The larger issue here is that Roberts is probably heavily medicated for his epilepsy. Those drugs can have profound effects on memory and speech, and clearly that may be the case here. Wonder if he'll leave the bench soon.

Now can the grown-ups get to work?

And please just tell me Obama doesn't have to re-do his executive orders again. It's like "Groundhog Day."

you know it's coming...

But I guess it keeps nonsense lawsuits from being filed. Or we could hope so - but I'd bet not. Someone will still file saying all of his actions before that couldn't happen, or some such stupidity.

Please let the no-brainers know that the conspiracy has been laid to rest.

Can the real leaders get back to doing real work in the real world now?

And, unlike that thug who just left, his jokes tend be funny, rather than just mean and stupid.

I can breathe again.

"12 more balls"? I don't get it.

A little help?

He's saying it's Jan 20th all over again, so everyone has to schlep to all the Inaugural Balls one more time. He's a kidder.

... that we didn't have an official swearing-out of Dubya. Did Billy Graham have a prior committment?

...too f'ing funny. The wingnuts have reduced us to this. Oh, well, maybe the missus will wear a prettier dress than last night's. Note to Michelle: trains are a bummer when you're dancin'.

and, sorry, but the parents who named Greg Craig should be bitch-slapped. Really.

Same with the parents of the new Portland, Oregon porn star Beau Breedlove, but that's another story.

The flubs were on the Chief Justice's part, not on the President's. First, by not pausing after the name (as is customary) and then by incorrect word order. President Obama has been gracious about it and Chief Justice Roberts graciously apologized at the Inaugural luncheon.

It makes the enamel on my teeth crawl that two grown men have to go through this so the f***tard base (cough, FOX News and the f***tards who watch them) can find something else to drool into a cup over.

As for Charlesvan's assertion that Robert's medication clouded his thinking or some such other crap, how the hell does he know? The only info that we have is that Roberts has had two seizures, 14 years apart. No doctor who wants to stay in practice would prescribe the combo of drugs to him that would cause such cognitive problems for two seizures.

I'm not naive enough to think that the rest of the court and/or government might not be covering for him, but there is no evidence that Roberts has debilitating epilepsy and to keep talking about it as if it is a fact and throwing around crap that makes people think that epileptics are walking, talking goofballs is enough to make me wonder what type of "medications" Charlesvan is taking.

They will say, "Who was this so-called 'Pool Reporter?' Huh, huh? Was the Chief Justice on drugs?.." They will allege all sorts of shady, ominous baloney.

Actually, two seizures is exactly the number of seizures with which you officially become an epileptic, flyover, at which point rather strong drugs are probably required. I certainly don't want to upset the epilepsy community, and plenty of people with epilepsy can function just fine at a normal level. But the guy clearly wasn't able to memorize and recite one paragraph of text. Given the enormity of his job, it does warrant some scrutiny as to whether or not his cognitive ability has been compromised, especially when you consider what we now know about Justice Rhenquist's mental state.

Anyway, flyover, it's just speculation. Welcome to the world wide web.

Well, the right wing dopuses will do the same with this oath of office thing. They will be wrong, and we probably are correct, but that will not matter.

They will say Obama was not sworn in legally. We are stuck with this. It's like we say W. Bush invaded a country illegally and killed hundreds of thousands and tortured, and they say, "Yeah, but Clinton got a BJ."

Nothing anybody can do about it.

I didn't realize that Obama would be caving in to the phony issues crowd so quickly. I hope this isn't an indicator of how the rest of his term is going to go.

I am really glad President Obama took the oath again. This closes the door on the right wing nuts screaming that he is an illegitimate president.

Cleveland and Coolidge performed their oaths a second time. Cleveland said "maintain" instead of "preserve." Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public and the local magistrate intheir village. Some thought such a low level official was not qualified for a presidential oath.

Now it's done.

As for Roberts, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. It was his first inaugural; he was nervous in front of 1.9 million people. He should have started over. Or Obama's people should have dragged the two of them into a small room in the Capitol with a few witneses to do again immediately.

Of course, why are we still surprised when a Bush nominee screws up? One last gift from the Great Gaffer.

I read somewhere that the President-elect and the Chief Justice cannot practice together because it might lead to an illegal swearing-in. A re-elected president and thw CJSC can practice because the POTUS is already in office. Some means of having these two people rehearse has to be found.

At least it's over.

John McCain is ineligible to be the President because he was born in Panama.

http://federalistblog.us/2008/11/natural-born_citizen_defined.html

http://therightwing.net/index.php/2008/12/09/the-natural-born-citizen-case-explained/

Of course it's the internet, which why I'm a little surprised that you think Googling "epilepsy" and finding an old Time magazine article is going to make you look oh so intelligent.

Nice try.

And since it IS the internet, people have to suffer mediocrities like you diagnosing people just because you can, and then oozing condenscending bulls**t about epileptics being good enough for "normal level" activity. I'm sure they are very grateful to hear that you have such high regard for them.

The ability to memorize doesn't mean crap in and of itself and is no indication of intelligence or even cognition. If a person was a whiz at memorization and then suddenly can't memorize anything it might be a cause for concern assuming that stress, lack of sleep, malnutrition or any number of other conditions are not a factor.

The bottom line is that you could end up being totally right about Robert's condition, but that would mean nothing either. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.