Trying to Follow Chavez

Following another bloodless coup in Honduras, Obama says:

We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there…

It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections…

But, of course, you do. Because Zelaya had joined the:

leftist Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, an alliance led by Venezuela’s populist president, Hugo Chávez …

… who’s Obama’s “amigo” and, this was probably the only way his man Manuel Zelaya could be removed from office. Read on »