http://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8854855/read-full-text-obamas-eulogy-charleston-shooting

Whoa. That caption... Really? All you heard was an untrained singing voice?

This brought me to tears. Our "half white" president stopped editing himself and sang in the tradition of the church he attended for 20 years in Chicago.

I couldn't be more proud of him. What an incredible human being.

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Thought it was good, generally on-key - though maybe started a little low. He's got a good singing voice. *promote

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No no no offense/diss intended. I was just caught off guard. In my mind I was comparing it to his beautiful [but brief] rendition of Al Green's I'm So In Love With You ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6uHR90Sq6k


And thanks @dag for Sweet Home Chicago

I know you were being honest. I think you missed the historical, cultural and personal meaning of the moment in a way that detracts from the significance. And starting low was the point, I think -- this is the tradition, isn't it, of low slow hymns that come from deep experience?

Sometimes it just isn't the time to make a joke. Comedy is tragedy plus time, as the saying goes. We are in the midst of tragedy. Too soon, I think, and coming from the wrong color skin.

[Coming back to clarify -- indeed it is the imperfections of his singing that brought even more resonance. Singing in front of a worldwide audience, when you aren't a singer? It is the imperfections that highlight the humanity. Who cares about perfection when your soul calls out for grace? Isn't that the point?]

Trying to imagine what would have got Bush to sing..

What a hypocrite.

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