It sounds like a Peanuts comic strip: Charley Brown taking "The Oath of Oof ... AAarrrgh"!

Taking the Oath of ... Whatever

They were still arguing as regards who exactly screwed it up ... including my brother, Richard, and me. He thinks Justice John Roberts dropped the ball and I think it was Barack O-bombed-it ... but good.

Apparently, the Obama miscue was straightened out at 5:25 p.m. (EST) this evening when John Roberts graciously allowed himself to go through the ordeal once again.

We now have a 44th (or will he technically be the 45th after Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi?) President of the United States.

Hopefully, when Chief Justice Hillary Rodham Clinton administers the oath of office to President-Elect Sarah Palin on January 20th in 2013, those gals will get their cue cards straight.

For the record, the actual Oath of Office is in the Constitution verbatim; indeed, it is the only part of the Constitution in quotation marks. Article II, Section I, requires the president-Elect to say, “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.”