President Obama Will Deliver The Eulogy At Clementa Pinckney's Funeral

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Huffington Post



President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Rev. Clementa Pinckney's funeral.

According to a White House official, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Charleston on Friday for the services.

Pinckney was among the nine people who were shot and killed during a prayer service at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week. Pinckney was a state senator and the head of the Emanuel AME Church.

South Carolina state Sen. Marlon Kimpson (D) told ABC News Pinckney was the "moral conscience of the General Assembly."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/obama-clementa-pinckney_n_7639438.html

[Raine1967]

1. This man has had to deliver too many eulogies. **cry**

And for VP Biden to be there as well. I am just sobbing.

The weight on their shoulders….

What a good and decent man we have as a President. HE should be the eulogy presenter in chief, but too often, it seems he is.

[Politicub]

2. Just reading this and I started sobbing

This is going to be a eulogy for the ages.

[murielm99]

3. Damn, I wish our President did not have to do this.

I hope he mentions that this man was a state senator. This was a racist assassination first and foremost, but it was a political assassination, too. We need to hear that.

[Frustratedlady]

4. I worry about their safety.

With Obama and Biden at the same place, anything could happen. That is a hot bed right now and you don't know what these racists could do.

They both stand tall and somber. It's enough to break ones heart. Their demeanor makes me proud and Obama always comes up with just the right words to say.

Bless them both.

[heaven05]

5. Excellent

I hope he and Joe will be exceptionally well protected, double, triple, quadruple level protection especially because of the lapses of the SS during his tenure as POTUS and this eulogy being in the heart of the new confederacy.

[yurbud]

8. I have wondered if those "lapses" haven't been warnings

like "you stray from the Wall Street reservation, and all we have to do is tell someone to slack off a bit..."

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

12. There were racist "lapses" all the way back to Kennedy.

[RiverNoord]

10. Yep. The best agents will be on assignment

and I imagine the only thing that could get to either the President or Vice President that day would be a rather remarkable air strike. One that somehow evaded the cover provide by the Air Force over the region. So - I'm thinking no worries.

[KittyWampus]

6. what a great portrait. He had lovely eyes… full of light.

[Number23]

7. God, please protect the safety of BOTH of these good men. If anything happened to either of them in

Charleston, I don't know what the rest of this country would do.

[narnian60]

9. +1000

[ashling]

11. Maybe this seems a bit odd,

but the first thing I thought of was not JFK. RFK or others who were taken from us, but of Abraham Lincoln traveling to Richmond Virginia after that city fell to the Union ... of course, then he was taken.

[Cha]

13. Thank you, AH

[phleshdef]

14. Damn... and this is just after Beau's death. Talk about an ever downward emotional roller coaster...

[McCamy Taylor]

15. Tears.

[SunSeeker]

16. People will have to walk by the SC Capitol's Confederate Battle Flag to pay respect to Pinckney.

Rachel Maddow said last night that people will have to walk right by that vile flag as they go into the State House where Pinckney's casket will be available for viewing tomorrow.