Ladies and Gentlemen take my advice...

My friends, welcome to the first posting of the new year and the new administration. Do you think President Obama would be funny enough to end every sentence today with the phrase, "In the new administration?"

"Do you deliver pizza in the new administration?"

No I wouldn't think so either. But since Aaron Morey is probably the only person that will read this blog, I feel obliged to at least give him some type of inside joke.

So here we go. Only minutes, even SECONDS into his Presidency, Barack Obama lied to the American people.

According to the Associated Press "FACT CHECK" in the third line of his speech, the newly inaugurated president claimed that, "44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath."

Now I don't intend this to be a hate on Obama blog, but AS soon as he said that, I shot straight up from the couch. Having ventured to Rockford for the historic return of Trolley Car #36 I was relaxing in my parents living room watching history unfold. Or in this case watch history be misquoted. Now consider the fact that I had been up since 5pm the previous day as to how easy an error this was to spot.

What was the error you ask? Obama is our 44th President. Well this is entirely true. But as any avid Simpsons fan could tell you, Grover Cleavland held the Office of the President on two NON consecutive occasions. Meaning that he is recorded as being both the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States.

Now the funny thing is that I have yet to find a major news agency pick up this story. I have only found blogs and the APs "FACT CHECK." which hardly qualifies. I have actually done a extensive amount of reserach for this blog. I ran through google and found a website dedicated to Language that discusses it. As well as a CBS News blog that seems hardly confident in admitting the 44th President's error.

In the end I guess it doesn't matter. One way or another this Inaguration will be making Marv Alberts Blooper reals. (I would encourage my Catholic friends to pay attention to the 1:23 mark of the video). Though the reason for making the blooper real would be less the President's fault and more the Chief Justice's error. Now this is a story every agency IS picking up on. As you may have noticed there was a little stumbling on the administering of the oath of office, or as one blogger cleverly called it, the oaf of office. My favorite part was when the Chief Justice turned the "So help me God" part of the oath, into a question, rather than a statement the President was to repeat.

You may not care about my opinion, but on the other hand your reading my blog. My guess is the Chief Justice screwed it up and it confused Obama, who was proably pretty nervous and most presumedly had practiced it before stepping on stage in front of 8 million devotees who were in all actuality waitng for the Kanye concert to start.

So I don't know about the error in counting thing. Though if you look at White House.gov official listing of Presidents, which is now run by the Obama administration, that there have been 44 presidents and only 43 men who have served as president. I think they need to fire a speech writer or 7. Toby Ziegler would be pissed.

Maybe President Obama got some bad intel?

Ladies and gentleman take my advice, I would seriously encourage you to look at every link posted. The add value to the overall humor of this post. I would also encourage you to not flame me for this post. I am really not hating on the President. But I think a lot of people who would normally make fun of the President are not going to, so it will be my cross to carry. Oh and did I mention that I like turtles?