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Due to the FLAP of Barack Obama’s botched Presidential Oath of Office, Obama has retaken the Oath.

Chief Justice John Roberts has administered the presidential oath of office to Barack Obama for a second time just to be on the safe side.

The unusual step came after Roberts flubbed the oath a bit on Tuesday, causing Obama to repeat the wording differently than as prescribed in the Constitution.

White House counsel Greg Craig said Obama took the oath from Roberts again out of an “abundance of caution.”

The chief justice and the president handled the matter privately in the Map Room on Wednesday night.

Well, after Chris Wallace of Fox News in the video above said that Obama was maybe not President. But, really this is over-kill.

Then, there is the issue of Vice President Joe Biden.

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.

Flap was mentioning to the wife that he would not be surprised if Barack Obama stumbled on his oath of office after Joe Biden stumbled on his. And, there you go.

But, having taken the oath a number of times myself, I can tell you the nerves and adrenaline are racing hard through your body and a diligent staff usually have a cheat sheet posted somewhere to help the office holder. But, alas, this is hard to do here.

However, note there was a different spin on who flubbed the moment.

Fox:

MSNBC:

Note: Fox’s headline now heads: Roberts, Obama Stumble On Oath.

But, really who cares?

Reuters has Supreme Court enters the John Roberts era.

At 10:35 a.m., new Chief Justice John Roberts opened the 2005-2006 Supreme Court session on Monday and launched the highest U.S. judicial body into the Roberts era, which could last for decades.

“On behalf of all the members of the court, it is a pleasure to extend to you a warm welcome,” Justice
John Paul Stevens told the conservative Roberts before the official opening in a brief ceremony attended by
President George W. Bush.

Stevens wished Roberts “a long and happy career in our common calling” as the country’s 17th chief justice. Roberts succeeds his mentor,
William Rehnquist, who died a month ago after 33 years as the court’s foremost conservative voice.

Roberts, at 50, is the youngest chief justice in more than two centuries. He takes over a court in which every other member has as least 11 years seniority and one, Stevens, has 30. In a lifetime post, Roberts could have a major impact on the legal system.

Roberts, who spoke of the need of judges to be modest before his confirmation, entered the courtroom with his eight fellow justices dressed in a plain black robe like them.

Gone were the four gold stripes Rehnquist added to each sleeve before presiding over the Senate impeachment trial of President
Bill Clinton in 1999 — an adornment inspired by a costume in a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera.

Roberts said he was happy to announce the opening of the session that will run until June, then immediately went into the first arguments of the term.

And so the John Robert’s era begins for the United States Supreme Court.

In this artist’s rendering, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, right, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left to right, David Souter, Antonin Scalia, and John Paul Stevens, takes the bench for the first time, Monday, Oct 3, 2005 in Washington.

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