Footnotes Fit for a President
Adam Freedman ·
Sep 7, 2010 at 2:23pm
The first footnote of any law review article usually goes like this: "all errors are the author’s alone.” Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel suggests that President (and former law professor) Obama might want to include such a footnote in the next installment of his memoirs. But the standard wording is boring, so David lists some alternative footnotes he's actually used:
- Any errors are the fault of no-one in particular; rather, society itself is to blame.
- All errors are the authors’ sole responsibility, but persons aggrieved by any such errors are encouraged to sue the companies which manufactured our computers.
- Errors are entirely the responsibility of sinister unknown forces, not the authors.
So help me write the first footnote to Obama's presidential memoir. "All errors of my administration were the fault of....?"
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Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
Allow me to state the obvious:
Jul '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
All errors of my administration were the fault of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." That one is already taken?
Edited on Sep 7, 2010 at 2:32pmJul '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
All errors of my administration were the fault of my telepromptor.
May '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
All errors of my administration were merely the result of faulty perception. There were no actual errors.
Jun '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
My administration committed no errors, er, it was also perilously short of hits and runs, but anyone keeping score isn't gonna vote Democrat anyway.
Jun '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
Here's a variation on Trace's footnote: "To the extent anyone left-of-center (I don't give a crap about anyone else) believes there might have been errors made by administration: (1) I am unaware of them and would have corrected them had they been brought to my attention, (2) they were the fault of Joe Biden (note: my selection of him as VP was not my error--I was told he knew a lot about foreign policy, but he knows even less than I do), (3) they were the actual fault of Democrats in the legislative branch (e.g., Pelosi and Reid--no matter how many times I explained health care to them they kept screwing it up), or (4) they were actually the fault of the citizens of this "mean country," with whom I am seriously disappointed--they haven't lived up to my expectations."
Edited on Sep 7, 2010 at 5:23pmMay '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof.
Jun '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
I don't make mistakes. If you think i made one, you are STUPID.
May '10
Re: Footnotes Fit for a President
The only error was once when I thought I was wrong. But I wasn't.