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Oval Office rug gets history wrong
Washington post ^ | September 4, 2010 | Jamie Stiehm

Posted on 09/04/2010 7:08:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

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

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blametherug; harvardmisquote; king; martinlutherking; mlking; noaccountability; nobrains; nohonesty; obama; ovalofficemakeover; ovalofficerug; quotereparations
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To: COUNTrecount

It’s Bush’s fault.

Women and minorities hardest hit.


81 posted on 09/04/2010 8:18:06 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: COUNTrecount

Wow! That was butt ugly!


82 posted on 09/04/2010 8:21:07 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: tanknetter

The decoratingchoices shows quite a contrast in Bubba’s and Barry’s personalities.

Barry= present

Bubba= I’M THE PRESIDENT


83 posted on 09/04/2010 8:24:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: 4Liberty

Yeah, we’d hear how stupid Bush is and how there were no WMDs.

Barry’s team gets a pass. As always.


84 posted on 09/04/2010 8:27:33 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

imagine the ridicule if GWB had done something like this?


85 posted on 09/04/2010 8:33:16 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Well, we finally 'found' some WMDs - they're in Iran. With all the golfing, re-decorating, vacationing, you'd think the USA didn't have a problem in the world like- 9.6% Unemployment ~ and ~ a nuclear Iran
86 posted on 09/04/2010 8:39:10 AM PDT by 4Liberty ( How do you spell "moral hazard"?: $ 19, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The 1970’s called and they want their couches back!


87 posted on 09/04/2010 8:45:48 AM PDT by OCC
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To: 4Liberty
Real unemployment figures, un-Barryfied.


88 posted on 09/04/2010 8:50:13 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: God luvs America
Media/Beltway-think: If W's rug had historical mistakes = sign of incompetence Obama's rug has them = poor 'optics'
89 posted on 09/04/2010 8:57:17 AM PDT by 4Liberty ( How do you spell "moral hazard"?: $ 19, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0.)
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To: magslinger

haha yeah


90 posted on 09/04/2010 8:59:59 AM PDT by sheana
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To: COUNTrecount
Racist graph. Here's another:
91 posted on 09/04/2010 9:00:34 AM PDT by 4Liberty ( How do you spell "moral hazard"?: $ 19, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0.)
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To: magslinger

Of course that may be where divan came from, or maybe it should be davan.


92 posted on 09/04/2010 9:01:13 AM PDT by sheana
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To: zwerni

It was paid for by a historical society so it did not come from tax payers directly.

I read somewhere around here that it was a 2million dollar job.

Hard to believe, if that has any truth to the cost I think someone made a huge profit.

Couch bail out anyone?

Heck I bought a couple of lounge chairs one to adapt with a special seat insert for the quad son and the other mathching one for his visitors and for the pair (they look just like the Oval office couch in color and material style) cost $500.


93 posted on 09/04/2010 9:10:59 AM PDT by Global2010
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To: Global2010

Maybe the couchs look like your chairs but the fabric could have cost several hundred dollars a yard. The wall paper didn’t come from Sherwin Williams like the paint. Just guessing here. Nothing but the best for our king.


94 posted on 09/04/2010 9:15:29 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: COUNTrecount
geez, she looks like "the help" just about every time I see a picture of "her".

These two are like a fish out of water. I think I'm about over being embarrassed by them. It'll soon be over and this current wave of Bigfoot sightings will come to an end

95 posted on 09/04/2010 9:16:38 AM PDT by FunkyZero ("It's not about duck hunting !")
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To: Ditter

Yeah I figured it all is super upscale material.

Still looks like our $500 for the pair lounge chairs though.


96 posted on 09/04/2010 9:19:04 AM PDT by Global2010
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

There goes the blood pressure....

Tatt : (


97 posted on 09/04/2010 9:29:26 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: COUNTrecount

Imperial pRes_ _ent Hussein Obama on girl's bike:
"Parker, King. Who cares? Moslem, Christian. Who cares?
American born. Kenyan. Who cares? Not me, dhimmis.”

98 posted on 09/04/2010 9:31:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ladyjane

Hahahahaha!!!! Love it!


99 posted on 09/04/2010 9:31:44 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reminded ofthose questions we took on standardized tests. Which of the above doesn't fit with the rest?

100 posted on 09/04/2010 9:32:33 AM PDT by HearMe
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