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The Birther Defense for Military Deployment

By Kevin Maillard

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:

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."

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).