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Seems like everyone was good-natured about it.

At 735 pm, Roberts administered 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."

The 1st of many many “muligans” Obama will get in his “round” of office....

maybe this time he got to use the Teleprompter?

I find this account unsettling. He was fooling around playing pool, and paused briefly to re-take a solemn oath? Chief Justice Roberts was apparently giving the ceremony appropriate attention, but for BO it was a mere distraction? Something to get out of the way so he could focus on chalking his cue?

This is like those people who order coffee while yakking on their cell phones. They don't bother to acknowledge people around them and can't put the phone down long enough to acknowledge the person serving them and give them their full attention. Just as rude.