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Oval Office rug gets history wrong
Washington post ^ | September 4, 2010 | Jamie Stiehm

Posted on 09/04/2010 7:08:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

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, President Obama. Unless you're fascinated by antebellum American reformers, you may not know of the lyrically gifted Parker, an abolitionist, Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blametherug; harvardmisquote; king; martinlutherking; mlking; noaccountability; nobrains; nohonesty; obama; ovalofficemakeover; ovalofficerug; quotereparations
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To: Vermont Lt
Bubba's Oval Office, sink not included.


61 posted on 09/04/2010 7:49:57 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: Sooth2222

Yeah boy to no. 5


62 posted on 09/04/2010 7:50:09 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: COUNTrecount
All this criticism is RACIST!!!!

I assumed that the rug would contain verses from the Koran.
Where are the Samburu and Masai Shields?

63 posted on 09/04/2010 7:52:35 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Decriminalize crime! Empty the prisons! Anything less is racist genocide!)
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To: Chode

I was thinking it looks like the lobby of a holiday inn express


64 posted on 09/04/2010 7:55:05 AM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: ladyjane
The Audacity of Taupe.

The longer we keep using that phrase the more interest it should ecru...

65 posted on 09/04/2010 7:57:19 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 588 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: yldstrk

I learned it from my Yooper mother.


66 posted on 09/04/2010 7:57:37 AM PDT by magslinger (DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)
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To: coon2000
Oh come on. Everyone needs a place to kick up their heels and relax.


67 posted on 09/04/2010 7:58:34 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: magslinger
yeah, prolly not...
68 posted on 09/04/2010 8:00:45 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: COUNTrecount
Bubba's Oval Office, sink not included.

Yeah, Clinton's Oval Office was truly hideous.

Obama's actually seems pretty decent to me. Of recent Presidents' I did like George HW Bush's the best.
69 posted on 09/04/2010 8:01:51 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: DariusBane
pretty much...
70 posted on 09/04/2010 8:02:17 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Bostonian champion of social progress”

Bolshevik?


71 posted on 09/04/2010 8:03:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Dengar01

The decorators did a decent job, considering 1) too much beige and 2) the Oval Office didn’t need redecorating. Can we put the old rug back? Can we put a new President in it?


72 posted on 09/04/2010 8:05:05 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: Chode
Come to think of it, the White House is a cheap motel. They pay the guests to stay there.

And yeah, I am thinkin of Bubba.

73 posted on 09/04/2010 8:05:12 AM PDT by magslinger (DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)
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To: Dengar01

The decorators did a decent job, considering 1) too much beige and 2) the Oval Office didn’t need redecorating. Can we put the old rug back? Can we put a new President in it?


74 posted on 09/04/2010 8:05:13 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Skinny girly hands that never did a day’s work. Pathetic.


75 posted on 09/04/2010 8:12:58 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: BenLurkin

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/theodoreparker.html


76 posted on 09/04/2010 8:14:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Why is this in the ‘Opinion’ section of the Washington Post?

This is factual reporting. It is an objectively verified screw up, on the part of the WH. Not an “opinion” piece.

If it were President Bush - it would NOT be hidden in the ‘OpEd’ pages,it would be there on the front page....

right next to the story headlined

“U.S. Unemployment rate rises again, millions continue to suffer.”


77 posted on 09/04/2010 8:15:56 AM PDT by 4Liberty ( How do you spell "moral hazard"?: $ 19, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0.)
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To: SuziQ
It's ironic that Abraham Lincoln's quote "government of the people, by the people, and for the people", would be woven into the rug of the Oval Office. Barack Obama has no interest in what 'the people' think.

My suspicion is that he had that put on the rug so he could get his jollies stepping on it.
78 posted on 09/04/2010 8:17:05 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Vermont Lt

“But if I were President, I would be so scared I would probably be drunk most of the time. So the yellow carpets would hide the stains.”

LOL! I sure wouldn’t want the job! For the same reason...


79 posted on 09/04/2010 8:17:28 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: Sooth2222

Now we know whom to think of when Obama quotes “Jefferson”.


80 posted on 09/04/2010 8:17:53 AM PDT by ecomcon
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