President Barack Obama retook the oath of office on Wednesday because of a miniscule slip up during his inauguration. That’s right. One missplaced word and everyone is flipping their shit. The new administration is so worried that, because of this mistake, the general public will doubt the legitimacy of his presidency.
And the sad thing is that they’re probably right to do so. You can just see the chain e-mails being formed in the extreme shallow ends of the American gene pool:
“OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID YUO KNOW THAT BARKAC OBAMMA IS NOT REALLY THE PERSIDENT OF THE USA?!?!?!?! BECAUSE HE MESSED UP ON HIS OATHS OF OFFICE HE IS UNABLE TO BECOME THE PREZ!!!! WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD DO IS RIGHT THERE CONGRESSMEN AND LET THEM KNOW NOT TOO TAKE ORDERS FORM THIS ILLIGITIMATE PREZIDENT!!!!!! SEND THIS E-MAIL TO AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE ON YOUR LIST AND LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THIS TRAVISTY OF JUSTICE!!!!!!!! gOD BLESS AMERCA!!!!!!!11
Let’s just ignore that the 20th Amendment specifically states in section 1:
“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.”
And since the Inauguration was running behind schedule anyway (I’m looking at you, Yo-Yo Ma) Obama was technically president before he took the oath. I’m no constitutional scholar, but I take this to mean that, had he wanted to, Obama could have run up to the podium, karate chopped the Lincoln Bible in half, roundhouse kicked Chief Justice John Roberts in the chest, and declared himself the President of The United States of I-Just-Rocked-Your-World.
Best. Inauguration. Ever.
i fucking love you.
however, i am also fucking mad at you cuz
reading this just caused me to laugh.
audibly.
in the library.
twice.
(it should be noted that my laughter severely confused/alarmed all the asians doing math homework. now they’re sort of half-glancing at me to see if i’ll do it again. this is all your fault and definitely had nothing to do with the two malt beverages i drank in the car earlier. nothing whatsoever.)