According to NYT, Roberts flubbed the oath because he believes in the bogus "split infinitive" rule.

[Bicoastal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22pinker.html?em

Among these fetishes is the prohibition against “split verbs,” in which an adverb comes between an infinitive marker like “to,” or an auxiliary like “will,” and the main verb of the sentence. According to this superstition, Captain Kirk made a grammatical error when he declared that the five-year mission of the starship Enterprise was “to boldly go where no man has gone before”; it should have been “to go boldly.” Likewise, Dolly Parton should not have declared that “I will always love you” but “I always will love you” or “I will love you always.”

Any speaker who has not been brainwashed by the split-verb myth can sense that these corrections go against the rhythm and logic of English phrasing. The myth originated centuries ago in a thick-witted analogy to Latin, in which it is impossible to split an infinitive because it consists of a single word, like dicere, “to say.” But in English, infinitives like “to go” and future-tense forms like “will go” are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.

In other words, Roberts is a pretentious moron. There's nothing wrong with saying "to faithfully execute," which is much more accurate and less clumsy than "to execute faithfully."

Obama should tell Roberts to go to hell...swiftly.

[Ian David]

1. Don Davis says this is how Obama tricked Roberts into giving him 2 terms as President. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Aha!!!!! Of course.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The split-infinitive dictum is a rule,

up with which I refuse to put.

[RepublicanElephant]

3. he just wanted to ruin video of the inaugural event forever.

the idiot forgot that obama will get to do it again on the capitol steps in 2013, hopefully with a new chief justice who can properly quote the constitution.

[treestar]

4. Since it is right there in the Constitution

Strict constructionist Roberts should leave it as is.

What an idiot! Great to know he heads up the highest court :sarcasm:

[eShirl]

6. exactly. talk about legislating from the bench

figuratively of course

[wellstone_democrat]

7. Sounds like Judicial Activism to me

isn't he against that sort of tinkering with any precious word of the original Constitution?
Has he gone rogue?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Roberts should be fired

if one could fire

[Odin2005]

9. The Constitution was written before the Grammar Nazis started spewing BS

I can sea English teachers' heads exploding! :rofl: