Has Bush or Cheney Violated His Oath of Office???...

[Peter Frank]

This is a serious question; read carefully:

President of the United States (Executive Branch)

"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."

Vice President of the United States (Executive Branch)

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

[annabanana]

1. Both

repeatedly.

[Peter Frank]

2. I should have added...

...if so -- how?

[Rex]

3. So many times that I've personally lost count.

Reagan and Nixon both violated their oaths and got away with it, although it cost Nixon his political career. I expect the BFEE to get away with it too.

President of the United States (Executive Branch)

"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."

Boosh - violation of oath; patriot act, CIA gulags, holding people captive with no due process, rigging a federal election, cronyism, starting a farsical war, neglecting NOLA, not catching OBL, making enemies out of the entire FUCKING PLANET. That's just off the top of my head.



Vice President of the United States (Executive Branch)

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

All of the above x10.

[...of J.Temperance]

4. Yes and the Repukes say that

President Clinton "lied" under oath...about a blow-job...and who CARED? NOBODY did except those freaks. Nobody died.

I've been thinking for a LONG time that we all should be saying that Junior and Cheney have lied and violated their oaths of office. Hundreds of thousands have died.

Hypocrites.

[Catchawave]

5. There's a blog about this here:

http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/04/did-president-bush-violate-us.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Yes, both

Bush lied to Congress in his SOTU address in '03;Cheney, I believe, outed Valerie Plame Wilson. Bush didn't follow the letter of the law of the IWR and report back to Congress or even follow through doing everything he was supposed to do before using invasion as a last resort. I feel that Cheney, in crafted energy legislation with the help of energy companies instead of elected officials, interfered with the legislative process; don't know that that is constitutional either.

[unblock]

7. "to the best of my ability"?? DAMN there's shrub's loophole!

[Kindigger]

9. Exactly

what I was thinking. That phrase doesn't appear in the VP's oath. I guess until we're 150% sure * isn't mental he does have a loophole. Hopefully he'll hang himself in it.

[sandrakae]

8. Dick Cheney did but not George Bush.

To the best of my ability is subjective. George Bush was not capable of any better, because of his intelligent level.