Mui Ridiculoso, Mucho Sarcasmo, El Sentencio Grandé

Who'd have guessed that El Presidenté Obama, Señor Si se pueda, the hombre that waited six days to request that Irans murdering mullahs play nice, and is loathe as a matter of principal to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states; would put on his El Jefe sombrero and (along with his amigos Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro twins) unload on the Honduran Congress & Supreme Court for having the effrontery to not lie down and allow Manuel Zelaya to seize dictatorial power à la Chavez?

We can all now sleep better tonight knowing that Obama has given Chavez moral authority to invade Honduras, a nation where we have several hundred troops supporting the govt.

One more thing, this is being reported everywhere (even Foxnews) as a 'coup'.
As I recall a coup d'etat is where the military seizes power for itself, and of its own volition. In this case the military was under the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress, and the VP was sworn in as president till the next elections.

Doesn't sounds like a military takeover to me, shoot, might even be legal under the Honduran Constitution (if they have one). I can understand Obama's concern though, doesn't bode well for him if he's considering any further expansion of the Executive.

Dictators, (even aspiring ones) have got to stick together you know.

Update: 7/6/09:

Just as I suspected:

"Obama is quite wrong to claim that the removal of Zelaya was "illegal." The Honduran president forfeited his right to rule under Article 239 of the Honduran Constitution, which bans presidents from holding office if they even propose to alter the constitutional term limits for presidents. And the Honduran military, which acted on orders of the Honduran supreme court, expressly had the right to remove the president for seeking to alter the constitutional term limit, under Article 272 of the Honduran Constitution, as even left-leaning commentators have now admitted. The Honduran military's role in enforcing the court order does not make it a "coup" anymore than federal troops' role in enforcing the court-ordered integration of the Little Rock public schools in 1957 constituted a military occupation or takeover."