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ON THE WRONG SIDE AGAIN

It's hard to believe that is was just 10 days ago I wrote about our President's atrocious lack of response to the scenes in the streets of Iran.  It's even harder to believe that I'm now writing about his atrocious behavior toward the scene in another country.

Listen to the story of Manuel Zelaya.

While he was democratically elected the leader of Honduras, Zelaya spent the last three years alienating the Congress, Supreme Court, Military, and even his own party.  His hard-core leftist ways left him with many enemies and a few thousand supporters, mostly among the nation's poor.  That's what happens when you take from those who create and give to those who do not...those who do not tend to love you.

Zelaya was constitutionally restricted to one four-year term as president of Honduras.  But Zelaya had seen his good friend and ally Hugo Chavez (another hard-core leftist South American dictator who was once democratically elected) pull a great stunt: pass a constitutionaly referendum that allows him to run again and again, thereby becoming President for Life.  Zelaya decided to give it a try.

The problem is, while Honduras does have a provision for a constitutional referendum, the power to call for it lies not with the president, but with the congress.  Congress told him they weren't interested in such a referendum.  Zelaya pressed ahead with it anyway.  He got his friend Hugo Chavez to donate the ballots and boxes for the illegal election, and stored them near his presidential residence.

The Supreme Court of Honduras told Zelaya that the election would NOT be going forward, and ordered the military to stand down from their usual election roles of delivering ballot boxes to polling places, guarding boxes and counting votes.  Zelaya ordered the head of the military to follow through with his election orders, and the man refuse.  Zelaya fired him.

The Attorney General of Honduras told Zelaya and the country that he would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who took part in the fraudulant election.  At this point, realizing he had no friends in Congress, the Court or the Military, Zelaya rounded up a couple hundred supporters, stormed the warehouse where the ballots and boxes were being held, and broke them out.  He intended to go through with an illegal, unconstitutional election.

That night, the Supreme Court, at the urging of the Congress, ordered the Military to arrest Zelaya at his home.  They did so.  Zelaya was given a choice: be prosecuted for attempting an illegal election or go into exile.  He signed the papers resigning the presidency and went into exile in Costa Rica.  But not for long.

48 hours later, Zelaya was back on television, claiming he had been the victim of an illegal coup.  Now that you know the facts, does any of that sound illegal to you?  I mean, aside from ZELAYA'S part in it?

Zelaya has an interesting group of supporters backing him up, by the way.  Hugo Chavez, Danial Ortega, and Fidel Castro, all avowed leftist dictators, support Zelaya.  The corrupt leader of the Organization of the American States backs him up.  And where does Barack Obama stand?

Once again, on the wrong side.  He's calling for Zelaya to be reinstated, and referring to the "coup" as being "illegal".  Now, he has the same facts you just read.  What's wrong with this picture?

Do you even need to know the facts?  If you were told that there was a certain issue in the Western Hemisphere and Castro, Ortega and Chavez were all on one side of it, where would you hope the President of the United States would be?

Nope.  On the wrong side AGAIN.

A BLAST FROM THE PAST

My wife googled me the other day.  It's not as much fun as it sounds.  In and amongst the arrest records, the obligatory news stories about unpaid bar bills, street fights and domestic disturbances (alright, I'm gilding the lilly...there aren't ANY of those) was something that surprised me.  The U.S. Department of Defense transcribed and posted online an interview I did with then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  It was September 28th, 2004, and, reading over it, I'm reminded of how much I enjoyed talking to the man.  I had the pleasure of interviewing him a second time a year later at the Pentagon on the 4th anniversary of 9/11.  If you want to see the transcript, you can click HERE.

Let me put in a quick plug for my then-producer George Rivers who managed to wrangle the interview!

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