Rick Badie / My Opinion

By Michael H. Smith

January 20, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

Agreed. Now I’m going back to my TV set to join with all the other “integration minded people” of our country to welcome the historic moment.

President Obama

By LT5000

January 20, 2009 1:23 PM | Link to this

Boring speech by Obama after he flubbed the Oath of Office.

Then Rev. Lowry gave a racist speech “Where white will do what’s right”.

Has the Obama buyer’s remorse set in yet?

LT5000

By BW

January 20, 2009 1:40 PM | Link to this

LT, it was the Chief Justice of the Surpremes that screwed it up, do they teach any history in this state?

God Bless America!

Like MHS, back to the television.

By LT5000

January 20, 2009 2:48 PM | Link to this

BW,

White man always keepin’ da black man down. Always can blame problems on Whitey.

Just like the Rev “White ain’t doin’ right” Lowry and Barack “White Folk’s Greed Runs A World In Need” Hussein Obama.

I’m sure Brucie would have been as forgiving to George Bush.

LT5000

By BobG

January 20, 2009 4:21 PM | Link to this

Inauguration Day, with its pomp, tradition and formality, is a “beautiful day,” indeed.

But Rick, if you didn’t describe a January day eight years ago with the same words, your words today mean nothing.

But they say everything.

`Nuff said.

By BW

January 20, 2009 10:09 PM | Link to this

The day that bush left office is is a beautiful day.

LT, read what the oath should be then get bsck to me.

Biden didn’t do bad at all, neither did Obama.

By LT5000

January 20, 2009 10:59 PM | Link to this

Poor Brucie,

So delusional he refuses to believe his demigod Obama could possible screw up the Oath of Office.

Initially, Obama interrupted Roberts midway through the opening line, in which the president repeats his name and solemnly swears.

I guess Brucie had a mouthful of illegal mexican chorizo and wasn’t listening carefully enough.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/apongoprwh/inaugurationflubbedoath

Is anyone surprised that Barack Hussein Obama is already extending his hand to the Muslim world?

It’s becoming apparent what an amateur NObama really is. Let the buyers remorse set in.

LT5000

By "Charles", The Original

January 20, 2009 11:00 PM | Link to this

Pastor Rick Warren, the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Service, seems to get it. He said in substance …we are not bound together by blood as some would have it, but by our common commitment to freedom and justice. …And he urged a crowd of wealthy, elitist, rich, influential, and famous to follow Martin Luther King’s example of service and selflessness to help the poor and the needy. Pastor Warren Please! In their eyes, we are dealing with a zero sum policy here. There is a hundred and eighty degree difference in the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. and his betrayers.

But better yet, the more I see of Dexter King, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., the more I want to see and hear from him. By his conspicuous absence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Service and the Inauguration, he demonstrated to thinking people in my circle that he refuses absolutely to negatively exploit the name of Martin Luther King Jr. by commemorating with those who betrayed his father in Atlanta Georgia or Washington D. C.

Sometimes a conspicuous absence speaks louder than the timely words of a Keynote speaker. You make the call.

By zip

January 21, 2009 8:40 AM | Link to this

Rick et.al. Did MLK believe that all people should be judged by the content of their character or was he only speaking for black people? I have yet to hear what character defenders of Obama have seen in him. Apparently, he is merely a symbol of the struggle through the years. If you have read any of MLK, he, himself, would not be interested in this fella leading America.

By AJC Reader

January 21, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this

“‘Nough said.”

Not really. You get paid two type two sentences? :(

By AJC Reader

January 21, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this

“‘Nough said.”

Not really. You get paid to type two sentences? :(

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Where’s Brucie the Dumbass?

I got “back to him” about how Blobama flubbed the Oath of Office.

Of course, I have the facts and Brucie only has hypeventilating.

Facts 1

Brucie 0

LT5000

By MOM3

January 21, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

In these tough economic times, with layoffs coming by the thousands, I would think you would put a little more effort into your column.

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 10:18 AM | Link to this

Mom,

Expecting Blubbering Badie to put effort into a column is like expecting him to be a journalist. It ain’t gonna happen.

Since the AJC is losing 1 million per day, is it any surprise they hire third rate hacks like Badie to blog?

Now, real news from Gwinnett.

Gwinnett Illegal Immigrant News:

*BUFORD - Police arrested a Buford father Tuesday after his 17-month-old daughter tested positive for methamphetamine, authorities said. *

*Heriberto Benitez-Perez, 28, faces charges of cruelty to children in the third degree and possession of a controlled substance. *

Badie, was this “undocumented worker” just handing out the meth to children that Americans were to lazy to hand out?

Can’t wait for the next Blubbering Badie Human Trumpet article. OR something of a similar caliber.

LT5000

By woodie

January 21, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

Well Mr Badie, you wrote a 2 sentence column that didn’t say anything and still people disagreed with you.

By Stan

January 21, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

Rick,

Congrats to my PRESIDENT! I wish him well and I truly hope he will be better than I think he will be.

Your restraint is amazing. How do these people not understand that this is NOT an article but rather a blog entry. Geez

By BW

January 21, 2009 12:26 PM | Link to this

For the Bonehard LT. read on Missy…

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pioaths.html

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

As Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts recited the Oath of office on 20 January 2009, Roberts forgot to pause after the first sentence, causing Obama to interrupt Roberts as he administered the oath. Roberts then incorrectly recited the Oath, stating, “That I will … execute the Office of President to the United States faithfully”. As Obama began to recite the second line, he paused, whereby Roberts attempted to correct his mistake, but still inverted the oath’s word order, reciting the word “faithfully” out of its correct place. Obama then repeated Roberts’ line word for word, including the misplaced “faithfully.”[4] Several constitutional lawyers have said that Obama should retake the oath as soon as possible, as Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur did under similar circumstances.[5]

Another incongruous situation in regard to this oath was that, as mentioned above, President Obama became president at precisely 12 pm,[6] and this oath was administered at 12:04.[7] Therefore, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. used the wrong title in addressing Obama, when he asked him, “Are you prepared to take the oath, senator?”[8]

By Mark

January 21, 2009 12:44 PM | Link to this

Ummm, nice pc of “journalism” Badie. You need to go back to driving a bread truck. If Obama is the answer, then what again was the question?

By mom3

January 21, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

Actually, Stan, Rick is supposed to write an opinion column that we, then, blog about. If he were only supposed to be blogging, we could all be on the payroll.

By Stan

January 21, 2009 1:58 PM | Link to this

mom3,

While that is probably true, I have no idea as to what the AJC pays Rick to do. I am not his employer. He mearly, I assume, wanted to make some mention of a truly historic event, which holds a little deeper meaning for him personally.

By Mark

January 21, 2009 2:02 PM | Link to this

“LT5000”

I usually agree with you, but you are wrong here. Roberts screwed up the oath, which confused Obama.

By BW

January 21, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this

L’Bonehead’T, the reason the Surpreme Conseervative of the land John G. Roberts screwed it up is, like most conservatives appointees, he never read the Constitution.

L’Bonehead’T, pick-up a newspaper, turn on the news, look around the web if you want the truth or missy go hide under mommies bed cover your ears and pretend it was just a bad dream.

By BW

January 21, 2009 2:53 PM | Link to this

L’Bonehead’T, the link will take you FOX news, you know the unfair and unbalanced station, unless it’s conservative, it too shows the Chief Justice screwed up. That dang Constitution always gets in the way

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/20/chief-justice-roberts-officiates-inauguration/

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this

“Mark” and BW,

I suggest you check out my link.

It clearly lays out the fact that Obama screwed up first. And unlike Brucie’s link, it’s from an actual news source.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/apongoprwh/inaugurationflubbedoath_2

Initially, Obama interrupted Roberts midway through the opening line, in which the president repeats his name and solemnly swears.

As stated in my initial post, Obambi flubbed it, no getting around it Brucie.

Someday Brucie, I would think that you would get tired of being proven an idiot over and over again.

I hope Brucie hasn’t suffered too much chafing from practicing “Hope and Change” on his private parts.

LT5000 always with the facts.

By Mark

January 21, 2009 3:07 PM | Link to this

LT5000

I actually watched it, and it was clearly Roberts who was at fault. I trust my ears alot more than what some low grade news provider tells me.

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

Mark and BW,

I watched it and heard it. Obambi flubbed first, no doubt about it.

LT5000 always with the facts

By Mark

January 21, 2009 3:41 PM | Link to this

LT5000 I suggest that you watch it again, this time knowing in which order phrases of the oath is well known. Obama is a much better speaker than Roberts, who didn’t know the order of wording. You can see Obama hesitate, because the oath was being delivered to him wrong. The proof is at the end, when Roberts finally realizes that he was wording it wrong as Obama continued it correctly.

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 3:54 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Blowbama flubbed first, then Roberts flubbed. End of story.

By the way, I suspect you are an imposter.

LT5000 always has the facts

By Mark

January 21, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this

LT5000

You are wrong, Mr Know it all. What you think isn’t fact. It’s what you’d like to believe. You obviously do not know the presidential oath of office, because if you did, you wouldn’t be blowing your I know all horn. It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

BTW, What does calling me an imposter have to do with the price of banannas in Brazil?

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Feel free to point out where I am incorrect.

You won’t be able to. Blowbama flubbed.

The facts always win.

LT5000

By Mark

January 21, 2009 4:56 PM | Link to this

Simply watch it again, and see for yourself….

The facts may always win, but you lose….

By Mark

January 21, 2009 5:08 PM | Link to this

LT500

Do you actually think that a man who can give a 21 minute speech without using notes in front of him would not know word for word the oath to office? You can’t be that stupid….

Or maybe you’re just a right wingnut who’s whining in his own way because the republicans lost the election? Or maybe a little of both…

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 7:00 PM | Link to this

Jeff,

That’s the problem with fanatics like BW and “Mark”, whom I don’t believe is the real Mark.

As Churchill said “Fanatics won’t change their mind, but won’t change the subject”.

Even after they were proven wrong by the facts.

LT5000 with the facts.

By nana

January 21, 2009 7:38 PM | Link to this

I have to agree LT this is not the real Mark or not the Mark that usually posts on this blog…

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 7:49 PM | Link to this

It just keeps getting better.

Blowbama is in office one day and surrenders Iraq and want to close Guantanamo.

Has the buyer’s remorse set in yet?

LT5000

By PMan

January 21, 2009 8:51 PM | Link to this

Did anyone ever explore the thought that the “flub” may have been intended? (it was rehearsed, after all). Perhaps Obama had no intention of vowing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”? And did anyone consider how the media would have handled that “flub” if it had been committed by a say… white President Elect? Just wondering….

By Michael H. Smith

January 21, 2009 9:45 PM | Link to this

Moot point. Case closed

Obama takes presidential oath again after stumble

WASHINGTON — After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House — a rare do-over. The surprise moment came in response to Tuesday’s much-noticed stumble, when Roberts got the words of the oath a little off, which prompted Obama to do so, too.

Don’t worry, the White House says: Obama has still been president since noon on Inauguration Day.

Obama takes presidential oath again after stumble

Nevertheless, Obama and Roberts went through the drill again out of what White House counsel Greg Craig called “an abundance of caution.”

This time, the scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small group of reporters, not the Capitol platform before the whole watching world.

“We decided that because it was so much fun …,” Obama joked to reporters who followed press secretary Robert Gibbs into the room. No TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. A few of Obama’s closest aides were there, along with a White House photographer.

Roberts put on his black robe.

“Are you ready to take the oath?” he said.

“Yes, I am,” Obama said. “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”

Roberts then led Obama through the oath without any missteps.

By BW

January 21, 2009 9:54 PM | Link to this

PMan, Obama was already President by the time Roberts tried to give the oath, he begcame President at high noon oath or not.

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

No they don’t write their own, it cannot be changed, even by a bunbling Chief Justice.

So wonder no more.

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 10:03 PM | Link to this

I thought Obama alreay used up his “do-over” when he lied about his staff not having contact with Gov. Blago.

I guess this was affirmative action in effect after he flubbed up the Oath the first time.

When will the busing and minority based set asides start for the Obama Administration?

Day One and Obama has already showed what an amateur he is.

LT5000

By BW

January 21, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this

L’Bonehead’T, Day Two, still better than bush.

By BW

January 21, 2009 10:44 PM | Link to this

L’Bonehead’T, your days of being relevent passed long, long ago, now with bush gone you’re are nothing more than a freakish form of humorous entertainment.

By LT5000

January 21, 2009 10:59 PM | Link to this

Wow Brucie. What a stinging comeback. Did mommy help you write that one? Or are you channeling Nancy Pelosi?

You are officially making as much sense as a poet at Obama’s inaugaration.

Another Blubbering Badie Blog bites the dust.

LT5000

By PMan

January 21, 2009 11:33 PM | Link to this

Well I for one feel better now.

By Mark

January 22, 2009 10:23 AM | Link to this

“At the staff swearing-in, Vice President Joe Biden took a jab at Chief Justice John G. Roberts, who had a day earlier fumbled the wording of Obama’s oath of office while administering it. Biden asked for the text to administer the staff oath, saying, “My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts,” to which the staffers replied, “Ooh!”

Looks like Roberts fumbled the ball. Fact.

By LT5000

January 22, 2009 11:10 AM | Link to this

Mark and BW have become delusional with their lust for Obama. They actually consider Joe Biden a trustworthy source of information.

I wouldn’t believe Joe Biden if he told me the sun was shining.

He has quite a history of lying. Including his law school rank, saying his wife was killed by a drunk driver and who can forget his plagarism.

Brucie and “Mark” have donned official Barack Kneepads and asked for a second helping of Obama Kool-Aid.

Facts and rational thinking need not apply.

LT5000

By nana

January 22, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

I have watched the oath on the news and seems to be that first Obama interrupted the Justice, then the Justice stated the oath in the wrong word order. So it’s kind of like comparing “potato” “potato”.

I don’t think that you can take what Biden said in the staff swearing in as “fact”. it’s obvious he’s going to deflect if off of Obama. I did notice that Obama did not think Biden’s “jab” was funny. Biden is going to be a problem, no doubt. I think Obama could have done a much better job picking someone else as VP.

By whocares

January 23, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this

Who gives a sh** who messed up. They went back and re-administered the damn Oath. You people (black, white, red, yellow, green and purple) are very childish and immature. All of this going back and forth is STUPID to say the least. We have bigger problems in this world than who messed up on the Oath of office!! Its not going to stop job loss or reduce the unemployment rate, help people that are losing their homes and jobs all in the same week. Stop all of this bickering and lets come up with some solutions. We are all at the bottom of the barrel right now, whether you choose to admit it or not, stop acting like CRABS- and let’s act like a chain, linking arm in arm, and helping each other out. For those that say they want racism to end including Joseph Lowery, will have to let go of the past, stop expecting me, my family, the government or whomever to pay the penalty for someone else’s actions, and move on. It happened, you can’t go back and change it, and saying sorry is not going to change anything. It will not bring your ancestors back, it will not change the fact that they were beaten, raped, hung, whatever. What it should do is inspire you to be a better person, work hard within your homes, church, community, schools, educating your children ensuring that history will not repeat itself. History is just that, HISTORY. Yes, we all must know and understand where we came from and how we came to be, but its time we got UNSTUCK!!! You can’t move forward as long as your feet are firmly planted in the past. You can’t expect change if you are not open to change. If black people expect white people to change, then black people need to be the change they want to see, and white people need to be the change they want to see.

By Mark

January 23, 2009 1:15 PM | Link to this

LT5000

You are simply an a fool who believes only what you want to believe, fact or not. BTW, your proctologist called. They found your head….