“While I agree that President Obama should resign....the people cannot just “remove” him. At least not until an election.”
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes”
You made my point. We are NOT governed by the Declaration of Independence, but the U.S. Constitution. Although I hold the Declaration to be almost a “sacred” document, it isn’t the basis for our current government. Those that would incite insurrection to remove a sitting POTUS are as bad as the POTUS the seek to remove. The quote avoid from the Declaration is one you should take to heart. The Obama administration is “transient” and the mechanisms exist to weaken him in 2010 (pick conservative congressmen) and to remove him in 2012.
Now if the public wants to damand his resignation...that is fine and proper - it probably will be ignored. However, once it steps beyond demands to force of arms....it has gone too far. We don’t do Coups in this Republic.
I do not think that Mr. Obama is rightfully POTUS. However, I will never support a coup in any way form or fashion. It destroys our republic/constitution and sets a terrible precedent for future generations. The only proper way for him to be removed is by impeachment in the House and trial and conviction by the Senate.