Robin Roberts Faults Chief Justice For Oath Flub

FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Proudcongal]

Goodness. O interrupted Roberts because he was saying the oath wrong....READ...Roberts left out the word faithfully before O opened his mouth.

Go back and look at your own post of the transcript. How is "I Barak Obama do solemnly swear" by Roberts saying the oath wrong? Obama most certainly did open his mouth when he started to speak before Roberts was finished. Read the transcript or watch it on youtube.

[DocJ69]

I replied to you privately, for your unwarranted post. When we on Freerepublic want to say something apparently in your immaturity think that I or we are in need of being blasted by you.
Apparently, you have fallen in step with the “Great Ones’ hordes.

[buzzer]

“It was a classic sign that Obama was conscious of the fact that he was lying when he took the oath.”

BS. He was nervous as anybody else would be.

[PjhCPA]

I heard it first hand, live. You are correct. Don't let some here drive you crazy. Watching the inauguration is an indication of nothing.

[classified]

Well that’s true, Hussein came in a little early but it was the second goof that was the big flub! Hussein just went blank after he began to repeat the line and stopped at the word execute. Hussein went blank.....and if Justice Roberts had not tried to help Hussein along with the rest of the line Hussein would still be standing there blank with his lovely wife smiling over the whole incident!

[Proudcongal]

BO jumping the gun threw Roberts off and it cascaded into bumbling. Fortunately, MSNBC only plays it from the point where things are going smootly...just like it never happened.

True and that explains why people are confused as to what actually happened. I watched it live. I get the feeling if Obama had just waited for his cue the whole thing would have gone off without a hitch. For a split second I cringed and felt sorry for Obama, but only for a second.

[Eastbound]

Along wiff de oaff of office, you got a good start on a great minstrel routine. Bein's Obammy's mammy was white 'n all, that makes him almost half black, but enough so's he won't hafta put on any face grease to be de 'bones' shaker.

Now that the black man has succeeded to the throne of the white man, don' bodder me wid any ob dose racial accusaytions. Ya'll are grown up enough now to take dem in stride and pass 'em on by. Congratulations!

[SuperLuminal]

"Apparently, you have fallen in step with the “Great Ones’ hordes."

I replied (apologized...sort of) to you privately, also.

Yes I have! Here is my list of "Great Ones":

• George Washington;
• Thomas Jefferson; and, to make a long story short,
• All the rest of the Founding Fathers.

Of course I include their "hordes"

[queenkathy]

I tried to put myself in his shoes and I think what happened is that he probably spent some mirror time memorizing the oath and Roberts switched the wording around.

I just thought they were both nervous. I know I would have been.

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

I get the feeling if Obama had just waited for his cue the whole thing would have gone off without a hitch.

Like I said before, where the cue comes isn't always the same. Watch some past inaugurals on YouTube. For Bush in 2005, the pause came right after the name, which is what Obama expected. For Clinton, the first pause came after the "solemnly swear," which is what Robert intended. It might have been smart for them to communicate about this beforehand, but either they didn't or one of them forgot what they'd decided on.

I'm wondering if they fixed it later. The Constitution doesn't say the oath has to be public, and it'd take them 15 seconds to make sure they fulfilled the requirement.