Obama is ON FIRE, decrying all the efforts of the administration to suppress the vote....

[George II]

....and sending out thugs to break up peaceful demonstrations.

Well worth looking up later and watching again online.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Thx!! I will look it up

[Docreed2003]

2. He is on fire and truly representing the legacy of John Lewis

[MFGsunny]

12. Yes. It was all about RESPECT for that soul ... n/t

[nolabear]

3. MY President!

[calimary]

37. Yep. Mine, too. Our last LEGITIMATELY-elected President.

[still_one]

4. Because voting rights was what John Lewis fought for. Voting is the best way to remember

the memory of John Lewis

[Cha]

22. Exactly, still_one.

Please see my post.. #20

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13831584

[still_one]

36. Thanks Cha. Well said

[Cha]

38. Mahalo, still_one.. I was relatively new to politics at that point..

I couldn't believe it!

My friend came in the store, where I worked in New York, and told me Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash.. she was crying so hard.

We can grieve the way we want to.

[still_one]

39. I remember it well also

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Headlines tonight and tomorrow!

Great contrast to the sunken GDP report.

[chia]

6. Electrifying! Needs to be the next commercial

[MontanaMama]

7. PBO!!!

That was exhilarating!!!

[crickets]

8. Obama's still got it, that power to spellbind and stir an audience. It's amazing.

All the things we've been wanting to hear from him over the weeks and months are pouring out now, gently but powerfully woven together with a stirring tribute to John Lewis. It's wonderful.

eta
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mypresident

[Sympthsical]

9. It is so well done

How he's blending legislative and policy initiatives into the story of John Lewis. Masterful stuff.

Sigh, when we had a President who spoke and wrote actual English.

[Cha]

23. Mahalo, crickets.. Rt! President Obama eviscerates Trump without ever mentioning his name.

Link to tweet

[sheshe2]

53. Well, Damn.

I had to miss most of this today. He was on fire.

Something I noticed as he was speaking, as he turned from time to time his memorial pin for John Lewis flashed a bright light. Yes it was the overhead lights that caught John's image, yet it flashed brightly. John is still with us, in our hearts and souls.

Thanks so much for posting this portion of his speech, Cha.

Peace

[Cha]

55. You're Welcome, she..

Mahalo for telling us about Pres Obama's memorial pin flashing brightly with the Light!

All of these signs.. from the Rainbow above the Capitol Dome just for John to President Obama's beautiful Eulogy are comforting for us wishing John a glorious journey

I think so too.. that he will always be with us.. just like all our Loved Ones who have passed on.

[sheshe2]

56. Hugs to you and the sister you lost.

Love you.

[Cha]

57. Mahalo, she..

It hasn't gotten any easier.. I miss Mary more every day.Love you for saying that, too!

[sheshe2]

61. I know, Cha.

[Cha]

64. I appreciate that

more than you know!

[barbtries]

31. He was the best choice.

The whole funeral has served John Lewis well. My son told me to watch it today and I said I well and I'll probably be crying all the way through, and I pretty much have.

VOTE.

[lunatica]

10. He made me cry my eyes out

I’ve been on a crying jag this entire year! Too many losses.

[barbtries]

32. me too.

I haven't cried this much since my daughter died, when I wept daily for about 2 years.

[lunatica]

40. Me too

My son died so I’m with you there. But now, like when Nicole Wallace ends her show with what she calls A Life Well Lived, I always cry for him. The pain and tears are right under the surface all the time.

[CTyankee]

44. While I never had a loss like yours, I found it difficult to get over the death of my beloved

sister in law, whom I considered a sister. The pain of losing her was almost physical and I grieved for so long I thought I was losing my mind.

[lunatica]

46. Losing someone you love that much

is life altering. It doesn’t matter how they’ve connected to you. They leave a pain filled hole in you, and nothing can ever fill it again. At least in time you will remember them mostly with a smile, like Joe Biden tells us.

[CTyankee]

48. Oh, I do. And I have a new granddaughter after her...

I announced it here on DU. My (former) grandson is transitioning to female and is taking her name. I know my sister in law would have loved it had she lived.

[lunatica]

52. That's such a wonderful homage!

[barbtries]

50. All the time.

July is the hardest month in the best of times.

[highplainsdem]

11. Brilliant eulogy. Incredibly moving.

[Cha]

25. Aloha, hpd..

Link to tweet

[RainCaster]

13. I want to see him on the SCOTUS

[barbtries]

33. I hadn't thought of that.

But he would make a fine Justice I think.

[RainCaster]

42. Constitutional law was his thing, he's perfect

[CTyankee]

49. Betch President Biden will do just that!

[Joinfortmill]

14. Obama went there!!

[ancianita]

15. It's campaign worthy, and most importantly what John Lewis would have said.

[denem]

17. It is what John Lewis would have wanted.

Not a respectful, warm celebration of his life, but a call to action.

[Cha]

27. Precisely!

Link to tweet

[CTyankee]

45. And he was in a black church for who knew that calls to action were absolutely necessary

for their very survival.

[StClone]

16. As Obama spoke POS Trump called a Surprise announcement!

According to Thom Hartmann, Trump wanted reports to cover his schlock show distraction.

[lagomorph777]

21. That's hilarious.

I assume only Fux and ONANism complied.

[StClone]

28. Thom has taken a lot of time to deduce why tRump dismantles...

...everything Obama did. He thinks it stems from that roast of Trumpy where Obama skewered the pig to within an inch of political death. Petty, universally, cosmically, abysmally little man Trump.

[Vinca]

18. It's mind blowing to think that this funeral has been the most uplifting words of hope

we've heard in months and months. Obama was inspiring and so were many other speakers. Even Dubya was good. What a shame it all had to happen because of the loss of such a great man.

[CTyankee]

47. Dubya might be trying to improve his place in history. It cost him nothing to do that and got him

more respect. I see now that he wasn't he lowest of the low.

[marieo1]

19. Great admiration for President Obama

No one can deliver a genuine speech better than President Obama. He is great as always. You can tell he had great respect and love for John Lewis. Thank you, President Obama, for delivering such a great eulogy for a really great human being.

[Cha]

20. Mahalo President Obama!! TY George!

I remember when the rethugs whined Big that the Dems were using Paul Wellstone's Memorial politically.. well Wellstone was Political!

And, this is who John Lewis IS!

[still_one]

35. Yes

[Hekate]

24. DH and I cried just about all the way through. At one point as the Real POTUS was describing ...

...tear gas and billy-clubs, I thought, “Here’s looking at you, Portland” and all the other cities in what is a war for the soul of our nation.

[hibbing]

29. ugh...tears

Not only for the loss of one of my heroes, but also the loss of what we had.


Peace

[barbtries]

30. He's inspired by the spirit of John Lewis.

I'm just watching it now and crying and crying.

[hamsterjill]

34. I just get this sense of pride when I see him.

Clinton, too. And to some extent of late, even George Bush.

I get wistful, too. I felt safe with Obama. I felt comfort and dignity. I’m in my sixties and with the horrible mess that Trump has made, I know it will take longer than my lifetime for ANY one to fix that mess. I’ll never feel safe again.

And it really pisses me off that I’ve been robbed of that.

[sheshe2]

54. I hear you, hamsterjill.

My great niece turned one last week. I have only held her twice.

And it really pisses me off that I’ve been robbed of that.

Love and hugs to you and yours.

[Blecht]

41. I'm finally getting the chance to see some of this

I'm looking forward to sitting down to watch the whole thing.

Great speaker, great man.

He brings tears to my eyes.

[progressive nobody]

43. That had to be therapeutic for Obama.

[Shaddox]

51. Got home from work and just watched. Amazing. O really leveraged John's power here.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

58. I saw it live & thought President Obama was magnificent!

I naively did not anticipate RWers flipping out about it. Daring to call President Barack Obama "disrespectful" for "politicizing" the event.

Those belligerently ignorant morons neither know nor care anything about John Robert Lewis.

[leftyladyfrommo]

59. He was just emphasizing the things John Lewis

stood for his whole life.

Rs are going crazy because it was such a good speech and people were on their feet.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

63. I guess I should learn not to expect logical behavior from Rs.

Especially the brainwashed fools (or bots) who post the most disgusting RWBS on Twitter. But, somehow it just keeps surprising me.

It's just so hard to believe anyone could be so entrenched in a belief system based on such blatant and easily disproved lies. I always knew to RW propaganda machine was strong, but I must have thought there was a limit to just how much reality the subjects could deny.

[leftyladyfrommo]

65. His holdouts in the RW are so entrenched that they

won't change. They really are like a cult. The awful stuff they write still bothers me. It's scary.

[George II]

60. Oh they were all over this last night, most disgusting was Tucker Carlson...

He had the gall to call Obama "a greasy politician" and "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures"!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

62. I know there are some truly ignorant and/or brainwashed people out there, but I do have to wonder

if Carlson is that delusional or if he he's fully aware of the extent of his scurrilous behavior. I tend to think there's no way on earth he doesn't know Obama is 100 times the man, in all good things, that Trump is. Despicable person.

[leftyladyfrommo]

66. Carlson makes his big money being an asshole.

Just like Ann Coulter. It's their schtick.