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Carter Bananas
By
John Batchelor
on
June 30, 2009 11:31 AM
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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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