In a rare do-over, Barack H. Obama was sworn in for second time as the US President by the ChiefJustice of Supreme Court John Roberts at White House.
The surprise move was taken last evening in "an abundance of caution", as the US ChiefJustice had flubbed the oath of the office. The second oath was administered at 7-35 pm.
White House Counsel Greg Craig said that the oath administered to Obama on Tuesday was fine, but one word was out of sequence so that decided to do this out of "an abundance of caution".
"We decided it was so much fun..." Obama joked while sitting on a couch, according to a White House pool report. As Obama stood and then walked over to make small talk with pool reporters, Roberts asked, "Are you ready to take the oath?"
Obama replied "I am, and we're going to do it very slowly." The second oath took 25 seconds. After a flawless recitation, Roberts smiled and said, "congratulations, again."
Obama said, "Thank you, Sir." On Tuesday Roberts had fumbled while administering the 35-word oath of office.
When the ChiefJustice started to say the second portion of the quote "... that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States," he instead put faithfully at the end of the sentence.
Obama, who apparently had memorised the oath, looked at Roberts, who then realised his mistake and repeated that portion of the oath correctly. Obama then repeated the oath in the incorrect order.
In a statement, Craig said last night, "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, ChiefJustice Roberts administered the oath a second time."
OBAMA PLAYS DOWN OATH BLOOPER DURING SWEARING-IN CEREMONY
US President Barack Obama tried to play down the blooper made by ChiefJustice John Roberts during the swearing-in ceremony, saying the top judge instead helped him on a few stanzas of the oath and the entire ritual went off "relatively smoothly".
"We were up there... we have got a lot of stuff on our minds and he, actually, I think helped me out on a couple (of) stanzas there. So overall I think it went relatively smoothly and I am very grateful to him," Obama told the ABC News after attending the Neighbourhood Ball in Washington.
It was the first of the 10 inaugural balls that he and his wife Michelle attended yesterday after he was sworn in as the nation's 44th President.
In a goof up that was watched by over two million people at the National Mall and by millions others watching the inauguration on television, Roberts fumbled as he switched a few words in the 35 word oath.
As Roberts began to administer the oath, Obama responded before the ChiefJustice had completed the first phrase.
Obama ended up saying the first four words -- 'I, Barack Hussein Obama' -- twice. Then Obama paused abruptly after Roberts reversed a few words in the sentence 'That I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States', putting 'faithfully' at the end of the sentence.
Obama waited for Roberts to correct the words, realising that something was out of order. The top judge gave it another try, but this time, omitted the word 'execute'.
The goof up has become a hot topic of discussion and scrutiny , with TV channels and websites here galore with stories on how the ChiefJustice could forget35wordswritten in the country'sconstitution.
Obama also did not encourage the joke Vice President Joe Biden made earlier about Roberts' "memory." Biden who had to administer the oath of office to senior executive staff at a White House ceremony joked that he did not have a good memory as Roberts.
"My memory is not as good as ChiefJustice Roberts," he quipped. Obama kept a straight face and was clearly not amused by Biden's words. One might even say he was mad.
Sources within killercop.com were told late today that Chief Justice, of the Ninth Circuit, Alex Kozinski, has been personally identified as having posted and stored child-porn on his personal office web server in his home office, along with his
recently discovered
"Yes, I have traded
child porn with Judge Kozinski, and I set up his account personally for him." When
asked how long he had been trading these types of files of underage
girls, with Alex Kozinski, he simply replied, "Long time now."
Judge Alex Kozinski's personal web server is located in his
work office, (MP3) at
his private home in California, although he is from Romania by
heritage. Read them here.
When asked how the transfers
took place, the source explained it was done through an
FTP
Server Kozinski had set up.
The woman here are too ugly, after they get old." He then
laughed a sick, deep laugh that sent shivers down this
reporter's spine, and raised the hair on my neck.
When asked how he knew
this user-name on his FTP Server, "kozisayso," was, in fact Judge
Alex Kozinski, he said, "I have known Judge
Alex Kozinski for many,
many years. We grew up together. He was friend of family."
When pressed for the name of the family he simply said,
He offered to
send us some of the files Judge Alex Kozinski had traded with him, but we
declined. We did however request the FTP Logs containing Kozinski's
IP and MAC Address'. He assured me he would look for them, but stated
he wanted to make sure he first removed any trace of his FTP Server MAC address and IP first, before sending them to us.
He then inquired about the reward on
this page.
We told him to first send the Log Files, since they were the only way you could prove a specific computer transfered/loaded/transmitted or "posted" anything. Period. And that's a fact. No log files, no reward.
We have to infer and then conclude he is a pedophile of the worst sort,
and he should be removed from the bench, and banned from using
a computer after he is released from prison, and monitored very
carefully to keep him away from both children and animals.