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President Obama Left Quite a Mark at the Funeral Service for Elijah Cummings
It just so happens he left it on another president.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 25, 2019
There are quite a few people in this city who are adept at throwing shade. But there is no shade like Obama shade. Obama shade is deeper and cooler than the shade thrown by ordinary mortals. Under Obama shade, you could play hockey in the Mojave. On Friday, people said their final farewells to Rep. Elijah Cummings up in Baltimore. It was a lyrical, joyful service at which a number of people spoke. One of them was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who said, in part:
Mmmmmm, Bible shade. Let me get out of this hot sun for a moment. But the ombre de resistance came from the most recent former president, who gave everyone in church and on television some coverage.
I was sitting here and I was just noticing the honorable Elijah E. Cummings. You know, this is a title that we confer on all kinds of people who get elected to public office. We are supposed to introduce them as honorable. But Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office. Theres a difference. There is a difference if you were honorable and treated others honorably. Outside the limelight. On the side of a road. In a quiet moment, counseling somebody you work with. Letting your daughters know you love them.
Yeah, that'll leave a mark.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29592920/elijah-cummings-funeral-barack-obama-speech-donald-trump/
tblue37
(65,488 posts)mcar
(42,375 posts)Hillary and Obama did the best shade. Maya Cummings was just right out there!
iluvtennis
(19,873 posts)and his wife Maya Rockeymoore Cummings - she was amazing.
mcar
(42,375 posts)His daughters, too. What a wonderful celebration of a life well lived!
iluvtennis
(19,873 posts)Hekate
(90,816 posts)His quotes from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made my eyes prickle.
mcar
(42,375 posts)a kennedy
(29,709 posts)It was sooooooooooo personal...
bottomofthehill
(8,347 posts)I would have been a mess. She was so clam, measured and loving. It was so good to see the feelings she had for her father and hear her tell of the feelings her father had for her. We
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)them as "honorable." was priceless. Those in attendance erupted with laughter and applause.
Then, he went on with, "But Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office."
There had to have been some squirming in their seats by a few of the Congresscritters who attended.
mcar
(42,375 posts)kept panning to Gym Jordan. Ugh.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)His day will come.
mcar
(42,375 posts)drray23
(7,637 posts)a kennedy
(29,709 posts)Cha
(297,679 posts)for this, mcar.. and Mahalo to President Obama!
RIP~Elijah
And Hill spoke first!
Cha
(297,679 posts)Hillary's!
Fla Dem
(23,753 posts)wonderful eulogies.
NNadir
(33,552 posts)...lost decency so quickly?
Only Obama could have shown such rhetorical power and so captured the longing of our nation for justice.
I was not aware of Congressman Cummings until the hearing where he spoke to Michael Cohen, beautifully, and with great compassion for a man who was confessing to awful things.
Now I wish I'd known more of Congressman Cummings. It is terrible that he is gone, but in going when he did, he gave us an opportunity to see what we have lost.
mcar
(42,375 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)mcar
(42,375 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)mcar
(42,375 posts)He's probably already pissed he didn't get invited to speak. His 2 nemeses were speaking. You know he's playing it over and over and stewing in his own flop sweat.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)And he'd have little comprehension of what was being said if he did.
But I wonder if any red state, white ministers, of all people, would understand these words and have even a twinge of acknowledgement of how mighty Pres. Obama's words are and perhaps even a bit of guilt over how they've been wronging this country. Naww, silly thought; their souls too far buried in the muck of lies.
lastlib
(23,287 posts)...that it probly didn't even register in his dim consciousness. But everyone else who saw or heard it knew exactly who the target was, even thhough his name was never used.
malaise
(269,169 posts)I loved it
Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)Cha
(297,679 posts)Bayard
(22,153 posts)His eulogy got to me in many ways.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
--Gandhi
Strength, honor, forgiveness, humility, these are qualities that Trump will never have. These are qualities embodied in the character of Jesus, whom the evangelicals purport to serve.
Some Bible followers think that Trump is the Anti-Christ for the very reason that the evangelical power base has embraced him. I say that Representative Cummings was the Anti-Trump.
Honorable Elijah E. Cummings indeed.