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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Yes, boys 'n grrlz, it's YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK! time again ... 'The UN' has re-furbished the Oval Office - and, as usual, he got it wrong - again ... Ain't 'hope' and 'change' great ... ? 'Just coin ... just money ... ' ... Same song, different words. Details. MATTER. ... but not to him ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html Oval Office rug gets history wrong By Jamie Stiehm | Saturday, September 4, 2010 A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige. President Obama's new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King. Except it's not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington. For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama. Unless you're fascinated by antebellum American reformers, you may not know of the lyrically gifted Parker, an abolitionist, Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War. A century later, during the civil rights movement, King, an admirer of Parker, quoted the Bostonian's lofty prophecy during marches and speeches. Often he'd ask in a refrain, "How long? Not long." He would finish in a flourish: "Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." King made no secret of the author of this idea. As a Baptist preacher on the front lines of racial justice, he regarded Parker, a religious leader, as a kindred spirit. The familiar quote from Lincoln woven into Obama's rug is "government of the people, by the people and for the people," the well-known utterance from the close of his Gettysburg Address in 1863. Funny that in 1850, Parker wrote, "A democracy -- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people." Theodore Parker, Oval Office wordmeister for the ages. |
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dang, obama is making rugs now,,,,?
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dang, obama is making rugs now,,,,? He's the one who came up with everything to put on the design, so yea he is to blame. |
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Edited by
msharmony
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Sat 09/04/10 11:51 AM
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lol.... 'http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/111013' so king DID say it now, lets look at what QUOTE means a : to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment so if he SPOKE it, was it not a quote of what he said? does the rug say the quote was ORIGINALLY spoken from King, or does it just quote what king said? keep trying folks, you might find SOMETHING,,, bad news is that it took the anti clinton crowd more than one term to do it though good luck with that perhaps the history books will be revised to credit this Parker with the words of the gettysburg address instead of continuing to 'get it wrong' but until then, Id hardly chalk this up to incompetence,,, |
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lol.... 'http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/111013' so king DID say it now, lets look at what QUOTE means a : to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment so if he SPOKE it, was it not a quote of what he said? does the rug say the quote was ORIGINALLY spoken from King, or does it just quote what king said? keep trying folks, you might find SOMETHING,,, bad news is that it took the anti clinton crowd more than one term to do it though good luck with that perhaps the history books will be revised to credit this Parker with the words of the gettysburg address instead of continuing to 'get it wrong' but until then, Id hardly chalk this up to incompetence,,, It didn't iriginate with Dr. King. So it's not his quote. If Obama and his people had ANY experience they would stop making stupid mistakes. |
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lol.... 'http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/111013' so king DID say it now, lets look at what QUOTE means a : to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment so if he SPOKE it, was it not a quote of what he said? does the rug say the quote was ORIGINALLY spoken from King, or does it just quote what king said? keep trying folks, you might find SOMETHING,,, bad news is that it took the anti clinton crowd more than one term to do it though good luck with that perhaps the history books will be revised to credit this Parker with the words of the gettysburg address instead of continuing to 'get it wrong' but until then, Id hardly chalk this up to incompetence,,, Such a noble, but futile, effort to give legitimacy to an illegitimate claim ... King PARROTED the words of another person who ORIGINATED the phrase - that's MIMICRY, not originality - but then, King plagiarized a lot of the things people give him undue 'credit' for ... this is just one more to add to the list ... |
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lol.... 'http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/111013' so king DID say it now, lets look at what QUOTE means a : to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment so if he SPOKE it, was it not a quote of what he said? does the rug say the quote was ORIGINALLY spoken from King, or does it just quote what king said? keep trying folks, you might find SOMETHING,,, bad news is that it took the anti clinton crowd more than one term to do it though good luck with that perhaps the history books will be revised to credit this Parker with the words of the gettysburg address instead of continuing to 'get it wrong' but until then, Id hardly chalk this up to incompetence,,, It didn't iriginate with Dr. King. So it's not his quote. If Obama and his people had ANY experience they would stop making stupid mistakes. and so the 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' quote is a stupid mistake that continues to be repeated in HISTORY BOOKS and classes around the country,,,??? interesting if I state maxwell sang 'This woman's work' would that be a stupid mistake, even though its the TRUTH, just because he wasnt the ORIGINAL artist to sing it? mlk, did say those words in his speech, just as lincoln said them in his address quoting them is not a mistake if they did in fact say it,,, to quote my momma " Originality is merely an illusion” (although Im sure she isnt the first or only one to say it) |
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Best thing to do when y' find yourself in a hole is to stop diggin' ...
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any idea of who was the FIRST person to say that?
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any idea of who was the FIRST person to say that? Exactly what Kings posted. |
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Edited by
msharmony
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Sat 09/04/10 12:44 PM
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any idea of who was the FIRST person to say that? Exactly what Kings posted.  you can lead a horse to water,,,,, a QUOTE is something someone said, if they said it, it can be QUOTED to them the history books QUOTE lincolns address even though parts of it were STATED by others before him likewise, COMPETENT sources also quote Malcolms speeches although he also said things that were stated by others before him,,, |
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well, sounds like a solid reason for impeachment...(see other rediculous thread)....
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well, sounds like a solid reason for impeachment...(see other rediculous thread).... No, I didn't say that. It's just laughable. All these "Blunders" the regime keeps making. |
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as laughable as the BLUNDERS american history makes
but whose counting,,,,??? |
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well, sounds like a solid reason for impeachment...(see other rediculous thread).... No, I didn't say that. It's just laughable. All these "Blunders" the regime keeps making. everyone makes mistakes..lord knows the last two laughable terms of King George were enough to keep me in stiches for years to come...that is, if it hadnt been for all the scary stuff he did too... |
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as laughable as the BLUNDERS american history makes but whose counting,,,,??? Nope, because Obama and his boy Biden has made more blunders then I can count. Compramising National Security by giving out to the media the location the Vice President is taken at the time of attack would be funny if it wasn't so damaging. Countries like Iran and Russia and groups like AQ and the Taliban pay top dollar for information like that and Biden like to give it away for free. |
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and people in these forums seem to get that information without EVER speaking to OBama,,,
so , whats your point exactly,,,? |
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and people in these forums seem to get that information without EVER speaking to OBama,,, so , whats your point exactly,,,? Get what information? Biden made the comments to the members of the Press! Not to mention dropping the F-Bomb on national tv, which is classless. |
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Wow this is some scary stuff you guys deal with every day.
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Wow this is some scary stuff you guys deal with every day. Yup, Obama is really scary. |
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