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Luminous Animal

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5. The President is not the Commander-in-Chief of civilians.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2012, 08:48 PM

May 2012

It used to piss me off when people would militarize the Presidency when they referred to Bush as the Commander-in-Chief. Even though I couldn't stand the asshole and I never voted for him, because I am a U.S. citizen, he was still my President. But, given that I wasn't in the military (and have never been) Bush, not even in the remotest sense, was my Commander-in-Chief.

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