If you haven’t heard the latest, while Barack Obama was on vacation the White House spent taxpayer cash to makeover the Oval Office with a style as bland and boring as he is. The makeover included a new presidential rug with famous quotes woven on it. One of which, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” is wrongly attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., when the words were actually from abolitionist Theodore Parker. King did frequently use the quote but always rightly attributed it to Parker.
Do I care? Not really, but I find it hysterical. I love the blog headline Smartest President in History Botches Oval Office Quote from American Thinker because it describes, oh so well, why this is hysterical. Can you imagine if the Bush administration laid this thing out? Can you imagine of Sarah Palin did? They would have been ripped to shreds and this one example used as evidence of how strikingly moronic they were.
For the President who thought he visited 57 American states, who said on Memorial Day he was there to honor the fallen heroes who were in the audience, who said unemployment would go down if we passed his bill, who looked into his crystal ball and said the surge wouldn’t work in Iraq before claiming repeatedly it wasn’t working while it was happening, for this President the mishap must be an oversight and not a sign of a lacking intellect in himself or his administration. Not at all evidence this administration is asleep at the switch. He is, afterall, brilliant. Why you know he won a Nobel Prize! Anyone who wins a Nobel Prize must know what they are talking about.
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