An oath (from Anglo-Saxon að, also called plight) is either a promise or a statement of fact calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers sacred, usually God, as a witness to the binding nature of the promise or the truth of the statement of fact. To swear is to take an oath.

Article 2 of the the United States Constitution prescribes that the President must take the oath "before he enter on the Execution of his Office".

The oath of office of the President of the United States is an oath or affirmation required by the United States Constitution before the President begins the execution of the office.

38 words and a bible by convention (or another book) to anknowledge that the oath maker is calling upon a higher authority to bear witness to the bingding nature of his promise.

As one popular jingle goes "so easy a cave man could do it".

Not so in the case of our bigger than life new president-(at least for the present) until his status of even being a legitimate holder of the office is ferreted out.

In his excitement to hurry up and get his swearing in over so that he could get access to executive power, he cut off the officiating official in mid sentence causing him to mis speak the required order of words necessary to take on the mantle of power. Strike one.

The oath was again presented incorrectly missing one of the words. Strike two.

The oath was repeated in the original incorrect sequence. Strike three. But left there to get on with the circus.

After review by constitutional scholars the decision was made that the oath requirements neccessary to gain access to legitimate executive power had not been fulfilled properly and in an excess of caution would be readministered in private.

This time the words were recited and repeated correctly in the proper sequence BUT THE BIBLE WAS LEFT OUT. Strike four.

The requirement is that the oath must be sworn to with a book in hand that bears evidence that the oath is being sworn to by a higher power, that the oath taker acknowledges as having that power, in order to provide evidence of the binding power of his oath. By convention in America, it is the Bible. Not so for Obama. When questioned, his response was it wasn't necessary, He was just doing the redo as a matter of form.

The question is: if the original swearing in ceremony was conflicted enough to be considered invalid and requiring it to be done again correctly, anything sworn to in that event became null and void, so in the repeat of the oath who or what exactly was Obama putting in play as required as the binding authority.

Once again he didn't get it right and some are saying he needs to do it over and this time do it right--his response not necessary. Constitution? Whats that got to do with it?

I guess maybe his followers have it right--he is the messiah and therefor doesn't need to make an oath to a higher power- THE ONE is enough.

Just one more item to add to the list of the things that do not matter:
No records
No birth certificate
No Constitution
No God

I weep

I have 2 points to make regarding Obama's Oath of office:
1. It is no wonder that the chief justice had a hard time getting the words out of his mouth to swear in Obama. After all, he and his cohorts have spent the last 3 months (with more scheduled during the upcoming weeks), in closed conference deciding if they have the moral courage to take on one of the many cases that are before the court demanding that Obama provide evidence that he is a legitimate person to hold the office of the president- a simple thing to prove and something that Obama to date has spent north of $800,000.00 dollars to keep under wraps. All he needs do is produce his original long form birth certificate at a cost of about $10.00 in most states. Unfortunately the justices in spite of hundreds of thousands of letters asking them to do their duty and ensure that the constitution of the united states is followed and held sancrosanct have to date not found the courage to ask for such a simple document that virtually every american provides every day to obtain identification/jobs/passports and a myriad of other documents required by various authorities.

Lord help us and keep us safe from all enemies foreign an domestic. Do not turn your face away from us even though we do not deserve your patience. Forgive us as our nation seems to be in a death spiral of moral decay, depravity and greed.
Amen
2. Being the wordsmith that Obama claims to be I am sure that he meant exactly every word he uttered in his "bungling " of the oath of office to wit: I am sure he intends to "execute" ( and in this case I believe he is using the definition associated with :To Kill) the office of the president and He will *faithfully* carry out that mission.