Posted on 01/21/2009 10:07:34 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican
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Because Obama was adopted by an Indonesian and attained Indonesian dual citizenship and never renounced it, he can't be President.
Now, because he didn't say the oath properly, he can't be President?
I guess that would make Obama the most illegitimate President in history.
The required oath is:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Do you see what the issue there is? According to Article II “so help me God” is not there.
So, it follows that pretty well all Presidents have incorrectly sworn the oath.
This is how dumb this argument actually is.
boy, that’s a mouthfull!
If something like this gets focused on too much, it becomes a mockery item. Nobody really cares. Time is better spent pointing out how effed up his policies are going to be.
The "So Help Me GOD" portion is after the prescribed verbiage and not really part of the oath, but always present, much like when everyone cheers after the National Anthem is sung at a ballgame.
Exactly.
What you saw yesterday was a ceremonial oath, after what you saw, the President signs the official oath making it legal. A little goof with the ceremonial doesn’t impact anything.
You can’t have it both ways.
The argument is that Obama did not say the oath exactly as written in the Constitution. The oath as written does not contain “so help me God”.
If the requirement is that the oath was be taken EXACTLY as written, adding “so help me God” is an issue as well.
It’s a really dumb argument.
When you hope for change, you grasp on dumb things.
No. Anything said after the prescribed oath is something else. If he omitted the "So Help Me GOD" and started into his specch by saying "Ladies and Gentlemen ..." that would not be part of the oath.
He also added “Barack Hussein Obama” between the “I” and the “do” (as other presidents have added their name).
Nope sorry the blogger above states that:
he shall take the following oath,” and proceeds to supply the precise wording required for the presidential oath.
The precise wording does not include “so help me god”
And it really doesn’t matter anyways.
That's silly. It's like saying you can speak before or after the oath or the oath isn't valid. The point is that anything said before or after isn't part of the oath. But changing the words in the oath changes the oath.
Can = Can't.
In the grand scheme of things, this sounds like a trifle...
We should keep our powder dry for substantive matters, rather than acting like moonbats over trivialities...
JMO...
Well I say we all let it go to the Supreme Court then. What do you really, and I mean really think Roberts will do?
What about the other Supremes?
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