Actually, it was Roberts that screwed up on the Oath of Office. If Hussein had any sense, he would have said it correctly in spite of what Roberts was saying. I think he was trying to, but was thrown off track by Roberts trying to correct himself.
I agree with you that Roberts messed up - he is the “administratee” of the oath.
Obviously, BO did not do his homework.
imho,all of this?- not a good sign for our country- i’m not being superstitious and beyond a freudian slip
I don’t know, I watched the oath that he gave again last night, and it seemed to me that Barack’s interruption of Justice Roberts original recitation was what caused the whole mess in the first place. It really threw Roberts off, then Obama “forgot his lines” and what to say during the second part. Roberts may have moved the world “Faithfully” around a bit when he tried to feed Obama the second half of the second part of the oath, but I don’t think Roberts can really be blamed.
I think Obama had what you might call a “false start” — they should’ve just started completely over at that point, but I can see why they wouldn’t think of that at the time... Nerves and all, because I don’t care who you are being in front of literally MILLIONS if not Billions of people around the world on TV that’s going to make one nervous! :)
As for why they didn’t use a Bible this second time - why in the heck not? You can’t tell me there isn’t ONE Bible SOMEWHERE in the White House - or that they couldn’t have gotten one in a jiffy from the Library of Congress, or the Smithsonian or something! Heck, I’m sure the nearest Hotel probably has a Bible in the Nightstands! I guess it’s not REQUIRED that he place his hand on the Bible, but after the confusion and messing up the first time you would think they would’ve taken the time to make the “do-over” perfect.
I think Obama messed up Roberts, but it wasn’t a big deal.
Roberts broke the oath into chunks that were too big for Obama. So when Obama tried to repeat, he stopped short of the first line (he actually spoke over the line a bit). When Roberts tried to correct for that, he messed up the words a bit. Obama still couldn’t get all the words right.
Obama looked nervous, and nervous people have trouble remembering more than 5-7 things. Roberts assumed that the guy about to be President could handle an entire sentence, but he couldn’t.
Interesting though that they did have to re-do the oath (not the first time, btw). Of course, no Bible is needed.