[BreezyDog]

Forgive me if posted already, I find this totally fitting and hilarious.

[P.O.E.]

Forgiven

[Cheetahcat]

Thank you for the post.

[Boogieman]

When I first read the quote the phrasing did sound a bit antiquated even for King’s style.

[Iron Munro]

Alfred E. Obama - Intellectual Pygmy

[BilLies]

No wonder we are not given access to the Obamanations school records for they would give the proof to what most people in the United States have finally realized, the “man” has all the substance of a wet f-rt.

[Eldon Tyrell]

Obama is representative of his culture.

Re-defining shallow daily.

[Carley]

The information was out there but to have the comPost criticizing the messiah, well that’s worthy of a thread of it’s own.

[Wings-n-Wind]

[CitizenM]

It would be hysterical if it didn't help to define a man who, obviously, has no skill in even researching a quote correctly.

And this guy has been acclaimed to be such an intelligent fellow, even by his detractors. How easily people will allow themselves to be fooled. How sad that so many have been spell bound by Obama whose only notable worth is that he can read a speech and arouse his audience into a frenzy. That is ALL he can do.

Obama is nothing more than a good carnival barker getting people to believe they will see a two-headed man if they come into the tent and see the side show. Too bad he wasn't around when P.T. Barnum was alive. Obama would have brought in lots of money for the circus.

[loveliberty2]

Often, the rewriting and revising of history is not so blatant and obvious.

This example, however, is only a drop in the ocean of such fallacious claims about America's noble history and the brave men and women who shined the light of liberty across the world and across the generations who followed them.

Whether out of sheer ignorance, or deliberate misrepresentation, this arrogant administration displays a shallow understanding of both the history of civilization's struggle to be free and the magnificent efforts of those who discovered and implemented the ideas of liberty through our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Such a frivolous thing as allowing a quotation to be inaccurately attributed is just another in the long line of examples of failure to "vet," or failure to have all the information needed, before going public with some project.

[airedale]

Actually the Post is wrong. What’s new about reporters being inaccurate.

Parker ( a distant relative of mine) did say something like that, but Martin Luther King, Jr. paraphrased it to the quote used on the rug. He credited Parker a couple times but then incorporated the quote in his speeches.

The original said: “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” This is from his 1853 sermon Justice and the Conscience

That’s the original source but it’s different from Doctor Kings words when he paraphrased it: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

[steel_resolve]

It's emblematic of an administration that is in over it's head in every way, shape and form. From a rug to the stimulus to health care it's amateur hour 24/7. What a pathetic bunch we have running our country.

[loveliberty2]

A true student of history and of the styles of writing and speaking of previous generations "picks up" a signal when words and phrases are used by contemporaries that are clearly out of their ordinary phraseology and usage.

Such occurred a couple of years ago when reading an account of a campaign appearance by then-candidate Obama.

Does anyone remember this report from early November 2008? "At a Virginia rally -— 'If you’ll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington,' Obama told the estimated crowd of 35,000. 'I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.'”

Upon checking, one finds this quote from Chairman Mao:

“The ill wind of opportunism is falling, the righteous wind of socialism is on the rise.”

Was this a mere contribution by Anita Dunn from her favorite "go to philosopher" or was it just familiar reading which crept into the candidate's remarks in Virginia?

In the case of the Oval Office rug, apparently original sources weren't consulted, and that's a shame in the interest of scholarship and credibility.

[Lancey Howard]

Was this rug designed by noted plagiarist Joe Biden?

[cruise_missile]

Is it a prayer rug?

[Raycpa]

Job 38:4-7 (New King James Version)

4 “ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

[kearnyirish2]

Why would ML King’s quotes be alongside those of real presidents in the Oval Office? Should we throw in a token Hispanic and woman as well? WTF?

[whence911]

I have a hard time deciding if the OB is incompetent or devious. Perhaps a combination of both.

[dennisw]

what a goof! lol lol lol

I would be 100 times happier having the Beverly Hillbillies living next to me that these stupid Harvard types. I liked those yokels