As much as I hate to defend this guy, it didn’t help that Roberts flubbed it first, he screwed up and then Obama just started to repeat what Roberts had mistakenly said.
So Obama was too stupid or scared to do the right thing and instead repeated something in error? Not a good sign.
Roberts screwed up, not Obama. If you ain’t got a memory, get a pencil...
Correct. Roberts said the words in the incorrect order which probably messed up The One since he was expecting to hear something a little different.
Funny watching it but beyond that it means nothing, IMHO...
If you listen to it again, you'll notice that BHO flubbed first when he interrupted Roberts in mid phrase, got a few words in, stopped, and then had to back up and restart it from the beginning. That seemed to throw Roberts off his concentration, because you can hear him hesitating for awhile before continuing on with the next phrase, and even hesitating a tiny bit within that next phrase. And of course, he put the adverb at the end of the phrase instead of at the front, as the Constitution has it.
What I found interesting today is to hear some grammar police on FR point out that in actuality the Constitution used bad grammar in putting "faithfully" at the start of the phrase, and that Roberts' mistake in moving it to the end was actually the grammatically correct way to say it!
So they go into a back room and do it again, with the written oath in front of them.
I wouldn’t waste time on this guys.