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01/22/2009 04:58 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | i know someone else already posted this but my thread has a linky. :P ------- Obama retakes oath to err on side of law
(01-22) 04:00 PST Washington - -- President Barack Obama took the advice of constitutional lawyers and retook the oath of office Wednesday that Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed the first time around.
Roberts re-administered the oath privately Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the White House Map Room. White House counsel Greg Craig said Obama took the oath from Roberts again out of an "abundance of caution."
"We decided it was so much fun," Obama joked to pool reporters as Roberts donned his black robe. "Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts asked.
"I am, and we're going to do it very slowly," Obama replied. The oath took 25 seconds and went flawlessly, at which point Roberts said, "Congratulations, again."
Obama had been gracious about the mishap, abstaining from the fun when Vice President Joe Biden joked to White House staff Wednesday about not having as good a memory as the chief justice.
Roberts had initially misplaced the word "faithfully," perhaps rattled after Obama jumped the gun a bit in reciting the first words back. Obama paused at Roberts' mistake, which Roberts then corrected, but Obama then repeated the words as Roberts first said them. Obama, who himself has taught constitutional law, said later that there was "a lot going on" at the historic moment.
The presidential oath is explicitly prescribed in the Constitution, Article II, Section 1, which requires that the oath be taken as written before the president can execute his duties. It was discussed at some length at the constitutional convention and has been taken by all 42 previous people to serve as president. Scholars said that no one doubted Obama was president, and certainly no court would hear a challenge, but that a redo would be recommended just to be safe.
The 20th Amendment also states that the term of the outgoing president ends at noon on Jan. 20, and the new president's term begins at that time, but the fact that the original Constitution explicitly requires the oath, and the fact that retaking it would be a simple matter, led most scholars to recommend erring on the side of caution, precedent and protocol.
Two previous presidents, Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge, retook their oaths under similar circumstances.
E-mail Carolyn Lochhead at [email protected].
This article appeared on page A - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle |
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04/07/2009 12:42 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: ***Obama retakes oath*** I need a driver for my phillips snn6500 wireless netcard
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04/07/2009 12:45 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: ***Obama retakes oath*** if the illuminati still have the time and the confidence that the riots can be controlled, "Obama" will be confessing the murder of his "grandmother" and his presidency will be declared illegal (abomination of desolation in the anti-Bible), Clinton being inaugurated as the 44th president |
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04/07/2009 12:47 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: ***Obama retakes oath*** Are you fucking retarded or insane? |
