I read a column this morning by Fareed Zakaria (get his book, btw: The Post American World. Great read) that pointed out that Obama’s acting tough on Iran plays into Ahmedinejad’s strategy of trying to make the US the “meddler” and bad guy, distracting the people from the election. As you pointed out in an earlier post, Mark, there’s no surer way to show patriotism for your country than by standing up to the Big Guy on the world stage.

Food for thought.

Wonder if Obama will keep as hands off here as he has in Iran

I should most certainly hope not. The diplomatic situations are near polar opposites.

““It doesn’t matter what the Yanks blow up in the Middle east on Terra. None of you are ever going to fly up ino the sky. Humans need AEROPLANES to fly.”

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. “What! No soap?” So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

Except that the referendum was not legal, and was an attempt to illegally change their constitution to allow him to stay in power despite the term limits.

The referendum was non-binding.

Honduras saw the presidents actions as an overt and aggressive attempt to install a Chavez style dictatorship in Honduras have rejected that attempt in a lawful manner that resulted in the presidents removal from office.

You mean the government and the military saw it that way. If the actual people of Honduras saw it that way, they would have indicated so in the referendum.

Oh I wouldn’t call him a fascist. I believe him to be an inexperienced, idiotic, tele prompter reading, marionette.

Venezuela and Ecuador are run by left wing dictators. Venezuela in particular was supporting a move by the president of Honduras to basically take over the country. This has resulted in a crisis pitting the executive branch against the congress and the supreme court with the military in the middle. The president was attempting to place himself in a position where by he could force a rewriting of the constitution to remove the clause on term limits there by allowing him to remain in office indefinitely. The illegal move toward the “cuarta urna” had created massive unrest across the country and Honduras was heading toward a confrontation which puts at risk the representational democracy on which this country stands.

Contrary to news reports there this was no military coup nor conspiracy. This was two branches of government (supreme court and congress) moving to oust a president that was abusing his power and flaunting the law. Honduras saw the presidents actions as an overt and aggressive attempt to install a Chavez style dictatorship in Honduras have rejected that attempt in a lawful manner that resulted in the presidents removal from office. Hugo Chavez is an ego maniac that has attempted to spread his left wing dictatorship philosophy to many countries. He thought that he had obtained a foothold in Central America by way of Honduras. He was wrong.

The events of the last few weeks have shown me that my faith in Honduras and its people is not in vain. Honduras, you should be very proud of yourselves.

So were you ok when Bush was called a fascist because of his policies? I wasn’t and I’m not ok with Obama being called one. We haven’t had a fascist president, at least not compared to some of the fascist leaders of the last 100 years.

“But, regarding NCLB, even though it was the brain child of Ted Kennedy, most on the left attacked Bush over it.”

I didn’t. While there are parts of the bill I disagree with, I also think it has helped more than it’s hurt.

“They attacked him over aid to Africa, saying he didn’t do enough, even though he went farther than any other president.”

Again, I didn’t and to be honest, this is one area that most liberals give him credit.

But, regarding NCLB, even though it was the brain child of Ted Kennedy, most on the left attacked Bush over it. They attacked him over aid to Africa, saying he didn’t do enough, even though he went farther than any other president.

His invasion of Afghanistan and his aid to Africa to name two. i also agreed with parts of NCLB.

“But, here’s the thing: we on the Right disagree with Obama’s policies, not with him personally.”

I disagreed with many of Bush’s policies, but I don’t hate the man himself. And perhaps you don’t hate Obama, but there are a lot of others on this blog that do. Why else call him a facist?

Let me get this straight. A democratically elected leader tries to have a legal referendum to change the Constitution of his country and when the Supreme Court determines that the plebiscite would be unconstitutional the military removes the democratically elected President by force. The Court and the Congress were okay until they pressed the military into staging a coup d’ etat to remove Zelaya.

Except that the referendum was not legal, and was an attempt to illegally change their constitution to allow him to stay in power despite the term limits.

All we asked for in terms of Iran out of Obama was to stand for the rpotesters who were looking for the international community’s elected leaders to say “hey! Let’s have a real election.” Why else would Iranians have signs printed in English? And it took Obama around 10 days to get tough.

Casper, can you name something that you and the rest of the left didn’t go nuts over Bush doing? Something you agreed with him on? I agree with Obama’s continued and escalated bombings in pakistan and Afghanistan. But, here’s the thing: we on the Right disagree with Obama’s policies, not with him personally.