RON PAUL: Impeach the president?

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I like Ron Paul and his Libertarian ideals but I think he went a bit too far in calling for the impeachment of President Obama for ordering the killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.I think we all have heard of this gentleman who has been plotting against the United States (his homeland) for quite some time now and in some cases, he was successful.

I understand that Ron Paul is all about the Constitution and how the Constitution guarantees a "due process" which means U.S. citizens must be charged with a crime and then prosecuted for that crime. In al-Awlaki's case he was just ordered killed without due process.

When a U.S. citizen joins a group that vows the destruction of his homeland, he forfeits all rights of a U.S. citizen and becomes an enemy combatant that is a danger to this country and to the people in that country and must be treated as a criminal worthy of elimination.

You can argue all the legal points you want but there is legal precedence for this type of action and arguing the finer points of the Constitution in THIS case seems to border on the silly if not absurd and has no purpose in a presidential campaign.

I still respect some of Ron Paul's Libertarian views but I now see that he does not know when to draw a line between the dogmatic and the practical or common sensical and that, I am afraid, makes him unfit to be president.

The president must be capable of looking at a situation from many different angles and especially from the angle of what is good for the American people and the country while still following the requirements of our Constitution. Paul would be constrained by his strict dogmatism and therefore not good for the country BUT I hope some of his Libertarian views will enter into the great presidential debate in 2012.