Ah, irony! *UPDATED*

The great orator flubbed the oath.

(By the way, another famous flubbing was Princess Di, when she bungled her husband’s name.  Look how that marriage turned out.)

UPDATE:  LGF says Roberts screwed up.  I knew that the oath turned into “who’s on first” about halfway through, with confusion issuing from both mouths, but I thought that it was Obama who upset the rhythm in the first lines:

ROBERTS: Are you prepared to take the oath, Senator?
OBAMA: I am.
ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama…
OBAMA: I, Barack…
ROBERTS: … do solemnly swear…
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…

It’s obvious watching the video that Roberts thought that he (Roberts) would say, “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…” at which point Obama would echo him.  I think it threw him that Obama cut in immediately after hearing his own name.  That’s when I thought Obama messed up.  The question then, is whether Obama was supposed to leap in when he did, or if he rushed the thing, throwing Roberts off his stride, and creating a mutual chain of errors.