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Copy-editing the Constitution? - PostPartisan - Quick takes from The Post's opinion writers

Firedoglake found this 1/21/2009 on voices.washingtonpost.com

They were miscuing each other. Obama expected Roberts to stop after "I, Barack Hussein Obama," and he started to echo him at that point, but Roberts went on to add "do solemnly swear" so they overlapped for a moment. That flustered Roberts and he muffed the next phrase. Obama realized it was ...