He's not our "Commander-in-Chief"

Glenn Greenwald has rightfully excoriated the particularly pernicious example of rightwing wordplay (given legs, of course, by helpful Democrats and pundits) of calling the President "our" Commander-in-Chief. Our Decider Chimp just loved to strap on his codpiece, dress up in a flightsuit and prance around on an aircraft carrier calling himself "Commander-in-Chief." It's not that hard to see how this wordplay has contributed to the encroaching misperception that our President, and those whom he deems worthy, are above the law. Our founders went to great lengths to ensure that we do not live under a monarchy; that we answer to a concept, not a person, and that concept is The Rule of Law. I believe that Barack Obama understands this, but I hope that he also understands how corrosive the Bush administration has been to that concept and what steps are going to be necessary to restore its validity.

UPDATE: This is not a good first step. Yeah, I know that what Joe Lieberman did was not against the law, but what I'm talking about here is accountablility, which is what standing for the rule of law is all about - and this does not bode well for Obama's and Senate Democrats' commitment to accountability - or, for that matter, to that "Change" thing that Obama campaigned on. As Jane Hamsher says:

It's high irony for Reid to talk about being "unified as Democrats." He just told the people who worked hard for Obama's election, who still want to see some oversight on Katrina, to go Cheney themselves.

I'm not feeling too welcome at the moment.

How about you?