Barack Obama,  John Roberts

Obama Says Chief Justice John Roberts Not to Blame for Flubbed Oath of Office

Barack Obama’s botched Oath of Office

President Barack Obama says it is not Chief Justice John Robert’s fault.

President Obama isn’t blaming Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for slipping up as he recited the president oath of office during Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony.

Obama said Roberts actually helped him as he gave the oath, and that he was grateful.

“We’re up there, we’ve got a lot of stuff on our mind, and he actually helped me out on a couple of stanzas there,” Obama told ABC News backstage at the “Neighborhood Ball.”

“So overall, I think it went relatively smoothly and I’m very grateful to him.”

Various media and blogs have blamed either Roberts or Obama for the flub. Transcripts suggest that Obama broke in earlier than Roberts expected in repeating the oath, and that this may have thrown the chief justice off. He then put the word “faithfully” at the end of the phrase “I will execute the office of the United States” instead of at the front of that phrase.

Yeah, it makes no difference unless you are saying the oath should be administered again and Obama is NOT President.

Good grief…..

Next time, the Chief Justice and President-Elect should have a cheat sheet.


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6 Comments

  • Stephen B

    Good grief, indeed! It is this fixation on minutae that will be the ruin of our society. Put these guys in the same camp as the Birthers, Truthers, hey, the Oathers!

  • casas rurales en zamora

    Network news cameras covering Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office. As she stood watching several yards from Chief Justice John Roberts, the former Democratic presidential candidate could be observed placing her left hand on a leather appointment book and raising her right hand slightly from her hip. Clinton, who carefully followed the swearing-in procedure with her eyes shut tightly, only varied from the president’s words once, when she soundlessly mouthed her name instead of Barack Obama’s.

  • E

    Well, well, because I listen to NPR I am aware that
    *according the constitution the president is president at 12 noon on Tuesday the 20th. period.
    *past presidents have not recited the oath but merely replied “I do”.

  • Denny Crane

    Hey there casas rurales, I’m a fan of the Onion too.

    WHat Obama failed to do at the conclusion of the reading of the oath is turn to the camera and say

    “F**k it!, close enuff.”

    Boo Yah!