"Barrack Hussein Obama ... got nervous and flubbed some of his lines." -- Alan S.
No, it was not Obama who flubbed his lines, but Chief Justice John Roberts, who in reciting the oath of office to be repeated by the soon-to-be-former President-Elect, misplaced the adverb "faithfully" and got a preposition wrong in "President to the United States", as if the president were a foreigner appointed to administer a certain country. I have not followed the news on this, but I imagine many reporters have filled up much cable-news airtime remarking on Roberts's poor preparation. (Can't these people function without a teleprompter?) One thing Obama did get wrong. In his inaugural address (see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_obama_text ) he said, "Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath." Not true. The former mayor of Buffalo and sheriff of Erie County, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland , served two non-consecutive terms as President, but he does not count as two Americans. That's another point cable-news commentators must be bringing up constantly. Thus the two Presidents Bush were not associated with the auspicious twin primes 41 and 43, as their media flacks constantly asserted, but in truth were associated with the numbers 40 and 42, which are not even prime, much less twin primes. So Obama is not the 44th American to take the presidential oath, but the 43rd. It is Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who are the true twin-prime presidents 41 and 43. -- Mark Spahn (Erie County, NY) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
