Don't tell me what I'm saying "in effect". I haven't spoken a word about my thoughts on Justice John Roberts.
I'm not inside John Roberts' head, so I can't know what internal struggles he may have gone through in administering the oath of office to Obama.
Everything I know about the man says that he is honorable, and an American patriot. But, he is just a man. No doubt, he has the same failings and weaknesses we all do. We can't know what forces, real or imagined, may have compelled him to rotely follow ceremony and procedure in that circumstance.
Perhaps our Justices are not as informed about current events as we would hope them to be. Perhaps they are more informed than we are, but are pawns in a game that is much too large for them to win from their present station (hard as that is to believe). We honestly can't know their minds on this, until they open up to us, if indeed they ever do.
I will say this, though. In the end, your honor and your personal integrity are more important than your immediate life. We are in the condition we are in today because of the compounding of cowardice, both small and large, for many decades. None of us have clean hands, but most especially those we've entrusted with protecting our freedoms and liberties.
I would have preferred for Justice Roberts to have fully confronted the extraordinary circumstances in front of him, and make the courageous choice, but he chose otherwise. Why, I do not know.
A nice attempt at spin. I’ll give you a B minus.
Back here in the real world we know that the Chief Justice administered the Oath of Office twice. John Roberts had plenty of time to consider the implications in between the times that he administered the oath publically and then in the smaller, private ceremony.
One of the cases from Orly Taitz (Lightfoot v Bowen) that challenged Obama’s eligibility was sent to Justice Roberts on December 29, 2008 on a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (agreement to hear the case before the full court). Roberts (and the Supreme Court) rejected granting the Petition on January 26, 2009. The Chief Justice would have been very familiar with the facts of the case submitted by Orly Taitz before he denied the Petition.
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/interview-orly-taitz-chief-justice.html