Wonkette
Never, ever, ever make jokes in American Politics. Case in Point: Yesterday we laughed about dumb hack John Roberts screwing up the oath, and Barack Obama catching him, yet still saying the “faithfully” in the wrong place. Well, Obama’s goons dragged Roberts to the White House just now and MADE HIM DO IT AGAIN, BUT RIGHT THIS TIME. Good lord. [YouTube]
My comment about how President Obama should have told the lunatic fringe to kiss his black ass still applies.
Does this mean he wasn’t born in Kenyan Arabia?
Our long national nightmare is over.
They can take the oath as many times as they like, it still won’t erase the smell of the taint of his Kenyan birth certificate or the way he stole the election by disenfranchising women and using the ACORN to stuff ballot boxes.
(Just practicing…. if the economy keeps going south, my backup plan is to apply for a wingnut welfare job at the National Review)
The True Legacy of George W.H. Bush: The Clown College he named to the federal bench.
“Heck of a job there, Robert-zee!”
This ticks me off, if only because it makes Chris Wallace look like less of a bobble-head for raising the issue, in the first place.
Yes, but Hillary isn’t really Secretary of State because Obama wasn’t President at the time he sent her nomination for the Senate. Same for the rest of the cabinet.
I love the idea of him doing it just so people would STFU. Actual law professors at real, non-Bible colleges were carrying on about it on the radio and what-not.
This makes sense — he didn’t have much else to do…
MisterLoki: Our first in a series of long national nightmares is over.
/fxti
They should start over the entire election campaign, just to be sure.
I’m looking forward to the Iowa caucus. Go Hillary!!1!
I find it interesting how CNN’s Senior White House Correspondent tells us the oath was taken again in the White House in the presence of “a few reporters,” and then informs us he found out about it when he ran into the Chief Justice leaving the White House and then “we knew something had happened here.”
I guess CNN isn’t near the top of Obama’s list of important news organizations…
wheelie: I agree. After 72 years of non-stop political geekdom, I’m feeling a little empty now.
Was Joe Biden there to crack jokes directly to Roberts’s face?
Phew, I’m glad they said the oath correctly. Although it was in Klingon. Backwards. On a Qur’an.
When they saw Roberts exiting the White House, clutching the Koran, they new something had happened.
Another example of gw Bush sending a total incompetent to an important job. Fucking asswipe can’t even memorize five sentences, and somehow it’s Barry’s fault. Sit in the corner asshole and wear professor Obama’s dunce hat for the next four years.
So can we impeach Roberts now?
He’s clearly incompetent.
…lemme get this straight?! The retarded, brain dead, right wingers don’t care about:
-Illegal wiretaps
-Suspension of Habeus Corpus
-War Crimes
-The merger of Church and State
-Contempt of court
-Perjury
-Violations of Posse Comitatus
BUT they do care about the semantics of the oath of office?! America; love it or leave it!
Scandalabra: I know. Makes you wonder how he got through, you know–Law School (unless he went to Falwell’s Liberty University; then it all makes sense.)
AngryBlakGuy: And guns. DONT YOU TOUCH THEIR GUNS.
Hopefully they dragged Roberts Justice John Chief over quite a few meters of rusty barbwire on his way into AND out of the White House basement/dungeon…
Texan Bulldoggette: We can only hope. Joe’s going to be good for this presidency. I mean, you can only take so much dignity and rationality, before someone needs to poke someone else in the eye, just for laughs.
Next up for the Wingnut Brigade: Castro watched Obama’s inauguration on TV.
Castro said he believes that Obama is “a sincere person with good ideas,” Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said in Cuba at the conclusion of her three-day visit to the island, the state-run Telam news agency said.
So here comes the Socialist angle.
SayItWithWookies: Addendum to the pool report reveals there was no Bible present (no mention of a Koran), but is the oath valid if not sworn on some holy book? Even this won’t get the wingnuts to shut up IMO.
Texan Bulldoggette: Da fuckin’ Chief Justice of the Supreme Court does not know the oath of the president, but the guy getting it does. Thank U Jeebus.
Roberts is probably swearing Obama in and out for the rest of the night.
Texan Bulldoggette: …so he got his law degree at vacation bible school!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but JMart is saying there was no Bible for the 2nd oath; therefore, this oath is also not valid. No rainbow, unicorn, magic fairy president for us. Also.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17778.html
See, if you don’t say the magic words in exactly the right order, you can’t read the invisible ink in Dumbledore’s Book of Presidential Secrets.
Scandalabra: Five sentences? One sentence.
Although it’s true the Founding Fathers had a inexplicable love for the comma.
Since Roberts was appointed, they really haven’t used that document that the oath is in, so give the guy a mulligan.
SayItWithWookies: [Hari Kari's self]
B. Hussein NOBAMA made Roberts mess up the oath so he could get sworn in on the Qur’an and we wouldn’t know!!1! And where’s the birth certificate???
(I shouldn’t joke…sadly, Freepers are probably already saying this earnestly…)
ChatteringClass: I think one of the first three presidents swore the oath on a copy of the Constitution or some such thing. I’ll see if I can dig that up.
AngryBlakGuy: And wearing his jacket in the Oval Office. This shit’s important.
I hope they didn’t have to listen to Warren’s invocation again beforehand.
“And why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you and demand to be served. So how much longer do i have to wait for my fucking double chai latte? Jeez!”
Barack Obama, Inaugural Address 2009
Another Bush appointee thats stoopider than the guy who appointed him.
SayItWithWookies: ChatteringClass: OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE, these redneck morans already went there?!
Texan Bulldoggette: I’m sure there was at least a Gideon’s Bible in the White House someplace. The type you would find in any motel.
I also hope Obama made Roberts crawl to the White House on his hands and knees and, when it was all over, had him brutally violated by Turkish prison guards, after which Roberts went back to the Supreme Court building to check his malpractice insurance.
Did they smoke a cigarette first?
Roberts borked Preznit Hopemaster. He is not stupid.
He and his fellow SC nudnicks are the true Dubya legacy and I am livid about it. These are the kinds of procedural booby traps that will be set for Preznit Hopemaster.
I have no doubt that this is about the interpretation of “the letter” of the law and Constitution. So how does one interpret “torture” or “war crimes” et al. If Barry and the Dems go after things in the past they will fight back with this kind of dotting I’s and crossing t’s garbage.
Has Roberts made a public or at least a personal apology for goofing this up??!!!1!1
SayItWithWookies: ChatteringClass: WhatTheHeck: …I heard that he took the oath while using the flag as a floor-mat and singing the French national anthem.
Has anyone investigated whether he had his fingers crossed behind his back?
Blue Line: ChatteringClass: Okay, this Explainer article in Slate actually throws more ambiguity on the history of what people took the oath on, but at least one Prez definitely didn’t swear on the Bible:
According to official records kept by the Architect of the Capitol, Teddy Roosevelt is the only president who wasn’t sworn in using a Bible; he took a rushed oath of office in 1901 following the assassination of William McKinley.
The rest is worth reading too.
reynolds aluminum stock down; time to buy because all those moe-rons will be making hats for the next 8 years!
Two Harvard lads. A yelping, yellow-eyed goat was sacrificed and the elders of the Trilateral Commission presided. Would have happened even without Roberts’ screw-up of teh Oathiness of Office.
Get use to it. We once more are servants of the great god Baal and his servant John D. Rockefeller, again. Shoes for industry.
Then Obama took Roberts to the White House b-ball court and had Secret Service hold him still in the painted area while Obama repeatedly jammed over him.
Udargo: Life was highly uncertain back then. Compound sentences were important because the belief was that if you took a long enough pause between thoughts you’d probably keel over and die. Then they invented penicillin and language became much sloppier.
SayItWithWookies: …considering the fact that Keith Ellison(the only Muslim congressmen) was sworn in using a Koran, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t matter if the president was sworn in on a coloring book. And then considering the fact that you technically don’t have to be sworn in using a bible when you go to court, kinda makes me think this a moot point. But then again I got my Law Degree watching “Law & Order” and “CSI Miami”
The more I think about it, the more I’m sure bungle was bugging Hopey all day and night yesterday. Did you see the look on his face when he was trying to correct Roberts? Probably the first phone call he made when he got back into the limo - “How soon can we get Roberts back to re-do the oath?”
DoctorCulturae: Hopey should have re-taken the oath from a local traffic court judge, or the captain of a cruise ship.
Mr Blifil: …yeah kinda like THIS.
Hopey should have re-taken the oath from a local traffic court judge
Or Judge Judy, or Judge Marilyn Milian, or Judge Joe Mathis, or the judge from “Divorce Court” who cracks me the fuck up.
Or all four of them. With Simon Cowell as the tie-breaker.
Did they do the proper 35-word Oath of Office contained in Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 of the Constitution, or did they do the improper 39-word version with “so help me god” appended to the end in order to satisfy the religious nuts?
It’s funny that people complained about the word “faithfully” being put in the wrong place (though maintaining the same meaning… execute faithfully / faithfully execute) but they have no problem with spontaneous additions of whole phrases to the Oath of Office. The fact that the Constitution intends for separation of church and state, and the fact that the Oath of Office says “swear or affirm” … coupled with the fact that the word “god” does not appear once, anywhere in the Constitution, is sufficient evidence that adding “so help me god” to the Oath of Office is far worse of an affront to the Constitution than saying “faithfully execute” instead of “execute faithfully” (or whichever one it is, I forget).
DoctorCulturae: — Has Roberts made a public or at least a personal apology for goofing this up??!!!1!1 —
He will, namely in his next majority Supreme Court opinion in which he (citing the writings of Dick Cheney and Thomas Sowell) holds that teh “presumptiousness of innocence” has no application to criminal trials.
WadISay: Or an Iman.
AngryBlakGuy: One of my occasional fantasies is to get elected to public office and be sworn in on a first edition Origin of Species.
BruceM: I noticed roberts said “So help you God?” That was really for Barry to add on his own, as it is tradition.
The second oath was taken on a first edition of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”.
S.Luggo: Also, I add Roberts did not provide the Preznit with the information of the “so help me God” line, he asked it to Barry as a question to be answered: “so help you God?” Barry could have answered as per Roberts request, “Yes.”
There is playing around here, the Chief Justice challenging the Preznit, you know, just two Hahvahd boys representing two competing branches of the gov’t.
“Put away childish things” indeed!
Roberts ripped off a page of the Lincoln Bible, crumpled it, put it in Obama’s outstretched hand and lit it.
“Do you swear to omerta, paisan?” he asked.
They drank wine and ate an Uno’s pizza in silence. Then Roberts left through a side door with John “No Nose” DiFronzo.
He could swear the oath on a Papa John’s take-out menu, with a notary administering it.
SayItWithWookies: AxmxZ: …and end the oath with “so help me Evolution”! The fundies would have a brain aneurysm!
SayItWithWookies: Great minds yadda yadda.
Ah, my dear lover Politico, home of bizarre earnest irony-free conservatard comments…
Wolfgang Pit Bullington, III
Party: Independent
Reply #14
Date: Jan. 21, 2009 - 9:32 PM EST
Actually, Obama and his “cult-worshippers” have finally discovered that Bush will no longer be around for them to blame everything on. So,to get around accepting responsibility for all their mistakes, they can call in the Chief Justice to administer the Oath, that way they can say: “Oh, he was not sworn in as president until…”
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THE BIGGEST KILLER OF BLACK CHILDREN IN AMERICA!
Can you imagine Palin in Roberts place? Holy Crap, they would be oathin’ until the end of time, which is soon according to Palin & Joe the Dumber, a monk from Italy.
j6n: And really, isn’t that how God intended it?
I actually ‘unfriended’ the guy who took me to my junior prom 25 years ago yesterday in the middle of the inauguration b/c jackass started raving on his fb status about 44 not saying the lord’s prayer along with rev. rick… fuck me running, these people need so little to set their hair afire… here’s hoping that they flame out before Labor Day…
K, so, NoBAMA retook the oath of office, so we all know he’s officially Preznit of World Muslins. Can we please get back to business now to do things like closing Gitmo to free cruel Muslin terrorists to run jetliners into flocks of birds?
Just part of Comrade Barry’s grand master plan…
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/01/lets-try-this-again.html
SayItWithWookies: according to the crappy newspaper you can get free in the subway, Benjamin Harrison said “affirm” not “swear” and did so on a “law book” not a Bible. but those 1800’s types were a bunch of frilly waistcoat wearing abolitionists, so not surprising.
AxmxZ: Intelligent Design edition.
President Beeblebrox: No. Barry took it in secret, with various verses of the Cabala, “The Flinstone” and the theme from “Sponge Bob Square Pants” added. This country shall never be the same.
S.Luggo: Eck. “The Flintstones”.
Don’t you fools see? NOBAMA’s taken the oath twice, that means it’s
been preempted through January 2013. It’s all part of his grand muslin
plan to subvert the next presidential election.
WadISay: Exactly.
S.Luggo: That would be
weirdawesomeNorbert: Teh Constitutions says the Preznit must either swear or affirm, since Quakers (except Nixon) won’t swear oaths.
However, teh Constitutions are silent about what happens if you swear your oath of office on a stack of Korans.
j6n: Yeah at the inaururation, not only did Roberts add the “so help me god” but he phrased it as a question to Obama - in front of the billions of people around the world watching - for him to answer (or refuse to answer). “So help you God??????!” rather than just saying “so help me god” for Obama to repeat. Not that either is part of the Constitution’s Oath of Office. It’s bad enough that they do it with a Bible, with the president-elect rubbing, fingering, petting, and sometimes even kissing the stupid book. It’s not a religious job, so why can’t we keep religion out of it.
Religion is like pubic hair - keep it to yourself.
Texan Bulldoggette: Fail! No “holy book” required for an oath of office. I administered hundreds of military oaths in my day, person must swear or affirm the oath, no book required.
Just got back from reading the Consitution; whoops, no bible required. But you do have to say the words in the right order.
Our man Barry’s just stone cold out there dottin’ them eyes an’ crossin’ them tees.
WadISay: Nah, has to be a federal judge (Calvin Coolidge had to do a re-do after he was sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace). So Barry should have picked his favorite Muslin judge from the 9th Soviet Circuit to be flown out for the weekend to administer the oath.
What is this? It is a way to shut-up social outcasts who fixate on inconsequential absurdities. The downside is that they keep finding shit to gripe about, once they are paid attention. Now they will want Pres. Muslin to re-do all of those crazy good documents he inked yesterday. You wait.
The best to come of this? “I can has do-over,” the LOLpresident said.
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/2009/01/president-obama-hits-reset-button.html
Yeah, Jesus Fucking Christ just about covers it.
I’m glad it will keep the lunatic fringe happy that he didn’t use a bible. Personally, I would have to be sworn in on a copy of the Bartenders Bible, or maybe an old Sears Roebuck catalog with my hand on a picture of a toilet. We all worship our chosen deities.
AngryBlakGuy: ”But then again I got my Law Degree watching ‘Law & Order’ and ‘CSI Miami’…” That probably makes you much better qualified than that buffoon George the Dumber appointed.
Dear Hopey,
Please reach *across* the isle and not *around* it.
Thanks.
Dear Fox Morons,
We are One, and the One knows where you live.
Sincerely.
Oh Hopey, your class impresses me again
So he reacts quickly to stop the news cycle but these a-holes won’t be happy! They won’t be happy until we invite Bush back and have a REAL do over. OK now I have to go to work and listen to my boss (a Fox News parrot) tell me the latest on his fake birth certificate blah blah blah… shoot me now.
TGY: Better…
Dear Chris Matthews.
You are still a doughy pantload. Eat a bag of dicks.
Sincerely.
PRESIDENT Barack Hussein Obama
P.S. Feel free to kiss my black ass. No, really.
Mojopo: This is the standard operating procedure for “Revenge of the Nerds” types. What else do they know?
It is standard fare: like Conyers demanding “transparency” from Team Clinton (unconscious or contemptuous of irony), or reading the Constitution “as intended” by the framers ala Bork & Hizzoner/Holiness/Spanky & Our Gang member Scalia, or Dubya forever caught as Peck’s Bad Boy rebelling/pleading for his father’s love and attention (he got it all right).
As Preznit Hopemaster said: “put away childish things.” As thinking grownups know the best way to deal with children is to understand why they behave as they do, ignore the tantrums and foolishness, and discipline and/or clean up their messes as appropriate. This is how adults behave. And of course CYA since many will not ever grow up.
So far so good. I just hope the Preznit resists those who through their childishness WANT to isolate him in the WH bubble.
It’s good to know Barry’s on top of this shit. We all know the vast right wing conspiracy never sleeps. Never forget people. NEVER.
ChatteringClass and TexasBulldogette:
The Bible or other holy book isn’t a requirement, as Preznit Constitutional Scholar Barry (and hopefully Dread Justice Roberts) knows. As a minor historical data point, LBJ took his initial oath on a Catholic missal because there was no Bible on the plane.
Of course, due to the 20th Amendment, it was a technicality anyway.
I agree that it will give the whiny babies something to cry about for the next 4-8 (D.V.) years. If that’s the best they’ve got, I will count us very fortunate indeed.
NO BIBLE USED AT OBAMA RE-SWEAR… http://tinyurl.com/dykwmw-Drudge Twitter 1/22/09
SEE GODLESS LIBTARDS,NO BIBLE, PROBABLY A FUCKING CO-RAN IN HIS DRAWERS TOO!
DON’T EVER EVER TOUCH MY FLASHING LIGHT AGAIN, YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
DAMN YOU!
-Drudge
NoWireHangers: Coooorrrect. They only look for slip ups, mistakes, and flaws through their microscopic gaze at elites. As in “Oh yeah, well your mother wears…” (cannot type anymore, must urp).
What’s the matter with you people? Do you not see that Michelle’s inauguration dress and ball gown are much more important topics than a silly little oath? God, that ballgown looked like someone threw feathers all over it, and she couldn’t dance in it. Kept picking it up and moving it out of her way. Yukko to both outfits! Bring in Stacey and Clinton to help her. Or maybe the Fab Five.
Already had a turkish massage, and it mostly involved a bulgarian trying to get with the girl I was travelling with.
AngryBlakGuy: Don’t forget the flag pins made in China. Also.
SayItWithWookies: I want to be sworn in on a copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
I love they way nobody could be bothered to dig up a Bible, even just for appearances.