He fucked the oath up, a dick move yes. But he is the president, so get over it. The man was fucking nervous, he just married the US government, and its people for a 4 year contract. Possibly an 8 year contract.

Yes.. he made an error.. he paused for a bit and fumbled.. but he still said the words.
He made the oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Let's see if he lives up to it.. unlike the past presidents since JFK. If this man lives up to what JFK was then the bankers will have it in for him... I'm expecting to see a lot more of what we've seen from Bush and Clinton though. I do hope that I'm wrong.. so far he's proving me right by whom he's been appointing to his administration.

Stay Classy Fox News.

President Obama didn't fuck up, Chief Justice Roberts fucked up.

>> ^Biminim:
President Obama didn't fuck up, Chief Justice Roberts fucked up.


Exactly. I thought that I was watching it this morning. He blundered not Obama. And then Obama said the correct phrase, the phrase he first said, back.

Not to mention that the constitution clearly states that regardless of the oath Obama is president at noon. Shitty journalism will never end.

Are liberals truly this touchy and humorless?

If so, you're not going to like the next four years.

At all.

Most people can recognize it as the tasteless humor that it is. Unfortunately, it's such a bad joke, especially with the way he prattles on about the idea of it going in front of the supreme court, that there are many people that won't recognize it as a joke at all.

Leave the comedy to the comedians.

>> ^quantumushroom:
Are liberals truly this touchy and humorless?
If so, you're not going to like the next four years.
At all.


Kidding about using the Supreme Court to overturn a legally elected Democrat over an immaterial issue on Obama's inauguration day is a bit like cracking a racist joke about Jews on VE day.

Appeals to a similar audience, as well.

Is Wallace a journalist after reporting bobbled news?

CNN: Roberts 'screwed up' oath of office
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_Roberts_screwed_up_oath_of_0120.html

i think the bumbled words were roberts' way of paying homage to the outgoing president

don't misunderestimate his subtlety

With or without an oath being taken, the president is the president as of noon Eastern according to law. The oath is a formality really. Leave it to fucking Fox News to bring this shit up.

FOX NEWS: defending the Constitution since 1996.

>> ^EDD:
FOX NEWS: defending the Constitution since 1996 2009.

The funniest part is that it wasn't Obama who fucked up: it was Roberts.

Roberts fumbled the words into an incoherent sentence and when it was Obama's turn to speak, he couldn't just repeat what was said or try to improvise.

If i wanted comedy, my first place to look would not be Fox News.

So like the Right Wing Whine corps to bitch over minute details like this.

Mark my words though Fox News is going to bitch and whine for the next 4 years like they did when Clinton was in power. The 8 years of presidential worship are over.

>> ^quantumushroom:
Are liberals truly this touchy and humorless?
If so, you're not going to like the next four years.
At all.



THE FUCKING IRONY!

Wiki summary:
As Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts recited the Oath of office, Obama interrupted Roberts as he administered the oath. Roberts then incorrectly recited the Oath of office, stating, "that I will execute the Office of President to the United States faithfully" (rather than "that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States"). Obama began to recite, and paused, whereby Roberts attempted to correct his mistake.[23] Several constitutional lawyers have said that Obama should retake the oath as soon as possible, as Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur did under similar circumstances.[24]

I'm sure he redid it already in private.

I watched the inauguration in a packed theater in my home town and it was an incredible experience for someone who's lost faith in his fellow Americans over the past 8 years.

an oath, to swear under god (under who/what?...), is yet another religious infiltration on politics, ie a cinique montage of patriotic grace, a burocratic task irrelevant to the job.

Mark my words though Fox News is going to bitch and whine for the next 4 years like they did when Clinton was in power. The 8 years of presidential worship are over.

Au contraire, liberal media "worship" of the Presidempty Suit started YEARS ago. Why, they practically ran The One's campaign!

If you think after 8 years of the atrocious way the libmedia treated Bush you're going to get a free pass for the socialist Kenyan, then give me a hit off that hookah of yours!

omigod . . . . a fumbled formality that can easily be remedied!!!



let's just ignore the state of disarray and corruption surrounding the voting procedures across our nation that really put into question who should and who should not be in various positions of power.

edit --
this just in: there, it's now officially a non-issue.

>> ^quantumushroom:
Are liberals truly this touchy and humorless?
If so, you're not going to like the next four years.
At all.


As long as you(the conservatives) recognize every statement made by a conservative that we(the liberals) find laughably absurd as an actual joke, I can be as humoristic as a Marx-brother on weed.

If you NEED a working definition of what a DICKLESS BITCH looks like; Ladies and gentlemen I give you Chris Wallace.

I just assume that everything on Fox News is a failed attempt at humor.

Obama retook the oath Wednesday, just in case.

Fox will have to find something else to complain about now.

He was cleverly tongue tying himself to fool everyone and get away with not saying the oath.

His next words were "Please welcome vice president akhbad ashim-adinnabad!" and had all the whities within earshot rounded up. That's why he cleared out camp x-ray. For the whities.

Stinkin whities.

(yes, it's satire, plz be offended)

>> ^atara:
Obama retook the oath Wednesday, just in case.
Fox will have to find something else to complain about now.


From this article:
"Though a Bible was used in Tuesday's oath, one was not used for Wednesday's."

So technically he didn't do the Christian version of his inauguration. He's a Muslim! You've all been conned!

I wonder if Fox will notice this and make a big deal of it.

(fox reps please don't read this and then use it)

Update: Just to be safe, they swore Obama in again.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/21/20416/7249/191/687319

(edit: Oops, I just noticed this was already mentioned)

Like everyone didn't see this coming from Fox the second it happened. Predictable and sad, but then again, so is their attempt at being a real news organization.

Ohhhh, so now FOX news cares about the constitution... I see, I see.

For caution's sake, Obama was sworn in again, this time on the Quran. Just kidding.

>> ^quantumushroom:
For caution's sake, Obama was sworn in again, this time on the Quran. Just kidding.


QM, I really respect your dedication to libertarianism and therefor your opposition to the policies that are likely to be enacted by President Obama. So go ahead and trash his plans and his record all you like, but please, please stop making jokes about Obama's connection to Kenya and his African family's religion. He's an American, and a Christian. Those two things don't really mean a lot to me, since I am not a nationalist and not religious, but your continued comments and jokes that seem to claim otherwise are clearly some sort of veiled racism. The assumptions in your statements are that a person associated with Kenya has less value than a "pure" American, and that a person who has Muslim relatives has questionable loyalties. Perhaps other people aren't bothered by your little jabs, but it's really starting to get on my nerves. I have high hopes that Obama will be good for this country. But even if I am wrong and Obama turns this country into a socialist toilet like Denmark, France, or Vermont, that has absolutely nothing to do with a dual citizenship he never wanted, or the beliefs of relatives he barely knows.

I'm probably overreacting here. Maybe you haven't made too many jokes on those topics, and I may be lumping you in with others who have been harping on these subjects for a year. If so, I apologize. I've just reached a boiling point and you triggered it with a few of the comments you made recently.

^All five of us Vermonters forgive you for that statement. Well, at least until our high wears off, then it's fucking on like Donkey Kong.

Yeah, I couldn't resist. Heheh.

QM, I really respect your dedication to libertarianism and therefor your opposition to the policies that are likely to be enacted by President Obama. So go ahead and trash his plans and his record all you like, but please, please stop making jokes about Obama's connection to Kenya and his African family's religion.

I respect your respectful tone.

He's an American, and a Christian. Those two things don't really mean a lot to me, since I am not a nationalist and not religious, but your continued comments and jokes that seem to claim otherwise are clearly some sort of veiled racism.

Racism? Nothing could be further from the truth. I don't care about Obama's race, unfortunately others are obsessed with it. I'm happy for Blacks who take pride in Obama's election but as Rev. Lowery's little inauguration jab against Whites proves, the Racial Grievance Indu$try, though temporarily subdued, is alive and well. Like others, I'm waiting to see if those opposing Barry's socialist agenda will be branded racists by the mainstream media, which these days shamelessly shills for Democrats. We both know that answer.

The assumptions in your statements are that a person associated with Kenya has less value than a "pure" American, and that a person who has Muslim relatives has questionable loyalties.

Though it be humor in Barry's case, I question the loyalties of ANY American
politician who swears on a Quran. Islam demands a loyalty that transcends national boundaries, but in the name of conquest, not respect (Christianity went through and grew out of such a mindset centuries ago). Islam is largely incompatible with Western values, so it remains to be seen what happens next as their numbers grow in the States.

Jokes aside, I'm not saying Barry is a Muslim, however I don't rule out the possibility. Though he is a self-professed Christian, the truth of whatever that means to Barack is between him and his God. If his Christianity is the bitter Black marxism of Reverend Wright, I have no more use for it than if BHO was a professed Muslim.

I'll say this anyway: your rights as a non-believer are not secure with Muslims.

Perhaps other people aren't bothered by your little jabs, but it's really starting to get on my nerves. I have high hopes that Obama will be good for this country. But even if I am wrong and Obama turns this country into a socialist toilet like Denmark, France, or Vermont, that has absolutely nothing to do with a dual citizenship he never wanted, or the beliefs of relatives he barely knows.

The dual citizenship ended with BHO turning 21 and at no time did he claim loyalty to Kenya. However there remain serious questions about the legitimacy of what has been presented as Obama's birth certificate (a digital image, easily forged). The real birth certificate has never been made available and Obama won't release it. After 4 years (or, God Forbid, I suspect he'll reveal he was born in Kenya, and was therefore unqualified, by law, to be President.

If Bush can be accused of deliberately letting Blacks drown (due to a hurricane + the Democrats who ran New Orleans for decades, doing nothing to upkeep the levees) by not getting the federal leviathan to act "fast enough", then Barry can take a little ribbing. I'm sorry you were offended personally, but I'm one of 3 or so outspoken non-liberals here at VS and my comments are usually sandwiched by Bush/Israel/conservative/capitalism-hating jibes and rants.

I'm a conservative kidney stone here at liberalsift but that's the way it goes, I choose to visit and most sifters allow me to stay (an occasional gift can of WD-40 for Siftbot helps).

Hopefully there are more laughs than rage, and believe me, a few times I've walked away from this computer ready to kill over mere words. It comes with the territory, Kent.

Anyone else notice it took mere seconds of Obama being president before hard-core right winters went off the deep end? Comments like this, which may be a bad joke, smack of loosing touch with reality. The complete cluster-bleep that is Hanity since then. Some of the absolute anti-american things I've been hearing on talk radio.

I don't know how any of these guys are going to make a full four years without being committed, or going suicidal.

going suicidal...

We can only hope.

Every time you make a crack about "the Kenyan", you are providing fuel for the "Racial Grievance Indu$try".

Every time you make a crack about "the Quran", you are widening the divide between American Muslims and non-Muslims.

Your attitude is making worse the situations that you are complaining about.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that someone was able to prove that Obama was not born in the US. If that happened early last year, Hilary would be President now. If that happens after Obama leaves office, nothing will have changed. It had to have happened just before the election for it to have made a difference in the balance of power. It didn't happen. Let it go.

You know there were a lot of people worried when JFK took office that he would be more loyal to the Pope than his home country because he was Catholic. Their fears were unfounded, and those fears about Obama's loyalty have even less foundation, since he is clearly not even Muslim.

I just don't understand why you would want to keep bringing up these dead or non-existent issues.

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