Posted on 02/13/2008 3:45:25 PM PST by newbie2008
"Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants?" Obama's answer: "No. I reject the Bush Administration's claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants." Memo to Obama: It is not the Bush administration's position. The Supreme Court held in 2004 -- this is the famous case, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. The president has the power to detain American citizens without charges as enemy combatants. Now, I just have to think here -- I don't know what to think. He's either ignorant or he's saying something far more dangerous. If he is saying that he's not bound by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the law, liberals would have a stroke if Bush claimed the kind of authority that Obama is claiming in this -- and ignorance.
Liberals are out there going bonkers every day over how stupid Bush is. This Obama interview is just scary. Let's see. Find another one here. He gets it wrong on who ratifies treaties and who consents to them. He says the president doesn't have the authority to abolish treaties. And the president does! Bush abolished the ABM Treaty shortly after taking office because Bush said it's irrelevant. The Soviets are gone. I'm getting rid of this. The liberals went nuts, but they couldn't stop him because the president does have the authority to get rid of treaties. Obama says here that the president does not have the authority to undermine Congress, the Senate here, which ratifies treaties. The Senate doesn't ratify, they consent to them. The president makes treaties, negotiates them, comes up with them. When's the last time you saw Gorbachev meeting with some senator at Reykjavik or anywhere else? Gorbachev met with Reagan, for crying out loud.
Just another in a long line of examples that shows Obambi is a media-created empty suit. There is no “there” there.
this guy went thru columbia and harvard without leaving a trace - i think he is a complete fraud and this is going to be this years big story.
Just another in a long line of examples that shows Obambi is a media-created empty suit. There is no “there” there.
Agreed.
But calling Obama “ignorant” is ignorant.
I’m just sayin’...:-)
And as he frequently mentions, he was a Professor of Constitutional Law. At some silly little college in Chicago, University of I believe.
Underestimating ones enemy, a certain road to defeat.
“Do you have ANY idea how competitive life is at Harvard Law?”
Uh, didn’t Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy go to Harvard Law? If he got through it I’d have my suspicions about it being as tough as it’s made out to be.
Wait a minute!....Obama is still in the ear to ear grin stage of his campaign. He doesn’t have to think yet does he?
Good grief! I give up!
He was bright and personable and had a great vocabulary -- but he was (in my opinion) not a very good lawyer.
First Amendment: GOOD (the right to smear shit on a wall and call it art is the greatest gift government has given us)
Second Amendment: BAD (written by racist white guys when they needed to keep minorities, women and gays in check)
The Rest of the Constitution: To be used or ignored at the discretion of the liberals in charge.
Have a nice life.
You think McCain and Huckabee understand the Constitution better?
“Uh, didn’t Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy go to Harvard ?”
Uh, no. Virginia.
A nutritionist that got his PhD degree in the effect of vitamin e on a rabbit gut is not an expert in human nutrition.
Obama, with a very good law degree, does not make him a constitution lawyer by any means.
In other words, that is why supreme court members don’t to real estate. They are specialist. What was Obama’s law specialty?
I have friends that are great patent lawyers but really suck at development projects.
As to Rush being wrong on the presidential treaty abrogation power, you should read this:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/art2frag19_user.html
The President does indeed have the power to act unilaterally and abrogate a treaty, at least as recognized under current Constitutional law. There are other ways to abrogate a treaty, though the primary means seems to be by executive action.
Education does not equate to common sense.
Limbaugh has more common sense in his little finger, than B. Hussein Obama has in his whole body.
And, common sense is what we need come November.
You still don't get it. Obama's ignorance of the Constitution after completing Harvard makes him look really stupid. It doesn't take a law degree to understand the Constitution, as you seem to think it does. Yours is an elitist mindset that is, frankly, insulting.
Ted “The Swimmer” did attend Harvard — as an undergraduate. He attended it repeatedly. (He was expelled twice.)
Cheating at Harvard was sometimes called “pulling a teddy.”
He attended UV Law School.
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