Posted on 01/22/2009 9:15:37 PM PST by Sammy67
What’s insulting is that Roberts couldn’t get a simple oath right.
Why didn’t he write it down like previous justices?
Very careless. imo
Yes, but the ignorance of this by our fellow FREEPERS is understandable. Shortly after the inauguration the MSM media began re-playing the oath, either taken from the microphone closest to Obama or with Roberts voice saying "... do solemly swear" digitally edited out. I heard the original replays from minutes after the event and then I've heard the later "un-Roberts" MSM version.
In the original video, played minutes after the oath (before MSM top management stepped in), Obama can be heard saying his name while Roberts is still saying "... do solemly swear". Note that during the VP oath, Biden waited until the end of "...do solemly swear" before stating his name. Note also that in the 2nd swearing in, Obama waited until Roberts completed "...do solemly swear" before stating his name. IMHO - had the Chief Justice been a liberal, they would have asked him/her to stop BEFORE "... do solemly swear" in order fit with the MSM plan to avoid making Obama look bad. Obama jumped in too soon with his name and threw Roberts off (and then Obama screwed up again when Roberts repeated it correctly). But history will not blame Obama because the Democrat MSM writes the history.
Add insult to the man? The Man is a liar, a scroundral and a Kenyan. The time has come to test President Bush’s appointees.
If he was born in Hawaii as evidence suggest, there are no other constitutional issues.
How about a Freudian slip? ?
And what hospital did you say 0 was born in?
If Hussein were Caesar, the oath problem would be a definite very bad omen. The Presidency got off to an unprecedented extremely bad start. Omens are harbingers of things to come
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DR . RODNEY T . WEST
Born: Dec. 23, 1910, Wailuku, Maui
Education: Skipped seventh and eighth grades; Honolulu Military Academy, Punahou School, where West played clarinet.
Naval service: Joined Navy Reserve in January 1940, activated Sept. 5, 1941 - March 26, 1946. Resigned from Navy Reserve in 1949 at rank of commander.
Medical career highlights: Delivered 5,000 babies; President, Hawaii Medical Association (1963); Medical Director, Straub Clinic (now Straub Clinic & Hospital) until retirement in 1975; one of the founders and first president of the American College of Physician Executives (1975).
Family: Wife, Mary Ann (Carlisle) West , died 1994; daughter, Jo-Anne Lewis (Kaimuki); sons, Kenneth C. West (Phoenix) and Rodney West Jr. (Spokane, Wash.)
Lives: Kahala Nui senior residence
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DR . RODNEY T . WEST
Born: Dec. 23, 1910, Wailuku, Maui
Education: Skipped seventh and eighth grades; Honolulu Military Academy, Punahou School, where West played clarinet.
Naval service: Joined Navy Reserve in January 1940, activated Sept. 5, 1941 - March 26, 1946. Resigned from Navy Reserve in 1949 at rank of commander.
Medical career highlights: Delivered 5,000 babies; President, Hawaii Medical Association (1963); Medical Director, Straub Clinic (now Straub Clinic & Hospital) until retirement in 1975; one of the founders and first president of the American College of Physician Executives (1975).
Family: Wife, Mary Ann (Carlisle) West , died 1994; daughter, Jo-Anne Lewis (Kaimuki); sons, Kenneth C. West (Phoenix) and Rodney West Jr. (Spokane, Wash.)
Lives: Kahala Nui senior residence
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http://www.city-data.com/elec2/06/elec-HONOLULU-HI-06-part1.html
Dr. Rodney T West (Retired), (Zip code: 96815) $200 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 10/23/06
Meaningless you say? Check what the constitution says.
“Article II, Sect 1, Clause 8:
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best.......”
Out house rat crazy idea
... and when Obama re-took the Oath, they didn’t use the Bible. Now this is starting to raise eyebrows.
This may be completely insignificant but notice the sentence where the five thousand births is referred to, rather than use zeroes, the author used the letter “O” (maybe a FReeper?)i.e. 5,OOO as opposed to 5,000. This can be verified by looking at the zero in “1940” in the same paragraph.
Sloppy if nothing else.
* The Queen’s Medical Center - Honolulu, Hawaii Obama claims as his birth hospital
* Kapi’ olani Medical Center Obama’s sister claims Barack Obama born here
* Honolulu Shriners Hospital Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Straub Clinic & Hospital Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Hawaii Health Systems Corporation - Honolulu, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Cancer Institute of Maui - Wailuku, Hawaii No Comment ???
* Kuakini Hospital - Honolulu, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific - Honolulu, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii - Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Straub Heatlh - Honolulu, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Tripler Medical Center - Honolulu, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Wahiawa General Hospital - Wahiawa, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
* Wilcox Memorial Hospital - Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Never a patient Mom or Obama
I can vouch from my own obstetrician/gyn's history that a doctor may retire from practicing but move on to such things as Hospital director, medical directors, etc. Mine retired from practice (I had to find a new doctor) after delivering my 3rd child in 1985 by becoming the Medical Director of Obstetrics at a local women's hospital.
Yes, it is just a taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad far-fetched.
“a doctor may retire from practicing but move on to such things as Hospital director, medical directors, etc.”
Right. An OB/GYN has to pay for malpractice insurance every year. To be covered by that insurance, they obviously have to have paid the premiums, which essentially means committing to practice for an upcoming year. Because they have to pay the premiums regardless of how many babies they actually deliver, no sensible OB/GYN is going to maintain their insurance on the off chance they might deliver a baby in 1961. Likewise, the annual premium relative to the cost of one delivery would make it prohibitively expensive to pay just so one could provide an insured delivery for a friend.
So my interpretation of the West bio-sketch is that he stopped delivering babies in 1955, meaning he didn’t pay malpractice premiums after that year and hence would have been an idiot to deliver a baby in 1961 and risk a bad outcome that could put his entire life savings at risk.
1961 isn’t 2009, so the risks of “going bare” when delivering a baby would have been smaller. But it would have been very imprudent, especially with a mom who essentially got knocked up by a black man while she was still a teen. Why would a doctor of West’s stature go out on a limb in this fashion? Yes, Stanley’s mom eventually became a bank VP and probably eventually moved in social circles that could easily have included West. But at the time of BHO’s birth, they had just moved to Hawaii, so it doesn’t seem likely that they had magically become good family friends with Dr. West, and certainly not good enough friends for them to ask (or him to offer) for delivery services for a potentially risky birth.
I think the fact that Dr. West later became president of medical society and had Kapiolani Hospital connections is significant. This lady would have remembered that he was connected to the hospital in the right time frame (she obviously DIDN’T waste time researching Dr. West’s actual bio, else she might have had some “’splainin’” to do) and his prominence would have helped ensure she’d remember that he’d died recently (and hence her account was essentially “bullet-proof” from the standpoint of being contradicted by a diligent reporter’s (or factchecker’s) follow-up with Dr. West.
Long story short: this account seems to have a generous dose of BS embedded in it. People will do all sorts of things for their 15 minutes of fame; this lady probably views it as a harmless white lie.
I vote for Freudian slip. Roberts’ guilty conscience breaking through.
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