We never could figure out why Obama chose to side with Zelaya who wanted to stay in power against his own Constitution. This was another in a long line of decisions by Obama that favored the enemies of the United States and trashed our allies. We have asked the question before, but it is still pertinent today -- Whose side is Obama on -- dictators or constitutionally elected or appointed officials? Looks to us like dictators keep winning out.
Great to see that the Honduras Parliament understands their own Constitution while Zelaya and his lackies (Obama and Clinton) in the United States don't.
From Times Online
December 3, 2009
Honduras votes against Manuel Zelaya reinstatement
Times Online
MPs in Honduras have voted overwhelmingly against reinstating President Manuel Zelaya, shrugging off international pressure four months after a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas.
As the vote continued, more than two-thirds of members of Congress had voted not to return the deposed president to power for the remainder of his term, which ends on January 27, as Washington and many Latin American governments had urged.
Honduran media put the ongoing vote at 98-12, well in excess of the simple majority needed in the 128-member, single-chamber Congress for the vote against restoring Mr Zelaya to succeed.
Mr Zelaya, who listened to the proceedings from the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been given sanctuary since he returned to the country, had said he would not return for a token two months even if asked.
He urged other governments not to restore ties with the incoming administration of Porfirio Lobo, who won Sunday's presidential election.
Honduras's interim leaders have proven remarkably resistant to diplomatic arm-twisting since the June 28 coup, rejecting demands that the deposed president be restored to his office before the previously scheduled election.
Politician after politician insisted that they were right the first time when they voted to oust Mr Zelaya for ignoring a Supreme Court order to cancel a referendum on changing the constitution.
That vote happened hours after soldiers stormed Mr Zelaya's residence and sent him into exile in his pajamas.
His opponents accuse him of trying to hang on to power by lifting a ban on presidential re-election, as his leftist ally Hugo Chavez has done in Venezuela. Mr Zelaya denies such intentions.
"My vote is [a lesson] for anyone who pretends to perpetuate himself in power. My vote is so that my son can look at me and say 'Dad, you defended democracy," said Antonio Rivera of Mr Lobo's conservative National Party.
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