Obama now Hugo Chavez's lapdog.

So hellbent is Obama to be the new type of American President in his mind where everyone is equal especially leaders who hate our guts that he is willing to overlook the fact Zelaya wanted to be Chavez Jr.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged Zelaya to try to speak with Obama while in D.C., saying the American president’s support would “deliver a major blow” to Honduras’ interim government.

Allahpundit:

So not only will this turd get a legitimizing photo op with the State Department, he might get one with The One himself. No wonder he feels emboldened enough to try to fly back to Honduras on Thursday and force a confrontation with the new president and the military. Presumably he’ll be arrested — and Obama will once again be forced to declare the action illegal, notwithstanding the minor point that the Honduran supreme court disagrees. The one piece you should really read on this is Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s op-ed in today’s NYT about how shrewdly Chavez gamed out Zelaya’s bogus-referendum maneuver, knowing that if the Honduran government moved to stop it, it would let him and Zelaya play the role of the poor misunderstood democratic populists who are just trying to let the people’s voice be heard. He counted on the fact that Obama, ever eager to prove his un-ugly American-ness, wouldn’t oppose him, especially now that relations between Washington and Caracas have been restored. And sure enough, Obama didn’t. Good work, Barry. You got played.

Greg Pollowitz] points out the Cairo speech which makes Obama's actions and words seem stupid.

Here's an excerpt from President Obama's big speech in Cairo: This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy. Isn't this exactly what's happening in Honduras, where now former president Manuel Zelaya was moving to trample on his country's democratic principles? I guess those were "just words" in Cairo.

Its been pointed out here and elsewhere why this new way of Obama not taking care of events in his backyard and allowing anti-Americanism leaders to have their way while he wants to be buddy buddy will bite him in the ass. He tried this new way with Iran and it was a failure in getting anything done positively while showing the Iranian authorities they still have room to push before Obama reacts in the same way as France or Germany did over the election violence.

The same thing is happening with Honduras, Chavez is playing Obama like a fiddle while he and his lapdog friends realize that Obama won't do anything that will hamper their aspirations for Latin America and South America. The Jimmy Carter method will come back on us with a vengeance.

Update: Honduras Under the Bus