President Obama vowed to “fundamentally transform” America. Venezuela’s thuggish dictator has long advocated just that, so now he wants to lend a hand.
“[Obama] has good intentions,” Hugo Chavez winked recently. “We have to help him.”
American foreign policy has always been marked by resolved opposition to freedom’s enemies. We’ve stood strong for human dignity against those who debase it in pursuit of utopian experiments and iron political grips.
Until now.
Financier of Colombian terrorist guerrillas and supporter of all things socialist, Chavez is pushing for Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement as president of Honduras. Zelaya was constitutionally deposed by the Honduran supreme court, a ruling his own party backed after he attempted to hold an illegal, fixed referendum giving him the green light to rule for life. Also standing with Zelaya is the Castro regime and Nicaragua’s little tyrant, Daniel Ortega. And the new regulator of a few state-owned industries himself, Barack Obama.
It gets worse. Chavez is allied with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. No doubt their play dates include exchanging election-rigging techniques and discussing the finer points of beating and imprisoning political competitors. At the United Nations, Cuba and uranium-rich Venezuela are reliable votes for Iran.
Obama’s administration recently relaxed restrictions with Cuba that had stood for nearly fifty years. On the same day, it suspended financial aid to democratic Honduras in retaliation for its refusal to ignore its own constitution. At Zelaya’s request, the State Department revoked the diplomatic visas of certain Honduran officials.
When Obama becomes the first American president to chair the United Nations’ Security Council later this month, he’ll most likely share the table with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, himself only a month removed from his warm embrace of the freed Lockerbie bomber. Gaddafi held a celebratory welcome party on the tarmac for the murderer of 270 people, many of them Americans.
Obama’s fundamentally changed America now palls around with and takes cues from criminals and terrorist-supporters posing as heads of state. This week, Obama encouraged students to defy peer pressure, do the right thing, and not let their country down. The President should heed his own advice.
September 12, 2009 at 8:26 pm |
As a citizen of the world, I nominate him to be Fearless Leader of the universe. Send him on the next space mission, please.