President Barack Obama on Friday plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral services for a Democratic state senator who died last week in the attack on a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the White House announced Monday.
Both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will attend the funeral services for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D), who also served as a pastor at Emanuel AME in downtown Charleston, the White House said.
Pinckney, who was remembered by colleagues as the “moral compass” of the state Senate, started preaching and legislating from a young age. He became an ordained minister at age 18 and joined the state House at age 23, according to The Associated Press. Pinckney was survived by his wife, Jennifer, and two daughters, Eliana and Malana.
WILL OHBUMmer reFer to PINckeNY as “MY N**Ger”? And WHY is IT oK for OHBUmmer To sAY it BEcAUSe he’s A DEmoNRAt and THEY’re aLL RAcists dURING recoNSTRUCtion aND AFterWards. DEMonrats LOve THE starS and Bars HIStoricALLY. SEn ByRD!1!1!!!one!!!
You can believe it will be a heartfelt eulogy from the best President ever. This is a truly decent man. So glad I lived long enough to see him as President and witness his brilliance and decency,
I love you Mr.President
The Secret Service better up their game. Too many wingnuts out there thinking this is a golden opportunity to have a President Boehner.
Yup, because it’s only a matter of time before the Wurlitzer starts up about how Obama is making this a race issue again, as he hasn’t eulogized all the white police officers that were murdered by black kids or some such idiocy. And the media will play it all day long.
Beat me to it.
I’ll just add that, just like the eulogy after the Arizona shootings, it will be eloquent, passionate, dignified, and non-partisan, and even the semi-sane Republicans won’t have anything to find fault with.