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Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.
After demanding for months that [constitutionally! {theirs}] deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya be restored to power, senior State Department officials now say they'll accept the outcome of Nov. 29 elections in the Central American country even if Zelaya doesn't reclaim his post.
That position is a marked change from the tough stance President Barack Obama took in the days following the June 28 removal of Zelaya;
"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the democratically elected president there,"
Obama said the day after Zelaya's ouster.
DeMint, by contrast, cited a Honduran Supreme Court ruling, later approved by the Honduran Congress, that the military had followed constitutional provisions in removing Zelaya and installing Roberto Micheletti as interim president.
[Outstanding. Like Iran's dissidents, our president has put us on the wrong side of this issue from day one.]
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