There's a large number of people whose deaths have impacted upon me far more meaningfully that a fearsome and dangerous US president.
It seems good to me to remember that this is a US election year and the US right wing and the military industrial complex need a major event to re-bond after the recent horrifying revelations of duplicity and state sanctioned savagery. It does not surprise me that Margaret Thatcher- Attilla The Hen from Number ten- was one of the eulogists.
The tragic thing is the extent to which the state and the mass media have dragged the American people into this piece of propagandist theatre. It's got too much in common with Stalin's funeral to be comfortable with.
                               Jack Halyard