Obama ha giurato di nuovo, per chiudere la questione sulla validità del giuramento di martedì, quando il presidente della Corte Suprema, mandato in confusione da una precedente interruzione di Obama, ha messo un avverbio alla fine della frase di rito anziché all’inizio.
Qui come racconta il secondo giuramento il pool report del cronista del pool al seguito di Obama:
At 735 pm, Roberts administred the oath of office again to obama in the map
room. Robert gibbs said the wh counsel, greg craig, believes the oath was
fine Tuesday, but one word was out of sequence so they did this out of a
"an abundance of caution."
"We decided it was so much fun…" Obama joked while sitting on a couch.
Obama stood and walked over to make small talk with pool as roberts donned
his black robe.
"Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts asked.
"I am, and we’re going to do it very slowly," obama replied.
Oath took 25 seconds.
After a flawless recitation, roberts smiled and said, "congratulations,
again."
Obama said, "thank you, sir."
Smattering of applause.
"All right." Obama said. "The bad news for the pool is there’s 12 more
balls."
Wes Allison
Washington Bureau
St. Petersburg Times