President and Mrs. Obama's statement on the passing of Aretha Franklin

[highplainsdem]

This statement is an image in a tweet from HuffPo's Laura Bassett:

Link to tweet

[lapfog_1]

1. A real message from a real President.

my how we have sunk as a Nation

[highplainsdem]

2. True. There couldn't be a greater contrast to Trump's response.

[ginnyinWI]

10. Trumpie had to insert himself in that short statement.

Just four words, and one of them was "ME".

[Honeycombe8]

26. +1. Truer words never said. nt

[CincyDem]

3. Both reactions completely consistent with their respective brands.

BHO - warm, connecting, appreciative, inspiring. Recognizing the best in people.

DJT - yeah, I was her superior.

[highplainsdem]

5. Yes.

[calimary]

18. No kidding.

As my husband often says in moments like this: "more ME, please."

Except with The Asset it'd just be "more ME!" No "please". Just a demand. From an adult-size spoiled brat.

[Satch59]

4. Perfect...of course...

Unlike the cold response from soulless Trump...refuse to use "president" before his name.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. PRESIDENT Obama bathes us in his eloquence.

He writes and speaks from his beautiful heart, and always knows the appropriate words to use in every instance. He is a master of language.

Rest peacefully, Aretha. God bless the Obama family.

[Duppers]

23. +100

His tweet brought tears, yet again. I miss him so. He understood what Aretha brought to our nation with her music and, as you said, he expressed it so eloquently.

I cannot listen to her sing at Pres. Obama's inauguration without wiping tears. What a moment in time that was.

[Hortensis]

7. You guys didn't overstate. Truly wonderful tribute.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Heartfelt thanks to our President.

He is a truly good man. The current pathetic resident should learn a thing or two or a thousand

[Auggie]

9. Big K&R

[heaven05]

11. A Great Man speakng of A Great woman

and her music... she will be with us always...until the end of time. I am moved by these words from a real President and a true human being.

[3catwoman3]

12. And I'll bet he wrote it...

...himself.

[gademocrat7]

13. K&R

Condolences filled with respect and compassion.

[cp]

14. Perfect!

[sarge43]

15. Perfect and beautiful

Now I have to find the Kleenex.

[JuJuYoshida]

16. Obama still a class act. RIP Queen of Soul

[calimary]

17. "...every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine."

Uh-HUH. Can't say it much better than that.

[slumcamper]

19. Is it wrong to weep over such beauty?

Our nation thirsts for such profoundly meaningful expressions of human decency and compassion.

Hold it close; never let go. Our children and a gentler tenor of our nation's future depend on us never losing it.

[Older Than I Look]

20. "...every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine."

[trickyguy]

21. I have tears in my eyes as I write of the passing of a personal icon, Aretha Franklin.

She has been singing for me and so many others my entire adult life.
May her beautiful soul, the Queen of Soul, find peace and eternal rest.
She will be sorely missed.

And thank you President and Mrs. Obama for such a moving tribute to Aretha.
I know she meant a great deal to both of you.

And as for that asshole who now resides in the White House and has NO soul,
may he find a place in hell where no one else knows he's there.

R.I.P. Aretha.

[Scurrilous]

22. K&R

[Cha]

24. Mahalo, Michelle and President Obama

[Iggo]

25. That's how it's done.

[lovemydogs]

27. Long live the queen!

[The Genealogist]

28. A beautiful tribute to one of the greatest singers in American history

This is how it is done. Brief, heartfelt, meaningful. I'd expect nothing less from President Obama.

[Arkansas Granny]

29. A beautiful tribute.

[PatrickforO]

30. He's our president.

Class act, he and Michelle.