{"id":13321,"date":"2009-01-22T09:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/22\/re-oathed.html"},"modified":"2009-01-22T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:38:48","slug":"re_oathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/re_oathed.html","title":{"rendered":"Re-oathed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Inauguration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/inauguration.html\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait for the Wingnuts to parse the stumbling over Obama\u2019s oath of office (both Obama and Roberts) to somehow prove he never took the oath and therefore is not president.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, after the initial laughter over the prospect, some people decided it was better to be safe than sorry, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/21\/AR2009012103685.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">Roberts re-administered the oath to Obama yesterday<\/a>, without any bobbles (or a Bible).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the same thing (retaking the oath) was done by both Calvin Coolidge and Chester Arthur in their day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that won&#8217;t quiet the conspiracy nuts, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Inauguration, I wrote: I can\u2019t wait for the Wingnuts to parse the stumbling over Obama\u2019s oath of office (both Obama and Roberts) to somehow prove he never took&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13329,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/inauguration.html","url_meta":{"origin":13321,"position":0},"title":"Inauguration","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jan-09 11:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a chance to watch the Inauguration from home (working furiously most of the time), and take, of course, a picture. 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