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When Ahmadinejad committed voter fraud in Iran, the people rioted. The Obama administration sided with the Iranian mullahs. When the Chavez-backed thug tried an end run around the Honduran Constitution, the Honduran Congress took the proper steps to remove him. The Honduran Supreme Court then ruled that President Zelaya tried to ignore the Constitution and that the Honduran Congress had followed the rule of law in ousting him.

Despite all this, the Obama administration sided with the dictatorial thug Zelaya, calling it a coup. Now the Obama administration that sided with the dictatorial thug isn't recognizing the newly-elected Honduran president:

The U.S. State Department says Sunday's presidential election in Honduras was a significant, but insufficient step, to end to political crisis that began there in June with the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. U.S. officials are stopping short of recognizing opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo as the country's next president.

The State Department says the Honduran election met international standards for fairness and transparency and it has commended Porfirio Lobo for what it termed an "ample victory".

But at the same time, it stopped short of formally recognizing Lobo as the country's next president and says Honduras must still take steps toward political reconciliation before it can emerge from the isolation brought by the June 28 ouster of President Zelaya.

I'm ashamed to identify myself with this administration. For the first time in our nation's history, an administration has recognized the fraud-filled election of a dictatorial thug while stopping short of fully recognizing elections it says "met international standards for fairness and transparency."

With its actions, the Obama administration has shown where its priorities lie. This administration puts a higher priority on playing doormat to dictatorial thugs than it puts on standing with freedom-loving people who refuse to be oppressed by dictatorial thugs who disrespect their own constitution.

If JFK, Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan or Hubert Humphrey were still alive, they'd be giving President Obama a tonguelashing he'd never forget. Those men stood for freedom. They fiercely fought for liberty. This administration has just shown that they don't care about liberty as much as they care about playing the world's doormat for tinpot dictators.

The United States had always fought for liberty. Freedom loving nations now have another reason to not trust the Obama administration. The Obama administration just gave told the world that it doesn't stand for liberty or for the rule of law.

SHAMEFUL.

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