And fittingly, the church's interior often resounded with song during the four-and-a-half-hour service.
Although Obama had no personal connection to Cronkite — he was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Occidental College when, in 1981, Cronkite signed off as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News" — he sat through the entire two-and-a-half-hour service, at Lincoln Center.
Indeed, the raucous three-and-a-half-hour service that the chief of staff, Leah Daughtry, 44, presided over last Sunday from the pulpit of the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn seemed a world away not just from Mr. Dean, but also from the ways of official Washington.
Although Obama had no personal connection to Cronkite he was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Occidental College when, in 1981, Cronkite signed off as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News"—he sat through the entire two-and-a-half-hour service, at Lincoln Center.
In the final minutes of the two-and-a-half-hour service, six of the core Muppet performers = Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Richard Hunt — sang, in their characters' voices, a medley of Jim Henson's favorite songs, eventually ending with a performance of "Just One Person" that began with Richard Hunt singing alone, as Scooter.
It seems that the three-and-a-half-hour services, colorful African dress and exuberant clapping and singing are not drawing many of the non-African New Yorkers whose souls he wants to save.
CHIP SHOTS There will be a half-hour memorial service Wednesday at 7 a.m.
In Marie's city, a half-hour "full service" costs just £40.Massage parlours are much safer than the streets, as even the government admitted this week.
