He will be their commander in chief. They will need to respect and obey him accordingly, as distasteful as they may find it. Their oath is to the Constitution, which puts them under the President’s command.
Of course they will.
Obama’s oath is to the Constitution, too. We’ll see how he protects it-— or not.
Yes they will. But it doesn’t mean they will like it or like him. We have sunk to a new low. He is a low life political hack who got elected cause he got all the dissatisfied to vote for him mindlessly as a block and we didn’t have the courage or smarts to nominate a real candidate instead of a dem party clone. Well, I survived Carter and will do the same with “the one”, unless he takes away our freedoms and then we may have the country tear itself apart. As in the words of the poet, “don’t look now, the joke’s on you!”
I served under the 'toon as CIC, so I sympathize. Yes, it will probably be distasteful for the majority, but they'll act in accordance with their oath.
They'll behave professionally, but I seriously doubt Obama will ever be treated warmly.
For example, 'toon visited my base, and troops were ordered to attend an event. They went, but there was no whooping and hollering. Simply polite applause and professional restraint, despite the handlers' attempts to get the troops rev'd up.
We no longer have a working Constitution.
Yeah, as long as they remain in the military, which many won't do. President Bambi will have to institute the draft and then, all those idiots who voted for him will be serving in various war zones LOL
Until their enlistment is up - which they will then vote with their feet. Expect massive movement out of the ranks in the next four years.
“They will need to respect and obey him accordingly...”
When LBJ landed in EL Toro MCAS during Tet to give a speech, he was loudly booed by the Marines there.
Maybe you didn't get the memo. You gotta remember that the Constitution is a deeply flawed document because the Founders had a "blind spot" that prevented them from seeing "positive rights" (i.e. what the government MUST do for you), as opposed to "negative rights" (i.e. what the government can't do TO you).
Thus, it is our patriotic duty to correct the Founders' error, and break the constraints that are in the Constitution. This may be news to you, as it was to me, but hey, Obama himself has said so, and he's a Constitutional scholar!
Besides, it's a living document anyway, which means it has to be interpreted in light of modern sensibilities, not to mention foreign law.
So the way I see it, it means pretty much whatever anybody says it means. So if the troops don't like Obama, they can just tell him to go screw. That is, unless you're against the Constitution.
It doesn’t mean they have to like it. Imagine 60% of our battle hardened military voting with their feet at the end of their enlistments. That gets us the Army of the 70’s all over again.
They have to obey orders, but they do not have to respect the POS.
We still have the right and obligation to disobey an unconstitutional order.
But said incoming President is ineligible to be President under the Constitution.
The 220-year old piece of paper trumps the Kenyan-born Muslim everyday.
Not exactly! The oath they take delineates, in order of prority, the entities to which they owe their allegiance.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."