POOR TASTE IN MEN - AT 6:22 P.M. ET:  What is it with Hillary?  She's already demonstrated her poor taste in men, big time, but it continues.  When will they ever learn?  When will they ever learn?

She's been championing the cause of the former president of Honduras, legally and constitutionally ousted by his country, and expelled.  He slipped back into Honduras some days ago, and is now holed up in the Brazilian embassy.  Here he speaks to us, revealing just who Hillary is loving now:

TEGUCIGALPA -- It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He's sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and "Israeli mercenaries'' are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.

"We are being threatened with death,'' he said in an interview with The Miami Herald, adding that mercenaries were likely to storm the embassy where he has been holed up since Monday and assassinate him.

"I prefer to march on my feet than to live on my knees before a military dictatorship,'' Zelaya said in a series of back-to-back interviews.

It's those Israeli mercenaries.  They're the ones!  Don't you want this man, an ally of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, back in power?  Hillary does, and has threatened the new government of Honduras if Zelaya is not invited back on the throne.

Oh, it gets worse.  Now Hillary apparently gets a Chris Matthews tingle up her leg when she dreams of another worthy, the king of Saudi arabia, the very king whom Obama bowed down to in his first month in office:

Amid all the coverage of President Obama’s address to the United Nations, we should also note the obsequious “salute” that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave yesterday to Saudi King Abdullah. Using the occasion of Saudi Arabia’s national day, Clinton heaped unqualified and unrelenting praise on the monarch for, among other things, enhancing our security, showing friendship to other religions, helping liberate women, reforming education, and supporting peace with Israel.

Wha..? 

No mention was made of the fact that Saudi Arabia remains the only country in the world without a public church, or that is has been singled out by the State Department as one of the world’s worst religious persecutors. In Saudi Arabia today, women still cannot leave home without the permission of their male guardians, and even then are banned by the state from driving. Meanwhile, the Saudi Ministry of Education continues to post online its curriculum of hatred and violence toward Jews, apostates, polytheists, and (generally speaking) the religious “other,” which even Saudi journalists and editors themselves acknowledge has led to easy recruitment of suicide terrorists from among Saudi youth. Those Saudis who dissent from such of the monarchy’s repressive policies are often charged with “blasphemy” and similar offenses and thrown into the Kingdom’s deplorable prisons.

King Abdullah has, however, done at least one thing that warrants a tribute from Clinton: He was one of the largest donors to her husband’s foundation.

COMMENT:  Or maybe the guy is just rugged and good-looking, in a Saudi king kind of way. 

But I suspect that it's the money that talked.  Hillary has always understood the meaning of green.

September 24, 2009