Politics and Culture

It's clear that to get any respect from the Obama administration, a nation has to brutally suppress demonstrators, illegally pursue a nuclear weapons program (preferably both), or place nuclear weapons next to staunch allies (article headline should read: "Russia finally stands up to Poland").

All Honduras did was follow its constitution and, at the same time, resist a malevolent America-hater like Hugo Chavez and his stooges across America including, apparently, in the Obama White House.

Now, through pressure from the U.S., Honduras has allowed the president who attempted to ram through an unconstitutional referendum back inside the country.

Strangely, few, if any leftists cheered when this tiny nation attempted to resist American pressure.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto ruler Roberto Micheletti said on Saturday the United States has revoked his visa to pressure him to step down and reinstate exiled President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June military coup.

Micheletti, however, was defiant of the latest move by Washington, which said earlier this month it was cutting more than $30 million in aid to the poor Central American country.

"We will not back down. Dignity does not have a price in our country," Micheletti told Honduran radio.

Asked if he his visa had been canceled, Micheletti said: "Yes."

"We received letters from the U.S. Consulate in Honduras which say that because of the what happened on June 28, our visas have been suspended," Micheletti said.

It's actually the most angering action by the Obama administration this year. Couple this with it's buffoon-like move over missile defense in Poland and Hungary and you have the dumbest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

1. Let's say that Obama succeeds with his health plan. Hospitals remain privately owned and doctors are more government contractors than employees. As predicted, companies drop their health coverage and everybody goes for the government plan. Then...dissatisfied with the poor care and/or rationing and/or sky-high societal/private cost, people demand the government get mostly out of the health care business. Voila! Private, portable, deregulated health care. Thank you Mr. Obama.

2. If Obama gets everything he wants and conservative predictions come true, and with the help of talk radio and the internet, not available in 1980, conservatives can come roaring back.

3. People think of Obama as FDR because they think that Bush is Hoover. Obama is both Hoover and FDR if you understand both of them to be interventionists who prolonged the depression or even caused it, in the case of Hoover. Obama, like Hoover, took a bad situation and made it much worse with protectionism and higher taxes. If Obama is perceived as such, he's toast.

4. If Bush is perceived as Hoover, and Obama succeeds in building constituencies loyal to him and his programs become permanent like Social Security, then he has a chance.

5. Obama resembles another president, Jimmy Carter. This time in foreign policy. Jimmy Carter supported Communist enemies of the United States in Ortega in Nicaragua and Castro in Cuba. It's Obama's turn to support Ortega and Castro, now (plus Chavez' Venezuela). Friends to our enemies, enemies to our friends: it's the American leftist's way.

6. Leftists have taken to saying that Sarah Palin "abandoned her post." It's a military reference, of course, and is used when a guard goes to sleep or leaves his duty, allowing, then, the enemy to exploit his absence. Since Sarah Palin was relieved by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, this is an asinine line of attack. Keep the tradition alive, lefties!

Link to story here.

On Sunday, Rosenberg was shot in the head while riding his bicycle. In the previously recorded video, he declares, "If you are watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom, with help from [presidential secretary] Gustavo Alejos ... I knew exactly how [they] were responsible for that cowardly murder [of Musa], and I told them so and told those who wanted and could hear it."

Isn't this what he said about Iran, earlier? Does Obama really think that the only threat to the United States is an amphibious landing in Virginia?

Venezuela, with enough allies like Iran (Chavez will have more allies unless Obama helps ours [for now], like Columbia ), can do some harm to the United States.

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Ortega stepped up and introduced himself to Obama, U.S. officials said. But a short time later, Ortega delivered a blistering 50-minute speech that denounced capitalism and U.S. imperialism as the root of much hemispheric mischief. The address even recalled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, though Ortega said the new U.S. president could not be held to account for that.

"I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old," Obama said, to laughter and applause from the other leaders.

Obama was glad that Ortega didn't criticize him, but failed to defend his nation, its system, or his predecessor.

On being much more outwardly cordial--at the summit--to Chavez than Uribe: It's a trait of a certain kind of liberal to be much more friendly towards his nation's enemies than their friends. Some liberals probably don't like to associate themselves with the mainstream of their nation, of which they've spent a lifetime attacking. It might be some type of power-worship. Or, cowardice (least likely in this case because most Latin American nations don't pose a military or economic threat): "My friends won't do anything to me, but this guy is dangerous.

This is just appearances, not action, however. Obama could just be trying to appear friendly, while planning to continue sane policies, as Bolivian president Evo Morales thinks.

Wow! It turns out it wasn't George Bush after all. I think I figured it out: I've noticed that every time we mention to countries that support terrorism that they support terrorism; or worse, try to get them to stop, they call us names.

I also notice that countries with a growing terrorist-sympathizing minority of whom they're afraid and that relies on us for protection and that are rapidly irrelevant and dying don't like for us to act in a way that may make them have to send people to work in an office in a war.

Imagine Hugo Chavez calling our president "ignorant." President Obama wrote two books about himself and was president of the Harvard Law Review!

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called President Barack Obama "ignorant," saying he has a lot to learn about Latin America.

The Venezuelan leader said he had been ready to name a new ambassador in Washington when Obama took office, but put that on hold after the new U.S. president accused him of "exporting terrorism" and being an obstacle to progress in the region.

"At least one could say, 'poor ignorant person,"' Chavez said on his weekly television and radio program, adding that Obama "should read a little bit so that he learns about ... the reality of Latin America."

Wow! Does Sean Penn know about this? I'm sure the Venezuelan people, especially the poor ones Chavez helps by taking other Venezuelans' money, would be very happy to learn that in this time of petro-plenty, Chavez has given away billions of dollars to terrorist and Communist-fascist dictators; and spent more billions on fighter planes that would last about 20 minutes against his stated enemy, us.

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