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While the Obama's were on vacation... Which one? The last one. ... POTUS had his office renovated. Among the changes was a new carpet, complete with historical quotes which run around the edge of the rug. But the Washington Post reports a mistake was made. The quote "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" has been attributed to Martin Luther King. Turns out King, who used the phrase often, neglected to cite it's source. According to the Post it was first uttered by Theodore Parker "an antebellum American reformer...abolitionist, Unitarian Minister and Transcendentalist thinker". Where's POTUS? Not another vacation! But what the Washington Post neglected to report, which we're pleased to share exclusively after long and exhaustive research, was there were other errors on the carpet, not to mention his dog Bo's fresh little"gift" on the new floor covering. Theodore Parker's better known brother Fes...

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics • He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball • His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili • His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini • He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father • He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed • He has read every Harry Potter book • He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali • He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream • His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars • He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia • He can speak Spanish • While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead • His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea • He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t • He kept a pet ape called Tat...

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In 1989, Shepard Fairey (b. 1970) began to paste stickers all over town (New York?) with a face and the mysterious message "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" or "Obey Giant" . Since then, his palette, geographic range and activities have increased enormously, and when he offered to support Barack Obama's campaign with some posters in January 2008, he readily got permission from Obama to do so. Within a day, he had finished a design, one with the text "PROGRESS", and another with "HOPE". A first print run of 350 was sold out within minutes for $ 45 a piece, and, much to Fairey's annoyance , resold on ebay for a lot more. Wall Street Journal began to track the ebay prices, they quickly shot up to $ 3'000, and reached $ 10'000 in June. In July, a mixed media painting done by Fairey in the same style as his "Hope" poster, sold for $ 108'000 . By July 31, about 200'000 sticker versions of the original Obama poster had b...