Comments on: Afterword http://theerrantaesthete.com/2009/01/25/afterword-2/ Essentials for the Cocktail Swilling Savant Sun, 27 May 2012 23:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bruce http://theerrantaesthete.com/2009/01/25/afterword-2/#comment-1939 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:36:24 +0000 http://theerrantaesthete.com/?p=9727#comment-1939 I’ve gotta side with Dick on this one. The man’s the chief justice of the supreme court. The oath he administered was approximately 35 words, far shorter than the one for the VP. This wasn’t a last-minute emergency. He knew well in advance that one of his most highly visible moments in his career was at hand and he, obviously, wasn’t prepared.

Another reader thinks he was “calm.” Hard to say but I’ve got to believe something must have been up. Was he thinking the new pres did not endorse him as chief justice when Bush nominated him? Maybe I’m giving this more analysis than it deserves but could Roberts really be that careless?

]]> By: Paula http://theerrantaesthete.com/2009/01/25/afterword-2/#comment-1937 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:07:43 +0000 http://theerrantaesthete.com/?p=9727#comment-1937 Dick, get over it. The chief justice “was” calm. He’s the chief justice of the supreme court, not God. And he tripped over a word or two. Now maybe in some third world country it would be “off with his head” for the screw up of the “sacred” oath, but this is the United States of America. End of discussion.

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