Bill Jacobson has a good post here, about the Honduras coup:

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "Heads They Win, Tails We Lose" Diplomacy

Think about it. Obama was more interested in not 'offending' the Islamic fundamentalist thugs who run Iran, than in expressing any measure of support for those who were rioting against the thuggery, murder, mayhem, and other crimes against the people foistered upon them by a morally corrupt government.

It would have interfered with his 'negotiations' with that criminal regime.

Now, as Jacobson points out, we have another example of Obamanian diplomacy. Obama is supporting a Chavezian thug who illegally tried to grab a third term.

Honduras defends its democracy

Here's an excerpt:

# Zelaya couldn’t get the ballots printed in Honduras since the referendum had been pronounced illegal by the country’s Supreme Court AND the electoral board. Therefore, the government couldn’t print them. No private printer was willing to break the law, either. So Zelaya had the ballots printed in Venezuela and flown in.

# The Supreme Court instructed the military (who would be the ones doing the job) NOT to distribute the ballots to the polling stations.

# Zelaya then led thousands of supporters to recover the material from an air force warehouse before it could be confiscated. His supporters broke into the military installation where the ballots were kept. (This is on a par with some politician leading a mob to break into Fort Carson.)

# Zelaya’s supporters started distributing the ballots at 15,000 voting stations across the country. This act placed him in outright defiance of the law, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

# When the armed forces refused to distribute the ballots, Zelaya fired the chief of the armed forces, Gen. Romeo Vásquez, and the defense minister, the head of the army and the air force resigned in protest. The country’s Supreme Court voted unanimously that Vásquez be reinstated.

There's more. Click on the link above. For more background, click here.

Remember, Zelaya is a Chavenista. Chavez is backing Zelaya:

Hugo Chavez declared that “we are not going to watch with our arms crossed the goings-on in Honduras,” and insisted “we will do what we will have to do so the sovereignty of the Honduran people will be respected.”

The Honduran peoples' "sovereignity" is being respected by the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran legislature.

Is there a message there? Might we expect a grab for a third term and an appointment as Dear Leader for Life on the part of The One? OK ... that's a bit far-fetched, something DinkyDau Billy might come up with under his AFDB.

But there is no denying that Obama really likes defending the thugs. There is no denying that facts, when they get in the way of Obama worship, are simply ignored by the mainstream media.

From CNN:

The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and sparked clashes in the Honduran capital that have left dozens of people injured.

I think if someone mentioned my name in the same paragraph as Hugo Chavez I'd puke. But it sure does show the political leanings, does it not?

Here we have Obama supporting a 'president' who claimed power illegally. Regarding Iran, it took days for Obama to come up with some really weak 'support' for people protesting a crooked election by a morally corrupt regime.

So ... we're going to 'dialogue' with the Iranian government?

Here's how those murdering thugs 'dialogue':

Baharestan Square

Massacre in Baharestan Square

Crackdown in Baharestan Square

How accurate are these reports? Dunno. Certainly there is violence and bloodshed, with protesters against the morally corrupt Iranian government being beaten and murdered.

As for the mainstream media and their resources ... we'll have to wait for them to finish gushing and fawning over the demise of Michael Jackson, the former singer who brought new meaning to the word "bizarre", before they get back to gushing and fawning over The Obamessiah ... with Iran as an afterthought, one of those irritating little distractors.

Speaking of which, Jonah Goldbert has a good commentary on the incredible vapidity of the mainstream media:

Some quick thoughts on Michael Jackson

an excerpt:

I know that Michael Jackson wasn’t convicted of the despicable crimes he was accused of. And that’s why he never went to jail. Three cheers for the majesty of the American legal system. But in my own personal view, he wasn’t exonerated either. Nor was he absolved of his crimes because he could sing, moonwalk, or sell 10 million records. (Though many of us suspect the money and fame he made from those things is precisely what kept him out of jail).

And, while I merely think he was a pedophile, I know he was not someone responsible parents should applaud, healthy children emulate, nor society celebrate.

And while we’re at it, his relatively early death wasn’t “tragic.” He was one of the richest people in the world. He spent his money on perpetual childhood and he was perpetually with children not his own.

Meanwhile, in the last ten days, we’ve seen or heard of remarkable people who’ve given their lives for freedom in Iran. We’ve heard of innocents killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the last decade, America has lost thousands of heroes in noble causes and thousands of innocent bystanders who were denied the simple joys of life through no fault of their own. Those deaths are tragic, and we're hard pressed to think of more than a handful of names to put with the long line of the dead.

If anything, Michael Jackson’s life, not his death, was tragic.

Meanwhile, the Iranians have done a Michael Jackson Merge:



and of course, no post on Obama's foreign policy would be complete without Michael Ramirez:

"...it's not like you're interrogating terrorists ..."

While FoxNews and CNN continue to headline Michael Jackson's demise, reports are coming out of Baghdad that the Basij and other 'authorities' rounded up protesters in Baharestan Square and fell upon them with axes, bludgeons, guns, and gas:

Unimaginable horror in Tehran

How reliable those reports are is up for question, but the Washington Post reports that there was indeed a continuing, violent clash:

Protestors in Tehran met with force near Iran's Parliament

Wapo's report says nothing of axes and 'butchering protesters like animals'. More reports continue to stream out of the country, however.

Back now to the regularly scheduled maintstream media coverage of The King of Pop.

Talk about smoke, looking glasses, bovine digestive tracts, and dropping down Through the Donut Hole:

Barack Obama, deficit slayer

That's an article written by Matthew Yglesias.

You want "... the rest of the story ..."?

Check out the links in Bill Jacobson's Legal Insurrection posting on this.

Take a look at the Washington Post article, and the others, linked in Jacobson's post.

How does that sit with you?

The Obama regime remains essentially clueless over more than half of the $80 billion in 'savings' for Medicare drugs it is now promising seniors.

The Obama White House cannot explain more than half of today's announced $80 billion in prescription drug savings.

A senior official said the White House estimates $30 billion in savings will be achieved through drug companies reducing by at least 50 percent the cost of brand-name prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries who fall into the so-called coverage "donut hole."

The other $50 billion in savings will come from unspecified and unknown changes to drug costs linked to Medicare and Medicaid.

The $80 billion in savings is a 10-year estimate.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday details on non-donut hole savings remain to be negotiated between the drug companies and the Senate Finance Committee.

"They're still continuing to work through some of the details on that," Gibbs said. "Some portion of this is going to go to the pharmaceutical interest -- industry, making good on the savings proposals that the president has outlined to make health care more efficient, which will impact the amount that the government pays."

But White House officials could not explain what drug companies will do to improve efficiency or how the drug companies will provide, on average, $5 billion in savings each year by giving Medicare or Medicaid lower prescription drug costs.

We have a pair of Eurasian collared doves hanging around the feeders, bullying the smaller birds, though with marginal success. The blue jays are not in the least intimidated, while the Cassin's finches - of which we have several - simply gang up on the doves. The smaller birds, sparrows and chickadees, fly around complaining incessantly.

The doves, having no sense of propriety whatsoever, were going at it, so to speak, on the power lines across the street.

There is a series of photos of this connubial bliss here:

Birding

and click on the Eurasian doves link.