I'm disgusted by this post. People have died and others' lives are at stake and this dimwitted moronic twit thinks a jocular post is going to help, how?

I thought about reading this, but then changed my mind at about the "... moustache" line.

Sorry. Not helpful. There are too many children who think snark = witty in the world as it is.

"5. Obama thinks the new Honduran Chancellor, who described him as "That black boy who knows nothing about anything" is critiquing racism through satire."

Katie, you need to update this issue, and get a better translator. Ortiz actually made three comments to the media in as many interviews. The third was the worst:

"I have negotiated with queers, prostitutes, leftists, blacks, whites. This is my job, I studied for it. I am not racially prejudiced. I like the little black sugar plantation worker who is president of the United States."

The term used in Spanish is "negrito del batey." In the Carribean it is eqivalent to our "nigger."

Our Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, objected:

"As the official and personal representative of the president of the United States of America, I convey my deep outrage about the unfortunate, disrespectful and racially insensitive comments by Mr. Enrique Ortez Colindres about President Barack Obama.

Statements like this are deeply outrageous for the American people and for me personally. I am shocked by these comments, which I condemn in the strongest terms."

Subsequently, Ortiz apologised and the Golpistas (Coup leaders) fired Enrique Ortez Colindres from his post as Minister of Foreign Relations of Honduras, replacing him with Roberto Flores Bermudez. Ortiz was then appointed to lead the Ministry of Government and Justice.

BTW, these appointments speak to an under-reported fact - that most of Zelaya's cabinet has been purged.

Maybe a little condenscending, but not demeaning. But in any case I was out of line, I do have respect for those that I was criticizing.

Is it not remarkable how little respect the ruling class has for Obama that they would oust the sitting President as they did and then have their puppet representative assail him with racial insults. I guess they're quaking in their boots at the prospect the US might be upset about the coup huh? The US has no integrity at all. The President should have made a forceful statment and then sent an escort of US fighter planes with the ousted President to restore him to power. But I'm sure the Wall Street boys have their fingers in the pie down there and are just pleased as punch to see the coup. And it seems pretty clear whatever makes Wall Street thieves happy is a-okay with our El Presidente.

I must be dense today, but this completely baffles me. I know it is a parody, but a paody of what? Right Wingers attacking Obama? Left wingers attacking Obama? Obamanauts attacking anyone who critizes Obama.

It just doesn't make sense.

This kind of upheaval certainly wouldn't have happened if the United Fruit Company still ran Mesoamerica! Ha-rumpf! (It woulda' been bigger, bloodier.) And then there's this:

The growing isolation of the Honduran coup leaders was underscored the other day, when – in response to "president" Roberto Micheletti’s claim that Tel Aviv had agreed to recognize the military regime – the Israelis denied it. When you’re an international pariah and not even the Israelis or the Taiwanese will recognize you, it’s time to hire an expensive public relations firm.