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-----Original Message----- From: Joel Polsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:45 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: O Re-Oaths The article mentions : *"No TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. "* - then HOW do we know if it actually happened. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > WASHINGTON - After the flub heard around the world, President Barack > Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts > delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House _ a > rare do-over. The surprise moment came in response to Tuesday's > much-noticed stumble, when Roberts got the words of the oath a little > off, which prompted Obama to do so, too. > > Don't worry, the White House says: Obama has still been president > since noon on Inauguration Day. > > Nevertheless, Obama and Roberts went through the drill again out of > what White House counsel Greg Craig called "an abundance of caution." > > This time, the scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small > group of reporters, not the Capitol platform before the whole watching > world. > > "We decided that because it was so much fun ...," Obama joked to > reporters who followed press secretary Robert Gibbs into the room. No > TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. A few of > Obama's closest aides were there, along with a White House > photographer. > > "We decided that because it was so much fun ...," Obama joked to > reporters who followed press secretary Robert Gibbs into the room. No > TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. A few of > Obama's closest aides were there, along with a White House > photographer. > > "Are you ready to take the oath?" he said. > > "Yes, I am," Obama said. "And we're going to do it very slowly." > > Roberts then led Obama through the oath without any missteps. > > The president said he did not have his Bible with him, but that the > oath was binding anyway. > > The original, bungled version on Tuesday caught observers by surprise > and then got replayed on cable news shows. > > It happened when Obama interrupted Roberts midway through the opening > line, in which the president repeats his name and solemnly swears. > > Next in the oath is the phrase " ... that I will faithfully execute > the office of president of the United States." But Roberts rearranged > the order of the words, not saying "faithfully" until after "president > of the United States." > > That appeared to throw Obama off. He stopped abruptly at the word > "execute." > > Recognizing something was off, Roberts then repeated the phrase, > putting "faithfully" in the right place but without repeating > "execute." > > But Obama then repeated Roberts' original, incorrect version: "... the > office of president of the United States faithfully." > > Craig, the White House lawyer, said in a statement Wednesday evening: > "We believe the oath of office was administered effectively and that > the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. Yet the oath > appears in the Constitution itself. And out of the abundance of > caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice > John Roberts will administer the oath a second time." > > The Constitution is clear about the exact wording of the oath and as a > result, some constitutional experts have said that a do-over probably > wasn't necessary but also couldn't hurt. Two other previous presidents > have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and > Chester A. Arthur. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:286102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
