Hey!

[pyat]

Biden has been sworn in, and now we're listening to music. Does this mean Biden is VP and Bush is president right now?

EDIT: This is a darn fine speech. Especially the bit about "not giving them up in the name of expedience."

I am 100% sure that the jerk-wing of the right wing is already claiming that, by fluffing a line in his swearing in, he is somehow not really president.

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[melstra.livejournal.com]

Yes, and if Bush is shot in the next two minutes, Biden will be president! (I had pondered this question a few weeks ago when told of the order of the ceremony).

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Haha! Yes! I was thinking this!

[warphammer.livejournal.com]

Yep! ...most important, Cheney's gone.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

"...a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers..."

THANK YOU

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Heck, yes! That one line made me feel welcome in my own country. Probably for the first time in my life.

[eggshellhammer.livejournal.com]

I missed the speech, but WOW is that nice to hear. :) Thank you!

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I like the fact that he acknowledged those who do not believe in god. Gave me a warm fuzzy right there.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, hey! Atheists aren't allowed to feel good about things!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

:)

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

:O

I think I need to buy his book now.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I'm reading his first book, Dreams from My Father, and I highly recommend it.

[bootler.livejournal.com]

Agreed, that was a pretty excellent speech. I am in awe of is speech-writers.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think he just has one, for big events, and they write it in cooperation.

[bootler.livejournal.com]

Impressive.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

Apparently he wrote most, if not all, of that speech himself.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I don't think he was the one who fluffed it.

Cheney was smiling when he arrived. It was creepy.

[relee.livejournal.com]

He's retiring! He's been working his ass off for the last eight years secretly controling the government from behind the scenes. Do you know how much work that is? It's like, a 24 hour a day job! I'd be thrilled too, if I didn't have to keep puppeting those morons in South America held under my insideous thrall. Being Overlord is totally not worth the stress.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

From what I'm gathering, he didn't fluff it, the Chief Justice did. Obama caught it and waited for him to do it right.

My god, what a relief it is to have someone smart in that office, for a change.

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is correct to my hearing. He knew what he was supposed to say, and waited till the prompting said it. =)

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

It was indeed a fine, fine speech.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Actually... this very thing was a topic for discussion on j.random.news-show as I was channel-surfing. The oath of office is a ceremony but does not in any way imbue the elected President with that office or authority. It's automatic.

At 11:59, Bush was president. At 12:00 Obama was president. This has actually come up once or twice in the past when Inauguration Day (Jan 20) was a Sunday. The office changed over to the new President, but the ceremonial recognition was held the following day.