President Barack Obama is a fool. I so declare while we celebrate freedom and independence, the 4th of July.

He has driven our economy into a ditch unprecedented in modern history. His unemployment record is disastrous. His policy pronouncements on Iran grovel to the mullahs and Europeans bent on destroying the United States as the premier political and economic force in the current world.

That being said, we now have the man who had never even visited Tijuana, Mexico, or any place in Latin America before he became president making announcements on events in Honduras driven by people seeking to protect a constitutional government under siege from leftist dictators in Venezuela and Nicaragua.

President Barack Obama has joined these leftist dictators in attempting to further an illegal move by a leftist politician to entrench one more leftist dictatorship into the Central American social and political fabric.

President Obama probably didn’t even know where Honduras was before he made his stupid statements against the takeover of the government by anti-leftist forces.

Barack Obama has forfeited his claim to being a Democrat by supporting Nicaragua’s and Venezuela’s attempt to eliminate democracy in Honduras, a nation that stood by the United States and its surrogates in the successful fight for a democratic Nicaragua. He even had his minions in the United Nations sponsor a resolution that stated that the removal of President Manuel Zelaya by democratic forces in Honduras interrupted the democratic and constitution order and the legitimate exercise of power in Honduras.

Here are the facts: Manuel Zelaya was elected president of Honduras in a democratic election in which he ran as a center-right business-oriented candidate. Some time later, he switched sides and became a populist leftist under the influence of Venezuela’s leftist Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua’s newly elected Daniel Ortega of the thuggish communist Sandinista Party.

At their suggestion, Zelaya ordered a convention to rewrite the Honduran constitution to allow him to run for re-election. However, only the Honduran Congress can call for a constitutional convention. Zelaya failed to even get his party to support such a rewrite. Zelaya then proclaimed that he would call for a referendum to rewrite the Constitution like Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. Chavez paid for ballot printing in Venezuela and shipped them to Honduras.

The Honduran Supreme Court ruled Zelaya’s referendum illegal. When the country’s top soldier informed Zelaya that he would not enforce illegal orders from Zelaya, Zelaya fired him. Zelaya then led an armed mob provided by Nicaragua’s Ortega and Venezuela’s Chavez to steal the impounded illegal ballots.

On the last Sunday of June, the Army took over the presidential palace, arrested Zelaya and sent him by plane into exile in neighboring Costa Rica. Zelaya promised he would return.

He tried. On a plane financed by Hugo Chavez, he flew from Washington, D.C., to Honduras where the Army prevented the plane from landing. He sits in exile sputtering that he will return.

As the New York Daily News put it: It was Zelaya, who in his avowal to ignore a supreme court decision and proceed with an illegal power grab, subverted his country's democracy. Nevertheless, the (Obama) Pentagon cut off all cooperation with the Honduran military and Obama administration officials told The New York Times of their intention to give the poverty-stricken Central American nation "a taste of isolation." Would they threaten such consequences for the mullahs in Iran?

Barack Obama has failed democracy. He has joined the mullahs, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez in attempting to raise dictatorship above that of a free democratic constitutional government.

The Daily News continues: Secretary of State Clinton said that Honduras' actions "should be condemned by all" and President Obama said that his administration would "stand with democracy" by supporting Zelaya's reinstatement. Propping up an authoritarian undermining his country's constitution (which he claimed needs fixing to reflect a new "national reality," apparently one in which he rules forever) is a strange way to demonstrate that solidarity.

Fidel Castro gloats about American support for Zelaya with, "Even Mrs. Clinton had declared that Zelaya is the only president of Honduras, and the Honduran coup leaders can't even breathe wihout the support of the United States."

We shall see, Mrs. Clinton; we shall see, Mr. Obama.

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