UPDATED: Honduran coup may be imminent, abetted by Obama administration


Once again, Obama siding with tyrants

[UPDATE 6:30 EDT : the government has imposed a curfew from 4pm today till 6am tomorrow]

Multiple sources (Reuters) (AP) report that ousted and exiled former president Manuel Zelaya is back in Honduras, hidden for the moment in somebody’s embassy and therefore out of the reach of authorities, who have promised to arrest him and try him for treason if he re-appears on sovereign Honduran soil.

By the way, when you hear the name Manuel Zelaya, you should think pal and disciple of Venezuelan thug dictator Hugo Chavez.

Zelaya was ousted in what has widely been reported in the American press as a “coup” on June 28. The United Nations, the Obama administration, the OAS and other dubious characters like Hugo Chavez have roundly condemned the constitutional government in Honduras and have worked diligently to bring pressure to bear to reverse events in Honduras. The Reuters link above includes the assertion that “Soldiers toppled Zelaya”.

The truth is quite the opposite. Honduran officials acted perfectly according to their own constitution and within their authority in removing from office a president who was attempting to install himself as the permanent ruler similarly to how Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. Take your time reading the sources. The facts of the matter are widely available, yet the Obama administration has led the way in applying pressure to Honduras, invoking economic sanctions and going so far as to revoke the visas of most high Honduran officials in order to block their attendance at this month’s United Nations General Assembly. You don’t want to know who all *did* make the cut and will attend. OK, yes you do: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Muammar Gaddafi.

So far today:

Details are conflicting as to Zelaya’s actual location — he’s been reported as at the UN compound, at the Brazilian Embassy, NOT at the US Embassy (although his wife is apparently there). The more authoritative reports place him in the Brazilian Embassy. He apparently gave an address on Honduran television that was audio-only, in which he called his supporters to show up at the UN compound, where several thousand people have now gathered.

There are various reports as to how he arrived, and nobody seems to know much more than is being reported. Will there be an armed uprising? Rioting? Will foreign governments intervene? One thing is clear. The Obama administration has steadfastly applied pressure to force the constitutional government of Honduras to accept a return of the deposed president. They may be about to get their wish.

And it’s about as evil, cruel, and criminal a turn of events as can be imagined for a nation whose people only want to be free to be governed at their own consent, by their own constitution.


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I'm disgusted, outraged and sickened.

janis (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:39PM EDT (link)

But I’m not the least bit surprised. This action by the Obama Administration needs to have loud voices on the floor of the House and Senate demanding an immediate investigation about the level and type of involvement they’ve committed our country to in the name of tyranny.

And not for the sake of politics, but to expose them to the light of day for the entire world to see and be repelled by.

The next president after Obama (if we have one

Xasteius (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:50PM EDT (link)

) will have a lot of foreign policy messes to deal with. How do you apologize / make up for the mistakes of your predecessor when he is hellbent on destroying freedom around the world?

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

If it's up to O and his minions

azred (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:19PM EDT (link)

You are correct in questioning whether we will have a next.

 
 

janis, I believe you and I agree

redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:26PM EDT (link)

on this Obama decision being the final straw. This was the move that convinced me he was a rogue president and undeserving of any benefit of the doubt whatsoever.

Subsequent disasters have only solidified my opinion.


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The scope of what Obama is attempting in this instance

janis (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:05PM EDT (link)

is just breathtaking. America is now in the position of aiding and abetting drug-running Constitutional lawbreakers such as Zelaya and Chavez. And Chavez is an ally of one of our worst enemies, Iran, a country sworn to our destruction along with Israel’s.

In ways large and small, Obama daily makes it his business to stamp out freedom in this world and instead fosters the tyrannical ambitions of every bad actor in the world.

janis

sarge324 Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:34PM EDT (link)

everyone can see what this man is doing.where the hell is our congress and senate.i dont care what party.speak up and ask questions,and get the answers.your oath was to protect the constitution not yourself.

 
 
 
 

Tomorrow at the U.N.

michigan Monday, September 21st at 5:39PM EDT (link)

Obama will bolster the ousted leader and weaken freedom wherever it exists.

UN - serving the interests of tin-pot dictators since 1948

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:44PM EDT (link)

The best endorsement possible of the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court was made when the UN condemned the ouster of Zelaya.

That sealed it for me.

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I this coup happens, it will make Obama my enemy, period - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:43PM EDT (link)

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I'm with you. And the good people of Honduras. -nt

Crowe (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:57PM EDT (link)

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

I'm with you.

Vegas_Rick (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:35PM EDT (link)

There is no justification for the Won’s position on this. How can he side with Zayala and Chavez? If this stands, Liberty is in peril everywhere.

“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington

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Ditto here Gamecock....

Stephen Halsey (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:03PM EDT (link)

And I gotta give a little support to Kenny. Obama is cut from the same cloth as every other tin pot dictator that has come to power throughout modern history. He’s been groomed for this and influenced by nefarious Marxists and communists all of his life. Why can anyone be surprised that his domestic actions and foreign policy are completely consistent with radical leftist ideology. Now I’m not saying at all that he’s aiming to be or will be any sort of dictator for life. Thankfully our Constitution has provisions to prevent that. But I fully believe that of given the choice or opportunity Obamao would gladly assume control as the first dictator-in–chief of this great nation. If this administration is willfully supporting or staging the return of a constitutionally removed leader of a sovereign country it would be extremely troubling.

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Obamao

Loren Heal (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:37AM EDT (link)

Very nice. Typo or not, it fits.


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Socrates, no typo

Stephen Halsey (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 9:36AM EDT (link)

But I can’t claim to be the originator either. I’ve seen it elsewhere in the blogosphere and it sure is fitting for Obama.

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Honduras has a Constitution also

bethrorie Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:24AM EDT (link)

Isn’t Obama trying to see how far he can go? Chavez did it. Zelaya is in the process of doing it. Why wouldn’t Obama do it?

I hear ya...

Crowe (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:38AM EDT (link)

But the people and the military and the rest of the powers that be in ths country are far less susceptible to caving to pressure from the UN or the OAS than the fragile Honduran system.

In effect, more than the rules laid out in the Constitution (which, I agree is not much of a roadblock to Obama) all we have going for us is our own selves, the presence of a legitimate and powerful opposition in this country, and our guns.

No accident that the Second Amendment was put in place so people could protect themselves from their own government.

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

 

There's been paper on the table

rec0n Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:09PM EDT (link)

for years to extend the number of terms for President. Comes up like clockwork but so far has never gone anywhere. so far.

H.J.Res.5 – Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

For the record, I agree w/Steven’s comment. Obama is indeed the sum of his experiences and education. He is the DEFINITION of a useful idiot, and exactly what our schools have been working towards turning out for years.

Bingo, Steven.

 
 
 
 
 

He should be already, GC, the man is simply

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:15PM EDT (link)

the voice of an evil cabal that wants to reduce the US to a second rate power in the world and turn our economic and social order on its head. We keep trying to deceive ourselves that he’s just your standard vacuous, starry-eyed liberal, but he’s nothing of the kind. He’s a hardened communist organizer who has “dressed up the pig” and by taking advantage of the smoking hole that used to be the Republican Party become President of the US. He must be made to fail and they he and his accomplices must be made to fall.

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Obama's gone rogue.

Mayhem (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 5:58PM EDT (link)

I have never been afraid of my country. Things have changed in the last 8 months. America is in serious trouble my friends.

Perhaps the next Tea Party should be held in Tegucigalpa.

James Madison, Jim DeMint, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan… You get the picture.

I'm not afraid of my country...

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:06PM EDT (link)

Only the government that is in place.

There’s a difference.

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Go Ahead

Whitesands (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:03PM EDT (link)

Do this and respect worldwide for the presidency of the United States will be lost for another generation. Hillary take a good look if you still want to be the first women president. Not a good move, the reason a total disrespect of a sovereign government and there by individual freedom. If you have proof present it., If not their constitution stands.

 

How is this going to work for Obama?

texas214 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:10PM EDT (link)

A crack pot two bit wanna-be dictator (Zelaya) starts a war, gets shot by assuming he has Obama’s support. Maybe Obama ought to get out of the way, sit down, and shut the hell up, because at this point he sure isn’t representing American interest.

Any blood will be on Obama’s hands.

 

Nope, it can't happen here...... Keep telling yourself that.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:33PM EDT (link)

It’s more and more obvious every hour with every move they make that the current administration is on a collision course trying to initiate an uprising in our own nation so they can clamp down hard…….

We’re out of time, gang.

The enemies of freedom are also on the move and their “go” time is now…. this week…… think about it.

The G-20 is in Pittsburgh and POTUS says there needs to be a global financial market regulatory body.

The UN General Assembly session is about to convene and make no mistake about it, their goal is a one-world government and treaties for insanity that POTUS believes in.

Tomorrow, PM Netanyahu, PA Terror Chief Abbas and POTUS are meeting. Why? Abbas: Kill all Jews, the land is ours. PM Bibi: We’re going to defend ourselves, especially against Iran. POTUS: Can I have some extra fries with my big ‘ol burger ?

“The State Department” lets in leaders of Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Libya for The UN GA and Sec Council meeting….. but NOT Honduras………and all of a sudden, Zelaya shows up in Honduras (By the way…. he’s in The Brazilian Embassy) and all of it is of course COMPLETELY COINCIDENTAL to POTUS taking the Chair of the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Friday is an Islamic national day of prayer happens on The US Capitol’s west frontage, with their organization’s website stating bluntly “Our time has come.”

Sunday at sundown, Yom Kippur begins.

Paranoid…. me ? Nah.

I got a Dolphin’s game to watch tonight.

Nothing to see here.

So when are you flying out?

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:36PM EDT (link)

If you really believe that, why are you stil lhere?

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I make my stand here... my home. The USA.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:46PM EDT (link)

I’ll be damned if my freedoms disappear under tyranny and I’ll gladly stand in front of everyone to help protect their freedom as well.

Ditto there Kenny.

Ward_Off_Monkey Monday, September 21st at 6:57PM EDT (link)

My wife said if things go bad with Teh One we could move to another country. I said hell no. This is my country and no uberleftist SOB is going to take it.

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And yet WWII teaches differently (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 6:59PM EDT (link)

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How so for this country? nt

Ward_Off_Monkey Monday, September 21st at 7:01PM EDT (link)

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Especially for this country

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:03PM EDT (link)

You can’t fight a government that’s much better armed than you are, if you truly believe that government intends to kill.

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I think you misjudge the members of our military,

Ward_Off_Monkey Monday, September 21st at 7:09PM EDT (link)

as well as our large population of veterans.

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I agree with Ward...I believe that political idiots...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:13PM EDT (link)

misjudge our military as well to their detriment. I believe if it came down to it our military would stand shoulder to shoulder with We The People of the United States of America. They do take an oath to protect the Constitution not the President.

 

Who, me?

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:15PM EDT (link)

I’m not the one flying off into hysterics here, about what Obama is going to do.

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I see no hysterics here.

Ward_Off_Monkey Monday, September 21st at 7:19PM EDT (link)

What I see is a recognition of what Obama truly is and that he in no sense has the best interests of the United States of America at heart.

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OK neil, but how do you handle this news and the other stuff...

penguin2 (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:27PM EDT (link)

that just keeps coming. We have a president selling fledgling Democracies down the river, Eastern European allies down the river, proposed bailout of newspapers, and now the likelihood of an Afghanistan withdrawal. That last one I believe will cause that country to fall.

I am asking, because as Mayhem upthread said they are afraid of their country. I feel that way too. Sorry, do not mean to sound discouraged…Could use a little strengthening of thought here.

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How do I handle it?

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:36PM EDT (link)

I work on the 2010 elections.

I don’t start spinning up stuff about Presidents for life.

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I disagree

Jack_Savage (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:15PM EDT (link)

The hard left in this country is in control. There is nothing that I see that distinguishes them from Communists. Nothing. The history that you keep referring to has shown us exactly what people who subscribe to that ideology are capable of. We see the temperature being ratcheted up every day, and I can name quite a few of the most civilzed countries in the world who descended into utter madness in the span of one generation.

I will stay here and die here, from whatever causes, thank you. I never had much use for people who led the resistance from cocktail parties abroad.

 
 
 

Neil- I may be misunderstanding what you wrote

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:28PM EDT (link)

and I don’t think that we are out of time at this moment. But, are you suggesting that we the people in the US should just lay down our arms and our fight, if it did come to the “bloodshed” that Pelosi sees coming?

Yeah

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:36PM EDT (link)

If you really think Obama is the next murderous President-For-Life, the sensible thing to do for yourself and your family is to get out and organize a resistance from safety.

To resist such a dictatorship from inside is fruitless and just gets you wiped out.

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Jack Savage said it best above...

Ward_Off_Monkey Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:44PM EDT (link)

“I will stay here and die here, from whatever causes, thank you. I never had much use for people who led the resistance from cocktail parties abroad.”

“The government’s view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ~ Ronald Reagan

 
 
 

Don't think, for one minute,

Vegas_Rick (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:41PM EDT (link)

that Obama, or anyone who reports to him would have the loyalty of our military, should push come to revolution. Anyone who has served will heartily agree.

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My Dad served in WWII. Combat, Europe.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:08PM EDT (link)

He’s 87, in a nursing home and hit hard with dementia. He has a little bit of a grasp on what’s going on (but with the dementia the short-term memory comes and goes big-time). Every time I see him though, he keeps asking me to fill him in on what’s happening in our nation and world….. and I do.

But most of the time, when he sees some news story (on FNC thankfully), he keeps asking “why ?” “Why is this happening to my country ?”, then he starts to cry and has to turn away from the TV.

So yeah Neil and everyone… whatever happened before happened before.

This is now and there are TENS OF MILLIONS like me who when confronted with evil incarnate as we see emerging here, we will stand up.

I will also no longer parse my words to be nice. If I see evil on any level, I’m gonna say it.

I’m also not stupid enough to start anything that would cause a clamp down…….. but I’ll damn well take out evil if it comes my way.

Take out evil?

Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:22PM EDT (link)

Tell you what: Maybe you’d better clarify that.

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No problem.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:29PM EDT (link)

Let’s say the proverbial merde encounters the ventillateur…… and I’m home, minding my own business…… garbage time ensues, with all sorts of pieces of human debris looting, shooting and scooting.

My door opens not under my control and I’m face to face with whatever is passing for a piece of crap wannabe gang member or two that day.

Say good night, Gracie….. They may get me, but I’ll do whatever I can to make sure they don’t get anyone else after.

That’s about the size of it, Neil…. the one thing I’m not is a revolutionary, or calling for anything to start or happen….. ever.

Thank you (nt)

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I don't think we're out of time but

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:03PM EDT (link)

I understand what you’re saying. Obama’s aim is much the same as that of Castro, Chavez, and Zelaya.

However, it won’t be as easy as Obama thinks. Even as president, he can still be charged with treason. If he keeps going on the path he chose, he will be so charged because we the people are tired of this.

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StephC- And just how will he be charged with treason with a Democrat/Liberal majority in Congress?

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:20PM EDT (link)

When you look at who Obama has gotten into bed with, Chavez, Zaleya, Gadafi, Ahmedinajad, Putin and other dictators, it shows me that he is looking for the worst of the worst to come to his defense when he decides that he needs to be the President of the USA for life.

Also, don’t forget HRC in this whole Honduran disaster. She’s in the thick of it. She also had Alinsky as her hero/mentor/teacher.

Several things come to mind, but

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:30PM EDT (link)

it’s really up to the people. We could have civil war or we can have civil disobedience, or we can have some of both. We could even have something I’ve not thought of.

HRC is irrelevant. She allowed TheWon to make her so. In the doing of it, she killed feminism because she dances to TheWon’s commands. She will fall with him.

This country is a whole lot bigger in terms of land mass and population than any other place where tin pot dictators thrive.

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I never underestimate the Clintons

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:53PM EDT (link)

I don’t think that Clinton will fall with Obama. I think she will come up with some excuse to resign as the Sec. of State, try to make her appearance as being opposed to the radical agenda of Obama, and then run for another office, possibly the Pres. in 2012. I truly believe that both she and Bill think they can do what Obama is doing, but, better. Isn’t that what all the Socialists/Communists believe. HRC is not gone, not by a long shot, just as long as Bill still has 2 living brain cells.

I'm not underestimating them.

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:26PM EDT (link)

However, they have by their own choice allowed themselves to become as irrelevant as Carter. Congress, too, is allowing itself to become irrelevant. It just hasn’t hit them, yet, that their power as a legislative body is being handed over to a bunch of czars. Pelosi and Reid are expendable as is the rest of Congress in the face of that.

And if the Democratic Congress is complicit in Obama’s doings? What then?

The thing I really don’t underestimate is the American people. They are turning away from the leftist media, Hollywood, and so forth. They know something is wrong and they’re quite willing to do the work to fix it.

We have Perry and other states making noise about states’ rights. Whether they’re blowing smoke or not, it’s resonating and therein lies my hope.

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Snark time (and with a NASCAR touch too)....... Sometimes I can't resist.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:00PM EDT (link)

Congress, too, is allowing itself to become irrelevant. It just hasn’t hit them, yet, that their power as a legislative body is being handed over to a bunch of czars. Pelosi and Reid are expendable as is the rest of Congress in the face of that.

I’d definitely go for a Pay-Per-View event just to have a prime-seat look-in at Madame Speaker absolutely lose her mind when she realizes how much she’s been used, abused and then tossed out like all of David Ragan’s wrecked #6 cars this year.

Cheers !

Propose it to Breitbart.

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:05PM EDT (link)

He could make a fortune because a lot of people would feel the same as you.

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Thanks Steph C, Kenny, Scope, all of you!

nessa (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:12PM EDT (link)

Its comforting to know I’m not the only one slipping near the precipice of the Obama/progressive conspiracy theory. I owe each of you an AFDB, handmade and of the highest quality. Welcome to the club, meetings really sucked when I was all alone. Well, Glenn Beck was there in spirit but its hard to get a spirit to second a motion to adjourn.

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Wholly agree here, StephC.

janis (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:25PM EDT (link)

For us, it’s something like “Morning in America” again because of the enthusiasm that has reawakened and refreshed so many of us. But for those who are determined to deny us legitimacy, to ignore our numbers, it’s still “Frankenstein”, and they aren’t the angry villagers bearing torches and pitchforks in quantity , we are.

Beck, Limbaugh, Breitbart, ….. RedState, Gateway Pundit, Ace of Spades, The Other McCain, Powerline, Instapundit…….and, oddly enough, Jon Stewart, for finally saying the truth….. I thank God for the brilliant and principled people who are leading this, standing up in the face of thuggery, threats and intimidation.

The contrast between who’s on the side of the angels and who’s not could not now be more stark. The President of the United States of America has proven himself to be a liar, an apologist, an appeaser of murderous regimes, and a man who seeks to destroy a country he has no love for, no understanding of historically, and no wish to strengthen our sovereignty……

Quite honestly, Obama may have to resort to some kind of national thuggery against American citizens just to hang on to his job through the first term. At the rate that he is sowing discord, anger, and alarm here at home, it won’t be long before he attempts some extreme action that will strike a match and light a bonfire.

NICE!!!!!!

Stephen Halsey (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:41PM EDT (link)

I couldn’t agree more. The New Media has led the way in the awaking of the great American people. I’m fully convinced that Dear Leader will have to resort to some sort of manufactured crisis to even complete his only term in office. I’m as hopeful as I’ve been in a long time that the American people will defend this great country and defeat the Leftists once and for all.

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McCain's election staff just called to ask for this PC's endorsement

ColdWarrior (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:22PM EDT (link)

Guess what the answer was?

The guy actually defended what McCain said about Joe Wilson’s outburst.

Here’s what the AP had reported at the time:

>>>

Wilson’s behavior was “totally disrespectful,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had been Obama’s rival in the 2008 presidential election, said on CNN. “There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately.”

<<<

So, I guess McCain says we can’t call a lying president a liar. Ever.

I note that McCain has no commentary on his office web site about the events unfolding in Honduras.

He should be taking a leadership role against Teleprompter Boy’s response to this. We’ll see.

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What ever happens over time

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:38PM EDT (link)

this admin will be known as the most freedom hating. They want to topple free governments all over the world. Give a handskake to a dictator and sell us out for any thing. I’m not liking it at all and at least I can say I didn’t vote for this happen.

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You say

BlueLandRed (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 7:50PM EDT (link)

Honduran officials acted perfectly according to their own constitution and within their authority in removing from office a president who was attempting to install himself as the permanent ruler similarly to how Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. Take your time reading the sources.

So I did take the time to read up on this and I’m just not convinced that everything the current government of Honduras did and is doing was “perfectly” legal. Not that I’m an expert on anything Honduran, especially the ins and outs of their legal system, but I haven’t seen any real evidence that he’s guilty of what they accused him of. And I’m not sure how deportation instead of arrest and trial is considered constitutionally legal… but what to I know, maybe it is in Honduras. Seems weird tho’.

It is pretty clear,however, that Zelaya drift to the left annoyed the small upper class of Honduran and I suspect that annoyance forms a large part of reason Zelaya was shipped off to Costa Rica.

Then why is he back?

Jack_Savage (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:19PM EDT (link)

And why are the Obama people backing him?

Why is he back?

BlueLandRed (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:42PM EDT (link)

Well, I’ve seen reports that indicate that he isn’t back.

Regardless, if he is back, I’m sure its because Zeleya believes that he’s still President as he was illegally deposed. And while I know that Honduras isn’t the US, just imagine the Chief Justice signed an arrest warrant and the POTUS was then arrested by Army soldiers at night and exiled to Canada. That’s can’t be what the Honduran founding fathers envisioned when they created their constitution.

As for why is Obama’s people backing him. One, he’s a fellow leftist (or seems to be) and two because in all honestly, the current crisis in Honduras isn’t a cut and dried as the OP makes it out to be. And it just isn’t “Obama’s” people, no other country has yet recognized the new government. In fact, the US government reaction has been moderate by comparison. According to Wikipedia, every country in the region as well as the EU has recalled their Ambassador, save the US.

Taiwan isn't recognized as a nation-state by most countries

aesthete (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:52PM EDT (link)

Does that make them any less autonomous?

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BlueLandRed, your statements here are unsound

aesthete (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:51PM EDT (link)

When it comes to humans, there is virtually never enough evidence to know exactly what happened in a given situation. That said, a cursory overview of the situation would reveal that Zelaya charged for treason under Article 239 of the Honduran constitution, which limits a president to serving only one term, and prohibits him from attempting to amend or alter this constitutional provision, which he attempted to do several times with a decreasing level of ambiguity on each attempt. (If you can read Spanish, I’d suggest reading this “Special Communication” written by the Honduran Supreme Court explaining their actions: http://www.poderjudicial.gob.hn/NR/rdonlyres/87E2BFFC-AF4D-44EA-BFC5-D93730D8D81C/2413/ExpedienteJudicial1.pdf)

From a legal standpoint, there have been few challenges to their ruling, and most focus on the fact that the lower court which had originally ruled some of Zelaya’s actions as illegal, whose ruling the court upheld, was overgeneralized. There has also been some focus on the eminently debatable point of whether or not setting up an opinion poll would fall under that concept (only plebicites and referenda are explicitly mentioned in the Honduran constitution). Here’s a blog arguing in favor of Zelaya using these points: http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/07/as-we-watch-and-wait-revisiting.html

It is unfortunate for Zelaya’s sycophants that that is only the least of Zelaya’s crimes (which, in any case, is not a clear win for them), which include conspiring with the military’s head to make this “opinion poll” happen. Essentially, the only really iffy things that the SC could be accused of is upholding a lower court’s decision without revising its overgeneralized (but correct) majority opinion, and deporting Zelaya, instead of holding him for treason–all very minor issues relative to the gravity of the situation.

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I get that he is charged

BlueLandRed (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:06PM EDT (link)

with treason. But I have to say there seems to be a lot of irregularities in how he was deposed.

I also really have issues when even talking about changing the Constitution is considered treason.

And while I do personally like majority rule, I understand requiring a super majority to change the founding document. So if a super majority of people in Honduras what to change their Constitution, they should be allowed to do so… regardless of what their Constitution sez.

You need to deal with the facts of the Honduras Constitution

civil truth (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:25PM EDT (link)

…not how you feel their constitution should have been written. And check their Amendment process.

Second, you need to understand the history of Zelaya’s actions, not only in trying to change the term limits but the other list of particulars of his illegal actions associated with trying to carry out that referendum, including attempting to take command of the army (which would represent ground to charge him with treasonable activity by any reasonable definition), Note too the universality of condemnation from the legislature, which is controlled by his party, which have supported the change in government and the new president, who is also from the same party. And don’t forget the drug charges.

Nothing remotely resembles any coup that I have read of in the past 50 years; indeed, the evidence is compelling that Zelaya is the one attempting to create civil disorder before the refendum. And following the script that every previous leftist elected official (like Chavez) once in power have followed to overthrow democracy and create a dictatorship – until the rest of the government saw the play acting out and decided to close down the show.

I also take issue with your totally unsupported assertions that 1) a super majority of the nation are in favor of changing the constitution and electing Zelaya President for Life; and 2) your classic leftist talking points about how some small wealthy elite forced Zelaya out of power in defiance of the popular support from the “people”.

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BlueLandRed- And I guess you also believe that the US Constitution is a living breating document

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:27PM EDT (link)

to be changed at the desires of an Administration. You trick yourself when you say that “If the majority of Hondurans want to change their Constitution, they should be allowed to do so regardless what the Constitution sez.” What you seem to have missed is that the majority of Hondurans wanted Zelaya removed, ACCORING TO THEIR CONSTITUTION. So, therefore, if OBAMA wants to remain President of the US for life, but, that pesky thing called our Constitution is against it, we should just accept the decision of the wannabe dictator? The people of Honduras seem to have respect for their governing document, as we also have here in the US, which you seem to believe is irrelevant.

 

What's "a lot"?

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:41AM EDT (link)

The only irregularity I can see was the deportation, which was a hell of a lot easier on both him, his supporters, and the nation of Honduras than trying him for treason and then shooting him. I’ve already answered your concerns about the veracity of the charges of treason, and I’ve answered beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt the Constitutional underpinnings of the charge. Therefore, all you’re left with is the deportation vs. trying for treason. You’re being ridiculously obstinate for someone who shouldn’t have a bone in this fight, and who claims to be “independent”, or “moderate”, or whatever the buzzword of the week is.

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asethete- To look at it from a different angle

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:16PM EDT (link)

Didn’t the Liberals/Anti-War people accuse Bush of “Nation Building” when he went into Iraq? Is it not “Nation Building” to go against the Constituionally appointed President of Honduras, supported overwhelmingly by the Hondurans, and, to try to support Zelaya, a wannabe dictator? If I heard once, I heard a million times that we “had no business” in “interferring” in Iraq’s government. Once again the hypocrasy of the Democrats is on stage.

That's a good point

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:16AM EDT (link)

I wasn’t really in favor of the invasion of Iraq (not for the same reasons as the morons in the Dem party), but it’s interesting how the Dems preach non-intervention and no regime change out of one side of his mouth, and talk about radical change in virtually ungovernable 3rd world countries in the Balkans, Latin America, and Africa. A breathtaking level of dishonesty.

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Everything here and below is leftist talking points

civil truth (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:32PM EDT (link)

This is the most egregious, especially as you’ve evidently copied this from some place without attirbuiton:

It is pretty clear,however, that Zelaya drift to the left annoyed the small upper class of Honduran and I suspect that annoyance forms a large part of reason Zelaya was shipped off to Costa Rica.

But then you also appealed to the actions of most world governments (by which grounds you evidently think that Israel and Taiwan should just disappear) to support Zelaya without dealing with the facts.

Plus there’s your overattentiveness to niggling details where the government failed to follow the exact procedure to your standards – but you have ignorance of the Constitutional provisions or just don’t like them.

Were you so attentive to procedure in the recent Iranian elections or in Chavez’s ongoing actions.

So the blood of how many Hondurans do you wish to see shed in order to establish a Honduran dictatorship? Your leftist buddies have no problems with murders of innocent citizens in their leftist paradises, such as Cuba, etc.

Wake up and smell the roses.

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whatever sources you used

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:03AM EDT (link)

You need some better ones. The case I laid out in the link, which was just an expanded and fill-in version of the case Miguel Estrada laid out (also in the links) is pretty straightforward and unassailable.

The fact that the military inexplicably hustled him out of the country instead of dumping him in the slammer to be tried is irregular, but I would say it worked to his advantage, wouldn’t you? And THAT is the only

Let me say that word again.

ONLY

thing where the exact letter of their constitution was not followed. All the evidence was laid out for you in black and white, including the articles of the constitution.

If you can’t follow it, that’s your problem.

The “small upper class” thing you trotted out there is a lie, either by you or by your sources. Punk boy had 25% poll numbers.

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Should an "incident" occur, Obama will not ask

Sera63 Monday, September 21st at 8:23PM EDT (link)

the majority of our Armed Forces to clamp down on any alleged “civil disobedience.” Instead, he will have the full faith and backing of the UN and their Peace Keeping forces to restore “order” to the affected areas.

Once “peace” is “restored” to the (mainly) red states, the Peace Keepers will remain until the Civilian Defense Force is up and running. (Blue states that may have seen some civil disobedience will have already asked for UN assistance.)

Elections will then resume, and, not surprisingly, Democrats will always win the majority of all national elections. Squish Rs and a few conservatives will be kept on for “post-partisan” support, and to provide legitimacy to the entire undertaking.

Legal…globally acceptable…and “Constitutional”…at least as far as the Constitutional lawyer from Harvard will be concerned.

This is, admittedly, a hypothetical “worst-case scenario”…yet from the far-left’s worldview, a possibility.

Otherwise, why would a perfectly sane, and very well-educated world leader, align himself with admitted dictators and tyrants? (Just asking…)

Unfortuantely for the Honduran people, their country is the newest victim in the “struggle.” They are a testing ground…think Spain prior to WWII. Their civil war was the testing ground for new weapons and tactics. The more things change…

Sera63, at that point, get your popcorn and sweet tea ready.....

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:30PM EDT (link)

The absolute amazing sight of a fully locked and loaded US Military would rise up and “take over for freedom” and as God is my witness typing this, the second… the literal second….. that the last of any invaders of our land would be driven into oblivion, our men and women wearing the uniform would turn over the reigns of power to the civilian authority….. definitely a different civilian authority, but a civilian authority nonetheless.

Protect and defend the Constitution. Doesn’t say protect and defend those who invite tyranny.

That would be a wonderful sight...

Sera63 Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:02AM EDT (link)

but would our military, grounded in the Military Code of Conduct, initiate an action without National Command Authority? And, would an overwhelming Dem Congress fund such an action? Could, or even would, the Cincs and Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff issue such orders? And, without orders or funding, could the military stage an action that could be effective?

I could see members of individual National Guard Units standing for their fellow citizens in certain states. However, without orders or funding, and with the state-run media showing 24-hour coverage of “civil disobedience”, wouldn’t the military units both state-side and overseas simply wait out the situation? Especially if the top 3 members of our civilian authority – President, Vice-President, and Speaker of the House – were in agreement with a “hold” order?

This is not an attack on our military. It’s because of their loyalty to their oath that we have never worried about a “military junta” happening in our nation. And, it’s because of their willingness to serve our country, and fight for our country and on orders from our civilian leaders, that we have the freedoms we possess today.

I just see higher-ups in the military – there as much for their military knowledge as for their political connections – taking a “wait and see” attitude. Rank-and-file military members would be raring to go…but would there be enough Majors and Colonels who would buck the system and head this way?

I don’t know…that’s why I ask.

 
 
 

Did anyone Ask BO about Zelaya on Sunday's shows

GregInFla (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 8:38PM EDT (link)

Or was that question not approved by the Won?


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nobody

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:20PM EDT (link)

in fact, nobody seems inclined to make this front page news, including Fox.

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For the last time

hickorystick (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:20PM EDT (link)

THERE ARE NO DEATH PANELS and HE DOESN’T PAL AROUND WITH TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!

Are you a Bot?

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:28PM EDT (link)

or a full believer in O? I’m just wondering.

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hickorystick- I am going to get my comment in quick, before you are blammed

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:31PM EDT (link)

Please see your Doctor immediately, your meds need major adjusting.

 

hickorystick- I am going to get my comment in quick, before you are blammed

Scope (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:31PM EDT (link)

Please see your Doctor immediately, your meds need major adjusting.

Maybe he's completely off them? nt

Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:32PM EDT (link)

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Well he's been registered for 10days and 3 hours

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:33PM EDT (link)

so he wasted a post on this. Not good at all. I wonder if he or it will defend itself.

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Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Sarcasm

hickorystick (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:49PM EDT (link)

Perhaps true, but at least I am not repeating myself. The point is Sarah saw what this guy was about when the Media Elites couldn’t. It may take a little more than a pair of spectacles to see Death Panels in the health care write-ups, but they are there.
P.S. thanks for the concern, but my doctor e-mailed me where to find the Cap Lock button

Next time you use sarcasm, hickorystick, please indicate it with tags so the regulars know that you are being sarcastic.

Xasteius (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:55PM EDT (link)

When you don’t have an established record and you make comments like that, you paint a bullseye on your chest, so to speak.

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

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Given that you've threadjacked, hopefully this will be the last time for you

civil truth (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:35PM EDT (link)

And your demise will be little noticed and quite ummourned.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

 

Hey sport ....

Stephen Halsey (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:35PM EDT (link)

….you really are in the wrong place to be spouting off like that. We don’t like Kossacks that yell, esp. nonsense like that.

Hit hard. Hit fast. Hit often.

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OH YES HE DOES !!!1!11!!!1!

Bill S (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 9:58PM EDT (link)

I CAN TYPE IN CAPS LIKE YOU and AREN’T I KEWL TOO?????

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

Well, "for the last time"

Rusty_S (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:21PM EDT (link)

is probably right at least…

 

Tee Hee!

Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:43PM EDT (link)

“Hey @markosm yuh shudda seen me! I told ‘em I did!”
PSSSSSSTTTTT!!!!
“Whut th…..!”

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“AIEEEEEEE!”

 

for what it's worth

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:55AM EDT (link)

I could tell it was satire. But like the fellas said upthread, since you’re new here, and because we get all kinds of riff-raff in our front door, you probably want to not go full snark without some kind of flag — until we get to know ya better.

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Mia Culpa

hickorystick (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:20AM EDT (link)

Correction accepted. I’ll keep it more low key (and case).

And don't use Latin if you can't spell it: It's "mea culpa." nt

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:26AM EDT (link)

In Vino Veritas

would that be

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:38AM EDT (link)

argumentum ad lingua? If you don’t know the language your argument sucks.

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Pet peeve of mine.

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:36PM EDT (link)

I used to have lawyers and guardhouse lawyers as subordinates and, my God, could they butcher Latin! You don’t need it for legal argument anymore though some of it makes a good short hand. Mostly it is just a form of snobbery. Some punk right out of school throwing around stuff like res jew-duh-cahduh (race yew-di-kah-tah), star-ih dee-cise-sis (stah-ray day-kee-sis), or deh jew-ree (day yew-ray) drove me nuts. So, I had a simple rule; if you can’t spell it and pronounce it IN LATIN, not that anglicized mess they call legal latin, you couldn’t use it.

I try not to use it much and I try to use it right, but I screw up too. It is especially easy to screw it up if you know a little Latin, a little French, and a little Spanish and you slip back and forth between spellings and pronunciations. I’m basically illiterate in all three; I know enough Latin to call BS and enough French and Spanish to say hello, maybe get some “companionship,” get a drink, and find the restrooms. If I’ve been in Mexico a couple of weeks I can get up to maybe a five year old’s fluency in what passes for Spanish there.

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was in a fancy restaurant in Puerto Vallarta. Late twenties, early thirties American woman, probably a Spanish teacher judging by the very formal Castillian Spanish she was speaking, is having dinner with one of the young Mexican studs that hunt for women like that. She’s trying to order dinner and show off by ordering in Spanish. First, women just DON’T do that in Mexico; most places the “Lady’s Menu” doesn’t even have prices. Second, Spanish teacher Spanish was practically a foreign language to both the waiter and the young man and they could hardly understand a word of it. He wound up ending the pain by ordering in English. It was a lot funnier to watch than my description.

In Vino Veritas

I don't disagree with on that

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 12:50PM EDT (link)

of course anyone that smart should know that those outside of Mexico City just can’t understand those from Mexico City. Really, just go to Monterrey and you’ll see that Castillian spanish doesn’t work well there. Try a bit of Tex-Mex and you might get somewhere.

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You think that is something?

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:15PM EDT (link)

Here in Houston it is a regular Tower of Babel. We have lots of Mexicans, But we also have Dominicans, Hondurians, and a sizable amount of Cubans. To make it more fun we have a big Filipino community who can speak a sort of Spanish.

None of them understand each other very well and then you throw in all the Anglos like me who speak only broken Spanish, and the people who speak no Spanish and no English (lots of those here)

It gets crazy in any department store or just out on the street. A sort of sign language along with pidgen English is often employed.

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Mia Culpa

hickorystick (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:22PM EDT (link)

I was recently on a tour of Red State America , and the only regret I have was I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

The cover is off, troll

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:27PM EDT (link)

Time to say goodbye.
And I would learn some street lingo when you got back to your Blue State hideout – like “hooker” and “human smuggling” and “federally-funded criminal enterprise”.

Calm down Jack

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:31PM EDT (link)

He’s not making a more problems around here and fact he’s making things a bit nicer. I’m sure we understand that he went full snark on us with his first post and now he might be reformed.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Re-read his post

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:34PM EDT (link)

What would that mean to you?

Give him some time

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:41PM EDT (link)

he might be coming to his senses. I did re-read the post and while he did make a mistake, at least he isn’t as bad some other trolls and Mobys that posted here. Maybe he need to explain himself first.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Nope, he's a waste of time. He ignored the advice he got.

janis (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:47PM EDT (link)

And he deliberately did it again to taunt us. He’s a troll.

And go look up his username in the Urban Dictionary. Still think he's not a troll? nt

janis (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:48PM EDT (link)

lol, janis...he may be legit

blooch Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:08PM EDT (link)

I assume that you’re referring to this definition:

“A large wooden stick used for beatin people with stinky nuts.”

We *are* beating on Obama’s ACORN’s, no?

And UD doesn’t always get it right. Trust me, I know

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 
 
 
 
 

I agree with Jack, Richard. The guy's a troll. nt

janis (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:37PM EDT (link)

Stupid maybe

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:44PM EDT (link)

but I haven’t rendered Troll status yet to him. If he posts a bit more I can make a determination

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

At first I took it as sarcasm, now not so sure.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:47PM EDT (link)

I thought it was snark yesterday, today, not willing to fix misspelling is attitude problem. Attitude and poor manners usually spell trouble.

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hickorystick (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:30PM EDT (link)

The point of the original post is while the rest of the Republican Party was focused on extraneous things, Sarah, like the good mother she is, was focused on the friends he was keeping and was disturbed by it. She was the only one with the courage to speak up and challenge Obama. She was proven correct over time (story of Honduras getting me thinking about this). She also spoke out about government run health care using a phrase “Death Panel” to characterize her concern about splitting individuals into groups and prioritizing or denying their care based on budgetary constraints. I am not comfident in their ability to fiscally restrain themselves to leave money for care. This is the point of the original post. How it ends up with Jack Savages comment I have no idea. I’ll admit I was not in a good frame of mind when I posted it, it was a long frustrating day. E Pluribus Unum’s critique was correct, sarcasm without a frame of reference is likely to be misunderstood.

A reminder

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:41PM EDT (link)

“I was recently on a tour of Red State America , and the only regret I have was I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

That’s how.

 

No, that doesn't explain your response to my

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:43PM EDT (link)

correction. You’re either a troll or simply a smartass with no self-awareness. Time will tell and I don’t think you have much time here in your future.

In Vino Veritas

 
 
 
 
 
 

Just change the i to an e

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:27PM EDT (link)

that’s sort of where you went wrong.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

"Those people" ? You really are a tool.

janis (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:36PM EDT (link)

You’ve been given the benefit of the doubt here and you blew it. Your “tour” of RedState won’t be a long one. While here, you can continue to display your profound ignorance and the usual bad manners of most lefties.

Mockery always works, janis, the very idea of being corrected

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:04PM EDT (link)

by the neanderthals on Red State caused him to blow his cover. Almost never fails. Just make fun of them; they can’t stand it.

In Vino Veritas

 
 

Listen, you sarcastic punk, the farmers and mechanics

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:02PM EDT (link)

in Red State America are better educated and more literate than the typical smart-ass liberal punk graduating from the U these days.

I had to have two years of Latin AND two years of a “foreign” language to get a College Preparatory diploma from a pubic HS in the rural South forty years ago. The typical urban HS grad today isn’t even literate in English, but they sure know how to vote Blue.

In Vino Veritas

That's a fact

aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:17PM EDT (link)

From my experience as a student in HS, real learning has been supplanted, and has been replaced by busywork and indoctrination. There’s no HS class that I can remember which even attempted to portray objective truth at all, with the exception of math. The “history lessons” on Communism are particularly revisionist, with many of the human rights violations committed by the USSR whitewashed, and those on the US side hyped up to paint a false picture of moral equivalence between the two powers.

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

 

Absolutely Art, Aesthete! I actually had a few teachers who taught us how to make our own decisions.

nessa (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:15PM EDT (link)

They presented us with data, often opposing viewpoints on a subject, prodded us to research and then spent hours listening and fostering discussion. We weren’t presented with one view and that view reinforced by the instructor, it was our views that we had to develop and defend with our peers and their own views and ideas. My kids don’t have any experience with this in HS anymore. One side is presented and reinforced by the authority figure. The most valuable thing I learned in HS was that I was capable of independent thought. Granted, this was a while ago, although my books weren’t carved on slabs of stone like another commenter here, but its a dead technique in education today.

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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teh twitter

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I think pal and disciple of socialist thug Barack Obama

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:08PM EDT (link)

After all who has enabled this to occur- this absence of democratic process contrary to their constitution, legislative intent and laws? That would be Barack Obama and his mustachioed sidekick Hillary Clinton.

I think he’s kinda cool, this Barack Obama, so fresh and hip. He’s the quintessential incarnation of Soviet policy with a little American pizazz. I bet next ole Barack will be at Spago with Zelaya. Why it’s the contemporary Moltov-Ribbentrob Pact- with salsa. Ole!

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

I Can See T-Shirts With Pictures of Che Guevara Shaking Hands

Ausonius (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:19PM EDT (link)

with Big BRObama!

There could be a big market for those! :)

Especially with a yellow stripe down the back, neon yellow, or glow-in-the-dark yellow.

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

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AND…Know Your Czars…Before They Hit BIG BRObama’s Unemployment Line in November: http://www.czarcards.us/

Well they are 2 of a kind

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 10:22PM EDT (link)

Che and O. They both don’t like democracy and O seems to be a distant acolyte of Che’s.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Che & Obama together - rare photograph

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:28PM EDT (link)

Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged

This is priceless photoshop "art"

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:16AM EDT (link)

What mad skillz…..

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

Izoneguy should apply for a grant from the NEA to produce more like this. ;^) nt

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:33AM EDT (link)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

LMAO! Must have been early in his career as a community organizer.

nessa (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:00PM EDT (link)

Judging from the confused look and the scratching of his head.

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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ROTFLMAO...Careful, Izoneguy,

blooch Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:05PM EDT (link)

the Carnahan Clan is gonna come and make a monkey out of you!

I was looking for Charlton Heston in a cage in the background.

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

I Was Reminded More Of A Certain Insurance Company's

Ausonius (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:57PM EDT (link)

ads with cavemen.

Anybody with a Che – or NObama – shirt needs to be slapped silly.

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

AND…Know Your Czars…Before They Hit BIG BRObama’s Unemployment Line in November: http://www.czarcards.us/

 
 
 
 
 

How did we start that civil war? Obama's true nature- communist and evil?

archer52 Monday, September 21st at 11:06PM EDT (link)

For a President who wanders around saying how we shouldn’t project our will onto others, he certainly jumped all over this. It makes you wonder why it is so important to make this point with Honduras.

Is he trying to show he’s a hard line bad a** like Chavez? Is he trying to help Chavez across the line with his plan of socializing all his neighbors? Other than being such an embarrassment to us as we watch the leader of the largest democratic republic push a small country into a dictatorship, what does Obama get from it?

Maybe a favor to be called in by Obama at a later date? This makes no sense, unless you spend some time at other websites which point out a couple of interesting articles, well worth reading.
Simply put Obama is a communist, and so are a number of the people around him.

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/the-obama-socialist-marxist-communist-reader/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/loudon-security-implications-obamas-man-axelrod-was-mentored-by-marxist-radicals/

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/polin/polin192.htm

The last article about George Galloway in Britain and how the communist and Islamic radicals are working together explains how Galloway ran around supporting Muslim causes with so much support. I thought he was just an idiot.

Obama will need Hugos help

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 21st at 11:30PM EDT (link)

When Texas is ready to leave the Obamanation.

Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged

And who among you...

cardcarryingmom (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:25AM EDT (link)

will come with us Texans?

Proud member of the Robert Morris Society

We Sooners will!

larueladue (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:41AM EDT (link)

Being a part of Texas would be better than a part of the Obamanation! (I think I hear relatives rolling over in their graves….)

Well we will incorporate Oklahoma and Louisiana

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:49AM EDT (link)

in to Greater Texas soon. With that we have plenty of space for those fleeing the obamanation.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 
 

izoneguy- I suspect that Texas would have to deal with overpopulation

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:55AM EDT (link)

were that to happen.

 

izoneguy- I suspect that Texas would have to deal with overpopulation

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 7:55AM EDT (link)

were that to happen.

Maybe you can make up a short quiz to enter Texas.

Xasteius (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:46PM EDT (link)

We’re not talking essay-length, just enough long to distinguish between red/blue mentality.

Examples:

What is the purpose of ACORN?

Do you want government-run health care? Why or Why not?

What are the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution called?

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

That would make a good voter registration test! nt

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 2:55PM EDT (link)

In Vino Veritas

You are right Achance, but, I would add

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:40PM EDT (link)

Are you at least 30?

Have you worked and paid taxes for at least 5 years?

Only then can we get those that have at least started growing a brain to elect our elected leaders.

 

You are right Achance, but, I would add

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:40PM EDT (link)

Are you at least 30?

Have you worked and paid taxes for at least 5 years?

Only then can we get those that have at least started growing a brain to elect our elected leaders.

 
 

Sometimes we need that for a Driver's license test

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:32PM EDT (link)

here in Texas. Need to let DPS know about that. BTW, we have 24 millon people but most live in urban areas like Houston metro or Dallas/Ft Worth. So there is plenty of land to settle.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Hubby said he wouldn't mind moving back to Vidor.

Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:54PM EDT (link)

I’m not so sure about that.

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Personally, I like Spring a lot

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:02PM EDT (link)

but if push came to shove, I’d move to Sweetwater.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Richard, I'm a hillbilly

Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:35PM EDT (link)

All I know about Texas other than what hits the political news and travelogues is what hubby tells me because he lived there for 25 years.

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You do know that Vidor is in the Piney woods outside of Beaumont

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:13PM EDT (link)

and that it notorious for being a racist town. Not much out there and if you were in a town that was closer to a big Metro area like Houston or Dallas/Ft Worth, there is plenty to do. Some of the most republican towns are close to big cities.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

I told hubby it had probably changed

Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:14PM EDT (link)

from when he lived there but then, it’s probably always been a racist town, huh? Personally I liked his stories about west Texas better even if there wasn’t much there.

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I'm sure might know your Geography

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:24PM EDT (link)

Vidor is in Southeast Texas

Sweetwater is in Central West Texas

Lubbock is in the Panhandle Plains

This concludes today’s lesson on Texas Geography

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

I know where Vidor is.

Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:31PM EDT (link)

And, yes that it is southeast. Hubby worked in Lake Charles LA when he lived there.

Actually, I know where Ft. Hood is, too but it was a looooooong empty road the route I took to get there because I was cutting across from Ft. Polk. I hated Ft. Polk. It was the only post I ever hated.

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You're just sucking up because of his signature

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:00PM EDT (link)

Go ahead – admit it. While I try to think up something signature-worthy….

Reply to....aargh

Jack_Savage (Diary) Tuesday, September 22nd at 3:00PM EDT (link)

Double aargh.