I don't know wht's going on in Honduras and I don't care either. But I do know Castro and Chavez are evil men.
Obama's quote makes me wonder. If the Iranian revolutionary guard decided to side with the protestors in the street instead of beating them to death, and threw the raging clerics out of power, would Obama call that "illegal?"
Obama's quote makes me wonder. If the Iranian revolutionary guard decided to side with the protestors in the street instead of beating them to death, and threw the raging clerics out of power, would Obama call that "illegal?"
Better yet...send Obama a letter yourself.
Tell him he is an illegal President...give it back to the British. @)
again, do you actually think he provided a "definition of a legal coup"? that's as silly as saying something like 'legal war" as opposed to "illegal war". Who gets to make those decisions?
KTV was right about one thing, I wasn't expecting an answer. You see, it was a rhetorical question.
But I forgot lefties write their own definitions.
liberal = moderate
conservative = extremist
reduction in the rate of growth = cut in spending
& coup d'etat = An abrupt change in power that occurs through accepted and legal procedures. Like when a leader switches parties overnight. Or when a minority party within a government challenges a current leadership and through accepted procedures forces enough members to step down that the balance of power shifts.
I'm sorry, I just find that definition of a coup kinda funny. Seriously, that looks more like a Democratic process to me.
so what led to the events in Hondurus?
looks like the exiled socialist didn't want to give up power. Looks like he was trying to rewrite the rules using his own terms.
As they say, priceless
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For weeks, Zelaya -- an erratic leftist who styles himself after his good pal Hugo Chávez of Venezuela -- has been engaged in a naked and illegal power grab, trying to rewrite the Honduran constitution to allow him to run for reelection in November.
First Zelaya scheduled a national vote on a constitutional convention. After the Honduran supreme court ruled that only the country's congress could call such an election, Zelaya ordered the army to help him stage it anyway. (It would be ''non-binding,'' he said.) When the head of the armed forces, acting on orders from the supreme court, refused, Zelaya fired him, then led a mob to break into a military base where the ballots were stored.
His actions have been repudiated by the country's supreme court, its congress, its attorney-general, its chief human-rights advocate, all its major churches, its main business association, his own political party (which recently began debating an inquiry into Zelaya's sanity) and most Hondurans: Recent polls have shown his approval rating down below 30 percent.
In fact, about the only people who didn't condemn Zelaya's political gangsterism were the foreign leaders and diplomats who now primly lecture Hondurans about the importance of constitutional law. They're also strangely silent about the vicious stream of threats against Honduras spewing from Chávez since Zelaya was deposed.
Warning that he's already put his military on alert, Chávez on Monday flat-out threatened war against Honduras if Roberto Micheletti, named by the country's congress as interim president until elections in November, takes office.
''If they swear him in we'll overthrow him,'' Chávez blustered. ``Mark my words. Thugetti -- as I'm going to refer to him from now on -- you better pack your bags, because you're either going to jail or you're going into exile.''
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too fucking funny
:lol:
it figures Obama would get it wrong, and I was actually giving him the benefit of a doubt on this one. I was only mocking his obvious poor choice of words beforehand.
looks like the exiled socialist didn't want to give up power. Looks like he was trying to rewrite the rules using his own terms.
As they say, priceless
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http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1120408.html
For weeks, Zelaya -- an erratic leftist who styles himself after his good pal Hugo Chávez of Venezuela -- has been engaged in a naked and illegal power grab, trying to rewrite the Honduran constitution to allow him to run for reelection in November.
First Zelaya scheduled a national vote on a constitutional convention. After the Honduran supreme court ruled that only the country's congress could call such an election, Zelaya ordered the army to help him stage it anyway. (It would be ''non-binding,'' he said.) When the head of the armed forces, acting on orders from the supreme court, refused, Zelaya fired him, then led a mob to break into a military base where the ballots were stored.
His actions have been repudiated by the country's supreme court, its congress, its attorney-general, its chief human-rights advocate, all its major churches, its main business association, his own political party (which recently began debating an inquiry into Zelaya's sanity) and most Hondurans: Recent polls have shown his approval rating down below 30 percent.
In fact, about the only people who didn't condemn Zelaya's political gangsterism were the foreign leaders and diplomats who now primly lecture Hondurans about the importance of constitutional law. They're also strangely silent about the vicious stream of threats against Honduras spewing from Chávez since Zelaya was deposed.
Warning that he's already put his military on alert, Chávez on Monday flat-out threatened war against Honduras if Roberto Micheletti, named by the country's congress as interim president until elections in November, takes office.
''If they swear him in we'll overthrow him,'' Chávez blustered. ``Mark my words. Thugetti -- as I'm going to refer to him from now on -- you better pack your bags, because you're either going to jail or you're going into exile.''
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too fucking funny
:lol:
it figures Obama would get it wrong, and I was actually giving him the benefit of a doubt on this one. I was only mocking his obvious poor choice of words beforehand.
The network marketing business won't be calculated into my taxes until I file 2009
Lawn care? I've just got a couple thousand in gear in my storage shed for "helping friends".
Rx.com pittance wages and DrugSense salary are my "income" and HuskyFan did a fine job tallying my obligations to the ol' IRS
Probably be nice if I finished paying my modest bill to him ASAP
now that's what I'm talking about, it's all about perspective
July 2 (Bloomberg) --
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he’s plotting his return to the Central American nation and called for “strong” action from the U.S. to help restore him to power.
“Their words are strong,” Zelaya said today during an interview in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel in Panama. “We’re going to see now if their actions are strong.”
When asked about Zelaya the president said he was deeply concerned.
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he’s plotting his return to the Central American nation and called for “strong” action from the U.S. to help restore him to power.
“Their words are strong,” Zelaya said today during an interview in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel in Panama. “We’re going to see now if their actions are strong.”
When asked about Zelaya the president said he was deeply concerned.
