Honduras and the Newest Narrative

Hey there all you Hondurans out there……the Media is starting to get a clue. (the link is to an LA Times story out today calling the Honduran changes a “new kind of coup”. They kind of sort of suggest that maybe it was legalish after all. Though of course only because the greedy rich are in charge of the government)

Sadly, it’s going to come with a brand new “fact”.

Obama and his administration are sooooo brilliant that they backed the wrong horse from the start so that they could cool Chavez’s jets.

Sometimes you have to give political leaders credit.

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are on the verge of achieving their own coup in Honduras and advancing American interests with a deftness not seen from Washington in many years.

The president’s reference to Honduras during his trip to Moscow reflects how the small Central American country is but a pawn as the administration pushes the reset button globally and in the hemisphere.

Justice may not be totally served in Honduras, but the country is likely to end up better off anyway.

“America cannot and should not seek to impose any system of government on any other country,” Obama said in Russia, “nor would we presume to choose which party or individual should run a country. . . . Even as we meet here today, America supports now the restoration of the democratically elected president of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies. We do so not because we agree with him. We do so because we respect the universal principle that people should choose their own leaders.”

The immediate lesson was to teach Russia to stay out of Georgia and Ukraine. The message, however, also resonated throughout Latin America, undercutting the polarization efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
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That the administration has joined with the Organization of American States in condemning the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has left Chávez puffing a lot of hot air with no one to fight against.
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There is now genuine movement toward a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

The United States, long seen as a bully in the region, is suddenly being seen as respectful and wise..
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The Honduran Supreme Court, as it is empowered to do under the constitution, ordered the army to arrest Zelaya after he began to carry out a referendum for a constitutional convention that the court, Congress and his own attorney general said was illegal. Yet, many Latin American and European governments still call it a “military coup” or, as the Associated Press called it several days afterward, a “military power grab.” Clinton and Obama dropped calling it a coup.

There are gray areas having to do with presidential powers and the fact that the Honduran constitution prohibits extradition of citizens.

Did you get that folks?
1) Obama backing Zelaya was Obama telling Putin to back off of Georgia
2) Obama backing Zelaya was Obama being “cool” about lefty dictatorships in the south and forcing Chavez to just sputter something about American interference
3) Obama backing Zelaya and suggesting the Costa Rican strategy makes them wise
4) Obama is NOW ahead of the curve in his wise way by putting aside the term “coup”.
Isn’t he something else??

Don’t worry – you start to get used to the “change” with the “hope” that no one notices. See how the economic narrative in the US changed under Obama.

Like I said the other day, Micheletti going to Costa Rica was a smart move on his part because it gave him and outside honest broker to the real events. NOW the narrative can change.

If in the end, the economy improves, world peace is achieved, al-Qaeda drops to it’s knees, we are all “saved from hell” and I have more money in my pocket and it all happens because of circumstances not connected to Obama, but the newspapers choose to write it all up as if he did it……..
do I have to be happy about it?