Barack Obama actually said...

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

We do not weep for him today because of the prestige attached to his name or his office.

With his passing, an important chapter in our American story has come to an end.

His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say than...