MO Official Apologizes for Asking Why the Military Can’t Just Oust Obama

A Missouri official had to apologize today for asking on Facebook why the military can’t just take down a “domestic enemy” of the country: President Obama himself. Debbie Dunnegan, the Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds (and up for reelection this year, by the way), posted this rather strange question last week to military servicemembers, and the status she posted was preserved by Progress Missouri:

So just to recap: she asks if the military oath includes fighting domestic enemies like the President of the United States, and she refers to Obama as “supposedly the commander in chief.”

So how did she respond after being questioned about it? Dunnegan apologized:

“I meant no ill intent toward the president. I meant no ill intent toward anybody,” she said…

“Something innocent and simple got twisted into a disaster because it’s an election.”

[h/t TPM]
[images via screengrab, St. Louis Post Dispatch]

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