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...
Well, at least Obama is consistent. He “muffed” this country too.
BTW, do you remember his quote about this:
Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
May 9, 2008 | 1:42 pm
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“It is wonderful to be back in Oregon,” Obama said. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.”
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/barack-obama-wa.html
Already Obama was thinking about the 57 ISLAMIC STATES that make up the Organizaton of the Islamic Conference.
Already he did NOT have the UNITED STATES on his mind.
Obamao doesn’t want to be American. He wants America to be him.
Shag dunham and his rug outta there.
Michelle Obama
this rug, hand made, the MSM states didn’t cost the taxpayers. I remember reading that The money was left over from Obama’s inaugural committee and given to the White House Historical Association, which paid for it.
One has to ask: where did the inaugural committee get the money? Surely it didn’t come from the obamanation... more likely from Iran.
I remember this revelation this passed week... And it’s very telling.
For if this guy is as ‘supah smart’ as every one claims (I really don’t see it) then he didn’t make a mistake in the number, just the subject matter
As for the quote on the rug and the mistaken history... This is a perfect cue for GBeck and would fit perfectly with his theme that historical teachings in the US are horrible at best, revisionist at worst
Let’s just hope and pray that he takes rug with him when he leaves the Oval Office in January of 1213.
What's with the “of course”? King was a notorious plagiarizer.
The quotes were never the point for Obomba. Five pillars was the point.
Glenn Beck is pretty good.
He has revived my interst in history again.
I just purchased the original
STATES RIGHTS Nullification CIVIL WAR Virginia published in 1832
...
“The second collection is the 1832 work The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and ‘99; with Jefferson’s Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison’s Report, Calhoun’s Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of ‘98. This book contained the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Report of 1800, and other documents in support of the states’ rights position, which was at that time under fire due to the nullification crisis. As H. Jefferson Powell puts it, Elliot was more than “simply an assiduous gatherer of historical information about the Constitution: he was an active participant…in the constitutional debates of his day.”[1]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Elliot_(historian)
Thre are many intersting websites where you can atually read the ORIGINAL document and not be dependent on everyone elses spin on it.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwed.html
The one I purchased I have not seen on the net or in libraries online. I am eager to receive it.
Exactly! King often recited this quote as he was boffing a new white chick in the back room or submitting a newly plagerized manuscript for publication!
Don't forget that he finally got caught plagiarizing when he was getting his Ph.D. in THEOLOGY, no less!
Need we go into his womanizing and shady associaitons?
Imagine if Bush or Palin pulled something like this?
The lib media would be having a field day. But not the community organizing kenyan in chief.
What's with the “of course”? King was a notorious plagiarizer.That is why "of course" had to be noted. He DIDN'T plagiarize THAT quote. He did say where he got it.
Oh the MSM gave Palin hell just for writing a note on her hand and later in a speech putting Ronald Reagan's Eureka College in California
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... 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... this quote... was originated by the 19th century champion of social progress, Theodore Parker... 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.
additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2583129/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2583211/posts
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