Posted on 01/20/2009 10:29:04 AM PST by antonia
Barack trips on the words of his Oath.
Chief Justice Roberts used a little different line break than most people do when administering the oath. He through in a longer reading of a sentence where normally there is a break in that sentence.
You’re kidding right? Roberts definitely said faithfully the first time around.But he said it at the wrong place.
I guess we have to get used to that now.
Roberts said it in the wrong spot, though. The correct text is “will faithfully execute”. Roberts left out “faithfully” and then tacked it onto the end of the phrase. Obama started to repeat “will execute” and then stopped, realizing “faithfully” was missing.
It’s true that this may have been started by Obama starting to repeat the first phrase “I, Barack Hussein Obama...” before Roberts said “do solemnly swear”, perhaps because there was a small pause there. But the rest of the screwups were Roberts’.
Please pardon me! The UPI does include the garble.
I realize that they both messed it up. I wonder if (much more importantly), not following the Constitution- dictated oath to the letter now means that the Presidency is not official?
A technicality might keep him from being President? We can only hope.
Actually, Roberts was the one who needed a teleprompter.
In all seriousness, for something this important, the Chief Justice should bring a notecard to refer to. I know it's a short oath but the nerves of the situation could make anyone forget the words, as obviously happened to Roberts. He's not used to speaking in front of such a large crowd in such a high pressure situation. He should have brought notes, even if he thought he had it memorized.
anyone can be a poet..
Just like the one police officers carry.
But that's not the start of the flubs. The first flub was when Obama interrupted Roberts early on, forcing the oath to back up to the beginning, and I believe that's what threw off Roberts. After that, they both made more flubs. It just kind of fed on itself.
Lincoln’s ghost making Zero nervous as he touched Lincoln’s bible, secretly wishing it were the Quran. ;)
Nope. After Roberts corrected that phrase by moving the word "faithfully" to the front where it should have been, Obambi repeated the phrase with "faithfully" moved back to the wrong place at the end.
But at the end of the sentence. It’s supposed to come before “execute.” He skipped it (slight hesitation before he said “execute”), realized it, added it back in at the end of the sentence. That’s what I wrote the first time around.
You are simply wrong. Look, we make ourselves look like fools when you come back, after others have provided the proof that Roberts left out the word “faithfully” in it’s proper place, and have to find something that Obama did wrong. He did not jump in before Roberts finished.
That you must find something to fault Obama with, when the evidence has been presented to you that Roberts goofed, makes you look vindictive, petty, small.
Let go if this. Grow up. There will plenty of legitimate things to fault Obama for. We don’t need to make fools of ourselves.
Roberts put “faithfully” at the end of the sentence, and that one little change threw the kenyan off.
Heh heh, those judges and their Socratic methods.
The pupil coulddnt follow along without his silly teleprompter.
Okay, I see you are referring to Obama starting to repeat his name when Roberts intended to add another phrase before pausing. Whether that was Roberts fault for pausing too long before continuing or Obama’s for starting to repeat before it was clear whether Roberts was pausing is six of one and a half dozen of the other. They should have both had the phrasing, pausing, established firmly in advance to avoid this sort of problem but from the video it’s not clearly Obama’s fault or Roberts’ fault.
The fact that you cannot simply accept that Roberts flubed the “faithfully” part but simply HAVE to find something to fault Obama with, remains a fact. And it makes you, and by extension it makes us all, look petty and childish.
Not really. Roberts never actually said it correctly "I will faithfully execute the office..."
This is what he came up with, after stumbling.
"Roberts: the off... faithfully the pres... the office of President of the United States"
He moved it towards the front of the phrase, sorta, but nowhere near "execute" or in the right order. There's no way Obama could repeat that so it seems he went with what was originally said.
Just a confusing situation caused by nervousness. It seems like they were both able to see the humor in it and no one's really upset. No biggie.
Yep, just the first instance of “Someone else’s fault”.
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