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Originally Posted by American  Those soldiers fighting and dying over there believe in the Constitution, you go tell them it's dead. |
Demagogue much?
You sound like the constitutionalist version of John McCain.
Everybody knows the constitution is dead
including the soldiers fighting and dying. They know because they're fighting a war in Iraq that is, wait for it...
unconstitutional! You think they didn't notice that their Congress never declared war on Iraq or Afghanistan?
Then again, when we invoke these large numbers of citizens, let's remember that the percentage of people who care more about Britney Spears than the constitution is probably just as high in the military as it is in the general population. "Our soldiers," as much as we apparently like to think so, don't all think the same way or have the same core beliefs.
Anyway, the point was not that the constitution was dead, even if I believe that it is. The point is that the constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is, regardless of what it actually says, and that politicians don't care what is right, they care what is legal. Expecting a President to require Congress to declare war before he commits troops to battle, when both the Congress and the Supreme Court say it's legal to do otherwise, is expecting a President to jump through invisibile hoops. It will take a special person to do that. It will take a George Washington or a Ron Paul. George Washington is dead and Ron Paul isn't ever going to be elected President.