Posted on 09/04/2010 10:50:00 AM PDT by kristinn
good thread, thanks for the ping!
when will someone ask Obama at a press conference why he can’t do elementary research on his quotations?
oh, wait, he’d need to actually hold a press conference and then we’d need someone in the servile WH press corpse to ask the question
ain’t gonna happen
Every pearl of wisdom ever uttered by a human being probably originated from the Scriptures.
I don't consider throwing out old antiquated sayings without attribution to be plagiarism.
At some point they simply become Maxims.
Example: the apolitical will likely never hear this story though a google News search reveals some MSM mention -- including the Las Vegas Review-Journal! Warning! Warning! Stop thinking about this story you'll get sued . . . .
Also doubting your blanket “scriptures” claim, maybe some, but “ever uttered”, Jeez.
The second mistake is a Teddy Roosevelt quote taken completely out of context. President Obama had the Oval Office renovated. Good for him. But there is a controversy. Naturally. It concerns a quote on the rug by Teddy Roosevelt: The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally on the welfare of all of us. Over at the Huffington Post, the quote is considered an endorsement of socialism. But Susan Shelley at America Wants To Know said the quote is taken out of context. Great detective work by a great thinking American. We know the speech today as the The Square Deal speech. Readers may decide for themselves: Don Surber has posted the transcript of the entire speech, which ends with this: The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Dumbazz
I didn’t even know Value City Furniture sold rugs like that one.
The only type of justice referred to in a Biblical context is one of eternal justice, not justice in an earthly context. There are many bad things that happen in this world that are never “justiced.”
bfl
If Obama wanted a quote from a black preacher for the carpet, it would have been much safer to have quoted Jeremiah Wright—Wright’s not likely to have plagiarized from a 19th-century white guy.
He stole a speech from a CARTOON for God’s sakes!!!
and no one complained.
Didja see the political cartoon and Obama’s words lined up side by side???
Didja see the video where he had to start his “quote” over, to get it right ???
Very very interesting moment from early 2008 ...
Or Anyone who can answer this: Now whenever Obama leaves the W.H. for Chicago (or wherever they move at the end of his reign), is he planning to take that Rug with him? (I can’t imagine another Pres. on the face of this Earth who would want to look at it day after day. Can Obama do that? If so, he’d better damn well pay for it!
Teddy R. was something of a “progressive” for his day but certainly did not believe in the socialist-communist redistributionist schemes of the Obamanation
ridiculous to tear that TR quotation out of its legitimate historical context and make TR out to be a supporter of Obama’s schemes
additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2583129/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2583251/posts
“Carpet-gate”
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