Yes.
Could the Supreme Court ignore such a request?
Yes.
What if large percentages of the lower level officers joined in the formal, legal, and peaceful petition?
So now we're all supposed to throw our careers away for this?
Let me repeat this: this is going nowhere. Obama can be defeated and relegated to the ash heap of history based on the B.S. he's implemented as president. This fantasy that's been promulgated on this forum about Obama being arrested in the Oval Office and hauled away to face charges will...never...happen. That's not Petraeus' fault, it's not my fault.
The fault rests with people who will never stand responsible for it. It may suck, but it's reality. Now let's move on.
So now we’re all supposed to throw our careers away for this?
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“Our” career? Am I to assume that you have a career in the military? ( Just wondering since you used the word “our”.)
Do the military academies now teach that careers are more important than the military code of honor and an oath before God to defend the Constitution?
Do these academies teach that just because truth will “go nowhere” it should be ignored and that a career and pension takes precedence?
Well! As Fred Astaire might have said, “Strike me pink!”
Excellent posts.
To the birth certificate folks: The fantasy of removing Obama from office is a repeat of the ‘frog-marching Karl Rove” fantasies of the left.
It ain’t gonna happen, but people are so frustrated by this guy they want a lightning bolt, or its equivalent legally, to just knock him off the map. Forget that such non-election actions would result in a cascade of hate about evil rightwingers dumping the first black president, and how that would fuel dem voter anger for decades to come—that would be acceptable if this all came about based on the situation described (fake birth certificate, not eligible). The point is, such an outcome isn’t just going to happen, and it would simply tear this country apart.
I know, I know, “Well, it’s the truth!”
But is it? Let’s see the evidence outside of World Net Daily. This story would be the story of the century—you’re telling me no credible journalist would write this story? NO conservative (forget Republican—conservative) of any standing would be all over this if it were the truth?
People so despise this guy they are looking for any way to get rid of him without stepping back and looking at the larger problem—his ideology. THAT must be defeated. Making him an electoral martyr will only guarantee the perpetuation of his BS agenda—again, that would be acceptable IF the facts were there. But they either aren’t there, or it’s all a conspiracy of left AND right—and, of course, it’s always someone else who has to take the risk to prove this.
If there IS truth here, the folks who believe it blew it with the release of Obama’s birth certificate. They asked and asked, and he gave them what they wanted, and then they said, “No, no, not THAT birth certificate, we want THIS kind of birth certificate.” That made them sound like loons to the general public, like people who would never be satisfied by ANYTHING Obama offered. They blew it.
That story’s over—deal with it. It ain’t gonna get him out of office, even if it IS the truth (you think the truth is all that matters? Welcome to reality). Castigating others for not falling on their swords for your cause doesn’t make these military people cowards, it makes the birthers armchair warriors who want others to take the hit for THEIR beliefs.