The Birther Defense for Military Deployment

Birthers--conspiracy theorists who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be President--have lost their latest lawsuit. (Full text here.)   Connie Rhodes, a doctor in the US Army, recently lost a case in the Middle District of Georgia challenging her deployment to Iraq.  Claiming that the deployment order was unconstitutional and unenforceable because Obama was unqualified to serve as Commander in Chief, Rhodes argued that Obama is:

“an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.”
“an alien, possibly even an unnaturalized or even an unadmitted illegal alien"

And also that he:
“might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 social security numbers prior to assuming the office of President.”

And finally:
“Barack Hussein Obama has, in essence, slipped  through the guardrails to become President.”

District Judge Clay Land dismissed the complaint as frivolous, colorfully adding that "Unlike Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so."

Comments

[Thaddeus Hoffmeister]

This military doctor, in the future, might want to use different language to describe the President since she is subject to Article 88 of the UCMJ which reads as follows:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.