Just when you thought the whole "birther" phenomenon could not raise the bar in terms of pure inanity...in the words of the boys in Spinal Tap, this one goes to eleven:
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook is seeking a federal court order to stall and eventually prevent an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia — Cook's California-based attorney, Orly Taitz, asks the court to consider granting his client's request based upon Cook's belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of U.S Armed Forces.
Ah...just FEEL the patriotism of the birthers and the extremists of the right-wing. A few months back, we were told by the professional Obama haters that the highest form of patriotism was secession. Now, we have an Army major (not some rookie, but a freaking MAJOR) who would rather promulgate an absurdist conspiracy theory than join his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan.
Imagine the converse a much more plausible scenario for objection, and the conservative reaction to it. Just imagine the spontaneous conservative combustion if a young soldier, about to be sent to Iraq in 2003, filed suit in federal court. The president was not properly elected, says the suit. The Supreme Court, in a political conspiracy, installed Bush as President. Therefore, Bush is not the proper Commander-in-Chief. As such, the court should stall and prevent his deployment to Baghdad.
Holy Hell...You'd have to scrape Beck and Rush off the ceiling with a freaking blowtorch, wouldn't you?
UPDATE: A good catch in the comments by gsadamb. Apparently, the plaintiff is a Freeper.
Also, the rewrite in the final paragraph was because, upon rereading, it sounded like I was making an exact conflation of birther-ism and the 2000 elections. Obviously, complaints about one are significantly more valid than complaints about the other, so I changed the wording a tad.
