Inaugural snark
Jan. 21st, 2009 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bruortonIt is my understanding that Chief Justice John Roberts is a strict constructionist, believing that every word in our Constitution was fully intended just so, and is therefore unalterable.
So -- whether he was nervous, or just in a hurry -- it's at least ironic that he screwed up the oath of office when he administered it to Obama yesterday.
(Just for the record, the oath is not what makes it official. According to Amendment XX, Article 1, Obama became President at noon, five minutes before the oath was given.)
Ich bin ein Vermonter Update: Obama has taken the oath a second time, "out of an abundance of caution." Curiously, he will be only the third President to be sworn in twice, and the other two -- Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge -- were both Vermonters.
Coincidence? I think not.
So -- whether he was nervous, or just in a hurry -- it's at least ironic that he screwed up the oath of office when he administered it to Obama yesterday.
(Just for the record, the oath is not what makes it official. According to Amendment XX, Article 1, Obama became President at noon, five minutes before the oath was given.)
Ich bin ein Vermonter Update: Obama has taken the oath a second time, "out of an abundance of caution." Curiously, he will be only the third President to be sworn in twice, and the other two -- Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge -- were both Vermonters.
Coincidence? I think not.
