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By Roy Edroso, Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 1:01PM
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Barack Hussein Obama, not taking any chances with the people who killed JFK, made Chief Justice John Roberts re-administer the oath he flubbed on Tuesday. "This time we're going to do it very slowly," said Obama, covering with humor his deadly serious warning to Roberts, who pretended to be amused even as Obama gunmen held his wife and 23 children at gunpoint as insurance.

But wait -- it turns out no Bible was present when Obama retook the oath. "I'm not inclined to think this is a problem," fronts Wizbang but, unable to maintain such restraint, immediately asks, "Does anyone else? I'd like to know what you think about the fact that Obama didn't use a bible when he was re-sworn in," leaving his comments floor open to conspiracy theorizing ("I, like another commenter, would like to see that his real birth certificate has been forthcoming") and reverse spin ("If a Republican had butchered the oath, it would have been the only thing anybody talked about for a week." We thought Roberts was a Republican).

"Maybe it was the presence of the Bible that threw him off the first time," says Sweetness & Light (though, again, why would a Bible so affect Roberts?). "Don't worry, when you're the messiah you can skip these things," says MacsMind, adding, when he hears Obama says oath 2.0 is "binding anyway," "You wonder just how many other things will be 'binding anyway.' At least the media is catching up as to who caused the flub." Hm, 'media catching up'... oh, so that's what S&L and Wizbang were talking about: citizen journalism as the first draft of alternative history!

"Not in attendance was the Lincoln Bible -- or any Bible for that matter," says Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias. "So is it a true oath?"

Atheists, on the other hand, were pleased: "It always seemed strange to me to swear on a book that is filled with lies," said Dwindling in Unbelief. "I'm glad Obama got it right the second time around (except for the 'So help me God' bullshit)."

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Comments (13)

Sue says:

Hussein Obama is a closet Muslim, he hates that Bible, that is why he didn't ues the Bible!!!

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 2:23PM
Sue says:

Hussein Obama is a closet Muslim, he hates that Bible, that is why he didn't ues the Bible!!!

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 2:24PM
Sue says:

Hussein Obama is a closet Muslim, he hates that Bible, that is why he didn't ues the Bible!!!

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 2:25PM
Sam says:

Sue, put the crack pipe down Honey and breath....

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 3:30PM
Sam says:

Sue, put the crack pipe down Honey and breath....

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 3:32PM
Al Swearengen says:

Time to put childish things aside.

Such as worrying what easily-offended, narrow-minded assholes like Sue have to say. Spending one calorie of brain power on her ilk is one calorie not spent solving our problems.

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 6:03PM
AXJ says:

Looks like the birth certificate issue is not going away. New evidence published by AXJ.

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 7:38PM
Joan says:

The United States Constitution specifies the wording of the oath, which does NOT include the "So help me God" usually appended by the president taking the oath. George Washington added these words and most of his successors have done the same. The Constitution does not specify use of a Bible and not all incoming presidents have used one. For example, when McKinley was assassinated Theodore Roosevelt took the oath at a private home without using a Bible. As long as the wording specified in the Constitution is used there are no othe constitutional requirements.

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 8:42PM
Mike Licht says:

Did the second swear-in add another odd Roberts precedent?

And what about non bis in idem ("double jeopardy")?

See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/oath-oopsy/

Posted On: Friday, Jan. 23 2009 @ 1:20AM
Mike Licht says:

Did the second swear-in add another odd Roberts precedent?

And what about non bis in idem ("double jeopardy")?

See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/oath-oopsy/

Posted On: Friday, Jan. 23 2009 @ 1:21AM
RadicalGnostic says:

The 20th Amendment says the President-Elect becomes President at Noon on January 20th, oath or no oath.

Posted On: Saturday, Jan. 24 2009 @ 3:07PM
Jan says:

Barack Obama became President at 12:00PM with or without the oath. Justice Roberts is not the first person to mess up the words of the oath. President Obama is not the first President who had to "do over" the oath. President Obama is not the first to take the oath of office without a Bible. Use the web, it is also a tool for research.

Posted On: Saturday, Jan. 24 2009 @ 6:31PM
c1on says:

- **BARRY **BARACK **BARRACK **HUSSEIN **MOHAMED **ABDULLAH **BIN SOETORO **DUNHAM **UBAMA -

ILLEGAL ALIEN , kenya

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WeThePeopleFoundation.org/obama
Daily-Jeff.com/news/simple_article/4486084

Posted On: Sunday, Feb. 15 2009 @ 4:51PM

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