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Hope restored: Obama takes oath of office again
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Apparently Barack Obama must read the blogs, or listen to constitutional lawyers on television. The new President took some free advice and re-took the oath of office today, just to be on the safe side: Chief Justice John Roberts administered the presidential oath of office to Barack Obama for a second time Wednesday just to be on the safe side. The unusual step came after Roberts flubbed the 35-word constitutionally prescribed oath a bit on Tuesday, causing Obama to repeat the wording differently than as prescribed in the Constitution. The chief justice and the president ...
Because There Will Be Some Who Will Feel Absolutely COMPELLED to Make an Issue of It….
The Moderate Voice —
... …President Obama restated, reaffirmed, and re-swore the Oath of Office today, showing far more regard for both the letter and the spirit of our Constitution than his predecessor did, you know, the one who appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who flubbed the Oath in the first place, along with ignoring needs for search warrants before wiretapping or habeas corpus requirements before throwing American citizens in prisons where Presidentially-approved torture was perpetrated. ...
Irony
QandO —
Does it bother anyone else that the questionable Constitutional implications of the botched inaugural oath were serious enough to warrant a redo, but that the plainly and unambiguously unconstitutional appointment (and confirmation) of Sen. Hillary Clinton to the Secretary of State post barely merits a yawn? Or how about the fact that tax cheats are routinely punished unmercifully, and that Joe Biden famously deemed as unpatriotic those who seek to reduce their taxes by as much as legally possible, but Congress is in ...
What Obama Really Meant, Redux
Corrente —
Actually, it's a good move to take a mulligan on the bollixed oath-reading — and this time with no Bible!
If there's one thing Republicans can be counted on to do, it's to project their own sins onto others, so after circling the wagons around the illegitimate Bush, the botched oath would have been made hay of at every opportunity (and still might, if only for derision... or to build conspiracy theories on the no-Bible thing — maybe third time's the charm?).
For the record, the origins of W.O.R.M., a term I hope won't matter much in future. ...
Hard Times for Our Founding Documents
The American Spectator —
... when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was interrupted by the (then) president-elect. Minutes later, and well before next day's " do over " on the oath, Paul Kangor ...
Matthew Owen: Baby Steps for Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... waiting for that monumental moment -- those first steps -- waiting to see how he would stretch, get on his own two feet, bend his legs, and propel himself forward.
And move forward he did. With a stroke of the pen, Gitmo saw its last days (albeit in a year), African aid stopped being dictated by reproductive policy, sketchy CIA interrogations became taboo, emissions became a priority, lobbyists were reined in, and our economy was stimulated.
...Then, he took his oath. ...Again.
On Wednesday night, at 7:35 in the Map Room, Chief Justice Roberts re-did the ...
