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President Barack Obama's is facing a flak again, this time for emphasizing his personal agenda in his eulogy for Nelson Mandela.

Addressing the global audience, Obama expressed wonder if he is doing enough to live up to Mandela's historic legacy: an unending fight against injustice and inequality.

Talking to a crowd of thousands at the rain-soaked memorial service, Obama expressed that it was crucial that progress in the U.S. and South Africa not "cloud the fact that our work is not yet done." He said that struggles to come "may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important."

"Behind Obama's words was the difficult political reality he and Mandela both faced. They became their nations' first black presidents, shattering racial barriers that once seemed impossible to break. But their groundbreaking electoral success came with sky-high expectations that proved difficult to fulfill, on problems like poverty and injustice," writes AZ Central.

“For Obama, Tuesdays focus on global inequality dovetailed with an agenda he is trying to revive in the U.S., as he seeks to steady his standing with middle class Americans after a trying presidential year. Obama’s renewed attention to the issue of income inequality in particular is popular with his liberal base, though he stands little chance of gaining support for items such as a minimum wage increase from congressional Republicans,” the site further wrote.

“With honesty, regardless of our station or our circumstance, we must ask: 'How well have I applied his lessons in my own life?” Obama said of Mandela. “It’s a question I ask myself, as a man and as president.”

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