In fairness...
It's no surprise Obama stumbled. After all, the Justice whose words he was repeating took it upon himself to alter the oath. Obama, expecting the traditional form of words, was confronted with a "new" version of the oath. Combine that with the emotion of the day, and it's little wonder that he hesitated.
Steven Pinker has an item on this in the New York Times that I'll find and post in a moment.
UPDATE: www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22pinker.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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