our parents’ & grandparents’ sacrifices, our faith, our values, our Republic, our liberty, our lives, and our future.
Mike weighs in at Cold Fury with links to hard news, and a few choice comments of his own.
Take a moment to ponder, if you will, the “no meddling” policy in Iran, our outright interference in Israel’s affairs (to the detriment of her security), and this speedy condemnation of the legitimate Honduran government dealing quickly with a would-be despot. It shouldn’t take you more than about ten seconds to realize exactly who and what Obama is — by his reflexive support for Leftists and tyrants, and his opposition to free, open, democratic nations. Anyone failing to recognize Obama’s own despotic tendencies after such an easy lesson is simply too obtuse to bother with.
It’s going to get much, much worse here, and there’s no guarantee of it ever getting better.
Darleen Click has a lot of good links and comments at Protein Wisdom:
Obama quote today
President Barack Obama dismissed critics of his ambitious agenda as naysayers on Monday and vowed to have health care, energy and financial regulation initiatives in place by the end of the year.
“Then we have a whole other year after that,” Obama told about 400 cheering top Democratic Party fundraisers.
Interesting how Obama views Rule of Law and how he counts Chavez, Castro and Zelaya as friends. Obama is certainly confident his Transforming America is a done deal, whether or not American citizens want it.
As always, you have to ask: Imagine Nixon, or Reagan, or either of the Bushes trying to get away with this, in support of anti-communist leader.
I hope I’m wrong about this. I hope he goes quietly, next election. Honestly, I expect he will, because I think he’s a puppet, a figurehead, and doesn’t have the will or the competence to become the American Dear Leader. He is merely paving the way for the One who does. (And, oh gods, am I afraid of what will happen if he’s assassinated. I am too old to fight a revolution.)
But you folks who voted for him? If he doesn’t go, I am so saying “I told you so.”
