Why can't the president be sworn in by the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS...

[Adsos Letter]

on a copy of the Constitution, which he is actually swearing to uphold.

The Constitution is the governing document of the land, not anyone's particular scriptures...

[NMDemDist2]

1. I thought they were. n/t

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. The president probably could be. The Bible thing is just tradition.

[Adsos Letter]

3. You are correct! I was confusing swearing in with invocation...

my mistake... :blush:

[Dennis Donovan]

4. It's tradition - dumb, but tradition. I believe he COULD be sworn in on ANYHTING...

...he wanted - even a basketball.;)

[Adsos Letter]

5. Hmmm...

I wonder what the reaction would be if he were sworn in on Jean Shepard's "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories?" :D

[madinmaryland]

6. How about Al Franken's Book.. "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot"

:rofl:

[Adsos Letter]

8. Jean Shepard was THE MAN...

I was probably one of the few adolescent guys to actually READ the stuff in Playboy... :D

There also may have been some braille "reading" going on...I can't remeber now...but I am told memory loss is a known side-effect... :hide:

[Journeyman]

10. Ah. . . "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" . . .

funniest short story I ever read, made all the better as I was a high school junior when I stumbled on it somewhere after I scoped Miss March. . .

[Adsos Letter]

11. Playboy was where I was first exposed to Shepard's writing....

along with some other things...

I have four of his compilations of short stories...the man was brilliant.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. ..or "Lying Liars..."

:thumbsup:

[Posteritatis]

12. New tradition: swearing oaths on random non-book objects (nt)

[Skink]

7. How about he takes Bush to school in the paint for a few minutes.