Render Unto Caesar: Troops Fight On Obama's Behalf?

IBD Editorials ^ | May 10, 2012

[Kaslin]

Leadership: Lost in his gay marriage flip-flop was the president's claim that our armed forces fight for him, not their country. It was like following his spiking of the football over the Osama bin Laden kill with an end-zone dance.

Few caught the revealing Freudian slip during President Obama's interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News in which he said he no longer considered what he described to evangelist Rick Warren in the election year of 2008 as the "sacred union" of marriage to be just between one man and one woman.

But there it was, from the lips of the man who considers the Navy SEALs as stage props in his re-election bid and whose use of the first person pronoun "I" has set some sort of Guinness Book world record.

"I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors," he said, "who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that 'don't ask, don't tell' is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage."

This arrogant statement is reminiscent of the days of Imperial Rome, when the legions pledged their personal loyalty to the emperor. More modern tyrants have demanded and received such pledges of loyalty. But Obama surely must know that while he is their civilian commander in chief, he is not an emperor commanding his Roman legions.

[cardinal4]

"who are out there fighting on my behalf..

GRRRRRRR! You lying, narcissistic, bastard! They fight despite your Marxist, non-citizen, effete, America hating ass!!

[dcwusmc]

The Constitution is the contract between We, the People and the Several States, which established the federal government and grants it certain LIMITED powers to act in our names and on our behalf. That it has tried, almost from day One to exceed those limits does NOT mean We, the People have to continue allowing it. We are the Masters of ALL GOVERNMENT in this nation and government is our SERVANT, and NO SERVANT IS GREATER THAN HIS MASTER. Not now, not ever.

Further, the powers permitted any level of government may never exceed the authority of the grantors, that is, the individual American. We, according to the Founders, are the sole source of the governments’ “just powers.” Which means that we can only consent to have our agent do only that which WE may properly do for ourselves.

[Vendome]