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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 766109" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanomics<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html</a>Oval Office rug gets history wrong&quot;The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.&quot;&nbsp; According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his&nbsp; wheat-colored carpet is from King. Except it&#039;s not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian&nbsp; champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that&nbsp; his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington,Theodore Parker ( died at age 49 in 1860).&nbsp;The familiar quote from Lincoln woven into Obama&#039;s rug is &quot;government of&nbsp; the people, by the people and for the people,&quot; the well-known utterance&nbsp; from the close of his Gettysburg Address in 1863. &nbsp; Funny that in 1850, Parker wrote, &quot;A democracy -- that is a government&nbsp; of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 766109, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanomics[/b] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html[/url] [B]Oval Office rug gets history wrong[/B] "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,Theodore Parker ( died at age 49 in 1860). The familiar quote from Lincoln woven into Obama's rug is "government of the people, by the people and for the people," the well-known utterance from the close of his Gettysburg Address in 1863. Funny that in 1850, Parker wrote, "A democracy -- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people." [/QUOTE]

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