In an attempt to head off the same wingnuts who still insist his birth certificate is a phony, Barack Obama re-took the presidential oath of office again yesterday -- and both he and Chief Justice John Roberts made sure they got it right this time.
"Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts said.
"I am," Obama replied, adding a Tina Turner-esque. "And we’re going to do it very slowly."
Despite what my heckler/stalker believes, The New York Times reported today what I've been saying all along, which is that "Obama, who had been studying his lines, briefly interrupted Chief Justice Roberts initially, which could have thrown the chief justice off course." While some are crying conspiracy (Roberts did it to wreck Obama's moment because Obama voted against Roberts' confirmation to the Supreme Court, etc.) I thought it was one of the few real moments of an otherwise highly scripted day of events. Both men were visibly nervous, the gravity of the moment was HUGE, and Obama's boyish jumping the gun was very cute. His knowing smile when Roberts flubbed up later only made them seem that much more human.
Good work, men. Now let's put this to rest.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Let's Try That Again
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But his hand is not on the Lincoln Bible so it doesn't count. They have to do it over again.
I did wonder if the Chief Justice's problem was with 'faithfully' splitting the verb 'will execute'. It would have earned red pen lines from a few of my more conservative teachers.
Of course the grammar conservatives hadn't finished inventing the rules of 'proper English' when the oath was written.
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