Supreme Ruler

by digby

Steve Benen reports:

Just when it seemed we could finally move from complaints about Barack Obama’s oath of office, the right finds something new to whine about. When Obama took the oath on Tuesday, he used the same Bible that Lincoln used in 1861. When he followed up with another oath last night, he raised his right hand, but kept his left hand by his side. This, apparently, is making some people unhappy. The lead story on Drudge right now reports, in all caps, “No Bible Used At Obama Re-Swear.”

This re-oath thing seems to have gotten the media sleuths all excited too. At the Gibbs presser this afternoon, there were half a dozen questions about it, with a lot of suspicion about why they did it without a lot of fanfare and without a video of the ceremony. These muckrakers obviously think they smell a story, but it’s unclear what in the world it might be. Do they think Obama isn’t really the president?Obviously, the simple truth is that Drudge still rules their world. And that tells you everything you need to know about the political press corps.
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