Excuse me, Mr. President

I have to say that the President's foreign affairs abilities have been less than stellar lately. Iran is in turmoil over and threatening, arresting, and killing their own citizens because of an election dispute, and Obama stays virtually mute on the subject. North Korea threatens to launch a missile at Hawaii (and to wipe the US off the map if we start a way .... and doing anything so much as looking at N. Korea cross eyed will be viewed as an act of war.) and Obama says nothing.

Now, in theory he stayed quiet on Iran in order to not give validity to claims that the demonstrations were a result of outside interference. It didn't work, mind you, and the Iranian 'president' called Obama out directly stating that he thought Obama would be 'different' and not 'meddle' in Iran's internal affairs ... wondering where Obama's 'change' was now.

Okay ... so seeing that keeping quiet did not work out the way that he expected along comes the situation in Honduras. For those of you that haven't been keeping up with that story I'll give you a brief run down:

President Manuel Zelaya is upset that he's nearing the end of his term ... and by the Constitution of Honduras he can not run for re-election (the president having a 1 term limit defined in the constitution.) so he demands that a ballot be taken to open a constitutional convention to change the constitution.

The Honduras Supreme Court says - 'No, you can't do that, the Constitution specifically states that only the Congress has the authority to call for such a ballot.'

President Zelaya, however, doesn't like that answer so he says that he is going to go through with the ballot anyway, and his good buddy Hugo Chavez of Venezuela prints up all the ballots and ships them over to Honduras where.

The Military seizes the illegal ballots under order of the Supreme Court and Congress.

Zelaya gets very upset about this and fires the head of the Military ... the Supreme Court steps in and again tells Zelaya that he doesn't have the authority to do that. Zelaya reluctantly reinstates him to his position.

Zelaya, however, takes the ballots and announces his intent to distribute them anyway.

The Military (with the support of the Supreme Court and Congress) arrests Zelaya and Congress names an interum President until the normal elections. The replacement is even from the same political party as now Ex-President Zelaya.

To Obama, however, this is a travesty and the new government is illegal and should return to control to the ousted President, Manuel Zelaya.

Wait a tick here ... let me make sure I've got this right.... The President is over stepping his authority left and right and blatantly defying the court and congress .... but their arresting him (in accordance with the country's constitution) is somehow illegal?

Now did Obama just jump the gun because of the criticism he received for being slow to respond to the Iran and N. Korea issues ... or is there a deeper issue?

Does he not want people to realize that a President doesn't really have ultimate power over the universe? That there are limits to the powers of a President and that a President seeking to over reach that authority can (and should) be removed as necessary to maintain a legal sanctioned government?

I mean ... if the Supreme Court of the US were to step up and say 'Excuse me, Mr. President, you do not have the right or authority to seize control of private industry, it is illegal.' What, exactly would he do? And if he continued would the Court have the guts to enforce the law and arrest him?