President Obama --- today AMAZING GRACE
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in this way. 
and the KFC buckets were full!
Pretty good in the pulpit for a muslim!
in this masterful speech.
Obama mused on the notion of "grace" ("I was blind but now I see"
as something bestowed, without our deserving it ... and listed all the things we have suddenly seen and understood by virtue of this horrific crime in which nine lives were lost. And then he moved on to say that having that grace of "seeing" bestowed upon us is not enough. It is up to us to do something with it.
He then seamlessly pivoted into the most riveting political commentary on race, poverty, violence, and guns I have ever witnessed. It was mesmerizing. This song was merely the apotheosis, the call to arms. We've all seen ... now rise up and continue to act.
When he broke into song it was both shocking and inspirational. What it was not was just another hymn at a funeral.
had them bound. None of us knows what will come in the wake of this most marvelous speech, but if the Republicans were half as touched by it as most of us were, then we'll see some serious soul searching into what kind of country we want to be. Hopefully, that soul searching will lead to some serious legislative actions. 
I had just left work and was pulling out of the parking spot while listening to the MSNBC simulcast on SiriusXM and heard the singing start and said wait..? Is that him singing????? And definitely knew it was!!!! And I also knew I had to see the video of it, so thank you for posting that part of the service.
