The John Batchelor Show

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Carter Bananas

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Colleague Simon Constable enjoys a droll chat with deputy foreign editor Adam Horvath, Wall Street Journal, re the topsy-turvy "Bananas" coup in Honduras. Adam Horvath is delicious in not quite smiling at the fact that the US is now supporting Chavez who is supporting the return of the Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya (left).  There is a most wry detail from Horvath at the close that there is a new election in seven months that will place both Zelaya and the temporary Congress Speaker Roberto Micheletti with a new guy.   Clearly a compromise is avaiable till then to do nothing. Status quo ante is always attractive. And in Latin American palace histories, possession is eleven-tenths of the law.  Good news that Chavez is denouncing the US for playing a part in Zelaya's ouster, since the Obama administration is wonderfully clueless and guiltless and charming in its confused piety that it wants the constitution respected and Zelaya restored.  This is getting better than "Bananas," since no one is at risk, Chavez is humiliated, and now poor little Honduras is on the map as a freedom fighter to the American right-wing.  More and more, the Obama administration is an update of the bootless Carter.  Remember Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell the (rumored) cokehead duo?   Jordan went on to work with cancer kids before he died of long standing health issues.  Powell is still a DC lobbyist, likely doing land-office business these days.  Where in the world are Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs in the year 2040?  Where are you?

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