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Obama, Our Marxist-Minded President We have a president, a state department, a U.N., and an Organization of American States (OAS) that is now backing the communists, Marxists, socialists, and tyrants that want to take over Honduras. This is a case study of how a radical socialist president, backed by Congressional majorities, and a mainstream media in the tank, can do the most outrageous things and get away with them. But it is also a grim reminder that we have not only elected a radical, left-wing president with a history of questionable associates, but a president that can now be fairly labeled a socialist and communist sympathizer and supporter. Don’t try fobbing this all off. The facts are clear to anyone who wants to take the time to find them. This is light years behind incredible and outrageous and what is happening is clear as a bell to anyone who is awake: We have a president, Barack Obama; a state department headed by Hillary Clinton; and a government that is now on the side of the Communists, the Marxists, the tyrants and dictators of South America. I knew Obama was a fraud, a faker, a phony, and a fibber. I knew he was a socialist, but the new evidence suggests you have to add communist sympathizer and/or communist to that long list of Obama descriptives. If you’re getting the facts instead of the mythology spun out by our President, our State Department and the mainstream media, you know what is going on in Honduras. Instead of supporting those that stand for freedom and democracy, we are supporting the Communists and the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. The facts are summarized by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM) in an article at AIM’s web site, _aim.org_ (http://aim.org/) , titled “Obama Sides With Marxists Over Hondurans” (June 28, 20090). He writes, “The so-called ‘military coup’ in Honduras was a successful effort20by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran. Not surprisingly, America’s Marxist President has come down on that anti-American side.” Kincaid has been in the lead in covering this story, and you can find a series of his reports on the subject at the web site of Accuracy in Media (www.aim.org). The deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, was not ousted by a coup. A coup suggests a violent, illegal, and unconstitutional removal by force from office. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (2nd ed., unabridged) defines a coup as “a sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force.” Instead he was ousted by the courts and congress of Honduras because he was taking illegal action to preserve his presidency in violation of the Honduran constitution. As explained by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehiten (R-FL), ranking republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Zelaya was “moving to re-write the Honduran constitution to extend and expand his power, while retaliating against those who stand in the way.” Because Zelaya was taking illegal action, he was impeached by the Honduran Congress. That action was affirmed by the courts, and the action was supported by the equivalent of the Attorney General of Honduras and its military. (As an aside, the Catholic Church in Honduras also opposed Zelaya’s illegal power-grab).) So this was not a coup, but the military, under lawful orders from the courts and congress, taking action against a rogue president in accordance with the rule of law and with the purpose of preserving the democratic process. A blogger, quoted by Kincaid, put the matter this way: The Obama administration E2was quick to call the events in Honduras a coup. What has gone underreported, or not reported at all in the media or recognized by the Obama Administration, is that the democratically-elected Congress unanimously approved the change in leadership and impeached the president. If this was a constitutionally correct action why has the Obama administration been so quick to judge and condemn?” So we have the disgusting spectacle of President Obama and our government working with the Communists, Marxists and the tyrants of South America (such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela) and working against the forces of freedom and the legitimate democratic government of Honduras. Kincaid writes, “The leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez sponsored a United Nations resolution that condemned the people of Honduras for resisting the spread of communism by evicting a would-be dictator.” You know something is radically wrong when the Obama is working closely with the tyrant and Communist, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. I asked Kincaid why Obama is working with the Communists and socialists and working against democratically electe d governments. He replied that to understand where Obama is coming from you just have to look at his associates over the years. As this column has frequently reported, Obama has a long history of close association with America-haters, bigots, racists, radicals, socialists, Marxists, communists, and even terrorists. And of course, there’s his famous bow to socialist with his remark on how he wants to “ spread the wealth around.” So it is not surprising that he seems more sympathetic to the Marxists and communists than to the forces of freedom. He bootlicks our enemies and disses our friends and allies. His moral compass usually malfunctions. For example, when Russia invaded Georgia, he treated that illegal aggression on the part of Russia as the moral equivalent of the self-defense on the part of Georgia. He seems disturbed and obsessed with the fact that Jews are building homes in Israel, but is relaxed about the Muslims building nuclear bombs in Iran. He visits Russia, but snubs our allies such as Poland. He habitually apologizes for America but fails to recognize the greatness of America and its exceptionaliism. When you consider his associates, his views, and the fact that he seems to be on the side of communists and Marxists, even when it seems to be against America’s best interest, it is no stretch to conclude this guy is a Marxist and a communist. Some would prefer to call him a “communist sympathizer,” but he is clearly on the side of the communists.20 In addition to his socialist, communist, Marxist and radical tendencies, there is one other explanation further supporting Obama’s conduct in this matter. He thinks he can deal with all the tyrants of the world including those in South America and of course Iran. So he wants to keep them happy, so he’ll be in a position to sweet-talk them into doing what he wants. This has been described as the talking disease, and from the point of view of U.S. foreign policy it looks like it is a fatal disease. He thinks he can make Iran, Korea, Cuba and the other tyrants of the world behave like boy scouts if he can talk to them. And he considers those conversations so important that to facilitate them he seems to throw our allies under the bus. To show you how far the mainstream media has gone in misreporting this story, I can refer you to an Associated Press story published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 11, 2009. The U.S. is trying to “resolve” the crisis in Honduras by having Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias mediate the dispute between the legally ousted Zelaya and his legally appointed successor, Roberto Micheletti. The A.P. report states, “U.S. officials have promoted the talks in Costa Rica’s capital, hoping to ease Zelaya back into the presidency without violence while resolving the concerns of Honduras’ Supreme Court, Congress and military, which say they legally removed the president for violating the constitution by mane uvering to extend his time in power.” Get that: The congress and the courts have determined that Zelaya should be impeached and ousted, in accordance to the legal system of Honduras. But the Obama administration wants to put the Chavez and communist backed Zelaya back into power. So the Obama administration, in effect, wants to overrule all the laws and procedures of Honduras to get20the Chavez and communist-backed Zelaya back into office “while resolving the concerns of Honduras’ Supreme Court, Congress and military…” You’d think the reporter would be smart enough to realize there is something incongruous about the Obama administration’s move, which the AP’s own reporting shows is that Obama supports an illegal return to power of an impeached tyrant. In other words, the AP reporter doesn’t realize it is Obama attempting to stage a coup in Honduras. He doesn’t understand the express terms of his own reporting. Almost all of the other major media outlets have reported the ouster of Zelaya as a “ coup.” And that includes even Fox Cable News, which usually doesn’t swallow mainstream media misconceptions. There is something else about this whole bizarre development that must be noted: Obama said he doesn’t want to meddle in the affairs of Iran when the tyrants there were beating demonstrators and cracking the heads of those protesting on behalf of freedom. He took about 11 days before even issuing a strong condemn ation of the suppression of the protesting public. But he immediately protested, meddled and intervened in the affairs of Honduras on behalf of a communist and socialist stooge who had been legally removed. Obama won’t intervene or “meddle” on behalf of freedom fighters, but he will intervene, meddle, and even seek to overthrow the established law of the land when it comes to getting a c ommunist and Marxist back into power. He doesn’t want to meddle in the Middle East to stop the terrorism of the Palestinian Authority, but he is meddling on all cylinders in Israel to stop any expansion of settlements. He seems to have endless sympathy for terrorists, Communists, and America’s enemies. There is only one thing as shocking as our president siding with the Communist and Marxist revolutionaries trying to overthrow a democratic government. It is the fact that the mainstream media and the Democrats in Congress seem to be standing by and not protesting America siding with the Communists of Latin America. While breaking the story about Obama appeasing the Communists and siding with them in South America, Kincaid also broke two other major stories, which I will now briefly summarize. He interviewed Alejandro Pena Esclusa, president of UnoAmerica and leader of the opposition to communist and leftist parties and terrorist movements in Latin America (See “Honduras Can Be Saved >From Communism” July 10, 2009 on the AIM web site (www.aim.org)). Pena Esclusa said that communists are making major inroads in South America, and Obama’s siding with the communists may further that trend. He also noted there are only four center-right or pro-American countries left in Latin America – Columbia, Mexico, Peru, and Panama. He also said, “It is a shame that President Obama is aligning himself with the allies of Chavez and Ahmadinejad to crush a democratic20process in Honduras. I ask myself: Will he really be conscious of the tremendous damage he is inflicting to democracy and freedom in our continent? Does he really know the danger he is posing to the national security of the United States?” Pena Esclusa also emphasizes that 22 of the 34 members of the Organization of American States are controlled by the Communist tyrant, Hugo Chavez. This shows how our position in Latin America is already perilous and how it will be even more perilous under the influence of our socialist and communist president, Barack Hussein Obama. Kincaid also broke a major story on how the Obama has made a deal with the leftist tyrant Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Kincaid found that Tom Hayden, also known as Mr. Jane Fonda and a well-known leftist and Marxist, has written, “The real story is that a gradual rapprochement – not an alliance but a dialogue – is happening between the US and Venezuela, and it began in Trinidad, was pushed by Latin American leaders and welcomed b y those like Obama, who prefer diplomacy over a return to US Cold War isolation.” Kincaid writes, “But why would Obama be appeasing Chavez? Could the ‘ appeasement’ reflect the fact that Obama and Chavez are ideologically in sync and see events in Latin America through the same Marxist lens? This is what the Hayden article suggests.” Obama seems to be in the full-time business of appeasing radicals, Communists, and other enemies of20America in order to further his sweet-talk diplomacy with the likes of Iran and the radicals and communists of Latin America including Chavez and Castro. For a full account of Kincaid’s report on this Obama-Chavez alliance see the article by Kincaid, “Leading ‘Progressive’ Describes Obama-Chavez Axis” (July 6, 2009) on Accuracy in Media’s web site at _www.aim.org_ (http://www.aim.org/) . Finally, as you would expect and as _Breitbart.com_ (http://breitbart.com/) reports, the Democrats in Congress have fallen behind Obama, the communists, the Marxists, and the tyrants of Latin America (“Republicans lambaste Obama for backing Zelaya,” July 10, 2009). Breitbart reports, “‘Zelaya was removed from office for his unconstitutional and illegal attempts to alter the constitution of Honduras for purely selfish reasons,’ said Congressman Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey. “The claim that the events that led to Zelaya0s ouster constituted a coup ‘ melts under any serious scrutiny,’ Smith added. “‘Rather, democracy and the rule of law triumphed over Mr. Zelaya’s lawlessness.’” Senator Connie Mack of Florida said the Obama administration now stands with the tyrants, Marxists and communists of Latin America – Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Daniel Ortega, and not with the Honduran people fighting for their freedom. As so much of recent developments demonstrate, the20Obama administration and the Democratic Congress appear to be at war with America and American values. 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