Posted on 12/08/2013 6:53:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I was under the impression it wasn’t swearing unless it was on a Bible. (Otherwise it is affirmation).
This is the first I’ve heard that JQA swore on a law book.
Previously I heard that only Franklin Pierce had used the affirmation option.
http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in/bibles
Hmm...the story about JQA appears to be true....no mention though about Pierce affirming.
Nope. Wasn’t joking at all. I have heard that chatter, too. It wouldn’t surprise me at all, either.
That’s some honker nose shes got going
Shes obviously going senile
It was for Keith Eliison who took his oath of office on a quran.
However, had he researched it, he might have found that Thomas Jefferson studied that particular book to understand more of the muslim mind before dispatching forces that eventually defeated the islamic sand-fleas in the wars of the Barbary pirates.
Barbara Wawa sleep her way to the top and had a particular fondness for BLACK politicians, one senator in particular.
Ok, so I need to partially retract me earlier statement. From
Sen Brook’s perspective Baba Wawa wasn’t, probably, a waste of human flesh ...
Oh, and I now have the image of Bernadette Peters yelling “Its Twue, it’s TWUE” stuck in my head.
Thanks.
(Martin Luther King Jr, Barbara Walters and Anne Frank)
That old witch had better mend her ways, pronto. Her face-to-face appointment with her creator can’t be that far off.
Madeline Khan, not Bernadette Peters ... ugh, damn you old age!
Yes sir. My apologies. Indeed it was Madeline Kahn.
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