Hussein jumped in to soon and flubbed it up at the very beginning, then Hussein went blank after the word execute!
Justice Roberts should have left Obama standing there grasping for words....that really would have been funny!
“Hussein jumped in to soon and flubbed it up at the very beginning.”
That’s also how Pete Williams analyzed it:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/20/1751351.aspx
It was a classic sign that Obama was conscious of the fact that he was lying when he took the oath.
He can memorize long speeches, but not the Oath of Office?
This type of flub happens when the speaker asserts that which is the opposite of what is truly in his mind.
If you watch the oath at Bush's 2005 inauguration, Rehnquist pauses after "I, George Walker Bush,..." and Bush repeats that before they move on to "do solemnly swear." Obama obviously thought Roberts was going to break the oath up the same way, and he doesn't jump in any faster than Bush did. But Roberts was planning to give him a longer chunk to repeat before pausing, so they stepped on each other's lines and couldn't recover. This whole attempt to figure out who to blame for it--on all sides--is silly.