When former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya tip-toed across his country’s border with Nicaragua for a brief return last week, it is likely that nobody was cheering louder than his mentor, Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez. Despite the Honduran constitution’s definitive ban on presidential second terms, Zelaya wanted to stay in office. Chavez was more than happy to supply money and other less respectable resources to assist in Zelaya’s effort to circumvent his country’s constitution. But the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court, and military said no, and exiled him.

So, it is nothing less than astonishing that President Obama today welcomes Zelaya to the White House. Even worse, Obama is expected to continue pressing his ill-advised demand that the Chavez wannabe – whose return was endorsed just last week by Colombia’s drug-trafficking FARC terrorists – be reinstated, even though his ouster was done in accordance with the Honduran constitution. In other words, Obama is backing a would-be tin horn dictator who seeks to overthrow the democratically elected government of Honduras and to trash that country’s constitution.