Far East Cynic

Welcome to the party pal!

I think the Chief Justice got the oath wrong in reading it to the new President. Oh well……. (I’m gonna review the video tonight….).

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I put my trust in you-you better deliver!

If you don’t, I’ll be here to write about it.

UPDATE! Chief Justice Roberts did get the oath backwards:

The Chief Justice in fact screwed up the oath. The Constitution requires:

“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.”

Roberts left out the word “faithfully.” (He also said “President to the United State.”) Obama saw the mistake and stopped himself to gave Roberts a chance to fix it. Roberts redid the line, remembering to throw in “faithfully,” but putting it in the wrong place — after President of the United States — and, this time, Obama went along with the wording. Close enough, I guess he figured. I wonder what Barack Obama was thinking. Maybe: Some textualist you turned out to be!

Phrased another way-Supreme Court Justices get nervous too!

  1. Was watching him get sworn in with some other AFROTC cadets in our wing room. Got a big kick out of Roberts screwing it up because our Colonel has been a stickler about making one or two of us recite the Oath of Office and/or the Oath of Enlistment before every senior AFAS academic class.

    Seems stupid, but you really don’t want to be “that guy” that has to read it word from word from a card or, even worse, screws it up.