# Comments on President Obama's Charleston speech and Amazing Grace

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-president-obamas-charleston-speech-and-amazing-grace/723565>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 26, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-president-obamas-charleston-speech-and-amazing-grace/723565 "2015-06-26T21:52:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-on-president-obamas-charleston-speech-and-amazing-grace/723565/61 "2015-06-29T21:55:40Z")

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> [@SaharaTea](#):
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> Your co-worker is certainly entitled to that opinion. But when we’re talking about someone’s funeral, the only opinions that matter are the deceased (if they had specific wishes) and the deceased’s family. Pinckney’s wife would have spoken up if she didn’t want Obama there.

In fact, wasn’t he invited?

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