WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a “not legal” coup and that he remains the country’s president.

Obama spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday after meetings with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Obama said he wanted to be very clear that President Zelaya is the democratically elected president.

Obama pledged the U.S. to “stand on the side of democracy” and to work with other nations and international entities to resolve the matter peacefully.

A couple things come to mind here. Number one: Earth to Obama - come back to reality. You may think you have a mandate here in the US for your soft tyranny, but you sure as hell don’t anywhere else in the world. If I was Roberto Micheletti (interim leader), not to mention the Honduran Supreme Court, I would make a very public statement reminding President Obama that he is not the “king of the world” that he appears to perceive himself to be. I love how he just declares that the coup was “not legal”.  I’m so glad that President Obama has taken the time to study and memorize the Constitution and laws of a small Caribbean nation, and yet seems to be utterly ignorant of the Constitutional bounds set upon him in his own country (read: General Motors).

In the case of this incident, the Honduran military was specifically authorized by a court order to arrest a President that was judged to be out of control. This court order was then upheld by the Honduran Supreme Court, so the decision is really final, regardless of our President’s feelings on the matter. Obama needs to remember that just because the American military would never be so authorized does not mean that legal authorizations for military interventions into politics might exist in other countries’ constitutional structures. I guess that’s “above Obama’s pay grade” though, so we can’t expect him to be up to speed on these sorts of trivialities.

Number two: I can’t help but chuckle at (again) the hypocrisy here. Obama jumps right in and condemns the completely legal action in Honduras, not hesitating in the least to start making demands on another nation that he has no authority over, while just a week earlier, he made the milquetoast decision to sit back, have a frozen custard and wait to see how the volatile election fraud situation shook out in Iran, stating that we have no business getting involved in Iran’s affairs.

Let’s see…

Iran: Nuclear-aspiring nation whose leaders deny the holocaust and have expressed interest in wiping both Israel and the US off the map, violators of numerous toothless UN Security Council Resolutions (is Iraq ringing a bell here?).

Honduras: Small non-nuclear (with no hope or intention of becoming so) nation in the caribbean, mostly known for its scuba diving and beautiful beaches.

Let me try to think here, what on Earth would the reason be for this Administration to jump into the Honduras affair and not the Iranian one…hmm…. Oh wait, I’ve got it! Honduras’ recently ousted President, Manuel Zelaya is a protege of every Leftist Liberal’s favorite dictator - Hugo Chavez, and Zelaya was ousted because of his attempt to illegally extend his power in an imitation of his mentor in Venezuela. We certainly can’t have that - we must support these dictatorial, socialist regimes wherever they might arise, and deem illegal any action taken to thwart them.

I sincerely hope that the Honduran government reminds Obama of his position in the world and recommends that he shut his custard-filled piehole.