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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Sorry, wingnuts...you'll have to go back to obsessing about his citizenship
Posted by Jill | 4:38 AM
Barack Obama, being NOT the clueless boob that his predecessor was, obviously heard the rumblings from the farthest reaches of wingnuttia (the ranks of which now include Faux Noise's Chris Wallace) that Obama is somehow not president because John Roberts either intentionally or unintentionally (I lean towards the Theory of Passive Aggressiveness, myself) flubbed the oath of office, and decided to swat those insignificant little flies out of the way:
President Obama took the oath of office -- again -- on Wednesday, out of what a White House lawyer described as "an abundance of caution."

"We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. 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," said White House Counsel Greg Craig in a statement issued early Wednesday night.


Of course the authors of this piece, in the name of "fair and balanced" (which in hack journalism still means "utter horseshit presented as being just as valid as truth"), talk about how BOTH men flubbed the oath on Tuesday, rather than watching the video again, which clearly shows Barack Obama graciously being unwilling to make John Roberts look like a fool on worldwide television. But now this particular foofarah is over with, and now the wingnuts can go back to insisting that Barack Obama is really an Indonesian citizen.

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