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Judicial Watch founder and far right-wing legal activist Larry Klayman claimed in an interview with Newsmaxs Steve Malzberg today that President Obama sympathizes with the so-called Muslim faith and everything he does nearly is based on favoring his own people, which is Muslims and African Americans. He thinks like a Muslim, he believes that he is a Muslim, he obviously does worship the Koran, Klayman said. He obviously is in fact biased against people who are not of his claimed religion and otherwise.
He added that President Obamas supposed Muslim faith makes him unable to swear allegiance to the Constitution. Given the fact that the president is a Muslim at heart and half-Muslim by birth, he cant even swear to the Constitution because you have to swear on the Holy Bible of Judeo-Christians, he explained. This president obviously believes in Sharia law, and as a result he has no respect for this Constitution, which was founded by our founding fathers under Judeo-Christian principles.
Klayman told Malzberg that his call last year for Obama to put the Quran down, get up off your knees and come out with your hands up was just what the country has been thinking but nobody says. He cited a number of discredited anti-Obama conspiracy theories, including that Obama attended an Islamic madrassa as a child, that he admitted to George Stephanopoulos that he is a Muslim, that he is running a campaign to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that he wears a secret Muslim wedding ring.
Lets be blunt, and I dont mean this in a racist way, but if he had been Richard Nixon and he had been Caucasian, he would have been gone by now, Klayman concluded. See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-klayman-obama-cant-swear-constitution-because-hes-muslim#sthash.8b1bk9QI.dpuf
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)He's become a cartoon of the cartoon he was prior to Obama being elected.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)And it's really creepy when someone posts them as a source to bash the Clintons.
Oh and those who believe what Judicial Watch has to say about ANY Democrat.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Funny guy, that Klayman.
The core issue in this case is whether the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA) applies to the National Energy Policy Development Group. If so, then the Group's proceedings must be revealed. Cheney's position is that FACA does not apply, by its own terms, since the president appointed only federal officials to serve on the panel.
But the plaintiffs in the case -- Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club - argue that in fact, it's not true that only federal officials served on the panel. To the contrary, they say, a number of energy industry lobbyists (such as Enron's Ken Lay) were so deeply involved in the work of the Group, they were effectively members. And the D.C. Circuit ruled in 1993, in Association of Physicians & Surgeons v. Clinton, that in such a situation, FACA does apply.
The Court left the question whether FACA applies for the Court of Appeals. But it did speak, at least to some extent,to the discovery issues the case also raised. The plaintiffs had served discovery requests--principally requests for documents, and written interrogatories - on Cheney.
Cheney refused to respond. He also refused to invoke executive privilege. Thus, were it not for his decision to seek Supreme Court review, he would have had to either invoke executive privilege, or produce documents and respond to the interrogatories. On this issue, the Court sided with Cheney. It held that: "Given the breadth of the discovery requests in this case , our precedent provides no support for the proposition that the Executive Branch "shall bear the burden" of invoking executive privilege with sufficient specificity and of making particularized objections."
But it also pointed out that the federal trial courts in the District of Columbia had previously fashioned discovery requests from the Executive that did not require an invocation of executive privilege, and caused no separation of powers problems. Thus, the Court left the ultimate issue of whether similar requests could be fashioned in this case, to the D.C. Circuit. (Dean, 2004, p. 2)
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)Before link was added?
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Already 3 OPs today.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)frequently and just cant consume that much info at once. My post was cut short as I was posting from my iPhone
No disrespect intended
SteveG
(3,109 posts)Nowhere in it is any officer of the U.S. required to swear an oath on a Bible to hold office.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)on the Quran, Keith Ellison (IN)?
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)its premise:
is a lie.
N.B. to the OP: Careful with this. Some of our residents regard Mr. Klayman with some esteem.
unblock
(52,243 posts)never mind the ridiculous and clearly bigoted claim that obama is a muslim, never mind the "no religious test" bit in the constitution, etc....
how on earth is the stupid ritual of having an elected official place a hand on a bible helped us in any way?
seriously? are we really supposed to believe that that's the all-important failsafe that keeps even a christian president from destroying the country?
well, of course, it didn't stop watergate or the teapot dome scandal anything else rotten that presidents have done in the past, every past president put his hand on a bible, i guess we know all that crap was just god's will, whereas in obama's case....
dballance
(5,756 posts)Klayman needs to read the Constitution. It says, very clearly, that no religious test will be required to hold office. People have sworn an oath to that Constitution and symbolically only done it on a Bible. The swearing in of a person on the Judeo-Chrisian Bible is not at all required. Absolutely no where does any oath of office include the words "So Help Me God."
onenote
(42,704 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I'd know for sure if it had not been a Christian extravaganza starring Ricky Pie Warren, but it was so I was distracted and annoyed at the hyper Christianity of the event. It dripped with the Jesus juice.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)That is all.