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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:15 PM
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IF President Obama had NOT "repeated after" John Roberts' oath goof...
...and said it properly (as he apparently was going to do but stopped himself), do you think there would've been any political or legal repercussions (manufactured, of course)?

Just pondering...
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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:17 PM
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1. How messed up was the oath. Couldn't hear it? On the Wingers are going
to have a field day with that.
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Doremus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:18 PM
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4. Roberts messed it up by mixing up the wording. n/t
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:20 PM
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6. Roberts misquoted the oath - he said "to excecute the Office of President of the US faithfully"
...instead of "to faithfully execute the office of POTUS." Obama was going to say it the right way, but stopped and let Roberts repeat it AGAIN - WRONG. Obama repeated what Roberts said.

For the CJSCOTUS to mess up like that, is astonishing.
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JSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:26 PM
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10. He said President TO
the United States. Asshole.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:17 PM
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2. No, Obama was President at noon even though he had not taken the oath. n/t
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Unsane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:17 PM
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3. No. Presidential power transfers at noon per statute, oath or not.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:21 PM
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7. That won't stop freepers from filing their frivolous lawsuits!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:22 PM
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8. Can you imagine what the "Birthers" would have done had he NOT "repeated" after Roberts?
Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit...:eyes:
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:19 PM
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5. I don't know.
but the form of the oath is fixed in the constitution.

Article II Section I.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:25 PM
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9. I understand how this happens. Every once in a while, I'll goof up the vows
at a wedding or baptism. In prepping for those events, I always tell the couple, the baptizand, or the parents and sponsors that they'll be married, or they or their child will be baptized afterwards, no matter how I fumble the words. It's true here, too.
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Versailles Donating Member (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:27 PM
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11. Already discussing it over in idiot freeper land...and Fox apparently...
...but I don't have the stomach to follow up on Fox.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168121/posts
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