Thursday, January 04, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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2:10 PM
For all the big talk about how he needed to use the text of his faith to be sworn in with, it turns out that Keith Ellison is all blow and no go.
"I'll put my hand on a book that is the basis of my faith, which is Islam, and I think that this is a beauty — this is a wonderful thing for our country." - Keith Ellison
Burning up the news feeds today the headlines have been obsessed with Ellison's exploitation of Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran for his swearing in as a new Congressman.
But FOX NEWS just reported at 1:38 this afternoon that Ellison took his oath of office on the floor of the House - as did all the rest of the House of Representatives.
In a non-official photo-op Ellison copped a feel of the former president's historic copy of an English translation of the Islamic text...