Michelle Obama Opts For Traditional Vatican Attire

Michelle’s outfit was fine:

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I’m not sure about the jacket(sweater?) she’s wearing because it’s not doing her figure any favors, but contrary to what you may be hearing elsewhwere, a black dress and veil is the traditional, (but not mandatory) attire for a woman meeting the Pope at the Vatican. I’m relieved she didn’t try to buck tradition and wear something outlandish. She looks nice.

Here are some pictures of other notable women meeting a Pope:

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Queen Elizabeth meeting Pope John Paul II, Oct. 7, 2000

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Laura Bush meeting John Paul II June 4, 2004

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Laura Bush meeting Pope Benedict XVI, June 9, 2007

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Margaret Thatcher Meeting Pope Paul VI June 1977

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Margaret Thatcher with Pope John Paul II in 1980.

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Margaret Thatcher meeting Pope Benedict XVI May, 27, 2009

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Princess Diana with Pope John Paul II April 25, 1985

VATICAN BRITAIN PRINCE CHARLES MEETS POPE

The Duchess of Cornwall – Charles’ second wife, Camilla April 28, 2009

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Jacqueline Kennedy Meeting Pope John XXIII March 11, 1962

Hillary bucked tradition a little, and didn’t wear a veil, but the veil is optional. So is the black dress:

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Hillary Clinton John Paul II, date unknown

More On The PA Swim Club Racial Incident

This AP story, although less one sided than the local NBC Philadelphia story from yesterday, still looks bad for The Valley Club in Huntington Valley, and now the PA Human Relations Commission is investigating. If allegations that the group of black children from the Creative Steps Camp were denied the use of the pool based on their race are true, that would be illegal discrimination.

The incident occurred on June 29, when the Creative Steps camp in northeast Philadelphia, which had contracted for  65 children  to go to the Valley Club each Monday afternoon, reportedly heard racial comments, and saw parents taking their kids out  of the pool after they had arrived.

Camp director Alethea Wright  said:

“A couple of the children ran down saying, ‘Miss Wright, Miss Wright, they’re up there saying, “What are those black kids doing here?”‘” she said.

The gated club is on a leafy hillside in a village that straddles two townships with overwhelmingly white populations. It says it has a diverse, multiethnic membership.

Wright said she went to talk to a group of members at the top of the hill and heard one woman say she would see to it that the group, made of up of children in kindergarten through seventh grade, did not return.

“Some of the members began pulling their children out of the pool and were standing around with their arms folded,” Wright said. “Only three members left their children in the pool with us.”

Several days later, the club refunded the camp’s $1,950 without explanation, said Wright, who added that parents are “weighing their options” on legal action

Sounds to me like they would have a pretty good case.

The Valley Club President says race was not a factor in their decision to turn the kids away:

Club president John Duesler told Philadelphia television station WTXF that several club members complained because the children “fundamentally changed the atmosphere” at the pool but that the complaints didn’t involve race.

In a statement released on its Web site Thursday afternoon, the club called the allegations of racial discrimination “completely untrue” and claimed overcrowding from more than one outside camp was the problem.

“We had originally agreed to invite the camps to use our facility, knowing full well that the children from the camps were from multiethnic backgrounds,” it said. “Unfortunately, we quickly learned that we underestimated the capacity of our facilities and realized that we could not accommodate the number of children from these camps.”

The club said it “deplores discrimination.”

“Whatever comments may or may not have been made by an individual member is an opinion not shared by The Valley Club Board,” it said.

How do you underestimate the capacity of your facilities so badly, that you have to turn away 65 kids?

As for the kids’ behavior at the pool…which I posited yesterday might have been a factor:

Amy Goldman said she’s been a member of the club for two years. She said the pool wasn’t particularly crowded and the children from Creative Steps were “well behaved and respectful.”

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“I don’t believe everyone here has racist thoughts, but what was said was insulting and offensive,” said Lewis, who’s black.

Wright rejected the overcrowding explanation, saying the club covers 10 acres with a “nice-sized” pool and a separate pool for younger children. The board, she said, knew that her group included 65 children, and none of them had misbehaved.

“We were not welcome, once the members saw who we were,” she said.

The Valley Swim Club owes those kids an apology, and a free pass for the rest of the summer, but the Creative Steps Camp has found another place for the kids. They no longer want to swim at the Valley Club, anyway. Who can blame them after this disgraceful episode?

Previously:

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

UPDATE:

Donald Douglas has more at American Power with video.

Cap And Tax Would Fund ACORN?

Why not?  Every major spending bill passed by the Dems so far this year has been a major boon for ACORN, so why should this one be any different? Jamie Dupree has been going over the bill with a fine toothed comb, and says the term, “community development corporation” is found  a bunch of times in it.

“The American people will see tax dollars go to so-called community development organizations like ACORN, to teach low-income residents how to live in accord with the worldview of the Environmental Left,” scowled a news release yesterday from Congressional critics of the Cap and Trade bill.

Sure enough, there are 19 mentions of the term “community development” in the bill, but nothing specific about ACORN.

Sec. 264 of the bill is on “Low Income Community Energy Efficiency Program,” which says the feds will dole out grant money to community development organizations “to provide financing to businesses and projects that improve energy efficiency” for low-income residents.

On page 561, the bill authorizes $50 million per year for six fiscal years, so that’s $300 million in all for these kind of programs.

“I just want to know if ACORN would qualify for these grants,” said House GOP Leader John Boehner, who was the only Republican to note the ACORN issue during debate on the House floor.

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ADDITIONAL ACORN-ELIGIBLE BLOCK GRANTS

The G.I.V.E Act:

$5.7 Billion for the Obama Youth Corps

The Senate bill purports to provide “$5.7 billion to aid 250,000 volunteers across the country in the arenas of health care, energy, environment and education.”

But the Senate killed an amendment that would have prevented funds from going to ACORN.

The Omnibus Spending Bill:

$3.9 Billion in Omnibus: “The bill provides $3,900,000,000 for the Community Development Fund…” (“Division I – Transportation, Housing And Urban Development, And Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009; Joint Explanatory Statement” Rules Committee, U.S. House Of Representatives, Pg. 106)

The  Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:

$1 Billion in Stimulus: “For an additional amount for `Community Development Fund’ $1,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2010 to carry out the community development block grant program under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301et seq.)” (H.R.1, Enrolled As Agreed To By Both House And Senate)

Related:

Boehner was interviewed by Mark Levin shortly after the House vote, calling Cap and Trade a “bizarre bill” that has little chance of passing in the Senate..

See Michelle Malkin for The farce of cap-and-tax revealed:

During a hearing today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, EPA Administrator Jackson confirmed an EPA analysis showing that unilateral U.S. action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have no effect on climate.

And:

Doug Ross for a sobering glimpse of our grim near future if Obama continues to get everything he wants in these disastrous bills.

Please  sign this petition: Stop ACORN from Accessing Taxpayer Dollars if you haven’t already.

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Obama’s “Curiously Close Relationeship” With The SEIU And The Blago Federal Probe

It was reported in the Chicago Trib, yesterday that John Harris,  chief of staff to former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich is singing to federal prosecuters:

John Harris, the last chief of staff to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pleaded guilty today to a single count of wire fraud in federal court — and agreed to cooperate in the federal probe against his former boss in return for a recommended prison term of just under 3 years.

Harris was accused of aiding some of the former governor’s efforts to leverage the powers of his office in exchange for favors and campaign contributions.  Among the accusations against Blagojevich is that he attempted to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

Here’s where the SEIU comes in:

In reading a summary of Harris’ plea agreement, (Assistant U.S. Atty. Carrie) Hamilton alleged that Blagojevich met with an official from the Service Employees International Union — a person he understood to be an emissary working on behalf of Obama — hoping to get something for himself in exchange for appointing the right candidate to fill the Senate seat.

Blagojevich was hopeful that by naming a person identified only as “Senate Candidate B” — previously disclosed to be Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett — he could secure an appointment to become secretary of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services, according to the plea agreement.

Blagojevich also was interested in a possible job at a private foundation in exchange for naming Jarrett and asked Harris to look into it.

Obama has “emissaries from the SEIU”? Involved in pay to play schemes with corrupt governors?

You might remember a couple of weeks ago, the article in the LA Times, Obama’s Curiously Close Labor Friendship, signaling an increasing awareness in the media that something is not quite right about Obama’s relationship with the SEIU.

Stay tuned.

Previously:

BREAKING!: Obama Has “Curiously Close Labor Friendship” With SEIU According To LA Times

O’Reilly Investigating ACORN, Now (Finally)

Video: Former ACORN Employees Tell All On Glenn Beck Show

Blago Releases 43 Subpoenas

Blagogate Links

Are Former SDS Radicals Trying To Steal This Election?

ACORN/New Party/Project Vote Shared SAME OFFICE

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

What the heck?! This story reads like something out of Birmingham Alabama circa 1958:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason.

I heard this lady, she was like, ‘Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?’ She’s like, ‘I’m scared they might do something to my child,’” said camper Dymire Baylor.

Well, if that kid’s telling the truth, I’d say, yeah, duh! Race was the reason.

The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers’ first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

“When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool,” Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. “The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately.”

What are those parents teaching those children..that they would do that?  Those black  parents should be outraged…this is an outrageous story…they don’t allow minorities? Disgraceful.

“They just kicked us out. And we were about to go. Had our swim things and everything,” said camper Simer Burwell.

The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded.

“There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,” John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.

What kind of oaf would say such a thing? Seriously? I honestly didn’t think crap like this still goes on…and in a liberal area like Philly, in the deep blue state of PA, no less.

UPDATE:

Irony of ironies: Captain Ed has video, and some information on Valley Swim Club president John Duesler, who made the “complexion” statement. It turns out that he has the same name as the man who ran the O-Positive Obama campaign blood drive in Philly before Barack Obama’s inauguration.

UPDATE II:

Internet detective, Ginger says it’s likely that John Duesler who ran the O-Positive Obama blood drive was probably the son of the Swim Club President.

A couple more things…

A commenter notes that something about this story doesn’t ring true…wouldn’t people who harbor such disgusting attitudes hide them out of fear of legal retribution? That’s a good point, and something I considered.

The story was written from the standpoint of the blacks who were interviewed, but what if they weren’t being strictly honest about what happened? If  the pool attendants didn’t really say that no blacks were allowed at the club that is a scurrilous charge to make. Did the reporter from the Philadelphia News bother to ask Duesler if that was true? If it is true, that is an outrageous thing, this day and age.

Also, as I said in the comments, one thing that has gone unreported is the kids’ behavior when they entered the pool…were they excessively raucous and rowdy? That could be…and that may be why the white kids got out. There are cultural differences that may have been at play.

Report: Sunday’s Violence In Honduras Orchestrated By Chavez

The Honduran newspaper, El Heraldo reported on Wednesday that Chavez influenced the mob at the airport on Sunday. Here is the translation of the report, “Chavez planned a slaughter in Honduras” supplied by a commenter at Honduras Abandoned:

Chavez planned a slaughter in Honduras
The goal, on Sunday July 5, was to cause a massacre and create martyrs.

(News agency) AFP captured the moment when Hugo Chávez, from his office, coordinated the military operation that took Manuel Zelaya Rosales to Honduras, in a flagrant violation of Honduran airspace.

However, rather than seeing a former military coup leader pointing to his Panasonic TV and applauding the “feat” Zelaya Rosales, which was transmitted live by the Telesur network, to the experts in political and security issues what caught their attention was the message written on the whiteboard that could be a clear demonstration that the goal was to cause a slaughter in the event.

Almost in line with the intentions revealed in the writing on the whiteboard, Zelaya Rosales requested through satellite communication from the aircraft that people invade the landing strip and remove the obstacles that the military had placed.

The people attempted to break through; however, the action was suppressed by military and police forces that, according to the commissioner of Human Rights, used a volley of rubber bullets.

The text message on the whiteboard of Chavez says: 051345JUL09 A swarm of African bees, Presidential Podium, wounded by bites and desperation of the people.

Mario Berrios, a lawyer and analyst on political and security issues, says that this is a message written in military language.

The writing 051345JUL09 according to Berríos is what in military doctrine is called group-date-time.

This message reveals the day (05), month (July), year (2009) and time (1:45 in the afternoon), which was precisely the time that the demonstration was pushing into the policemen in the vicinity Camosa, feeling that the security rings were inadequate to retain them and prevent their approach into the airport Toncontín.

You can read part 2 at Honduras Abandoned.

See also AoSHQ:

Obama’s Decision Cycle: Not OODA, But PIDDLE for a good discussion in the comments re Obama’s reasoning for coming out on the wrong side of this issue.

Previously:

Obama Lies By Omission On Honduras

Clinton To Meet With Zelaya In Washington This Week

Honduran Military Removes Despot From Power

Obama “Stands With Democracy”, Defends Leftist Despot/Thug/Drug Trafficker

Honduran Military Ordered To Turn Back Zelaya’s jet

Video: Peter King Stands By His Words On O’Reilly

You can say one thing about the Youtube video where NY GOP Rep. Peter King calls Michael Jackson a “low life” and a “pervert”, you either love it or you hate it. Chances are, if you read this blog…you love it. But rabid Michael Jackson fans and assorted moonbats were  outraged by the straight talk, and one major lib blog even set up a fund to unseat King…which has garnered a whopping $75.00 so far, according to Michelle Malkin.

Peter King appeared on The O’Reilly Factor tonight, to defend his words:

And here’s Al Sharpton trying but failing epically to convince us that there was ‘nothing strange about Michael Jackson’ . That sets the tone for his weak attack on Peter King.:

On the question of Michael Jackson’s supposed “black icon” status, the fact that Jackson had artificially inseminated white kids is a valid point, but I don’t know why O’Reilly didn’t make the more obvious point, namely: HOW THE HECK CAN YOU CALL THE MAN A BLACK ICON WHEN HE BLEACHED HIS SKIN WHITER THAN EDGAR WINTERS‘?

And finally Bernard Goldberg comments on the “wound that never seems to heal”.

GOP Video: “Done Its Job?”

Here’s the latest video from GOP.gov, one of their best, yet:

Go to Innocent Bystanders to hear Geoff explain  why saving the jobs of  ‘teachers, police officers and firefighters’ isn’t “stimulus”, anyway. (Sorry, no chart, this time).

See also Ace:

“They’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place:” Democrats Divided on Economy; Grim Unemployment Figures Suggest Need for Second Stimulus, But Their First Free-Spending Ineffectual Non-Stimulus Leaves the Nation Already Bankrupt

Obama Lauds The Russians For Ending The Cold War

When will this will this mortifying carnival of  Obamanations on foreign soil end? Whether he’s in the Middle East, Latin America, or now what some suspect is his ideological homeland, Mother Russia, Obama can’t help downplaying his own country’s proud history and record of achievements, and seems to delight in throwing past Presidents (esp. Bush) under the bus. Major Garrett asked him about his speech to the Russians, in this interview, rebroadcast on Hannity’s America:

Here is the Lech Walesa WSJ article cited by Hannity at the end of the video:

When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.

Poles fought for their freedom for so many years that they hold in special esteem those who backed them in their struggle. Support was the test of friendship. President Reagan was such a friend. His policy of aiding democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe in the dark days of the Cold War meant a lot to us. We knew he believed in a few simple principles such as human rights, democracy and civil society. He was someone who was convinced that the citizen is not for the state, but vice-versa, and that freedom is an innate right.

I often wondered why Ronald Reagan did this, taking the risks he did, in supporting us at Solidarity, as well as dissident movements in other countries behind the Iron Curtain, while pushing a defense buildup that pushed the Soviet economy over the brink. Let’s remember that it was a time of recession in the U.S. and a time when the American public was more interested in their own domestic affairs. It took a leader with a vision to convince them that there are greater things worth fighting for. Did he seek any profit in such a policy? Though our freedom movements were in line with the foreign policy of the United States, I doubt it.

I distinguish between two kinds of politicians. There are those who view politics as a tactical game, a game in which they do not reveal any individuality, in which they lose their own face.

Does that describe anyone we know?

There are, however, leaders for whom politics is a means of defending and furthering values. For them, it is a moral pursuit. They do so because the values they cherish are endangered. They’re convinced that there are values worth living for, and even values worth dying for. Otherwise they would consider their life and work pointless. Only such politicians are great politicians and Ronald Reagan was one of them.

Dare I say…GW Bush was another one of them:

There will never, ever be such an outpouring of appreciation for Obama from someone who has been given the chance of freedom because of his actions, because that will never happen. As we’ve seen in Iran and Honduras, Obama doesn’t work in defense of Liberty and self government, but on behalf of tyrants and dictators for tactical gains that benefit his Statist “new world order”. Obama, lefties will tell you, is a ‘chess player’, with nuanced, sophisticated, strategies mere mortals like us can never understand.

Unfortunately, he’s too busy plotting his next move, to concern himself with petty concepts like the “rule of law”, “freedom” and “democracy”.

Thanks to Jackstraw for that video.

Others Blogging About This:

Uncle Jimbo and Drew at AoSHQ

The American Thinker

Gateway Pundit

UPDATE:

Via Brutally Honest, we find that the much maligned GW  Bush has  received some heart felt praise from Putin in a birthday greeting:

Putin Praises Bush

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised the hospitality and openness of U.S. former President George W. Bush in a telegramme sent hours before meeting his successor Barack Obama.

“During the last years we have been working on strengthening Russia-U.S. cooperation. Although there were differences between our countries, I always valued your openness and sincerity,” Putin said, congratulating Bush on his 63rd birthday on July 6.

“With special warmth I recall your hospitality in the Crawford ranch and your family estate in Kennebunkport,” Putin wrote, referring to their 2007 meeting at the Bush family vacation home when the two leaders went fishing and ate lobster.

Time to push that “reset button”!

Photoshop:ManBearPig As Churchill

First of all, as any experienced veteran of internet debates will tell you, according to Godwin’s law, the debate on global warming must be nearly over, and Al Gore has lost, because of this latest outburst in England, so that’s good news…

But the bad news is, he has set himself up as some sort of ‘green’ Winston Churchill, which is beyond disturbing:

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TimesOnline reports:

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he urged political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader in the battle against climate change.

The former US Vice-President accused governments around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as that from Hitler.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change,” he said. “The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Actually, I think that the level of awareness is increasing…but not in the direction Al Gore would like…People are becoming increasingly aware that he’s full of crap, but that ’s okay, if Cap and Tax passes, he’ll  be too rich to care about it.

MORE:

Moonbattery also has a good photoshop of “Goracle”.

UPDATE:

I couldn’t resist:

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Saying Farewell To Some American Heros

Here’s a tribute to our military fallen for the week ending June 13, 2009:

There was no all star guest list for Staff Sgt. Beale’s funeral, but my friend Reeko of the GI Woodshop passed this information along:

Nowadays, one can be led to believe that Americans, (outside of the military) no longer respect honor, or honor sacrifice.Let it be it known that there are many places in this land where people still recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. Killed in action the week before, the body of Staff Sergeant John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, just south of Atlanta, on June 11, 2009. The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough, Georgia.

A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to be taken and the approximate time.

The link above below is a short travelogue of that day’s remarkable and painful journey.

Watch this if you wish to have some of your faith in the American people restored.

UPDATE:

It seems the Army has promoted John Beale to Sergeant First Class (E7) according to the DoD press release:

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12728

Michelle Malkin paid tribute, yesterday,  to another soldier, who was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Obama Lies By Omission On Honduras

Barack Obama tried to explain his  position on ousted Honduran president Zelaya in his speech today in Russia. He did so by stating the undisputed obvious fact that Zelaya was Democratically elected. Jake Tapper reports what he said in his speech:

“America supports now the restoration of the democratically-elected President of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies,” the president told graduate students at the commencement ceremony of Moscow’s New Economic School. “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, whether they are leaders we agree with or not. “

The president’s remarks came in the midst of a speech in which discussed “America’s interest in democratic governments that protect the rights of their people” and supported Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s call for judicial reforms in his country.

What if the majority of the people in a democratic country agree with the democratic government that an undemocratic despot has to go? That question wasn’t addressed. Instead we got this:

“We are very clear about the fact that President Zelaya is the democratically elected president,” President Obama said.

Well, thank you Captain Obvious, but we knew that already, and amazingly, we still support the actions of the Honduran government. Jake Tapper helpfully ran down the recent events that led to Zelaya’s ouster:

The military removal of Zelaya as president – and the appointment of Roberto Micheletti  as interim President by the Honduran legislature – came after Zelaya attempted to rewrite his nation’s constitution to end term limits to continue his rule, despite the fact that term limits in the constitution is one of eight “firm articles” that cannot be changed.

After the Honduran Legislature refused to call a constitutional convention to rewrite the constitution, Zelaya called for a referendum to do so, which the Honduran Supreme Court and Attorney General declared unconstitutional.  Zelaya, allied with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez , fired top military commander Romeo Vásquez Velásquez for refusing to carry out the referendum.  Every branch of government sided against Zelaya and Congress began discussing impeachment proceedings. Acting on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court, soldiers arrested Zelaya on June 28 and sent him into exile in Costa Rica.

Here is a video chronology of events that led to the Honduran government’s actions:

Those are the pesky little details Obama left out of his defense of Zelaya.

UPDATE:

Rick Moran at The American Thinker blasts Obama’s folly further:

He (Zelaya) has since been impeached which begs the question of why Obama is selectively applying a standard to Zelaya that is no longer relevant?

Instead of being noble and practicing self abnegation when it comes to US interests, why can’t Obama do what we elected him to do and stand up for those interests instead of denying them out of some stupid, naive, notion where he believes we are going to be applauded for shooting ourselves in the foot?

Bragging about acting contrary to your nation’s interests will no doubt be met with approval by the world’s leftists. In the meantime, a perfectly legitimate change of government has occurred that bolsters US interests and Obama is fighting it, putting himself on the same side as the Castros, Danny Ortega, and Hugo Chavez.

Pretty good for a college kid. Disaster for a US president.

UPDATE II:

Hot Air reports:

An exit strategy for the Honduran crisis?

Honduras’ interim government gave hints Tuesday of a possible solution to a crisis caused by a coup, expressing the first signs of flexibility about the possible return of ousted leader Manuel Zelaya.

Roberto Micheletti, who took over following the June 28 coup, applauded the announcement that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has agreed to mediate efforts to end the standoff.

Arias “is a man with a lot of credibility in the world,” Micheletti told HRN radio. “We are open to dialogue. We want to be heard.”

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Arias would take part after met privately in Washington with Zelaya.

Micheletti said he would send a delegation soon to Costa Rica — a reversal from past days, when he said he would not negotiate until “things are normal.” Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for efforts to help end Central America’s civil wars.

Previously:

Clinton To Meet With Zelaya In Washington This Week

Honduran Military Removes Despot From Power

Obama “Stands With Democracy”, Defends Leftist Despot/Thug/Drug Trafficker

Honduran Military Ordered To Turn Back Zelaya’s jet


Video: Alan Keyes At The 4th of July Pittsburg Tea Party

Dr. Keyes Slices like a hammah!

Part One

Part Two:

He didn’t even need a teleprompter.

I remember how Alan Keyes tried to warn the people of Illinois about Obama when they were both running for the Senate in 2004, but people laughed at him. He was depicted as a right wing nut job, Uncle Tom, etc.

But he was right. He was soooo right.

Hat tip: The Conservative Intelligence News Network.

Clinton To Meet With Zelaya In Washington This Week

She’ll be the highest level Obama administration contact Zelaya’s had since he was deposed, according to Breitbart:

Zelaya is expected in Washington on Tuesday following an unsuccessful attempt to return to Honduras over the weekend that deepened the country’s political crisis. The State Department says the administration remains committed to seeing a restoration of democratic order in Honduras and deplored the use of force against Zelaya’s supporters.

It didn’t take them long to issue a strong statement against Honduras, did it? It took two weeks for Obama to condemn the insane violence in Iran, with the Basiji thugs hacking at protesters with axes, beating them into comas, and shooting innocent bystanders, but one person dies in a clash with the police in Honduras, and the State Dept. is all over it.

Don’t get me wrong…not knowing the entire story, it does look like the Honduran Military police overreacted to the rock throwing mob, and that certainly doesn’t help the new government’s moral standing, but what happened to allowing a country to handle its internal “robust debate” without our meddling?

Meanwhile, Honduras Abandoned has pix of Code Pink meddling on behalf of Chavez and Zelaya in Honduras.

Here’s a good round up of Honduran bloggers who are trying to get the real story out in the face of so much disinformation.

UPDATE:

Via Gateway Pundit:

Honduras Abandoned reports: Killing Bullet Is Not Of Military Caliber

This is just a rough translation, as I am hurrying to make it available in English:

The Minister of Defense Adolfo Lionel Sevilla said this afternoon that the bullet that killed a young man at the demonstration Sunday in the Toncontín airport did not come from a military weapon.

According to the experts, the bullet that took the life of a young 19 year old, was not from a military caliber. The report reveals that the direction the young man died does not coincide with the trajectory of the direction of the bullet from the armed forces.

Ramón Custodio: army used rubber bullets

Yes, the reports I was following yesterday afternoon said that the military was using rubber bullets to repel the crowd.

Also…

Via Honduras Abandoned:

20 Armed Nicaraguans Detained at Protest Conclusion, Claims Military Officer

As the rally came to a close, the police arrested 20 Nicaraguans from the crowd, who were armed with .357 pistols. Right now they are being detained and questioned as to their entry into the country and actions at the rally. Besides the Nicaraguans that were arrested yesterday, the officer claimed that there were foreigners from Cuba and Venezuela as well.

It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if a foreign commie provocateur had shot into the crowd in order to create a sacrificial lamb; their own cause’s “Neda”, to blame on the new government of Honduras. There is an ongoing investigation to get to the bottom of it.

Previously:

Honduran Military Removes Despot From Power

Obama “Stands With Democracy”, Defends Leftist Despot/Thug/Drug Trafficker

Honduran Military Ordered To Turn Back Zelaya’s jet

Port St. Lucie Tea Party Harrassed By City Officials

Liberal douchebaggery at its finest:

They should have covered up that sign with one of their tea party signs.

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A columnist fot the LA Times questions the tea partiers’ patriotism. Isn’t that what the left tells us is one of the most despicable things one can do in political discourse?