There was a time  when great orators ruled countries.

Elijah proved that top officials in our government knew how to speak.

We now live in different times.

I planned to skip the eulogies for Representative Cummings.

The idea was just to depressing.

First, this great man was one year younger than me. I mean my own mortality has been at issue.

Second, this great man was most probably the best spokesman for Baltimore.

     (Baltimore, a shithole according to our present POTUS.)

Third, this great man could have been a real instrument in bringing in some repubs into the current

impeachment fray.

Anyway, I was fucking around on Youtube this PM and here was another one of my heroes.

Elijah's widow chose Barack as the person she would be seated next to.

Oh, and this widow gave one hell of a speech prior to Barack!

I became undone, so to speak listening to this eulogy.

It was the tenor.

It was the vocabulary.

It was the spirit.

It was Obama.

We now have a leader who refuses to read anything, a leader who refuses to listen to experts,

a leader who does not give one goddamn for sincerity....

All right, that is enough.

I just listened to the eulogies and I now feel better.

THERE IS HOPE.

But as to the late Elijah and our former President Obama, I feel this tune coming on: