The do-over
How many times does he have to take the Oath of Office anyway? Yesterday,
NPR's "All Things Considered" asked "How many former editors of the Harvard Law Review does it take to screw up the Presidential Oath of Office?" (Obama was President of the HLR when he was there; Roberts, who was there a few years before, was Managing Editor.)
I can't find that link now, although I did have one: while I was replaying that segment for a friend last night, they were already re-doing the Oath. (The old link from yesterday goes to a new item about the re-swearing-in.)
I looked all over the Internet and finally found a link to a news segment that showed the re-taking of the oath whole without cutting it off or having people talk over it:
via MSNBC It starts at about 00:54 seconds into the segment.
Sadly, yes, some wingnuts are already whining "But he didn't have a Bible this time!" When what they needed all along was not a copy of the Bible but one of the Constitution, to read the Oath from.
This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened: the new NPR article notes "Two other previous presidents have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur."
NPR's "All Things Considered" asked "How many former editors of the Harvard Law Review does it take to screw up the Presidential Oath of Office?" (Obama was President of the HLR when he was there; Roberts, who was there a few years before, was Managing Editor.)
I can't find that link now, although I did have one: while I was replaying that segment for a friend last night, they were already re-doing the Oath. (The old link from yesterday goes to a new item about the re-swearing-in.)
I looked all over the Internet and finally found a link to a news segment that showed the re-taking of the oath whole without cutting it off or having people talk over it:
via MSNBC It starts at about 00:54 seconds into the segment.
Sadly, yes, some wingnuts are already whining "But he didn't have a Bible this time!" When what they needed all along was not a copy of the Bible but one of the Constitution, to read the Oath from.
This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened: the new NPR article notes "Two other previous presidents have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur."