President Barack Obama summoned Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. to the White House earlier this evening in order to retake the presidential oath of office that Chief Justice Roberts flubbed at yesterday’s swearing in ceremony. As you may recall, it appeared that Obama fumbled the words of the presidential oath of office but it turned out that it was Roberts who made the mistake. In order to ensure that his presidency would not have any sort of controversy (no matter how minute) from the start, Obama thought it would be prudent to retake the oath of office “out of an abundance of caution”:

President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday’s inauguration. The second oath — also administered by Roberts — took place at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday in the White House’s Map Room. Roberts asked Obama whether he was ready. “I am, and we’re going to do it very slowly,” Obama replied. The do-over was aimed at dispelling any confusion that might arise from Tuesday’s take — in which “faithfully” was said out of sequence — and erase any question that Obama is legally the president. However, per the Constitution, Obama became president at noon Tuesday without taking the oath. “We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday,” White House counsel Greg Craig said Wednesday in a written statement. “But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time,” the statement read. On Tuesday, Roberts, apparently working without a copy of the oath handy on the Capitol steps, started out by reciting a six-word phrase, but Obama broke in halfway through and repeated the first three. That seemed to throw the chief justice off stride, and he proceeded to mix up the order of the words in the next phrase.

The two got the rest correct, including the nonobligatory “So help you God?” “So help me God.” Reporters, bloggers and others weighed in on the flub. The New York Post offered this headline: “Roberts is the Oaf of Office.” A Washington Post reader complained in a letter to the editor: “What could have been a moment for the ages was marred by Mr. Roberts’ thoughtlessness. News outlets will report that the first words of our new president were “confused.” Whether through design or an amazing lack of preparation, Justice Roberts’s behavior was a disgrace.” And Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said: “We’re wondering here whether or not Barack Obama in fact is the president of the United States. They had a kind of garbled oath. It’s just conceivable that this will end up going to the courts.” In a congressional luncheon after Tuesday’s swear-in, Roberts and Obama exchanged words, and the chief justice appeared to tell the president, “It was my fault.” Before Wednesday’s do-over at the White House, Obama, waiting on a couch, joked that “we decided it was so much fun … ” After a flawless recitation, Roberts smiled and said, “Congratulations again.” “Thank you, sir,” the president replied. After a smattering of applause, Obama quipped that “the bad news for the [press] pool is there’s 12 more balls.” Roberts has made no public comment on becoming tongue-tied Tuesday.

LOL! Now that President Obama is the boss, he is going to ensure that things get taken care of in the proper way, to HIS satisfaction. Well done. Leave it to the morons on FOX News to make something out of nothing. President Obama officially became President of the United States at the stroke of noon on January 20, 2009 despite the fact that he had yet to take the oath of office. But, I don’t blame him for taking care of biz and taking the oath again. He’s nothing if not a perfectionist :)

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