Posted on 01/20/2009 8:49:03 PM PST by DouglasKC
Have you heard?
Chief Justice Roberts mixed some words around in the Presidential oath that Presidents take upon assuming the office.
The oath should read as follows:
"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."
It seems that Chief Justice Roberts put the word "faithfully" in the wrong place. It was then repeated incorrectly by Mr. Obama.
Should we give Mr. Obama a pass?
I don't think so. And I'll explain why.
Mr. Obama should have known the oath backwards and forwards. He is a constitutional scholar. He must have studied the oath. He surely was briefed on the correct wording.
If you watch the swearing in, it seems certain that Mr. Obama realizes that Chief Justice Roberts has stated the oath wrong. Yet.
Yet Mr. Obama repeats it back, wrong also.
What does this show? We have two possiblities.
The first is that Mr. Obama really didn't know the oath. He never memorized it. He didn't know that the words were mixed up. As stated previously this isn't really plausible. He knew it.
The second option is rather unsettling. Mr. Obama knew the oath. He knew it backward and forward. He knew the right and proper wording specified by the Constitution of the United States. Yet he repeated back the error.
No big deal?
Think about it. This was Mr. Obama's very first act as President. It was a relatively high pressure situation. Around the world there were millions of eyes focused on him. Expectations were high. Nerves, no doubt, were on edge. Yet, when faced with standing up for the right wording, he folded. He agreed with error.
Now maybe he did this to save Chief Justice Roberts from an embarrassing situation. Maybe he did it to prevent himself from appearing "wrong" to the public. Maybe he just wanted to put forth the appearance that everything went smoothly. But are these the attributes we want in a President?
We want the President to be a leader. We want him to stand up for what's right even when everybody else is wrong. We want him to make the decision in the most pressure packed situations. We want him to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Yet at his very first opportunity he decided that getting along at the moment was more important than a constitutional requirement.
It's going to be a long four, or eight, years.
Exactly. He could have led and got it right. He could have led and corrected Justice Roberts. Instead he chose to compound error.
What threw off Obamas concentration? What was he thinking? I think I know just what words were going through his mind.
My left hand is on fire, must resist, touching bible burns, must fool them, can’t concentrate, will heal by touching Koran later.
Screw Obama....frankly Scarlet.....I don’t give a damn!!
BTW..Michelle looks like a sailboat tonight in her vast..MAST white gown.
Perhaps we should catch a ride on the yellow submarine.
EYE ROLL
The Left has Semantics owned. "Tacks and Only Brass Tacks".
So did he take the oath or not?
“Please let us try and avoid what the left did to America in the last 8 years.”
Good lord child..this is war..not a garden party!
LOL.. (HT to Miss DiDi)
How come the Chief Justice didnt know the thing?
What? Gained control of the congress and the Presidency by pointing out Bush's supposed faults and failures?
Seemed like they had a pretty effective strategy. And when Obama is legitimately at fault we want to ignore it and agree with his friends?
Hannity already tried ‘Obama derangement syndrome’ but that is incorrect, so he changed it to Obama mania. It is not possible to be ‘deranged’ where Obama is concerned.
I say, what an idiot. He can’t even speak properly the oaf of office. That feels good and NO, I will not fall for the ‘we’re better than that’ propaganda. He flubbed it. No excuses. It is what it is. President Bush has taken an 8 year beating without one person from the other side saying, “Hey, take it easy on the guy.”. Barack’s time has come.
Who knows or cares? He's not the leader of the free world and he already took his oath.
Robin Roberts: During the taking the oath of office, Chief Justice Roberts inadvertently switched some words up. You were trying to help him out there a little bit, it seemed, with your look.
Pres. Obama: Oh, listen, I think we're up there, we've got a lot of stuff on our minds, and he actually I think helped me out on a couple of stanzas there. So overall I think it went relatively smoothly and I'm very grateful to him.
This was all followed by what really was the worst troubling sign I have ever seen. Birdie was ushered into the President's Room to sign 3 presidential authorizations which started with President Reagan.I even payed close enough attention over the years to this to know what was going on and I did not have visions of being President.
So Birdie sits down, and they hand him another folder which he signs and he tries to leave again, this time trying to give the pen away I purchased for the government to use.
Once again the blonde chic comes in and hands Birdie another folder to sign. Perhaps if there were 4, he would have figured it out, but how Axelrod hard is it to tell Birdie, “B. H., go in and sit down at the desk, sign 3 folders, and don't give the pen away as it is historic, and it will probably be in your Prime Ministerial library in Kenya”.
So ends the first moments of America's regression to Prime Minister status. A fount of Obamanism now flood the fruited plain, in mob chants, mobs not knowing what to do when beloved leader is not present handing out turkeys, Generals lecturing on race, huge sucking sounds and a Prime Minister who does not have any idea how to be President.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/
The Obama twitch should be back any day now. Hussein will not be able to handle all the public scrutiny. He's incredibly insecure, and attempts to address every minute criticism truthfully spoken against him. He's the polar opposite of President Bush who did the right thing no matter what his critics said. Because of Hussein's deep insecurity, he is unable to leave criticism alone.
Free Republic needs a daily Obama Gaff Thread as he continued to fumble throughout today's activities:
The only reason this might not be so big a deal is if the oath he took is substantially identical to the one required. I'm not sure what oath he did take, but if it's just misplacing the "faithfully" without changing the fact that it modifes "execute", then it certainly sounds very similar.
I've seen actors flub their lines, brides and grooms mess up their wedding vows (pretty darn important, you know, those wedding vows!), and politicians mess up their speeches.
Not a shocker.
Look, Obama is shallow, worthless, abortion-loving, dangerously inexperienced, and a socialist. There is plenty to dog him over.
But this? You're going to get your knickers into a twist over a word stumble?
I thought we were better than the DU who threw themselves into a frenzy over Bush's verbal trips.
Sigh...
Told you if it wasn’t written on a teleprompter he’d screw it up...
In any Obamza event, there sat Birdie signing a paper, looking like he was trying to wrestle it. He then stood up and tried to leave, without comprehending the blonde chic before him had 2 more folders.
So Birdie sits down, and they hand him another folder which he signs and he tries to leave again, this time trying to give the pen away I purchased for the government to use.
Once again the blonde chic comes in and hands Birdie another folder to sign. Perhaps if there were 4, he would have figured it out, but how Axelrod hard is it to tell Birdie, “B. H., go in and sit down at the desk, sign 3 folders, and don't give the pen away as it is historic, and it will probably be in your Prime Ministerial library in Kenya”.
So ends the first moments of America's regression to Prime Minister status. A fount of Obamanism now flood the fruited plain, in mob chants, mobs not knowing what to do when beloved leader is not present handing out turkeys, Generals lecturing on race, huge sucking sounds and a Prime Minister who does not have any idea how to be President.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/
The Obama twitch should be back any day now. Hussein will not be able to handle all the public scrutiny. He's incredibly insecure, and attempts to address every minute criticism truthfully spoken against him. He's the polar opposite of President Bush who did the right thing no matter what his critics said. Because of Hussein's deep insecurity, he is unable to leave criticism alone.
Free Republic needs a daily Obama Gaff Thread as he continued to fumble throughout today's activities:
For crying out loud. He took the oath. Roberts screwed it up. The same guy who appeared to have an encyclopedic knowledge of case law during his confirmation screwed up one of the shortest oaths in existence. There are plenty of things to criticize Obama for, but this one is Roberts responsibility. (I really can’t believe I am defending Obama in this.)
Far more interesting to me was the way Roberts handled the “So help me God” tag at the end. He did not say it as simply some words to be repeated. Instead he said it as a question, his intonation almost challenging Obama with the question, “So help you God?”
That was the most interesting part of the oath as administered today and I have seen no comment on it at all.
Yes, I am going to get my knickers into a twist. He folded under pressure. He jettisoned what was right in order to look good.
And the DU's have the Presidency and the congress because they understand how to shape public opinion. If you want people to agree with conservatism then conservatives have to stop agreeing with liberals about nearly everything. They stand for everything we're against.
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