You heard right. Chief Justice Roberts bungled the oath.
Granted, this doesn’t actually matter; no oath is required; from Wikipedia:
Article 2 of the the United States Constitution states that the President must take the oath before he enter office. This was superseded by the 20th Amendment[5] which states that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January and the terms of their successors shall then begin. This would therefore allow the President to assume the duties of the office without requiring the oath to be administered.
Keep this in mind in the inevitable right-wing chatter about how Obama isn’t “really” the President.
should have used a teleprompter.. hehe
they did it again this morning to make sure he was president.
Amusing, since it’s not required per the Amendments in question (i.e., you wouldn’t want sucession held up because nobody had time to give the oath, so the actual transition happened at noon, not when the oath was administered).
Yeah I know. Any job worth doing, huh Johnny. Did Obama hold up his appointment?
I don’t think so — nothing about it in a cursory review of Roberts’ WP page.
Obama actively opposed the Chief Justice’s appointment. He did not, however, filibuster or otherwise hold it up.