The Prez does it again - 2 oaths of office [Archive]

John Boy

01-21-2009, 08:00 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6703656

Because the oath was given incorrectly , they wanted to do it again.
I believe the constitution states that on the 20th of Jan. at 12 noon he is prez even if he doesn't take the oath...

Any case he did it twice ,,, so now I wonder is this pro typical of our goverment :innocent: alittle pun ...

vicklynn

01-21-2009, 08:09 PM

Hey, if he felt better doing it right, more power to him. He was President anyway.

rocknK

01-21-2009, 08:29 PM

A mulligan.............:doh:

rums_mom

01-22-2009, 05:50 AM

It is not the first time it has happened and yes, to be officially president one must attest to the oath explicitly as written. I saw it and it appeared to me that John Roberts fudged it, Obama obviously knew it by heart but John Roberts didn't. Some are saying Roberts did it intentionally, which I absolutely do not believe. I don't think the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would stoop to something like that. I think Roberts has done a wonderful job since being appointed and wish him a long tenure as CJ.

HoustonFarrier

01-22-2009, 06:11 AM

Actually, this is not the first time it has been "redone". What I don't understand is, in this case, he is being a stickler for doing it right...but yet, he won't produce a TRUE copy of his birth certificate.....just make ya go hmmmmmmmm?

Steve

vicklynn

01-22-2009, 06:14 AM

.but yet, he won't produce a TRUE copy of his birth certificate.....just make ya go hmmmmmmmm?

Steve
Still like to know whats up with that????????

HoustonFarrier

01-22-2009, 06:17 AM

Still like to know whats up with that????????

You bet....hey, if McCain did it...why won't he????

Steve

lovesfortune

01-22-2009, 06:40 AM

My opinion - he probably felt he had to do it over again (even though he is President no matter what) for the sake of all the people that pick apart everything he does (like having his MIL live at the White house, etc.).... and because he takes his role as President seriously and wants it to be right from the beginning... but looks like he can't win regardless in some people's eyes.

Houston, ready to admit that he didn't flub the lines yet? ;)

HoustonFarrier

01-22-2009, 06:47 AM

Houston, ready to admit that he didn't flub the lines yet? ;)

Based on interviews with both of them...it appears to have been a joint effort:)...although Obama DID admit in an interview that Justice Roberts helped him.

Steve

lovesfortune

01-22-2009, 06:57 AM

Based on interviews with both of them...it appears to have been a joint effort:)...although Obama DID admit in an interview that Justice Roberts helped him.

Steve

I think that's as good as it gets from you! :p

HoustonFarrier

01-22-2009, 07:03 AM

I think that's as good as it gets from you! :p

It is accurate.....based on interviews from BOTH men.:cool:

Steve

Tiz

01-22-2009, 01:21 PM

Oh my gosh, the Obama love is just as weird as the Bush hate. Rum, how could you tell that he obviously knew the oath by heart? Was it how he hesitated after a few words of the second prompt, and waited for Justice Roberts to repeat the phrase a second time?

WashingtonBay

01-22-2009, 01:35 PM

Agreed on all counts Tiz ;)

It was a screwup by both of 'em. And a funny one. Roberts said it wrong, then right, and Obama repeated it back the wrong, first way, not the corrected way. It doesn't MATTER. Just one of those funny, human moments.

lovesfortune

01-22-2009, 01:38 PM

WashingtonBay

01-22-2009, 01:42 PM

Roger loves - carry on with that ;)

Tiz

01-22-2009, 01:43 PM

I liked the flub. What an enormous moment it was for this young couple, and their minds must have been going a million miles an hour. Pretty cool, human moment. But then I consider Barack Obama human, not other worldly, so maybe that's why I don't get all the excuses and denials I'm hearing about it.

twofingers

01-22-2009, 02:28 PM

to administer the oath means you read the oath and the other repeats, that avoids such flubs. it is part of the tradition and ritual of the day. another part of that ritual is for the incoming president to shake the hands of the Medal of honor receipitants that are there. BO turned his back and walked away without even acknowledging their presence - just saying, that's all :innocent:

HoustonFarrier

01-23-2009, 07:15 AM

I was just giving Houston a hard time from Inauguration day.

(in my best Curley voice) Ohhhhh.....a wiiiiseguy, huh :) LOL

Steve

westmanfarrier

01-23-2009, 08:12 AM

Did I miss a thread, or am I the only one a bit offended by the benediction delivered at the inauguration by Dr. Joseph Lowery?

WashingtonBay

01-23-2009, 08:14 AM

There wasn't a thread about it.... Are you talking the Warren one or the other one?

westmanfarrier

01-23-2009, 08:20 AM

YouTube - Rev. Joseph Lowery delivers racist address at Obama inauguration

He says he prays for the day. Isn't the fact that Obama overwhelmingly won the highest office in America a good indicator that the majority of voters did not vote on color of skin and the day he prayed for is here? Even as attitudes change, old perceptions do not.

WashingtonBay

01-23-2009, 08:22 AM

Yeah - I mentioned it I think on the inauguration thread. I thought it was really strange. :rolleyes:

westmanfarrier

01-23-2009, 08:24 AM

ahh, missed it.

WashingtonBay

01-23-2009, 08:26 AM

I have no explanation for it.... not now, not there.

Here was my comment though.... at the time. Post 108
Inauguration Thread - Page 11 (http://www.baywindfarm.com/forum/showthread.php?p=85530)

Tiz

01-23-2009, 01:24 PM

Shane, black racism is in style. All that people, who are still able to reason, can do is call it out. Vigorously expose the hypocrisy. Maybe thinking will come back in style.

Was the Rev aware that he was at the Presidential inauguration of the first black man in history? His words certainly don't match the occasion.

BTW, I'm white and I don't need to be told to do what's right.