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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama changed the Oath of Office at his Inauguration?! What?!
I just had lunch with a woman who INSISTS that the president didn't use the usual Oath of Office at his inauguration. Anyone else hear this? I was so flabbergasted that I could only respond with "No, he didn't."
Also, he hates people who disagree with him, I was told. And he's not Christian. She kind of shut up when I told her I'd heard him speak about his faith journey at the UCC General Synod in 2007. Sheesh!
Next time my Episcopal colleague invites me to lunch with him and some "nice ladies from the church", I think I'll decline.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)They redid it later that night.
Critters2
(30,889 posts)I do remember now...but it wasn't because he's an evil so and so who doesn't love America, as I was being told.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Critters2
(30,889 posts)Even with the screw up, it's not like he wasn't promising to defend, protect and preserve the Constitution. Geez. These people are crazy!
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Yet it comes out as Obama changing the Oath of Office. Typical of the party that needs to lie to find something wrong with Obama.
Pukes
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)This was easy to disprove. There's a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell your friend.
EC
(12,287 posts)and had to redo it later. Your lunch woman is a nut, who either doesn't listen, hears what she wants to hear or listened to a Fox reporter goof up the story or lie.
Critters2
(30,889 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We blow folks to smithereens all over the planet, and quaint old legalisms like "due process" and "evidence" and "trials" are just relics of a bygone era. The oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution has been supplanted with "do anything we feel like doing, consequences be damned." I used to think that without the Constitution the United States ceased to exist, but this year's fashion says otherwise, and it's time to trim those outdated ideals to fit the New Order.
librechik
(30,676 posts)they are not quqalified to do so and should give that up until they have a law degree like Obama's.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But you're wrong on the law and the facts, and so is this administration.
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)I just watched Obama's and Roberts' Harvard Constitutional Law professor on Colbert talking about how they BOTH screwed up the Presidential oath of office.......and how he felt he must not have done a good job with them.