I took Monday and Tuesday off from work to enjoy the inauguration. Two things concerned me while I watched the tube. First was Chief Justice Roberts totally fucking up the 38-word presidential oath, and later in the evening when the Obama's were virtually abandoned in the parade viewing structure. I could see the First Lady's breath, and she was noticeably cold. WTF? I felt like calling and saying .... hey, the First Lady is cold. Run a couple extension cords to the building and get some heat out there.
Of greater concern was the obvious absence of the joint chiefs in the viewing booth. The showed up individually to salute their troops as they walked by, but NONE stayed with the President Elect. Are our military leaders a bunch of pussies and cannot handle the cold, or was the freezing out of Obama some kind of message.
When I returned to work today, the racists greeted me with clenched fists and chants of "Black Power" as I walked by. The talk around the shop was that Obama was not a legitimate president due to the oath fuck-up, and that our armed forces were not obligated to obey his command. I remember the tension between the military and JFK years ago, and how pissed off the president got when the South Vietnamese president got assassinated while in CIA custody.
Does anyone know why the Joint Chiefs would not join our president during the parade?
that the parade was running really late. Most of these people had been on the go since early morning and had to leave the area, fight their way through horrendous traffic, clean up, change, and then fight their way back to attend the inaugural balls that night. So, in order to do that, they had to leave early.
The Obamas had no such problems (a) because they were already home and (b) when the president's motorcade decides to go somewhere, all other traffic is stopped. Even then, they didn't show up at some of the balls until after midnight.
You need to cut them some slack. I really don't think it was about the cold.
2. Maybe he's already talking about putting them on a diet
which is something this country desperately needs to do, trim that bloated Pentagon budget by eliminating fat cat pet projects at first and eventually redefining the military's purpose as a defensive force instead of an imperial one.
3. The absence of the Joint Chiefs disturbed me, too -
As did Roberts' monumental fuckup. The Obamas looked downright lonely in that big empty building, albeit with two freezing secret service guys behind them. Wasn't it supposed to be heated? What the hell was going on with all that?
Mr. Obama's children were freezing too. Why couldn't those military big-shots whip up some kind of heat? Oh, maybe they are too important for that, not enough warrior worship?
6. I hate racist people. I told my son to call me immediately if he
has one issue today.
I didn't like them being left by themselves viewing the parade. All those empty chairs with names on them. Fuckers. Anyway, the President and First Lady and the Biden's stood the entire time and acknowledged every band that came by. If any of them purposely froze them out, they look like petty fucking assholes.
24. There were many things posted here that went far beyond any healthy skepticism.
Because someone is right about 1 thing out of 10 does not make them a prophet or prescient. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and if you predict gloom and disaster long enough you will eventually be right, but have little credibility.
The presidential oath of office should be re-administered to Barack Obama because of his flub during Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony, legal experts say.
Because of a mistake by Chief Justice John Roberts, Obama transposed one of the words in the oath. He should have said he will “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” but instead repeated Roberts’ cue and said he will “execute the Office of President of the United States faithfully.”
Josh White of the Washington Post noted: “The presidential oath of office is required of a new president before he can execute his power, and the Constitution is clear that its 35 words must be spoken exactly.”
Jonathan Turley, a professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, told the Post: “He should probably go ahead and take the oath again. If he doesn’t, there are going to be people who for the next four years are going to argue that he didn’t meet the constitutional standard.”
25. It's possible that it was a security measure. The Secretary of Defense was
deliberately not at the inauguration because if his position in line of succession. It's very unusual to have the first three people in line—the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House—all together in a large outdoor gathering like yesterday's, simply because they don't want them all together often in a public setting like that, in case something happens. That's specifically why Gates wasn't present yesterday.
It's possible that they didn't want to whole Joint Chiefs together in one spot in public like that for the same reason.
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