++President Obama wove "Amazing Grace"" and even sung it during his eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney in Charleston. It was a fabulous speech, almost matching my favorite "The Walls of Jericho" delivered in the 2008 campaign at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
++President Obama spoke about how American came to realize the pain the Confederate flag caused the "oppressed." He quoted Rev. Pinckney about how "We in the South understand history. It's just not that we understand each other's history."
++President Obama used the speech to again lament gun violence and how after the cameras disappear we don't spend the effort to help those in poverty or the young to get ahead.
++The President as preacher did himself proud today, channeling his inner Black American to shed his grace on the audience.
++Without a doubt, President Obama closes the week as the winner and ,in Howard Dean's words, had maybe one of his best weeks of his presidency.
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