Miss Macchiato

On Inauguration Day, most likely you saw the Oath of Office uh, fumble, for lack of better words. At work, a few of us jokingly talked about the minor mistake, and I couldn’t help but jokingly ask if this was anything like a baseball player running to home plate, but not quite stepping onto the plate itself. Technically, is he safe? Does he score?

The Christian Science Monitor published Obama’s agenda for the first day on the job, and I giggled at the 7:35pm entry:

7:35 p.m. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office (again) in the Map Room. Explained White House Counsel Greg Craig in a statement, “…out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time.” President Obama joked to the Justice, “We’re going to do it [the oath] very slowly.”

Everyone can now rest assured that President Obama has technically touched home plate.

Something else that I found interesting is the 8:35am entry:

8:35 a.m. President Obama spends ten minutes in the Oval Office alone. Reads a note from former President Bush in an envelope marked, “To: #44, From: #43″.

Crayon lettering aside, I’m curious to know what was said in the letter. It was probably professional wishes of good luck, though my imagination would like to think it was filled with a list of secret activities, secret secrets (whoa), and the name of the gunman on the grassy knoll. A last letter from one president to another divulging of deep secrets could make a good thriller novel.

Though, after the last 8 years of the Bush presidency, I could very well believe the letter said “The green marker tastes better than the red.”