There is already a diary on this topic here at RedState, but seeing as it mostly deals with the conspiracy side of things I wanted to write something that tried to cover the facts of the case up until this point.

The first thing we should understand is that U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook volunteered to go, I actually did not know this until recently, but back in May he asked to be sent to Afghanistan, in June the Army accepted, then one month later he sues to get out.

Now there is one other little piece of information that needs to be known at this point.  Back in March Mr Cook joined a class action lawsuit challenging President Obama’s Authority as CinC.  So this guy volunteers for something he could have just asked to be rescinded up until the day of the deployment.

“A reserve soldier who volunteers for an active duty tour may ask for a revocation of orders up until the day he is scheduled to report for active duty,” Quon said.

The military in response to the lawsuit has rescinded his deployment orders, and asked about the situation a representative from CENTCOM responded:

“Maj. Cook volunteered for the one year assignment to Afghanistan, in May of this year,” said Speaks. “After he brought this stuff to the fore, the unit that owned his billet canceled his orders.”

It also appears that Major Cook has also been fired from his private contracting job with the DOD.  At this point no charges have been filed against Major Cook.

So why would someone who never had to go in the first place, who obviously felt Obama was illegitimate before even volunteering do just that?  I hesitate to guess, but at best this guy seems to be looking for attention.

Since this diary is a little short I wanted to end with a quote from another diary (DailyKos ) that actually convinced me to write this one.

So it’s disgraceful to see that you-a field grade Army Officer-would decide to put nothing but a conspiracy theory above the lives of the Soldiers that you would be commanding. As an Army Officer, I’m sure you’re aware of the reality that since your orders were revoked, the military is going to send another Soldier in your place. If they die, it’s on you. If any of the Soldiers you abandoned die, I hope you remember that it’s because you abandoned them.

You can claim all the b.s. reasons you want for not going to war, but the truth is that you’re nothing but a coward…

OK so Obama is about to wrap up his first 100 days, but really who cares.  How about a little history lesson instead.  Lets cover Ronald Reagan’s first 100 days.  I was not alive (born in 1982), and can safely say I don’t remember any of Reagan’s administration personally.  Therefore I am basing this diary on information I was able to learn over the years.  Any additions anyone would like to may are welcome.

Ronald Regan took office on January 20th 1981. Similar to Obama, Reagan was also inheriting an economic recession, but unlike Obama Regan’s response to this crisis was to declare “Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.”  Along with the economic crisis Regan also had a couple other interesting events in the first 100 days of his administration: an assassination attempt, and was well on his way to accomplishing some real, lasting bi-partisanship.

A little over two months into Reagan’s administration, on March 30th 1981, would be assassin John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan and two others.  Regan would fully recover from this assassination attempt making him the first (only?) U.S. President to do so.

Another interesting note worth mentioning in Reagan’s first 100 days is that he spent them meeting with members of congress from both parties.  In an effort to get his economic policies passed he made an effort to build relationships with everyone on capitol hill, and in doing so was able to convince the opposition to adopt his economic policies.  While legislation took longer than 100 days, the relationships that helped build the entire Reagan administration were started during this time.

Reagan has been shown by history to have accomplished a great deal, and on inspection his first 100 days were quite eventful.  History will be the only TRUE judge of the Obama administration, but looking back shows they have very big shoes to fill, and so far just rhetoric.

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This was originaly going to be my first diary at RedState, but then this Specter stuff happend and another diary showed up first.  Sorry about two diaries in one day.  If anyone thinks its a problem I can always delete and repost another day.

There was a front page diary a few weeks back (http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/04/22/challenging-john-mccain/) which recomended that everyone should focus on beating Specter in the coming up election and not chalenging McCain so we could better focus our resources.

Now this is no longer a problem.  I think we should now focus on finding a proper replacement for McCain now that Specter is someone elses problem.  Anyone see a problem with this?