thank you Mr. Chief Justice.

[acroyear]

No really.  Sincerely.  Thank you VERY MUCH for screwing up the pause points and then flubbing the oath in order to make the new President look like an idiot so that the Right Wing media machine has something more to talk about in order to avoid any actual items of substance or significance.

Seriously, I was really wondering if the radio stations would just go quiet today after it was all over, but now, you have given them a whole wealth of material to help them keep their ratings up in this dark economic time.

Thank you again,
Joe

p.s., is a public speaking class too much to ask?

Update: ok, a funny comment from Greg Laden's blog:

Regarding screwing up the oath . . .

Maybe the two of them should try it again . . . maybe in about 4 years or so.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

It was a public speaking issue on Roberts's part. Whether read or memorized, there are, in an oath like that, very common and specific pause points. Obama was first thrown off by the first pause not being where it belonged, and THEN the "faithfully" flub happened.

Now, yes, it is possible that Roberts was thrown off by Obama first being thrown off.

and yes, even *I* had the thought in my head of "would Roberts have messed it up if McCain was standing there...".