Obama's Oath and the "stutter"

[tshuma]

I think some folks might be unaware of what happened during Obama's taking the oath of office. He began a little too quickly, and I think that rushing it there may have thrown off Chief Justice Roberts, who then misspoke a later portion of the oath. In watching it, it looks as though Obama is so nervous or giddy that he needs prompting every

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[ziggybecket]

Yah, I saw that as a honest mistake. It was interesting to see how Obama just grinned and shrugged it off. But yah, these news networks need to talk about SOMETHING.

PS: Thanks! ;)

[tshuma]

You're welcome. =p

[scotis_man]

I was watching the CNN feed at work. An interesting note to be made before people try to say that the stutter makes the transfer of power not count, music was being played at 12:00 Eastern, before the oath took place, and the CNN announcer came on and noted when the transfer of power happened, oath or not.

[dixiemouse]

Well, the media in general has spent the last ___ months raising him onto a pedastal... now they feel obligated to start tearing him down...

Doesn't matter who was elected, someone would have found some fault in the proceedings to run with...

But, really, let someone put themselves in that position... how would they really handle it? He may be the President now, but he is still as human as the rest of us...

[tshuma]

But the key point I was trying to make, it wasn't Obama's mistake. Justice Roberts messed it up.

Even if he had made it, I agree, he's human, etc. But they're panning him for something he didn't even do....out of their own ignorance of the actual words of the oath.

[dixiemouse]

Very true... but they are now going to twist it around to make it his mistake... and start trying to tear him back down...

I could list a dozen things that are wrongly attributed, but used to tear figures down, once they same people have held them on high...

It's the whole crazy thing you see all the time... the person most in the wrong is going to get the most defensive, argumentative, and abusive over something that, quite frankly, is really petty and stupid...

[tshuma]

Hey, I was happy that for the first time ever, nonbelievers were mentioned by a president of this country with something other than derision or exclusion.

[terpsichoros]

The only place I saw any comment about the oath getting messed up (other than your LJ) was a conservative blog site, and they specifically dumped on Roberts, not Obama, for messing it up.

[tshuma]

Then you were obviously not looking in the same places I was this morning.