Sibby and Bob Ellis have missed the biggest story of the day. John Walker is still grading papers. Pastor Hickey came close, but still missed the point: Barack Hussein Obama still isn't the President of the United States. In the parting bumble of the Bush Administration, Chief Justice John Roberts muffed—nay, sabotaged—the Presidential oath, placing "faithfully" at the end of the clause rather than properly splitting the verb phrase. Fundagelicals like Pastor Hickey et al. who believe that salvation hinges on saying and obeying all the right formulas, should be all over this: Obama didn't say the exact words of the oath; therefore, Obama isn't President!
Here's what really happened:
- Chief Justice Roberts, knowing full well Obama is a natural-born citizen, thought rewording the oath with give sufficient strict Constitutional grounds for him to uphold a court challenge to the Obama Presidency.
- President Obama, who probably said these words to himself more than a few times over the past few days, immediately caught Roberts's miswording.
- Obama's sharp Constitutional mind saw the glint in Roberts's eye and knew exactly what he was up to.
- In that split second, Obama foresaw the court challenge some fringe right-winger would file, formulated the arguments on both sides, and realized he would easily win on a "spirit of the law" argument.
- Realizing Obama had caught him, Roberts stammered out a corrected version.
- Completely confident, Obama recited the miswording Roberts had offered, as if to say, "Bring it on."
Know what's more fun? Dropping "Elect" from my phrasing.
President Barack Hussein Obama. Nice.
Dude,
ReplyDeleteIt's all a conspiracy man.
It sounds like you are really stoked about our new pres...
I realize you're just joking, but two points:
ReplyDelete1 - Constitutional scholars have always said that the new president takes office at noon, regardless of whether he says the oath or not. In fact, Obama took the oath a few minutes late, but was already president.
2 - Obama SIGNED a copy of his oath shortly after the ceremony. That is actually the official oath, and I'm willing to bet it's right on there.
Just saw on Drudge Obama was re-sworn in today just in case.
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OBAMA RE-SWORN IN
At 735 pm, Roberts administered the oath of office again to obama in the map room. Robert gibbs said the wh counsel, greg craig, believes the oath was fine Tuesday, but one word was out of sequence so they did this out of a "an abundance of caution." "We decided it was so much fun..." Obama joked while sitting on a couch. Obama stood and walked over to make small talk with pool as roberts donned his black robe. "Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts asked. "I am, and we're going to do it very slowly," obama replied. Oath took 25 seconds. After a flawless recitation, roberts smiled and said, "congratulations, again." Obama said, "thank you, sir." Smattering of applause. "All right." Obama said. "The bad news for the pool is there's 12 more balls."