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How superstitious are you?

SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
edited January 2009 in Buddhism Today
I have just heard that President Obama has had to swear the oath of office a second time because the word "faithfully" was in the wrong place! This reminds me of so many superstitions about language, even among the secular-minded.

Do you believe that the stumble in the oath invalidated it in some way?

Or is this just another sign that lawyers actually run the US?

Comments

  • NirvanaNirvana aka BUBBA   `     `   South Carolina, USA Veteran
    edited January 2009
    Isn't that funny? However, it was Chief Justice John Roberts' formulation of words that Mr. Obama followed. Apparently these things aren't practiced in the USA as they'd be in England.

    By golly, some fringers are claiming that documentations of Mr. Obama's birth in Hawaii are forgeries, so who knows how much mileage they'd get out of this one without a retake?

    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/22/obama-oath.html
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited January 2009
    Well, the Chief Justice is also a sports fan. Probably had his mind on the next Hoya basketball game (that's Georgetown University for you cricket-obsessed sorts). And yes, lawyers run America. I'm sure they redid it just to avoid any possibility of some stupid lawsuit being brought in some lame attempt to invalidate the whole affair. Yes, it happens!

    Palzang
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    edited January 2009
    Even the lawyers agreed it wasn't necessary. It was just a preemptive way to stymie the naysayers. Less fodder for the Coulter & Limbaugh folks if they can't say "he didn't even take the oath correctly!"
  • KnitwitchKnitwitch
    edited January 2009
    I'm not superstitious, touch wood, but I'm not going to tempt Fate and say so .........
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited January 2009
    Lol!!!
  • LesCLesC Bermuda Veteran
    edited January 2009
    I AM DEFINITELY NOT SUPERSTITIOUS! But I carry a Rabbit's Foot 'just in case'.

    BWAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! rofl.gif
  • KnitwitchKnitwitch
    edited January 2009
    Why? Obviously didn't bring the rabbit much bloomin' luck :eek:

    (this was the required reply, wasn't it? My Bumper Book of One-Liners P 37?)
  • LesCLesC Bermuda Veteran
    edited January 2009
    Touché!
  • KnitwitchKnitwitch
    edited January 2009
    LesC wrote: »
    Touché!


    Not guilty m'lud -hand my hands on the table at all times

    (My Bumper Book of One Liners P123)
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