Obama's eagerness to take the oath and the urgency of proper grammar for Chief Justice Roberts resulted in the necessity for a "do-over" on the oath of office taken by our 44th President on Tuesday.

Obama says his name twice, interrupting Justice Roberts "I, Barack...", but Roberts decides mid-0ath, to edit the Constitution.  

As comedian Robert Wuhl points out in his deconstruction of the Constitution, our country was founded on a document with a grammatical error in the first sentence. 

The Preamble of the Constitution says:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

First: there is no such thing as "more perfect". Something is either perfect or it isn't.  Someone can't be "more pregnant" or "more dead", likewise.

Second: no actuary in their right mind would attempt to "insure domestic Tranquility"...can you imagine the premiums?  

In the case of the Oath of Office,  it appears in the Constitution and must be properly administered to have been executed legally [note the proper order of those last five words] :

"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." 

Every conscientious high school grammar teacher weilds a vicious red pencil on student essays that split infinitives.   "To write" is written together and a quallifer such as "furiously" should trail, as in "to write furiously".  It is technically incorrect to say "is technically incorrect" when the proper construction is to say "It is incorrect technically".

Roberts, tasked daily with writing opinions that will be examined by generations of lawyers, must write more clearly and with greater attention to proper construction than most.  His  internalize habit toward grammar must have over taken his reverence for the Constitution - both of which he is charged with protecting - when he moved "faithfully" to the end of the clause where it belongs:

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

  As to Barack's contribution, he was a little too  eager to start the oath and spoke over Roberts after the Chief Justice had said "I, Barack Huessein Obama" and tried to continue with "do solemnly swear".  But, what happened next is why the United States of America works. 

Remember, Roberts was appointed by Bush and then Senator Obama voted against him.  Yet there they stood, Roberts instructing Obama and Obama repeating back to the Chief Justice the words that install a President.

After Obama repeated his name and the next part of the sentence correctly as Roberts repeated it,  Roberts made his edit and Obama, following along  said "to execute" and the paused -  apparently knowing the proper phrasing.  Roberts now corrected himself, but Obama completed the phrasing as Roberts had started it, putting "faithfully" at the end.

Both of them, with an important task under the scrutiny of the entire television viewing planet, were trying to get it right.

While their performance might have gotten them kicked off of American Idol or Jeopardy, we grant the office to the new president and don't dock the justice but give them both a chance to do it right in private later.

And as for the Founding Fathers, we know what they meant.