Just another ignorant , made ignorant and stupid by decades in the military?
New WH Chief of Staff Apparently Clueless About What the Cons ution Says About the President
Kelly, apparently oblivious to what is actually contained in that “piece of paper,” then continued:
“So where did the oath come from? As the story goes it’s generally accurate as I understand it.
They were about to inaugurate our very first president, who’d never done that before, George Washington, in our first capital, New York City.
They were just about to go out and do it, and someone said, don’t we need an oath?
Because up until then they had been Englishmen and Englishmen and Englishwomen and had always taken their oath to the sovereign.
So they sat down and wrote up the oath that you generally are about to take and handed it to George Washington before he became President. The only thing he added to that oath was so help me God.”
Really? As George Washington was about to step out on the balcony to be inaugurated somebody suddenly thought,
“Oh , we need to have some kind of oath for him to take?”
But this is the ridiculous story that the new White House chief of staff actually believes is “generally accurate” — a story that would be hard to believe even
if the president’s oath weren’t right there in the freakin’ Cons ution.
Not only did Kelly tell his completely insane story (which of course
also included the long-ago-debunked myth that George Washington added the words “so help me God” to his oath)
at the commencement at one of our military service academies, but
his not knowing that the president’s oath is in the Cons ution went completely unnoticed by every news organization that covered this commencement.
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