The Republican Menace
Like a cancer in remission, the vanquished enemies of democracy in America continue their lamentable existence, now as offstage agents of fear and doom. We did not need to wait long for a taste of their duplicitous tactics: citing the Constitution, FOX News anchor Chris Wallace claimed that Obama was in fact not sworn in as president on Tuesday, because the chief justice administering the oath of office flubbed his lines.
Wallace’s claim was a throwback to the ubiquitous misinformation campaigns of the freshly buried Bush era, for according to the 20th amendment to the Constitution, Obama became president at noon on the 20th, regardless of having taken the oath of office.
Speaking of which, isn’t it about time that we replace the bible that is used in the ceremony with another, more ecumenical, text? Leaves of Grass, anyone?
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Is this the same David Camacho that I knew from UD? If so, this is Ha. I took on my Catholic Saint name Anna for business reasons. How are you?