Who Was the First 44th President of the United States?

Beyond the fact that it provided a small amount of humor in an otherwise boring inauguration (American Idol beat coverage of the inauguration), the "flub" by Chief Justice Roberts and President Elect Obama during the swearing-in ceremony may have had much deeper significance.

According to a comment posted by "Ted" on my Blog earlier this week, Joe Biden was actually the President for a short period of time, may still be President and this whole mess with whether or not Obama is actually even eligible to be President is going to end with Hillary Clinton as the next President.

The full text of Ted's post is as follows:

FIRST QUESTION: Who IS the actual and lawful 44th President of the USA?

ANSWER: Joe Biden.

Biden was initially the Acting President for at least 5 minutes under either the Constitution’s Article 2 or the Constitution’s 20th Amendment, from 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, having already taken his Oath of Office and before Obama completed his ‘oath’ at approximately 12:05 PM, 1/20/09. Under the 20th Amendment if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, or alternatively under Article 2 if the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term, being 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, which ability and/or qualification includes that he take the Article 2 oath “before he enter on the execution of his office,” then either the Presidency shall devolve on the Vice President under Article 2 or the Vice President shall act as President under the 20th Amendment. (The importance of the oath in ‘commencing’ an ‘Obama Presidency’ — rather than merely the 1/20/09 Noon time — is confirmed by the re-take of the ‘oath’ by Obama at the White House on 1/21/09 after the first ‘oath’ was NOT administered by Justice Roberts NOR recited by Obama in the words as required under Article 2.)This is significant because at such time that the Supreme Court finally rules on the merits on Obama’s disqualification as not being an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (clearly he is NOT), Biden’s automatic status (without needing to take a separate Presidential Oath) of being President would be predicated upon four different bases: First, having been Vice President under Article 2; second, having been Vice President-elect under the 20th Amendment; third, having been actual President in the hiatus before Obama took the ‘oath(s)’; and fourth, retroactively deemed President during the full period of the Obama usurpation so that the acts of the Federal Government under the usurpation can be deemed authorized and/or ratified by Biden’s legitimacy.

SECOND QUESTION: Who will be the 45th President?

ANSWER: Hillary Clinton.

One must assume that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been aware of all of the above. Biden’s wife recently “let the cat out of the bag” on the Oprah Show that both Biden and Hillary had considered alternatively Veep or Secretary of State, in either case, setting up Hillary to be President on a vote of the Democratic Congress if need be.

THIRD QUESTION: Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika or a knowing participant?

ANSWER: Yet undetermined.

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President Obama Misses Mark with World Press with Inauguration Address

I thought that President Obama's inauguration address was fine. It stated the obvious in regards to our current economic crisis, gave an appropriate amount of praise to the fact that the United States has elected its first African American President and set the tone for a bi-partisan based hope for the future. However, it was definitely not his best effort in regards to providing his special brand of hollow hope. And, I would also suspect that it probably didn't hit hard enough on what the left considers the failings of the Bush administration (They would have probably enjoyed an old fashion lynching after the speech). Further, he average speech ( on the Obama scale) probably began to set the stage for the inevitable realization by many of devote left that Obama is just another President and he is not the second coming and he is not going to lead anyone to the promised land. And, the best that any of us can hope for is that he is going to somehow develop and implement an economic policy that will subdue our raging economic crisis and not get us into too much more trouble on the international scene.

An excellent example of how the world is viewing our new president can be found in a January 20, 2009 post on the Telegraph Blog by Alex Spillius, titled, "Barack Obama inauguration: his worst speech". Whether or not Alex is being fair or not is up to you to decide. However, it appears that for most part, the honeymoon is already over. The full text of Mr. Spillius's post is as follows:

QUITE a day, but not much of speech unfortunately. Obama got where he is by speechifying, but this effort would not have won him many votes. It was his worst on a grand stage, though still better than most politicians could muster.

The delivery, as ever, was first class, but the message was wasn't clear enough and the language not insufficiently inspiring.

As soon as the applause had died down, an African American standing man near me on the Mall said to his friend: "I thought the speech was shit." Another woman said, correctly, that "we had heard it all before at other events".

In a way Obama was a victim of his own success. Having given so many dynamic speeches he had set his own bar very high. What he tried to do at his inauguration was tell Americans that they had to sacrifice to make gains, while making them believe this was well within their capabilities. The emphasis on sacrifice was too weak however.

To the disappointment of many black people in the crowd, he also made but one reference to the enormity of a black man occupying the White House for the first time. Obama has never laboured the issue of his race, but on this historic day the issue needed more.

Jon Favreau, his co-writer, recently admitted that he had been pouring over previous inaugural speeches. That might have been a bad idea. Obama seemed weighed down by the past, and failed to seize the moment.

The Face of the Obama Administration

I realize that everyone doesn't have to always be serious. And, I also realize the both the more serious WWII and the Baby Boomer generations have served and now it is time for the less serious and more flippant X Generation to take over and lead our nation. However, I would think that the Inauguration of the 44th and first African American President of the United States would instill some sense of dignity in his administration. As is evidenced by this photo of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, I guess we may be in for a long "Animal House" type of administration.

Finally, since I am sure that they were all watching, I wonder if this is how Rahm plans to ingratiate the Obama administration to the world?

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