# Having heard Barack Obama talking about Cronkite he can deliver my eulogy.

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**Created:** [July 19, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-heard-barack-obama-talking-about-cronkite-he-can-deliver-my-eulogy/503498 "2009-07-19T01:38:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-heard-barack-obama-talking-about-cronkite-he-can-deliver-my-eulogy/503498/1 "2009-07-19T01:38:49Z")

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I assume I get the services of his writers too.

That was a lovely bit though. I heard it on the radio and it sounded serious without being grave and even if you had never heard of Cronkite it gave a sense of his place in American culture.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-heard-barack-obama-talking-about-cronkite-he-can-deliver-my-eulogy/503498/2 "2009-07-20T16:05:06Z")

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It sounded to me like he’d just came back from an all-night bender, and somebody stuck the copy into his hands and said “Read.”

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