Bush isn't my commander-in-chief
The Right makes incessant references to the President (except during Democratic administrations) as the Commander-in-Chief. In a post on the distinction between a civilian President and a military Commander-in-Chief, Glenn Greenwald quotes from his own How Would a Patriot Act? to note how this relates to the constitutional division of powers:
Moreover, while President Bush's supporters are fond of referring to him as the "commander in chief" -- typically to insinuate that he should be beyond criticism or that his authority cannot be questioned, particularly in "times of war" -- the president under our system of government holds that position only with regard to those in the armed forces (see Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution: "The president shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States"). With regard to Americans generally, the president is not our "commander" but instead our elected public servant, subject to the mandates of the law like every other citizen and subordinate to the will of the people.
He also blames, appropriately, the commonality of this usage on the Right’s media echo chamber while quoting Teddy Roosevelt on the moral treason involved in blind support for the President:
Most media flaws are so fundamental and systemic that they will take a long time to resolve, if they can be at all. But one quick, easy and critical step would be to cease speaking of the elected civilian President as our military Commander and instead treat him as the public servant that he is. There is no obligation or duty to support the President, fully including matters relating to war. Quite the contrary: he "should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole."
Greenwald also quote from a Garry Wills op-ed on the same subject:
WE hear constantly now about “our commander in chief.” The word has become a synonym for “president.” It is said that we “elect a commander in chief.” It is asked whether this or that candidate is “worthy to be our commander in chief.”But the president is not our commander in chief. He certainly is not mine. I am not in the Army. […] The president is not the commander in chief of civilians.