The skilful controlling hand the president's admirers claim for him will be badly needed.Most of Mr Wahid's other choices are more impressive.
However, much to Ridsdale's dismay the sheikh pulled out of the deal, leaving Leeds to question whether he actually had the financial muscle claimed for him.
While President Obama's critics on the right regularly call him a tyrant, in the debt-limit showdown he is flatly rejecting presidential powers that others claim for him.
Pro-Morsi demonstrators had rallied around his "legitimacy" as Egypt's first democratically elected president, while General Sisi's supporters claimed for him a "mandate" to crush the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
McCain hasn't spoken about it, but many in the press have claimed for him that he probably had no idea the contest was topless and occasionally bottomless (much less that, during the weeklong boozin', druggin' hogfest some of the girls occasionally get roughed up, all noted in this ESPN dispatch, widely circulating days before McCain's visit).
The film subtly claims for him the privilege of silence (to concentrate, he's plugged up his ears, which means he misses his father's lecture on the need to find a girl and get married) and delays for several minutes his first line of dialogue — a blunt question ("Do you want to marry me?") addressed to the Swedish au pair, Ilka (Karin Vesely), who lives with his family.
And freedom isn't something the powers that be can or will give you; it's something each of us has to claim for him- or herself.
The substantive demands of due process necessarily go hand in hand with the procedural, and the cases insist at the least on an opportunity for a detainee to challenge the reason claimed for committing him.
Interviewer: What do you claim for when suing him?
According to Whitey, he was never an informant; the FBI, he claims, worked for him.
