Meanwhile, headline on the Minneapolis Star and Sickle website reads:
“Obama thrills crowd as he honors Mandela in South Africa”.
Industrial-strength stupid from our media. As usual.
Is that what happens at a funeral? The crowd gets thrilled?
I don’t remember ever being thrilled while at a funeral
“We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace,” said Obama, who like Mandela became the first black president of his country. Obama said that when he was a student, Mandela “woke me up to my responsibilities — to others, and to myself — and set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today.”
Lot of “me” in there.