After missing seeing the Iranian protests as part of a larger issue and dithering in his responsiveness to that Freedom seeking people in that country, Obama misfires again – this time in Honduras.

Turns out that the Honuran army fullfilled its Constitutional duty this weekend in prohibiting their President Zelaya from subverting their very own constitution.  

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.

The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.

Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court’s order.

The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.

Read the whole Wall Street Journal op-ed HERE

Yes, as hard as it may be to believe, we have actually witnessed not a coup, but a South American country’s military acting with integrity and honor in preserving their peoples freedom.  When Hugo Chavez is quick to support exiled President, you KNOW who the “bad” guy is!

But somehow Obama just can’t bring himself to make a principled call – at first he was “deeply concerned.”  Now Secretary of State Clinton is “withholding any formal legal determination.” 

Its 3am – I don’t think EITHER ONE OF THEM will answer the phone!!!!

What can be so difficult here, or is Obama becoming concerned that a free people and their armed forces might not take any crap from a tinpot dictator?