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		<title>Another Indictment Against the Socialist in the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This is a story you are not likely to hear about from the mainstream media. As previously reported on this site the Obama administration, led by Hillary Clinton, came down hard on the sovereign country of Honduras for upholding their constitution and fighting against a Chavez style, &#8220;leader for life&#8221; power grab by their [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <a title="To Obama" href="http://flickr.com/photos/27727413@N07/3678565862"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 5px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3678565862_1ee50950fd.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>This is a story you are not likely to hear about from the mainstream media. As previously reported on this site the Obama administration, led by Hillary Clinton, came down hard on the sovereign country of Honduras for upholding their constitution and fighting against a Chavez style, &#8220;leader for life&#8221; power grab by their president Manuel Zelaya.</p>
<p><span id="more-4004"></span><a title="Manuel " href="http://flickr.com/photos/13652480@N07/3882400329"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 20px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3882400329_b656c33c69_m.jpg" alt="" width="182" height="240" /></a>To summarize, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was coming up against term limits. His buddies, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Castro brothers in Cuba, wanted to help Zelaya transform Honduras into another socialist enclave.  The Honduran legislature and Supreme Court blocked his efforts as unconstitutional. When the head of the army tried to enforce the ruling of the Supreme Court, Zelaya fired him and then with his thugs stole referendum ballots from an air force base where they were being held after the Supreme Court ruling.</p>
<p>Zelaya was removed from office and exiled. The presidential elections proceeded on schedule, a new president was elected and democracy was preserved. As a result of the commotion an inquiry panel of the Organization of American States (OAS) was formed to investigate what happened. Here are some of the <a title="O'Grady: The Truth Comes Out in Honduras" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576456343639096646.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" target="_blank">conclusions </a>they reached.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;the political crisis was set off&#8221; in January 2009. That&#8217;s when officials from the president&#8217;s office met with congressional members of his own Liberal Party and &#8220;threatened them with the rupture of the constitutional order if they did not choose—as supreme court justices—lawyers who were not on the list of 45 supreme court candidates&#8221; officially nominated through a legal selection process. According to the full report, Mr. Micheletti testified that U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens was party to this pressure on Congress to break the law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why is American Ambassador Hugo Llorens pressuring legislators in Honduras  to break the law and to pack the Honduran Supreme Courts with Zelaya puppets?</p>
<blockquote><p>The report also says that ahead of the crisis, the international community did nothing to help defend the democracy. On the contrary, the OAS decided to send a mission for the referendum, &#8220;despite the fact that every state institution with competency in the matter had issued resolutions that it was illegal and that it should not take place.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>When the Honduran government acted against its rogue president, Hillary Clinton immediately labeled it a coup d&#8217;etat and pulled the visas of the fifteen members of the Hondur<a title="Another message to Obama" href="http://flickr.com/photos/27727413@N07/3678676840"><img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3678676840_46acbff1a1_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a>an Supreme Court so they could not travel to the U.S. So why does the United States immediately come to the defense of Manuel Zelaya who is backed by Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers instead of the rule of law? Everyone who has looked into this has come down on the side of the Honduran government and democracy.</p>
<p>There are many people who are bending over backwards to claim Barack Obama is not a socialist merely because he hasn&#8217;t taken over all of the means of production. When it starts to rain, I don&#8217;t need to wait until I am drenched to head for cover. This is just one more piece of the puzzle that this is someone we have to get out of office in November of 2012, before he does more damage than we can recover from in our lifetime.</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s my opinion; I&#8217;d like to know yours. Please comment below.</p>
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		<title>Leadership is Lacking in the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have probably seen a lot of comparisons in the main stream media trying to compare President Barack Obama to President Ronald Reagan. Try to make this comparison to a conservative and they will look at you rather oddly. Tell it to a progressive and they lap it up, because they know that President Reagan [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a title="Obey" href="http://flickr.com/photos/86533050@N00/2228757499"><img class="aligncenter" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2159/2228757499_1b4d130e10.jpg" alt="" /></a>You have probably seen a lot of comparisons in the main stream media trying to compare President Barack Obama to President Ronald Reagan. Try to make this comparison to a conservative and they will look at you rather oddly. Tell it to a progressive and they lap it up, because they know that President Reagan was a leader and by comparing the two men, perhaps some of that leadership will rub off on the incumbent.</p>
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<p>Leadership springs from some deep personal convictions. It is perhaps why, leadership is not common in politics. In politics, to be relevant you have to get elected and reelected. It is hard to take a stand on principles and get people to elect you time and again. It is easier, to get along, hand out some goodies, bribe the public with the public’s money and slide back into office. If they are adroit enough perhaps the individual can do some real good in the interval between elections. But over time, they tend to get sloppy and stay in the reelection mode and forget what public service means.</p>
<p>One of the challenges of the Republican party today as the field assembles on the starting line for the 2012 presidential sweepstakes is the lack of a leader in the declared field. Ronald Reagan was a leader. Chris Christie is a leader. Herman Cain is a leader. Alan West is a leader. But many whose names are mentioned are more politicians than leaders, with resumes filled with compromises to get along with the opposition. Some of those who are leaders, including a number of the above, are too new to their current jobs to start looking for the next one.</p>
<p>But what about President Obama? Even on his signature socialist programs like health care, cap and trade, increasing taxes on the wealthy, he didn’t lead. Sure, he drove them hard to get them through, but the finished products were awful, and it was ugly right down to the final passage of the health care program because he abdicated the writing of the legislation to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.</p>
<p>On foreign policy, he has been outmaneuvered by almost everyone. When the people rose up against the mullahs in Iran, he didn’t say a thing in support of them, preferring to coddle the dictators in charge believing they would return measure for measure. They didn’t. In Egypt he was for Mubarak, then against Mubarak, than for him, against him, such that no matter who came out on top they would have reason not to trust us as a friend or ally. In Honduras, their president tried to become a dictator along the lines of Hugo Chavez and the government would have no part of it. Did this administration side with democracy? No, they sided with Chavez, Castro and their puppets.</p>
<p>We are now in the midst of a budget crisis and President Obama talks but he does not lead. He says nothing about entitlements, the most toxic part of the budget, because he didn’t want to go first. Isn’t that the definition of lead? The leader goes first and the rest follow. He appointed a budget commission, spending more tax dollars in the process, as a way to slide past the November elections appearing to be doing something. When the commission finished its work, the president ignored it. When a reporter asked him about it, he complained that the media is impatient and that the commission’s work is not dead, just not now. Well when, then? President Obama is in the third year of his term. He is proposing a budget for the next fiscal year that will end a month before the next election. Is he assuming he will be returned to office to implement the commission’s work? Judge for yourself in the following video. Is this the nature of a man firmly in charge of the reins of government? Or does it bring to mind a certain man from Plains, Georgia?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il_aoTYORM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il_aoTYORM</a></p>
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<p>Feel inspired? Do you feel like this man has a firm grasp of the problem and a concrete plan to resolve it? Neither do I.  In 2012, we can do better.</p>
<p>That’s my opinion; I’d like to know yours.  Please comment below.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I was watching Mike Huckabee’s show this weekend when a curious exchange took place.  Governor Huckabee tried to be fair to President Obama by saying “I believe in his heart that President Obama believes he is doing what is best for the country.”  The governor is not alone among those who oppose President Obama [...]]]></description>
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<p>I was watching Mike Huckabee’s show this weekend when a curious exchange took place.  Governor Huckabee tried to be fair to President Obama by saying “I believe in his heart that President Obama believes he is doing what is best for the country.”  The governor is not alone among those who oppose President Obama who graciously say this.  Perhaps it is a preemptive strike to avoid being tarred as a racist.  At the same time, however, they will say they think President Obama is a smart man.  How do you reconcile those two positions?</p>
<p> Either the man is an idiot and he is stumbling toward socialism without realizing it, or he is an intelligent man who is taking the country to socialism by design.  I don’t see a middle ground.  The only possibility is that he is a man with an arrogance so breathtaking in scope, that he ignores the will of the people and is implementing programs and policies that he believes is better for the unintelligent masses, and mistakenly thinks it is still capitalism.  I can’t square the man’s intelligence, which I believe he has, with him not knowing the difference between capitalism and socialism/Marxism.</p>
<p> Okay, so what prompted this train of thought?  It was prompted by some little know activity south of the border and I don’t mean Mexico.  Earlier in his term, President Obama, Secretary Clinton and others tried to help return a Hugo Chavez puppet to the presidency in Honduras.  Manuel Zalaya was following tactics of Chavez and Castro, to remain in office beyond his term which is limited.  By doing so, he was immediately in violation of Honduran law and their constitution.  He was removed by order of the Honduran Supreme Court with the backing of the Honduran legislature.  The only step they might have taken which was too far was they put him on a plane out of the country.</p>
<p> Chavez, Castro, et al, were outraged.  Did the Obama administration come down on the side of democracy and democratic institutions? No, they tried to strong arm Honduras to put Zalaya back in office, by cancelling visas, affecting trade and other measures.  Honduras proceeded, ignoring these threats, to hold a general election to peacefully choose a new president which they did.  The United States has reluctantly agreed to recognize the new president, but it was not easy for small Honduras to stand up to the United States and based on what they were fighting for and they shouldn’t have had to.</p>
<p> What other signs do I find troubling?  After going against the will of the American people in forcing through ObamaCare, Fidel Castro heaped praise upon Obama for the law’s passage only criticizing him for taking so long.  In April of 2009, President Obama embraced Hugh Chavez.  Today Hugo Chavez is in the process of shutting down the last television outlet that is critical of him while forming closer ties to Ahmadinejad of Iran.</p>
<p> In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa is following the Chavez model.  He is also chummy with Iran, is constantly threatening the free press, and the economy is in shambles.  He fired congressmen who disagreed with him and replaced them with others who saw things his way.  When the constitutional court said the fired congressmen had to be reinstated, Correa took to the airwaves to declare he was ignoring the court’s decision.  Shortly thereafter an angry mob marched on the court, the police who are supposed to protect them stood aside.  Do we have a statement of concern from the White House regarding this trampling of democracy?  No, we have the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, calling on President Correa.  According to the Wall Street Journal’s <a title="Ecudor's Chavez" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304222504575174220570225104.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion" target="_blank">Mary Anastasia O’Grady</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p> During Tuesday&#8217;s meeting before television cameras, Mr. Valenzuela expressed concern about Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions and its budding relationship with Ecuador. According to Reuters, Mr. Correa told him: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to get involved in that discussion. But what does it have to do with selling bananas to Iran or with Iran financing our hydroelectric plants?&#8221; Translation: Ahmadinejad is my friend. You butt out.</p>
<p> The U.S. response? Mr. Valenzuela would not rule out a meeting between Mr. Correa and Barack Obama. If that happens, prepare for a redux of the Obama embrace of Hugo Chávez in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in April 2009—more humiliation for Americans who used to think of their government as a noble defender of liberty against despots.</p></blockquote>
<p> <strong>Creeping Socialism</strong></p>
<p>Obama has given government control over one-sixth of the U.S. economy with the implementation of ObamaCare.  He has nationalized two automobile companies.  He has nationalized the student loan program.  Unions, for the first time, have more members in the government than the private sector, but President Obama wants to increase their numbers in the private sector as well with Card Check.  Who are the unions beholding to and vice versa?  The Democratic Party.  With more union members to do his bidding where does the average citizen stand?  In a July speech President Obama said the following:</p>
<blockquote><p> &#8221;We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we&#8217;ve set. We&#8217;ve got to have <strong>a civilian national security force </strong>that&#8217;s just as powerful, just as strong, <strong>just as well-funded</strong>.&#8221; (<em>emphasis added</em>)</p></blockquote>
<p> If this doesn’t send chills up your spine conjuring up dark images from the 1930s, you need to put down the Playstation and pick up a newspaper or a book.  Consider that when he graduated from Columbia he became a follower of Saul Alinsky, a Marxist community organizer.  Barack Obama did not cut his teeth by starting a small business.  He cut his teeth learning how to take down capitalism using Alinsky’s <em>Rules for Radicals</em>.  As he gets chummy with America’s enemies, he gives the back of his hand to our allies: Israel, Great Britain, Poland,and the Czech Republic.  Do you still believe this is a coincidence Governor Huckabee?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in New York, you will regularly hear the admonition, &#8220;If you see something, say something.&#8221;  The idea being that the more people who are on the lookout for solitary packages in a crowded railway station, people behaving erratically, and reporting it, the safer we will be.  Makes sense.  Just be careful not [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you live in New York, you will regularly hear the admonition, &#8220;If you see something, say something.&#8221;  The idea being that the more people who are on the lookout for solitary packages in a crowded railway station, people behaving erratically, and reporting it, the safer we will be.  Makes sense.  Just be careful not to malign any followers of Islam.  What?</p>
<p>In addition to that public service message you also hear other stories in the news.  A Muslim cab driver refuses to pick up a fare because they are carrying a recent purchase from a liquor store.  The cab driver&#8217;s religion is against drinking.  At a public university in Minnesota a coffee cart is prohibited from playing Christmas carols, but public funds are used to construct foot baths so that Muslims can properly prepare for prayer.  At an airport, security personnel cannot ask someone in line to step out for a closer search because they already pulled out two other Muslim young men and they didn&#8217;t want to be accused of racial profiling.</p>
<p><strong>The Facts, Ma&#8217;am, Just the Facts</strong></p>
<p>Joe Friday, where are you when we need you?  The fictional detective was obsessive in sticking to the facts.  Fact: not all Muslims are terrorists.  Fact:  almost all terrorists you see in the news are Muslims.  So if you are on the lookout for terrorists, who should you look at? eighty year old Italian grandmothers or Middle Eastern men between the ages of 20-40?</p>
<p><strong>Fort Hood</strong></p>
<p>People around Major Nidal Malik Hasan, saw something and said something and were basically told&#8230;SHUT UP! Apparently diversity is more precious than human life.  Taking extreme care not to offend, trumps taking steps to prevent a massacre.  There appears to have been abundant evidence that Hasan was ticking time bomb and some spoke out about it, but our sensitivities to giving offence have turned reason inside out.</p>
<p>We have a sub-group of a religion who actively advocate killing all non-members, that is, infidels, and we are scared to death of offending them.  Our liberal friends go out of their way to demand we all accommodate them.  We can criticize all religions but theirs; we can have dress codes, but must make allowances for their dress; if their religion allows a parent to kill a child for converting to Christianity, we must not interfere, but if a non-Muslim parent neglects to buckle a child into a car seat for a quarter mile journey to the grocery store, bring them up on charges of child neglect.</p>
<p><strong>Jumping to Conclusions</strong></p>
<p>Our Commander-in-Chief cautions us not to rush to judgment by calling this an act of terrorism.  Wasn&#8217;t this the same Commander-in-Chief who spoke from the White House calling a certain police department in Cambridge, Massachusetts <strong><em>stupid </em></strong>without a clue about what happened.</p>
<p>Political correctness, multiculturalism, an emasculated fourth estate, President Obama&#8217;s worldwide apology tour, strong arming a small Central American country, Honduras, because they followed their constitution and instead calling it a coup, all point to an embarrassing campaign by the left to drag down our country. </p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t try to make us like the rest of the world.  We are greater than that.  If you prefer the way the rest of the world behaves, move there.  Don&#8217;t try to make the shining city on the hill, a city run amok. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s simple really. If the world really believed that America is such a terrible place, why do we have an immigration problem?  Why do our universities teem with foreign students?  Why, whenever there is a flare-up in the world, do all eyes turn to the good old USA to see what we are going to do about it?  Where&#8217;s Ronald Reagan when you need him?</p>
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		<title>Honduras: Hillary &#8220;Wrong Way&#8221; Clinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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<p>Douglas &#8220;Wrong Way&#8221; Corrigan was an aviator in the 1930s.  In 1938 he mistakenly flew from New York to Ireland when he was supposed to fly from New York to California, because he claims he misread his compass.  It later turned out that he really intended to fly to Ireland but couldn&#8217;t get permission.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s Hillary&#8217;s excuse?  As the Obama Administration has called the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zalaya a coup d&#8217;etat, more attention is being focused on what the law in Honduras really says.  The Congressional Research Service looked into it and had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Supreme Court of Honduras has constitutional and statutory authority to hear cases against the President of the Republic and many other high officers of the State, to adjudicate and enforce judgments, and to request the assistance of the public forces to enforce its rulings.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>—Congressional Research Service, August 2009</p></blockquote>
<p>So why is Hillary Clinton now attacking the Honduran Supreme Court by pulling the visas of all fifteen members of the court?  The U.S. sided with Hugo Chavez and Costa Rica to reach a &#8220;negotiated&#8221; settlement that would put Zalaya back in the presidency.  Honduras said, sorry, that would violate our constitution.  He broke the law, we dealt with it according to our constitution, and that&#8217;s that.</p>
<p>Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady writes in the <a title="Hillary's Honduras Obsession" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574423570828980800.html" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The upshot is that the U.S. is trying to force Honduras to violate its own constitution and is also using its international political heft to try to interfere with the country&#8217;s independent judiciary.</p>
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<p>Hondurans are worried about what this pressure is doing to their country. Mr. Zelaya&#8217;s violent supporters are emboldened by the U.S. position. They deface some homes and shops with graffiti and throw stones and home-made bombs into others, and whenever the police try to stop them, they howl about their &#8220;human rights.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>When will the apology tour end and we start standing up for liberty and democracy?  Is it more important that Hillary have an accomplishment she can brag about than following  the rule of law?  This administration has so much, so backwards it is hard to keep track of it.  They focus all their time and energy doing things they are not constitutionally authorized to do (health care, taking over car companies and banks, funding ACORN), and ignoring their fundamental constitutional duties of foreign policy and national defense.  Let&#8217;s hope some pressure can be brought to bear on the Obama Administration to back off before Chavez puts a puppet in place.</p>
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		<title>Time to Go, Hillary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From being the foregone conclusion as the first woman President of the United States in 2008 to a marginalized, snarky misrepresentative of the United States, it time for her to realize, the band stopped playing and everyone has gone home but her.  It&#8217;s time to call it a day and resign. Keep Your Friends Close [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a title="Hillary Clinton 1" href="http://flickr.com/photos/15083709@N06/2245576555"><img class="aligncenter" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/2245576555_2cbd56b420.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>From being the foregone conclusion as the first woman President of the United States in 2008 to a marginalized, snarky misrepresentative of the United States, it time for her to realize, the band stopped playing and everyone has gone home but her.  It&#8217;s time to call it a day and resign.</p>
<p><strong>Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer</strong></p>
<p>Proving, once again, he is the master of hardball politics, Barack Obama dangled the Secretary of State job in front of his vanquished rival.  She took the bait.  No more would she be a force in the Senate able to challenge Obama at the first stumble.  She was now part of the problem, not a potential solution.  Once ensconced at Foggy Bottom, she thought she enhance her image by holding the most prestigious post in the Cabinet.  But she again underestimated Barack Obama.</p>
<p>He proceeded to divvy up foreign policy among many advisers, undercutting Hillary every step of the way.  She&#8217;s no fool, she can see it and it is eating away at her, to the point where she is becoming a gaffe machine to rival Joe Biden.</p>
<p><strong>She&#8217;s No Condoleezza Rice</strong></p>
<p>Upstaged by her husband in North Korea, negotiating the release of the journalist hostages, she was asked what her husband thought about another matter while in Africa.  In a similar situation, Condoleezza Rice, would have handled that with aplomb and not become rattled. But here is Hillary&#8217;s response.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqUtbbkVXg">Hillary Snaps</a>.  Smacking down a questioner on the world stage?  Well that will surely &#8220;correct&#8221; our image as the Ugly Americans.</p>
<p><strong>The Apology Tour Continues</strong></p>
<p>She goes on to make a speech in Nigeria and wants to emphasize that there is no place in the world for corrupt elections.  A very good point to make, that few could argue with.  But what does she use as an analogy?  She openly suggests that Jeb Bush fixed the 2000 Presidential election for his brother.  Of all the analogies of corrupt elections that she could have used, let&#8217;s see, Iran?  Cuba?  the old Soviet Union? she points to the oldest democracy in history and suggest that we are as corrupt as any third world dictator.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HVs2nMa-6o">Hillary Compares U.S. Elections to Third World Corruption</a>.  Disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful.  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who endorsed Hillary to take his Senate seat, must be turning over in his grave.  He used to staunchly defend the United States at the UN and here his protege is saying we are no better than the worst of them.</p>
<p>In Honduras, the rule of law is being followed to prevent a Chavez style dictator from taking over that country, and who does Hillary and the Obama administration support?  The Chavez puppet.  What about standing up for democracy in our Hemisphere?  It is time for her to go.</p>
<p><strong>The Gore Thing in 2000</strong></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get this straight one more time.  On election night 2000, Gore lost Florida.  He lost the recount.  He lost the re-recount.  He lost the re-re-recount.  He lost the official recount.  He lost the private recount sponsored by newspapers.</p>
<blockquote><p>Their count showed that Bush&#8217;s razor-thin margin of 537 votes &#8212; certified in December by the Florida Secretary of State&#8217;s office &#8212; would have tripled to 1,665 votes if counted according to standards advocated by his Democratic rival, former Vice President Al Gore.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the end, I think we probably confirmed that President Bush should have been president of the United States,&#8221; said Mark Seibel, the paper&#8217;s managing editor. &#8220;I think that it was worthwhile because so many people had questions about how the ballots had been handled and how the process had worked.&#8221; &#8212; <a title="Bush Still Wins in Florida Recount" href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/04/florida.recount.01/" target="_blank">CNN</a></p></blockquote>
<p>If Democrats and their radical supporters want to salve their wounds with this myth, live the fantasy.  But don&#8217;t smear this country with these lies while acting as our chief diplomat.</p>
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		<title>Honduras &#8211; Who&#8217;s Meddling Now?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chavez, Castro, et al, were cheering on their protege, Manuel Zalaya to make himself president for life and impose their same style of dictatorship on the people of Honduras.  Zalaya is term limited, but tried to push through a referendum to amend the constitution to lift that restriction.  That is against the law in Honduras. [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a title="Presidente Chávez en la graduación de la Misión Che Guevara" href="http://flickr.com/photos/9045722@N04/2093724092"><img class="aligncenter" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2282/2093724092_7b94a66768.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>Chavez, Castro, et al, were cheering on their protege, Manuel Zalaya to make himself president for life and impose their same style of dictatorship on the people of Honduras.  Zalaya is term limited, but tried to push through a referendum to amend the constitution to lift that restriction.  That is against the law in Honduras.</p>
<p>Zalaya had his minions break into a facility that held the confiscated referendum ballots.  The Honduran Supreme Court declared that he had broken the law, the military captured Zalaya and sent him out of the country.  The cry throughout the region was that this was a coup removing Zalaya, but no one is saying where the Honduran Congress or Supreme Court did not follow their own laws, and show that Zalaya was not violating the same.</p>
<p><strong>To Meddle or Not To Meddle?</strong></p>
<p>The Obama administration was oddly silent when democracy was trying to break out in Iran, but spoke out against the laws being followed in Honduras.  Now as Zalaya plays provocative games on the border, it appears the Obama administration is negotiating with the Honduran military for the return of Zalaya to power:</p>
<blockquote><p>The communiqué was drafted in Washington after days of talks between mid-level Honduran officers and American Congressional aides.  &#8212; <a title="Military in Honduras Backs Plan on Zalaya" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/world/americas/26honduras.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th" target="_blank">NY Times</a>, July 26, 2009</p></blockquote>
<p>The communique it appears, indicates that the military would not stand in the way of Zalaya&#8217;s return.  Is this not meddling?  Left wing forces in the regions are trying to create another dictatorship like Venezuela and Cuba, the laws in Honduras are followed that prevent this, and the Obama administration weighs in on the side of the leftists.</p>
<p>There may not be a coup in Honduras, but we may be backing a socialist revolution.  We have come a long way from Ronald Reagan winning the Cold War and freeing Eastern Europe.</p>
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		<title>Honduras: Does Obama Stand for Democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It now appears that both sides in the Honduran standoff are waiting on the United States to weigh in.  Despite those on the left (Chavez, Castro) continuing to push for less involvement by the U.S.  in Central and South America so they can step into the void, they are now calling on the United States [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a title="Hillary Rodham Clinton" href="http://flickr.com/photos/44828985@N00/3328187438"><img class="aligncenter" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3328187438_5a1526fb44.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>It now appears that both sides in the Honduran standoff are waiting on the United States to weigh in.  Despite those on the left (Chavez, Castro) continuing to push for less involvement by the U.S.  in Central and South America so they can step into the void, they are now calling on the United States to take a stand, on their respective sides, of course.  Chavez had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Do something,” Mr. Chávez had said to reporters. “Obama, do something.” <em>&#8211; NY Times, July 12, 2009</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Hillary Clinton has joined with Castro and Chavez in calling for the return to power of Manuel Zalaya.  But as Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady reports in today&#8217;s <a title="Why Honduras Sent Zalaya Away" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744094880829815.html" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If there is anything debatable about the crisis it is the question of whether the government can defend the expulsion of the president. In fact it had good reasons for that move and they are worth Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s attention if she is interested in defending democracy.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s the rub, if she&#8217;s interested.  It seems that the Obama administration has an aversion to democracy, once they get in office.  When polls in the U.S. show that 68% of the people believe a second stimulus is coming while 60% oppose a second stimulus, that tells you something about their feelings about democracy.  Their silence on Iran and their speaking out on Zalaya&#8217;s behalf, reinforces that belief.   The Obama administration&#8217;s goal is to get power, and do whatever they can as quickly as they can to consolidate it.  It seems like a page out of any tin pot dictator&#8217;s playbook.  Chavez could have written it himself.</p>
<p>Now the Obama administration has gone silent on the situation in Honduras.  Will they find their voice?  Will it be the voice of our Founding Fathers, or Che, Hugo, and Fidel?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The press is sleepwalking.  As I have been reading the press reports concerning the crisis in Honduras, I have been struck by the lack of interest by the press in the full picture.  Other than Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady at the Wall Street Journal, no journalist seems to care about the facts in Honduras and whether [...]]]></description>
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<p><a title="Visita de Hugo Chávez al Ecuador" href="http://flickr.com/photos/27215664@N00/2690741394"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2690741394_456bc50bc4_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="185" /></a>The press is sleepwalking.  As I have been reading the press reports concerning the crisis in Honduras, I have been struck by the lack of interest by the press in the full picture.  Other than <a title="Honduras at the Tipping Point" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124683595220397927.html" target="_blank">Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady</a> at the Wall Street Journal, no journalist seems to care about the facts in Honduras and whether this is truly a coup or following the rule of law and thwarting a dictatorial takeover of the government.</p>
<p>It seems like Honduras is lined up on one side and all the world on the other, and the uncontested facts on the ground tilt in Honduras&#8217; favor.  Castro, Chavez, and their leftist brethren, the OAS, and the Obama administration all seem to be backing the dictator wannabe Zalaya.  It is quite a contrast to how the Obama administration dragged it&#8217;s feet in supporting Iran and now it is standing shoulder to shoulder with Hugo Chavez.  And the main stream media lazily goes along.</p>
<p>With Fidel Castro at the end of his life perhaps some thought the leftest threat to the hemisphere coming to a close.  However there is a new threat in Hugo Chavez.  The difference is that Castro&#8217;s Cuba was a ward of the Soviet Union and once they could no longer afford to support him, Castro&#8217;s relevance began to wane.  But Chavez has oil and does not need handouts and so is much more dangerous.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a moment when the U.S. ought to be on the side of the rule of law, which the Honduran court and Congress upheld. If Washington does not reverse course, it will be one more act of appeasement toward an ambitious and increasingly dangerous dictator.&#8221; <em>&#8211; O&#8217;Grady, WSJ, 07/06/2009</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>The World is Watching</strong></p>
<p>The world is watching and taking the measure of Obama, and when push comes to shove they will choose where their best interests lie.  If we will not stand behind democracy in our hemisphere, then other countries will try to cut the best deal they can with Chavez.  North Korea gets bolder by the day.  Iran kills its citizens and Obama wants to keep the door open to dialog.  Weakness abounds and everyone can see it.</p>
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		<title>Honduras:  Coup or Rule of Law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill O'Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the news of a &#8220;coup d&#8217;etat&#8221; in Honduras I thought, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t good.&#8221;  America cannot be a champion of democracy if we only support democracies where we like the outcome.  Recall the coup in Venezuela that ousted Hugo Chavez for a couple of days, and we got behind it.  But he [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">When I first heard the news of a &#8220;coup d&#8217;etat&#8221; in Honduras I thought, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t good.&#8221;  America cannot be a champion of democracy if we only support democracies where we like the outcome.  Recall the coup in Venezuela that ousted Hugo Chavez for a couple of days, and we got behind it.  But he was elected and to avoid being hypocrites we have to support the process.</p>
<p><strong>Not So Fast</strong></p>
<p>As more news came out about exactly what happened in Honduras, it became clearer that the military was following the democratic process not subverting it.  The bad news is that while President Obama kept silent or tepid at best regarding Iran, he came out forcefully on the side of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez condemning the military&#8217;s action in Honduras.</p>
<p>Here is a rundown on what is going on in Honduras as reported in the Wall Street Journal on <a title="Coup Rocks Honduras" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124619401378065339.html" target="_blank">June 29</a> and <a title="Honduras Defends Its Democracy" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html" target="_blank">June 30</a>:</p>
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<li>Honduran President Manuel Zalaya is term limited.  He wanted to put a referendum on the ballot to change the constitution and lift the limits on his term so that he could be re-elected.</li>
<li>While Honduran law allows for a re-write of the constitution the power to do that does not lie with the president but with its Congress.</li>
<li>Zalaya declared the vote on his own and got the ballots to distribute from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela</li>
<li>The Honduran Supreme Court ruled that the referendum was illegal because such referendums are forbidden by the constitution within six months of an election.</li>
<li>The military followed the Supreme Court ruling and refused to distribute the ballots which is its usual role</li>
<li>Zalaya fired the chief of the army and planned to proceed with the referendum against the Supreme Court ruling</li>
<li>The Supreme Court ordered the general be reinstated, Zalaya refused</li>
<li>The Honduran Attorney General and the Supreme Court said Mr. Zalaya would be prosecuted if he followed through</li>
<li>Zalaya decided to proceed.  Supporters broke into where the ballots were being held and distributed them against the Supreme Court order</li>
<li>Zalaya was arrested and is in exile in Costa Rica</li>
<li>The Honduran Congress met in emergency session and named the President of Congress as the interim president of the country.  They further stated that the elections would proceed on schedule in November. The military was no longer in control.  The Supreme Court said the military acted on its orders</li>
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<p><strong>A Disturbing Pattern</strong></p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I see a disturbing pattern here.  In Iran where democracy is being clearly trashed, President Obama was extraordinarily restrained in criticizing the mullahs, while they shot their people in cold blood for exercising free speech and free assembly.  In Honduras, the government is carefully following the rule of law and its constitution while its president tries turn it into a dictatorship along the lines of Venezuela, and they are roundly condemned by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.  President Obama lines up with Ahminedinjad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, and against democracy.</p>
<p>Here at home he is orchestrating a massive expansion of government power and intrusion into every last detail of our lives.  Our liberty to live our lives as we choose is draining away.  I&#8217;m concerned.  Are you?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll see you at the Tea Party tonight in New York.</p>
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