Adding an entire clause "doesn't matter" but changing the order of an adverb does matter?
I would argue that his reinforces the oath by naming ....
Inserting a name WITHIN THE OATH "doesn't matter" but changing the order of an adverb does matter? I thought your claim was that only things added "before or after" don't matter.
I guess that would be okay as long as ONE party said it correctly.
Ummmm ... the "correct" was to say it, according to the EXACT wording of the Constitution is:
"I .... repeat ..... "I ..... not "YOU" ..... "I ..... do solemnly swear ..."
If the Chief Justice repeated the oath EXACTLY as the Constitution states, the Chief Justice would be swearing HIMSELF in as President and the President-elect's response of "I will" would be a non sequitur.
The historical fact of the matter is that, up until at least the Inaugurations after President Arthur's Inauguration, the EXACT text of the Constitution was NEVER said by EITHER the Chief Justice OR the President-elect.
You have contradicted your own position so many times that you have succeeded in winning the debate against yourself.
Meanwhile, the racism that was tolerated at the Obama Inauguration is being ignored because we are expecting Obama to have uttered the EXACT words of the Constitution while the historical record indicates that no President has probably ever done so.
Pick your battles.
This is a diversionary skirmish that is helping the Democrats.
But once again you're ignoring the main point I've always been making:
There is a correct, right, acceptable wording of the oath. Barak Obama made a decision, at a stressful momement, to change the wording to GO ALONG with somebody else's error. THAT'S the point I'm making. Under stress he folded. He gave up what was right and went along with what he KNEW to be wrong. That concerns me because what will happen in negotiations with terrorists? Will he sell out to get along? To avoid embarrassment?
Now you haven't addressed that. You keep trying to say (in essence) that it doesn't MATTER what he said so he didn't do anything "wrong". So tell me, how far off can the wording of the oath be and still count?