Listening to Limbaugh since he was 8?! Isn’t that child abuse?
Between the two of us, I’m quite content to let your behavior of a couple of months ago speak to which of us has lost their fucking mind.
Polite doesn’t make right.
Carter once disassembled a nuclear reactor core. Pronunciation becomes a bit less crucial in that case.
No it doesn’t.
At least Carter has done some good in this world. (Not as president, mind you.)
I’ve listened closely - Carter says “newkler”, which is pretty much right. He does not slip an extra vowel in, the way Homer Simpson and GW Bush do, in fact he elides one.
And anyway, I am not about to criticize a former nuclear engineer about that point.
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but CNN just announced on the top of the news page that Obama has retaken the oath due to the mix up, just to cover his butt.
The question can now turn to: did he really need to?
Did he need to? Nah. Was it a good thing to do? Yeah. Cross your t’s dot your i’s, mind your p’s and q’s.
I have no idea if he legally had to, but I’m amazed at the attention such a trivial verbal gaffe has received. By the way, who has been president of the US for the past 20 hours or so?
Well, maybe he just wanted to be double the president.
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Double your pleasure
Double your fun
It’s the right one
The Doublemi*… ahem. sorry
A few losers sent months in court trying to prove Obama wasn’t a citizen, so as silly as this was, I suppose it was a good move not to give them another opening.
Does the re-swearing mean Obama’s guaranteed a second term? 
Or is he already on his second term!?!
Given that the 22nd amendment specifically limits the amount of times one can be elected, not how many times they are sworn in (or even how many ‘terms’ they serve), I think he’s just fine.
Fast response. Quell the BS before it gathers mojo. Kudos.
And a thread-killer to boot.
You can bet some fuckwit will drag this argument out in 2012. I’d almost be willing to bet on it. Apparently, some Presidents haven’t recited the oath, and merely said, “I do” in response to the CJ reading the whole oath.
TG, IANAL, but seems to me, in a “post is my cite” context, that its the date that is operative. He becomes President on the 20th of Jan at noon. The oath is ceremonial, but not definitive.
There was a great report on the radio a few years ago talking about the pronunciation of “nuclear.” Apparently, among the military personnel who work with nuclear weaponry, the “nucular” pronunciation dominates, from private to general. They also distinguish between “nucular” weapons and “newclear” families.
W, bless his little heart, was probably blissfully unaware of such niceties. But if he were, it’d be savvy of him to curry favor with military brass by using their pronunciation.
Daniel
The irony of this is the fact that it was Chief Justice Roberts who flubbed the oath. In the unlikely event that Obama’s presidency was ever challenged, the case would end up in Roberts’ court.
No. Regardless of the “flub”, he was officially President as of noon yesterday, prior to taking the oath which really is just a traditional “formality” than anything else.