Obama’s Oath Invalid Due to Chief Justice’s Flub

oathWASHINGTON – Legal scholars huddled in an emergency conclave last night and determined that Barack Obama did not become the nation’s 44th president because Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed the swearing-in process.

Roberts incorrectly recited the oath dictated by the Constitution when he had Obama repeat the following: ”. . . I will execute the office of President to the United States faithfully.”

Hoboken University Law School Dean Noah Swayne explained that since Obama never uttered the oath called for by the Constitution, he is not president.

“The closest analogy I can make, of course, is the old Bewitched television series,” Dean Swayne explained. “If the words of an incantation weren’t uttered just right, the spell didn’t take. It’s the same thing here.”

Dean Swayne said that the only other time there was a similar glitch was after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. “On the plane heading back to Washington, President Johnson took the oath by placing his hand on a New Yorker magazine. Technically, according to the Constitution, Johnson became president of New York.”

Late last night, President Bush and Vice President Cheney were summoned back to Washington until President-elect Obama can retake the oath in another inauguration to be held today at noon. 

The two million spectators who attended yesterday’s extravaganza are being asked to return to the same spots they occupied in the first go-around.

Jan 21