I don't know about that. I'm visualizing a nice polar bear pelt in the Oval Office, and I don't think the socialist's decor would coordinate well:
Posted on 09/07/2010 6:19:19 PM PDT by toma29
WASHINGTON — No need for a rewrite — or a reweave — of the new rug in the Oval Office. President Barack Obama's spokesman said Tuesday the White House was correct to attribute a famous quotation in the rug's pattern to Martin Luther King Jr., even though the civil rights leader acknowledged being inspired by a 19th-century abolitionist, Thomas Parker.
"It was not us that thought he said it, it was many people that believed — rightly so — that he said it," press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
The wheat, cream and blue rug, which debuted in the Oval Office last week, features the presidential seal in the center and quotations from famous Americans around the border. It was made by the Scott Group of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Describing the rug, a White House statement credited King for these words: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
It's one of Obama's favorite King sayings. And no one disputes that King said it exactly that way — perhaps most memorably to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Aug. 16, 1967.
But Parker's adherents note the Transcendentalist and Unitarian minister wrote this in his 1853 treatise "Of Justice and the Conscience": "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one ... And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
Jamie Stiehm, writing in The Washington Post on Saturday, said crediting King but not Parker "goes beyond the beige."
"We certainly all learned a lot of important history," Gibbs said Tuesday. "What King said and what Parker said are not the same thing."
He also noted neither man's name is actually on the rug. None of the quotations has names attached.
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As I recall, attributing what he wrote or said to the original source was not one of MLK’s strong points. So, I guess this confusion is partially understandable.
“And Betty Crocker coined the phrase ‘Let them eat cake’!”
LOL!
Myths and lies? Whattchya talkin bout, Willis?
Everybody knows The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior was a water-walking Democrat Saint, who worked tirelessly for the rights and dignity of all downtrodden poor people of all races everywhere, while remaining a good, hard working and faithful family man, who never even looked at a woman other than his revered Coretta; and who personally recruited Mother Theresa for the work in India....
Like to know where the rug was made? China maybe??
I don't know about that. I'm visualizing a nice polar bear pelt in the Oval Office, and I don't think the socialist's decor would coordinate well:
The leaders of the flat earth society speaks...”we’re wrong and stupid, but its OK cuz we’re still right”.
They lie like a rug.
Revisionist history is a pillar of the democrat temple.
“It was not us that thought he said it, it was many people that believed — rightly so — that he said it,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said.”So, now that I’ve said it
YOU will believe it and rightly so!”
I heard that King even said that he was quoting somebody else and he wasn’t the source at the time.
Truth doesn’t matter anymore with people like The Dweeb.
If they feel like it’s the truth that’s all that matters.
I hope that when we elect a legitimate POTUS that rug is the first thing to go.
Wow. Defending the admin's incompetence with bad grammar. Par for the course.
I would feel sorry for Fibbs, having to constantly make extraordinarily contorted excuses for the off-prompter Zero, but he is such an arrogant, smug little twit I am thoroughly enjoying Satan’s sick humor for making him the court jester of Obama’s klutzy kingdom.
Lying is so second-nature for these asshats that they can’t just say “Oops”, and admit a simple error n
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