[melancholy]

Obama appointed the Joint Chiefs. They are all his personal choices.

Wonderful! According to you, the joint chiefs are now considered 0b0z0's joint chefs, I wonder what will be on the menu.

Why, James, you started a "Birther" thread! Did you cross to the dark side or are you just being "democratic?"

[jamese777]

Wonderful! According to you, the joint chiefs are now considered 0b0z0’s joint chefs, I wonder what will be on the menu.

Why, James, you started a “Birther” thread! Did you cross to the dark side or are you just being “democratic?”

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Don’t try to kill the messenger! :-)

There is nothing at all new, different or unusual about the Joint Chiefs of Staff serving at the pleasure of the president since 1942. All of the current Joint Chiefs are holdovers originally appointed by President George W. Bush on the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
And I’m certain that you know that Secretary Gates is a holdover himself.

Now if it was Admiral Mullen (or Secretary Gates or General Petraeus or any of the other Chiefs of Staff) refusing to take orders until Obama produced a birth certificate, we’d have something extremely serious to talk about.