If not now then when?

President Obama, You Are My President

When it finally hit me that Barack Obama is now President Obama, I was elated. Maybe even a little teary eyed. I mean, we've had this George W. Bush joker supposedly running this country for 8 years now. Eight. Long. Years. Sure Kerry wasn't a great candidate, but for pete's sake he was a million times better than President Bush. We lost a lot of hope after that election. It was brutal.

But now we've got Obama! We've got President Obama! Hooray!!!

Did you watch the inauguration though? How the oath was a little messed up and so when President Obama (he was officially president by the time he read the oath) repeated the (incorrect) oath, he stumbled a bit. Because he knew it was recited incorrectly.

Whatever, it didn't matter because according to the 20th Amendment, the term of the previous president officially ends at noon and the term of their successor begins ...

The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

So that's it right? It's official? Well, not according to Fox "Fair and Balanced" News. Did anyone see these clips of talking heads on Fox talk about how Obama wasn't really the president because he "flubbed" the oath? About how because the oath was in the constitution and Obama didn't recite it correctly, that he wasn't really president? Fuck those jackasses. I mean really. Fuck. Them.

Great, it's in the constitution that the president needs to take oath before taking office. Yes, and the 20th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America says that the former president's duty ends at noon of inauguration day and their successor's term begins. That would be regardless of any oaths being taken.

Please President Obama, can you introduce a "stupid news" tax or something? Maybe a "it will make you less intelligent to listen to this" tax? That would be splendid.

Oh and on the subject of taking oaths on the bible, I thought this little tidbit from the Bible itself was interesting:

"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Jesus (Matthew 5:33-37)

Let us say 'yes' when we mean yes and 'no' when we mean no, and just leave it at that.