Whatever happened to the eulogy?
President Barack Obama turned what should have been a eulogy for the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney on Friday into an impassioned stump speech against racism and for gun control.
It became so partisan that one person referred to it as “a race hate speech with a southern accent.”
Nonetheless, the adoring media loved him for it.
He also assumed the mantle of a traveling preacher of the Gospel when he led the mourners in Charleston, South Carolina, in a rousing rendition of “Amazing Grace” to honor all nine churchgoers who were slain there last week.
But then he got down to business, and addressed the issues he was really there to talk about: gun control and racial inequality.
“It would be a betrayal to everything Rev. Pinckney stood for if we allow ourselves to slip into a comfortable silence again,” Obama said.
“To settle for symbolic gestures without following up with the hard work of more lasting change, that’s how we lose our way again.”
Referring to the Confederate flag as a symbol of “systemic oppression and racial subjugation,” he said that “by taking down that flag we express God’s grace.”
“For too long, we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens,” the president said.
Then he addressed the issue of gun control.
“Sporadically, our eyes are open,” Obama said, referring to mass killings in Newtown, Connecticut.; Aurora, Colorado.; and Charleston. “But I hope we also see that 30 precious lives are cut short by gun violence every single day.”
The Associated Press reported:
MORE: Obama delivers rousing eulogy in Charleston for pastor slain at black church: http://t.co/CYGXZ0ggsp
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 26, 2015
Well, yeah, it was a rousing speech. But did he actually eulogize Pinckney?
@nancy091013 @AP A divisive speech disguised as a eulogy. A city, State and country came together and Obama didn’t like it.
— William R. Allen (@MorganVeteran) June 26, 2015
@AP Really??? “Rousing”?? bwahahahaha That was a race hate speech with a “southern” accent ??? @BarackObama AKA @POTUS
— JustCallMeSassy (@ImStillSassy) June 26, 2015
Do any of you idiots at the @AP even pretend to maintain journalistic integrity? Get ahold of yourselves.
— Task Force Freedom (@CplSoletrain) June 26, 2015
@AP Rousing? It was the most inappropriate, clownish show I’ve ever seen. It was supposed to be about the deceased. I had to turn it off.
— R McCombs TX Mom (@rpmccombs) June 26, 2015
Rousing is an opinion, (and incorrect) and “eulogy” is NOT what that campaign/fundraiser speech was. @AP
— Task Force Freedom (@CplSoletrain) June 26, 2015
@AsheWhi @ClaudiaHajian Same media that mocked Tim Tebow for praying are having an orgasm cuz Obama sang Amazing Grace.
— Tomboy Chick (@TomboyChick) June 26, 2015
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