Posted on 09/04/2010 12:10:56 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
He grew up in Indonesia, his father was a Kenyan, and he's been fighting the perception that he isn't much of an American since he became a nationally known entity. Unfortunately for President Obama, his redecoration of the Oval Office is not helping by making him seem just as ignorant about America as his critics claim. This latest gaffe is in the expensive rug he commissioned that has woven onto it a quote mis-attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obama's rug has attributed to King an oft-repeated line, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Sure King said it. But even King reminded people that he wasn't its creator.
Jamie Stiehm has the facts regarding this quote. It was originated by the 19th century champion of social progress, Theodore Parker.
Parker was a staunch anti-slavery man who died just on the eve of the American civil war, a man involved in every reform effort of his day, quite a radical for his time. He even supported domestic terrorist John Brown and supplied money for guns to be used in the "Bloody Kansas" fights over slavery.
King admired this white man who fought to end slavery and used his phrase many times -- with full attribution, of course.
Sadly, Obama and his rug makers did not do their due diligence and research these quotes properly because they've attributed Parker's inspiring words to King...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Proving once again...Zero and his whole administration are AMATEURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forget the LSM. What’s Al Sharpton gonna say???
consider that Obama was “educated” by Harvard Law “scholars” such as Lawrence Tribe and Charles Ogletree:
http://authorskeptics.blogspot.com/2004/09/professor-charles-ogletree.html
Then how can we wonder why he has no conception of scholarship, research, accuracy, verification of quotations, etc.????
Nice find.
I wonder how many people picked up on Obama’s ‘57states’ statement but it does seem very coincidental that there are 57 Islamic states.
“I wonder how many people picked up on Obama’s ‘57states’ statement but it does seem very coincidental that there are 57 Islamic states.”
It was another Freudina slip!
People are so dumb ... I couldn’t tell you.
It’s more than a coincidence. He is making his Islamic world a reality for U.S..
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