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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

For One Brief Shining Moment... Anarchy!

I'm listening to Yo-Yo Ma and friends play a stirring arrangement of Copeland on the Capitol steps... and I look at the clock and realize we don't have a President. Article 20 says the President's term ends at noon. It's 12:03 Eastern Time, and Barack Hussein Obama still hasn't sworn the oath. Imagine that—for one brief moment, America has no President.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/20/2009 3:35 PM

    I'm told for that three minutes, Joe B. was the president. True?

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  2. Kelsey1/20/2009 5:16 PM

    CNN said that the Constitution makes him president at noon whether he swears the oath or not.

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  3. caheidelberger1/20/2009 5:46 PM

    Article II: Section 1: "...Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation...."

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  4. Anonymous1/21/2009 2:02 AM

    Whether or not that 3-minute interlude was actually anarchic, I find it fascinating that you refer to it as a "shining moment"!

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  5. caheidelberger1/21/2009 5:49 AM

    Stan, in high school, I ran for student body president quoting Thoreau and promising that I would abolish the student council and see student activities run entirely by ad hoc volunteer groups. That high school anarcho-pacifist still has a voice in my inner political debates.

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  6. John Nelson1/22/2009 9:11 PM

    The channel I was watching featured commentators that indicated Obama became president at noon regardless of whether he had taken the oath.

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