Being lazy...

[db44]

Anybody pay attention to the Rushes and Hannities yet? I want to know their reactions.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I don't care. Let them flail, hiccup, moan and bitch. I'm having a porterhouse for dinner.

[Whoda Thunk?]

I refuse to let those fools ruin my natural high.

[Richard Tafoya]

For now, the right-wing meme is trying to paint Roberts' momentary flub of the oath words as Obama's fault. Not a lot more than that.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

That's all they got? You're kidding? Makes sense. ConnieB is over at the BSB board spouting that, too. Guess that's the official conservative blather for today.

[Richard Tafoya]

ABC News:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/legalities/2009/01/chief-justice-f.html
Chief Justice John Roberts is a man who has made very few public missteps in his life -- but he appears to have made one when swearing in Barack Obama. Roberts slightly flubbed the oath, which then tripped up Obama.

The oath is contained in the Constitution:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
But when Roberts swore in Obama, he flipped some of the words, saying: "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully."

Here's the transcript:

ROBERTS: Are you prepared to take the oath, Senator?
OBAMA: I am.
ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama...
OBAMA: I, Barack...
ROBERTS: ... do solemnly swear...
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear...
ROBERTS: ... that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully...
OBAMA: ... that I will execute...
ROBERTS: ... faithfully the office of president of the United States...
OBAMA: ... the office of president of the United States faithfully...
ROBERTS: ... and will to the best of my ability...
OBAMA: ... and will to the best of my ability...
ROBERTS: ... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
OBAMA: ... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
ROBERTS: So help you God?
OBAMA: So help me God.
ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.

UPDATE: It's worth pointing out that Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who had been President himself, also flubbed the oath when he was swearing in Herbert Hoover in 1929. When Taft administered the oath, he said, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution," instead of "preserve, PROTECT, and defend." So where Roberts flipped a couple of words, Taft substituted an entirely new one.

[Sasha Reigne]

I missed the freakin inaguration and I havent listened to Conservative Radio in months. Since he got elected I think Rush has gone psycho and FoxNews isnt even trying to hide that they are in the pockets of the conservatives anymore.

[Richard Tafoya]

TPM is reporting that Chris Wallace at Fox News is doing his bit by suggesting that the word stumble could "end up in the courts."

Red meat for the ConnieB's of the world.

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/262133.html