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Elijah Cummings misattributes Emerson quote to Mandela
quintonreport.com ^ | January 8, 2014 | Jeff Quinton

Posted on 03/08/2014 8:37:27 AM PST by MeshugeMikey

There’s no family I know,’’ Cummings continued encouragingly, “that when they have problems they say, ‘To hell with it.’ ’’ The most memorable part of his “life-altering” trip to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral in South Africa, he told his friends in the hotel ballroom, was when Mandela’s grandson said that the great man had counseled him, “Don’t be pushed around by your fears and problems; be led by your hopes and dreams.”

Actually, Emerson said that.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: elijahcummings; freakstate; mandela; mistake; ralphwaldoemerson
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1 posted on 03/08/2014 8:37:27 AM PST by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

This is the same idiot that thought Guam would capsize if we stationed more Marines there.


2 posted on 03/08/2014 8:40:44 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: MeshugeMikey

he’s a liberal...facts are mere means to an end.

“Fake but accurate”
The Rather Rule


3 posted on 03/08/2014 8:40:54 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: P-Marlowe

No, that was Hank Johnson. I think!


4 posted on 03/08/2014 8:42:46 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It is the way it sounds Mikey. It doesn’t have to be accurate. Joe Biden used to do that a lot and he stole lines for his speeches when he was a presidential candidate.


5 posted on 03/08/2014 8:43:33 AM PST by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: P-Marlowe
that was space case extraordinaaire....Hank-Tipping Guam-Johnson

http://voices.yahoo.com/rep-hank-johnson-guam-may-tip-over-5765772.html
6 posted on 03/08/2014 8:44:11 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: bigbob
This is the same idiot that thought Guam would capsize if we stationed more Marines there.

No, that idiot was Hank Johnson. "Rep" Cummings is a different idiot entirely.

7 posted on 03/08/2014 8:44:53 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: bigbob

I dont care if the reports a fake..I stand by my story...

yes... who could forget that masterpiece of journalistic candor


8 posted on 03/08/2014 8:45:19 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: billhilly

Joe-Stand Up Chuck -Biden’s got it down to a “fine art”


9 posted on 03/08/2014 8:46:08 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Cummings is black, Mandela is black, if he though he could convince the LIV that Mandela wrote the Gettysburg Address, he would have said that.


10 posted on 03/08/2014 8:46:25 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Stupid is as stupid does. ..... Just sayin!


11 posted on 03/08/2014 8:50:22 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Beagle8U

According to WikipediA Joe Biden was considered second only to, drum roll, Jesse Jackson as the best speaker in the Democratic field of potential Presidential Candidates.


12 posted on 03/08/2014 8:53:00 AM PST by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I would prefer to believe that Cummings stole it from Mandela who stole it from Emerson or perhaps MLK jr who stole it from Emerson


13 posted on 03/08/2014 8:53:15 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Elijah Cummings is a useful idiot. His temper tantrum was orchestrated by the White House to created a situation where they can give Darrell Issa the Alinsky treatment


14 posted on 03/08/2014 8:57:05 AM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: RobinOfKingston
The Hankster IN ALL His Glory!

word has it that he comes form a long line of geologists....and that line would be the UNEMPLOYMENT Line


15 posted on 03/08/2014 9:01:18 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
"Pushed around" doesn't sound that Emersonian.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

16 posted on 03/08/2014 9:01:53 AM PST by x
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To: darkwing104

there we have it!


17 posted on 03/08/2014 9:02:09 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“Todo para la causa” Everything for the cause as Fidel Castro used to say.

Truth is irrelevant to racist imbeciles like Cummings. It’s all about ginning up outrage for whitey/Republicans/historic America


18 posted on 03/08/2014 9:02:13 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: x

Great Quote. Thank you!


19 posted on 03/08/2014 9:02:52 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: dennisw
Its all part and parcel of Obama's Little advertised .......


20 posted on 03/08/2014 9:04:14 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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