Barack Obama and Honduran Democracy

It would appear President Obama cannot get out in front of the recent coup in Honduras fast enough.

To give you all some background, this past Sunday, the military arrested President Jose Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile in Costa Rica. This was done to prevent a referrendum from being enacted that would allow Zelaya to tun for reelection an unlimited amount of times, rewriting their constitution. This has been attempted by Hugo Chavez in the past to install himself as President for Liife, so it isn't beyond the realm of belief that Zelaya, an all of Chavez would attempt a similar move.

In the run up to the refendum though, the Supreme Court ruled it as being unlawful. Not suprisingly Zelaya rejected their ruling and then fired head of the armed forces, Romeo Vasquez Velaquez refused top aid in the referrendum. He was however reinstated when both the Supreme Court and Congress deemedit unlawful.

The coup was then ordered by the Supreme Court for June 28th. Head of the Congress, Roberto Micheletti was then sworn in as president.

In the wake of these events condemnation pured in fairly quickly by such organization as the Organization of American States, UN, and EU. However, President Obama was one of the first condemn the coup. This is interesting for the reason that he got outy in front of this right away, yet he waited days upon days to say anything about the Iranian protesters, even the slightest words of solidarity.

Now, he views it through the liberal prism, that the military overthrew a democratically elected government. What he doesn't see or at least is mentioning is that Zelaya was atempting to subvert democracy by the referrendum he wanted to enact. So who is really the one who's undemocratic here?

President Obama, you can't pick and choose which batttles you're going to fight, who's easy to support, and who's not. Plus, anytime you're on the same side as Hugo Chazez, you have a problem.