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Oval Office rug gets history wrong
The Washington Post ^ | 09/04/2010 | Jamie Stiehm

Posted on 09/04/2010 5:46:14 PM PDT by RnMomof7

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: harvardplagiarist; harvardresumefraud; history; martinlutherkingjr; noaccountability; nobc; notrugsfault; noveritas; obamaknew; ovaloffice; quotereparations
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To: Salamander

I was referring to your online threatener from a few days back who wanted to meet you “behind the net.” LOL


61 posted on 09/05/2010 2:09:52 PM PDT by 50mm (Go whine someplace else.)
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To: 50mm

Oh, believe me, ~that~ punk was lurking in the back of my mind, last night.

[maybe he’s watching this thread and now understands that I *will* “back it up”]...LOL


62 posted on 09/05/2010 2:14:30 PM PDT by Salamander (And I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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