It was actually done by two presidents before, shocking that the reporter on Fox News doesn’t know that.
As of tonight, apparently Prez Obama re-did the recitation without the flub-up put forth by the Chief Justice, who put the oath’s words in the wrong order at the inaugural oath proper yesterday.
Frankly, though some want to take a thin thing and turn it into a big fat Jabba-the-Hut thing, this is minor.
I’m sure both President-Elect and Chief Justice were overwhelmed with the moment… and if a lot of us had done the swearing in, it might have gone something like: I swear on my honor to do my best, on Scouts’ honor, I mean, as president, I mean wait, first communion prayer, wait, no, I mean, I do. I do. That’s what I meant all along. What he said.
OK, so now Obama, to mix a metaphor, is completely kosher.