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Unsane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:25 PM
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Oathgate in full swing. DRUDGE spinning it as an Obama flub.
Edited on Tue Jan-20-09 12:27 PM by Unsane
Roberts is the one who quoted it wrong. Textualist my ass.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:26 PM
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1. It did look like a flub..

..I didn't know Roberts screwed up until someone told me. Oh well, this too shall pass.
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Erin Elizabeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:28 PM
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2. It doesn't MATTER.
It's about the TIME, not the oath. AT 12:00 Eastern, he became president no matter what order the words were said in!

Drudge is a fucking idiot.

But hey, LET THEM spend their time and energy on stupid shit like that and the birth certificate because meanwhile, according to Obama, we're gonna HARNESS THE FUCKING SUN!!!!!!!

So let them play their childish games.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:28 PM
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3. I caught it & Roberts had to correct himself. They should have had & experienced Justice.
Edited on Tue Jan-20-09 12:29 PM by Historic NY
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:28 PM
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4. Drudge, what is that? I've never heard of it. Is it something I should know about?
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:30 PM
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7. it's just a links page nothing more
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:32 PM
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12. I was being a snarky ass. I know about Drudge. Drudge came with Bush. Bush is gone.
Drudge is gone.
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:18 PM
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16. I was being serious, drudge is nothing more than a links page.
His site has the look of the web circa 1992, when people did sites talking about their cats and their record collections. And of course their favorite links...
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:29 PM
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5. Why are you giving Drudge site traffic?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:30 PM
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6. Roberts put "faithfully" in the wrong place...after POTUS. It should have come before.

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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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:31 PM
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8. Another Sludge fan. Come join my ignore list
b-bye!
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:31 PM
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9. you KNOW obama had it memorized! roberts blew it . . .
Edited on Tue Jan-20-09 12:31 PM by ellenfl
intentionally perhaps?

ellen fl
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:31 PM
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10. The tape won't lie
The oath was a total cluster fuck. Roberts screwed it up and Obama looked at him as if to say, "you want to try it again?" He did, but then both were flustered. And then Obama mangled the already mangled oath.

Too bad.
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TeamJordan23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:31 PM
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11. Drudge/RW are not stupid enough to realize that Roberts is the one who messed up. nm
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:42 PM
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13. ABC News just blamed it on Roberts!! n/t
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 12:44 PM
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14. Who cares
We have rejected that crap. The nightmare of this sort of bullshit is at an end.
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 01:05 PM
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15. Which only reinforces my feeling...
...that it was planned. These assholes know how to plan dirty tricks, and how to do lockstep message management. And Drudge is their messenger-of-choice.

Oh well, glad to know the networks are calling Roberts out on it.
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