The importance of WORDS

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President Obama retakes oath of office
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama was sworn into office for a second time on Wednesday, amid legal concerns raised after he and US Chief Justice John Roberts erred on one word during Tuesday's inaugural ceremony. Some constitutional scholars raised questions about whether Obama was technically the president after Roberts, attempting to recite the oath of office by memory, misplaced the word "faithfully" while administering the oath to Obama. "We believe that the oath was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately [on Tuesday]," White House chief counsel Greg Craig said in a statement. "But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time." The presidential oath set out in the US constitution states a new president must say, "I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States." Roberts put the word "faithfully" at the end of the sentence. Obama paused, allowing Roberts to correct himself, but then repeated the sentence as Roberts originally said the words. Most constitutional scholars said the slip-up didn't matter, because the 20th amendment to the constitution states that an incoming president takes office automatically at noon on January 20. But one expert, Boston University scholar Jack Beermann, told San Francisco Chronicle it remained an "open question" whether Obama was actually president if the oath was administered improperly. So, at 7:35pm on Wednesday evening, Justice Roberts administered the oath again — this time correctly. The scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small group of reporters, not the Capitol platform.
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Interesting continuation to the media related articles i have been writing. The emphasis of using the right word at the right place in the sentence and the importance of it when dealing with the most important man on earth. If we look back on our day to day conversations or the books we read, we do not place as much emphasis on the words that are coming out of our mouth. Infact we rarely pause to think on the words and their meanings. Esp when you are coming from India, where there are multitude of languages, we speak multiple languages, but unfortunately have little hold on a single language. To understand the nuances of the language, the pitfalls and the good and similarly use it to convey what we think.

At this stage I would like to bring to notice what Shri KM Munshi had called the Vedas in his book Krishnaavatar ( an eloquent book written on Shri Krishna), he had called the translation as the WORD. and nothing else, is it surprising that the Vedas, should be called WORD and the way the Vedas are structured in Sanskriti, each word has a meaning and each sentence is structured in a uniqued way.

So let us be more aware of what we say and what we read and how we structure our "WORDS" and most important of all, stand by the "WORDS" we are saying.