A stark contrast in Presidential responses to similar situations

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians put their lives on the line to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remaining in power by means of an obvious-by-all-reasonable-standards fraudulent election and President Obama says nothing about it until he's forced to, and even then can only manage a tepid "the world is watching", instead of forcefully defending the right of millions of people in that country to determine their own destiny and lawfully rid themselves of their would-be dictator, in order to move closer to joining Americans in freedom.

Honduran President Mel Zelaya, another dictator-wannabe like his good buddy Hugo Chavez, gets bounced out of his country by that nation's Congress, Supreme Court, Attorney General, the Honduran military and the majority of the population for attempting to pull some shady shenanigans and unilaterally change the rules in order to remain in office beyond his constitutionally-imposed one-term limit, and now the Messiah immediately gets all agitated and proclaims that the brave preserving by Hondurans of their government and freedoms is "not legal", and that America (meaning him, of course) will "stand on the side of democracy"?

Why the sudden change of heart?

"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."

We can clearly see what "side" the Messiah is on, and it's most assuredly not the one of "democracy". Perhaps he just became a wee bit uncomfortable about what might happen to his administration should he get a little greedy and attempt one too many end-runs around the Constitution.