Here is the Full text of the President Obama Eulogy at The Memorial Funeral Service and Celebration of Life for Senator Robert Byrd Given on July 2nd 2010 at the State House In West Virginia.

“It’s a life that immeasurably improved the lives of West Virginians. Of course, Robert Byrd was a deeply religious man, a Christian. And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength.

We know there are things he said — and things he did — that he came to regret. I remember talking about that the first time I visited with him. He said, “There are things I regretted in my youth. You may know that.” And I said, “None of us are absent some regrets, Senator. That’s why we enjoy and seek the grace of God.”

And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice. Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket, like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect.

Over his nearly six decades in our Capitol, he came to be seen as the very embodiment of the Senate, chronicling its history in four volumes that he gave to me just as he gave to President Clinton. I, too, read it. I was scared he was going to quiz me. (Laughter.)

But as I soon discovered, his passion for the Senate’s past, his mastery of even its most arcane procedures, it wasn’t an obsession with the trivial or the obscure. It reflected a profoundly noble impulse, a recognition of a basic truth about this country that we are not a nation of men, we are a nation of laws. Our way of life rests on our democratic institutions. Precisely because we are fallible, it falls to each of us to safeguard these institutions, even when it’s inconvenient, and pass on our republic more perfect than before.

Considering the vast learning of this self-taught Senator — his speeches sprinkled with the likes of Cicero and Shakespeare and Jefferson — it seems fitting to close with one of his favorite passages in literature, a passage from Moby Dick:

“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than any other bird upon the plain, even though they soar.”

Robert Byrd was a mountain eagle, and his lowest swoop was still higher than the other birds upon the plain. (Applause.)

May God bless Robert C. Byrd. May he be welcomed kindly by the righteous Judge. And may his spirit soar forever like a Catskill eagle, high above the Heavens. Thank you very much.”

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Revealed here is some Historic Video Of Senator Byrd’s Casket arriving at The United States Capitol on July 1st, 2010 in a hearse.

This is an historic moment because it was the first tine in over 50 years that a Senator had lied in Repose in the Capitol after his death.

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The WHITE HOUSE REVERSED THE IST STATEMENT | Michelle Obama's Father is not buried at Burr Oak Cemetery

President Obama will be present at Senator Robert Byrd’s Memorial Service  in West Virginia on Friday according to a White House Press Release, Odds are he will give a Eulogy. He has done that at every Public  Funeral  he has been at since he has been in office.

The President usually speaks everywhere he goes from a teleprompter. Things will probably be no different on June 2nd, 2010. The photo opportunity and Live Streaming Video will help MR. OBAMA’s Poll Numbers.

Snippet From USA Today:

“Both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will travel to West Virginia on Friday to attend the funeral of Sen. Robert Byrd.

The Memorial Service and Celebration of Life for the 92-year-old senator will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the State Capitol in Charleston, W. Va.”-via content.usatoday.com

Vice President Biden will be there as well.

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President Obama let Kennedy Speak to Congress from grave via letter

President Barack Obama  let Senator Ted Kennedy speak from the grave on 9.09.09. This is the second time Kennedy spoke from the Grave.  First he spoke through a letter at a  Arlington grave side funeral service via letter to the Pope. 2nd he spoke in a letter given to Obama after his death. Portions of  that  letter were read during Obama’s speech before Congress on Tuesday night.

Here is what Obama said via the Huffington Post:

“I received one of those letters a few days ago. It was from our beloved friend and colleague, Ted Kennedy. He had written it back in May, shortly after he was told that his illness was terminal. He asked that it be delivered upon his death.

In it, he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife, Vicki, and his children, who are here tonight . And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform – “that great unfinished business of our society,” he called it – would finally pass. He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that “it concerns more than material things.” “What we face,” he wrote, “is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.”

This was indeed a sad thing. The President of the United States using a Senator  in the grave to sell his Health Care Plan.

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kennedy program cover

Revealed Here is the PDF of the Senator Edward Kennedy Funeral Program. All the Scriptures, Readings and Music is all here available with a click of the mouse.

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION OF THE EDWARD “TED” KENNEDY FUNERAL MASS.

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Attendees included Four Living Presidents and the Washington ELITE

Forty Four Sitting Senators were present

Ted Kennedy Pic via the New York Times

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