Apparently, Roberts has already apologized. Kudos to Obama for catching the error and handling it with poise.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., apparently working without notes, > started prompting Obama with the words, but Obama jumped in a shade > too early which then knocked Roberts off stride. > > They started over, but then Roberts mixed up a few words. Obama > started to respond, but he paused as if waiting for Roberts to say the > words correctly or at least say them again. Then it got more or less > back on track. > > Here is the text of the oath as it is supposed to read: > > "I (name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute > the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of > my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the > United States." (The words "so help me God" are added if the president > wants them and Obama did.) > > As chief justice (since 2005), Roberts has been known to flub his > lines on occasion mispronouncing names of lawyers and cases once in > awhile. On Dec. 2, during arguments in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School > Committee, he pronounced the respondent town as if it were two words: > "Barn Stay-bul." He later corrected himself, calling it > "BARN-sta-bul," as it should have been. > > http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202427587735 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285714 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
