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Washington Post: When she set out to her local library in North Miami to cast her vote in the presidential election last year, Desiline Victor had no way of knowing the journey would lead all the way to the White House.
On Tuesday night, Victor, a 102-year-old Haitian immigrant, will sit in the ornate House chamber as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama to listen to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
Victor voted for the president, but it was not easy. On her first visit to the polls on the morning of Oct. 28, the first day of early voting, she waited in line for three hours. Poll workers eventually advised her to come back later, and she did.
….. The whirlwind trip has taken Victor out of her element. She had to buy a coat, since a heavy winter jacket isn’t usually needed in balmy Miami. And here, she’s “Ms. Victor” instead of “Granny”….
But when she meets the president, perhaps the address may be less formal. Victor already feels a kinship with the commander in chief.
“I call him ‘my son,’ ” she says. “I feel like he is my son.”
Full article here
The Obama Diary 
We’re still going strong?
Fired up, ready to GO! Yes we CAN!
🐈 Is Kitty back were she belongs?
💤
Desiline Victor is a hero!
Looks like he’s drinking from a baby’s bottle.
This is worse than leaning left. Lol
🙂
Learned a new acronym, SSDD, Same Shit, Different Dude!
2016….going down…down…down….like a thirsty gulp of water.
Chips, I thought I was the only one still awake! However, I’m giving up on my papers and going to bed now. Sweet dreams all!
Night Mary!!
Alright, really good night now!
I can’t believe Boehner SAT through the recognition of Desiline – but I’m sure she didn’t see it – unlike the rest of the world.
Also too – thank you for all of the posts today – they are wonderful.
Yes, 99ts, because no matter what his prejudices and political differences, it is common humanity to applaud a 102 year old who stands in line so long and cares to much about voting. Boenher is completely with class. A low life.
I did everything I could do not to look at John Boehner . He doesn’t deserve to be sitting up there.
I didn’t think anyone was around. My iPad crashed, fixed it and went to FB. Then had to see what was going on in Big Bear. Hopefully he is the body in the burned down house, but all precautions still being taken until results verified its him by forensics. Chips, this is the greatest blog ever! I get lots of FB posts from Dems, but the comments are awful sometimes. It is too time consuming for me to block them all.
I am a night owl! Read everything. Clearly you and the other TOD members, led by Chipsticks, have been on fire tonight/this morning!
It has been a hoot. I think it was the post just before this one that was hilarious, but this shift is pretty good too! I’m just wound up!
Okay, no I’m not.
Going back on twitter was a mistake
SSDD, Same Shit, Different Dude.
That just might be IT!
Gotta go sleep, see you in the morning everyone.
Great job today. Have a great night.
Fabulous job indeed – sweet dreams
Fantastic job today, Chips. I was able to deal with the distraction of work, knowing that I could catch up on all the happenings when I got home tonight. I can’t wait until I win the lottery and don’t have to interrupt my TOD-viewing in order to earn a salary… Or, I could just run for Congress…
Go for it theo67! IN I presume?
California!
Oh, is IN. for something else?
It was at the beginning of hte campaign, when we were asked to declare whether we were “in” with the President. I was “in”. I really should update my avatar, I guess, now that the campaign is over.
Oh, I was in, but I don’t remember seeing that.
I was “in” 2012. Made our first political contribution in ’08. Didn’t have as easy access to computer to do much in WY, but we did a lot this year. We liked to think we helped turn CO blue. We made lots of calls with very few people. Met Dems I didn’t know existed in WY! 😉
How is LA this morning? I stayed up until 6:39am MST and I got up about 45 minutes ago. Just in time to see our wonderful President. He sounds so happy. 🙂
You are clearly living the life of leisure… It’s bright and sunny, but still with a bite of cold in the air. I got into work a couple of hours ago, so it’s probably warmed up quite a bit since then. But, another gorgeous day in California!
It’s starting out ok here, but overcast. We are hoping for snow because we are seriously low on moisture. Much worse than usual. It so much prettier with snow, unless you have to drive in it. It’s sort of a life of forced leisure. 😉 Enjoy sunny California!
Thanks Chips. sleep well.
Might not see me until noon. 😉
Sweet dreams. 😴
I didn’t watch anything but Cspan, only showed Rubio, took a few calls and then replayed #SOTU. Did Rand get any attention? Probably read about it tomorrow or not. Nasty, nasty things being said about Nutgent. 😈 I think he earned it.
You are sooo good at this. I’m so good at retweeting!
Thanks cm. Also. Too. for the RT’s.
You bet. My specialty. 😉
It’s a Technic, Amk 😉
Technicality is how TBGOPers role.
wow. ms. desiline is 2 years older than rosa parks, and desiline received a standing ovation at tonight’s state of the union speech of america’s first black president….perspective.
Progress.
Is anyone talking about Rubio’s speech, eg, what he actually talked about? It appears that the “Big Gulp” overshadowed the speech. 🙂
And apparently there was some pretty vicious stuff about Social Security in it.
Despite he went to College with govt loans – and his parents loved medicare – Rubio hates government
Yup. Just as I predicted. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude. The thugs never learn.
Apparently tweety didn’t like it – not that that is any recommendation for tweety
Tweety doesn’t like himself. He does stand against the race bating. I’ll give him that.
Does Rubio really live in same neighborhood he grew up in? I doubt it. Seems govt treated him and his family well. Doesn’t he remember Cubans are allowed to become citizens as soon as they touch our soil? Time for them to get in line too. SSDD (Same shit, different dude)
He is a typical rethug. He got mine will all the government help. Now that I’m a corrupt millionaire, fuck yours
That’s what I thought. He never impressed me as a good speaker and he proved me right tonight. They think $400,000 is still middle class, yet average household makes $45,000. There is something wrong with that idea. $30 an hour minimum wage would be $60-70,000 a year, depending on hours work. Try raising a family of four on that.
I’m so proud of her for waiting in line. She could make a fortune promoting the comfortable shoes she was wearing while waiting three hours. 🙂 We are better than this! Amk, what time is it where you are? 3:51am in WY.
amk, it’s an absolute disgrace that she stood in line at all. Poll workers and voters should be ever watchful for this kind of thing and should always bring the very elderly and disabled to the front of the line. It’s outrageous that no one in Miami had the sense to do this.
‘No body’ found in California cabin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21437322
The CA police’s ham handed approach is stunning. Burn off the house to get to a guy who was not there ?
Someone posted that the sheriff said the house was too hot, and they won’t attempt to get in there tonight. Any reports about bodies is incorrect. The whole thing is a tragedy. This Dorner character was one of the “good guys” that LaPierre is always spouting off about, and yet, he’s created such tragedy – fr himself and other people. This wasn’t the way to handle it- on all sides.
I read in LA Times a few minutes ago there is a body. They are not saying it is Dorner until forensics are in. Will take some time to sort it out. It was two maids he tied up. It was apparently a rental cabin. When the owner saw it on local TV, she new it was supposed to be empty and called police. It’s worth the read to sort things out a little better. I don’t follow LA Times, so don’t know about their credibility, but sounded like sounded like a good police briefing and they didn’t make wild claims. Police still protecting those named in manifesto just in case. I’m still confused about the timeline and just how many people he killed. At least four too many. I’m trying to take in #SOTU so I’ll sort through the facts about Dorner tomorrow.
Someone should have told Rubio that the “Savior” is supposed to walk ON water, not gulp it (in desperation)…!
LOL, I think everyone is Getty their second wind.
Well Getty should be getting. But you smarties probably know that.
I’m glad the Big Gulp happened as it was emblematic of the phoniness of Marco Rubio as a potential leader in our country. He lies about his own biography and tries to present his story and his values as something other than what they truly are. He is a phony, a con man, trying to con his way into the oval office. I think his con began to unravel some time ago, but this evening it melted away.
Thanks Bill R., for exposing the Rubio lie!
Sweated away? 😉
#SOTU
#TrustBarack He’s just given another lesson in WHY.
After viewing it again and thinking about it through the evening, am even more emphatic about the quality of President Obama’s SOTU ….
time for some rest
Who is the unhappy looking woman sitting next to Desiline, I would have been all smiles to have the same opportunity to sit next to Desiline.
she caught my eye, too. she may be very sad, or very tense about the tv cameras.
She got that ticket last year. Thought she was coming to see Ann Romney and someone forgot to tell her…
No, she’s had a long day.
Maybe Desiline let one fly right before PBO called her name. 😀
When you’re 102 yrs old, you’ve earned the right to fart whenever & wherever you freakin’ want! LOL!!!
Yes she has. But you are bad to the bone Dudette! 😉
Let me just say, it depends! 😈
Heheheheheh!
well, at least she was joining others in the applause. Also. Too. boner. Would have been more classy if she (& boner) had stood up while doing so. After all, the woman was sitting next to her.
Oh, just tell us a blond joke. You know you want too! 🙄
She may be one of the twenty-six victims of gun violence or there as a place filler. Ms. Victor only speaks Haitian Creole. It may have been a long day for her. Or it may be the women who sent the names of the people in Florida who had waited a long time in line. I don’t think those seats would be that comfortable and the traffic and waiting in line, going through security checks, she was caught in a moment. I’ll go look up the email I got from the woman who accompanied Ms Victor.
Well, I must have deleted it. I have gotten about a hundred emails today.
I really think the sad woman is the one who suggested Desiline as an example of the voting problems in Florida. What had the President said just before this? Anyone remember? Let’s give her a break.
Why focus on the woman sitting next to Ms. Desiline, when the star is Ms. Desiline.
Maybe she’s there as a caregiver and was trying to focus?
i came home to watch the sotu on tape, so really enjoyed all the tod comments and hilarity as a preview! thanks chips for providing this big, comfy, sofa-filled living room for us all to gather in 🙂
I know, our comfy Watch party.
Dudette – if you are still around – I was reading on BJ that 3 of the Justices from the Supreme Court did not attend. I was of the opinion that like most Western countries the judiciary is supposed to be the 3rd arm of government – not attached to politics at all. Is there somewhere I can read about the reality of this Supreme Court. Is this the first time the Judges did not attend a SOTU?
They should be ashamed. Scalia was giving a speech somewhere, they must not work too hard either. Of course Alito still has his Calvin Kliens in a twist. And Thomas couldn’t go without Scalia. Did you notice Justice Ginsberg was wearing black lace gloves. Very romantic and old school, but she may be worried about her health and a precaution.
Did that make it three men and THREE WOMEN?
Now what is BJ? I’ve been racking my brain.
I think he means Balloon Juice. http://www.balloon-juice.com/
Thanks Dudette.
Hi 99ts!
They’re not required to come. There’s a very detailed study about it here:
Click to access SOTU%280%29.pdf
History of Presidents giving the speech starts on pg 5
History of SCOTUS attendance starts on pg 7
Dudette, I stood up and clapped although I was just watching a taped speech! I don’t care what Boehner did because, as far as I am concerned, he has no ethics.
[waving at you, nath] Hi Friend! 🙂
I’m proud of her and the people who surrounded her and cheered when she voted. I bet she still has the I voted sticker!
Hey guys. Can anyone help me out? I am looking for a transcript of the immigration reform speech, i think it must have been around January 29 or 30? Would love to use bits of that on an exam.
Hi nil! Start here and work your way backwards by date
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks
This is the video
http://www.barackobama.com/immigration/
This is transcript from NY times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-obamas-remarks-on-immigration-reform.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
CNN
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/29/transcript-obama-says-the-time-has-come-for-for-comprehensive-immigration-reform/
Date given is 29 Jan – presume that is the one you want
Lots more on google
Exactly what I´ve been looking for. Thanks 🙂
You have everything at your finger tips! 😉
We’re sticking Nugent on them!
https://twitter.com/ESQ_USMC/status/301640136297435137
It drives me crazy….Marco Rubio’s emphasis is always about people creating small businesses. In fact that is the mantra of the Republican Party. Well, everyone can’t create a business…not everyone even wants to. It is one of the reasons they can’t grasp the value of job creation…”can’t find a job, create one.” I can’t help but wonder why people who hate government so much fight so hard to be in it.
Most small business fail in first year.
Most definitely a ladies man! 🙂
Off to work in a bit I just wanted to post an observation this morning. Watching Bill Press this morning. He is touting the execution of a man in Big Bear without trial by jury. Now don’t get me wrong, but was he not one of the loudest screamers about drones?
See? How long before the far left says that the result of this fire was a Stealth drone?
LOL!
Here’s a little tidbit that you may find interesting, Proud. This nation sanctioned lynching for a hundred years…execution without the benefit of trial by jury. Here’s the important part…Congress, in particular the Senate would not entertainment outlawing the practice even though more than 200 bills were presented to the body. In 2005, they finally passed a Resolution apologizing for their failure to acknowledge that lynching was wrong. 20 Senators…19 Republicans and 1 Democrat refused to sign-on. By the way, that same year they introduced “stand your ground”. Can’t string ’em up, shoot ’em.
Who was the Democrat, do you know?
Here’s the entire list:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
Kent Conrad. He’s gone, right?
Sorry, I don’t know for sure, but if he isn’t gone already, this is his last term.
I think Heidi replaced him.
You’re right. I don’t like her yet either.
She will be better than the alternative. 😉
Kent Conrad was replaced by Heidi in 2012…..ND.
Yes, that’s what I thought. Too lazy to look it up. Thank you. 🙂
Thank you. 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
I am
Not sure how that fire started, but the word is that over 500 rounds were fired.
Btw- those casings are very hot… So, maybe it was caused by incendiary shell casings?
Dorner had lots of firepower and stuff. LA Times had a no nonsense post about it. I read it an hour r two ago. It explains it. Just google LA Times and the front page. It seemed like a good, no nonsense explanation.
Also, somebody asked Valerie Jarrett if the President is cocky?
What a question?
Do we know what she said? I Would not be good in a job like that. 😉
She said he is confident not cocky!
Classy.
You know they really mean “uppity”.
Gibbs has been on Msnbc for 45 minutes and he has spoken all for about a minute.
They go to everybody but him, every stinking segment.
He is basically just sitting there, I would get up and leave.
He should! Is Mark Halperin there? He called the president on live TV on morning Joe. Suspended for a week. Shouldn’t be on ever again. I complained about him on other shows on MSNBC because it was futile to comment on Morning Joe. Haven’t seen him for LNG time, but I quit watching MSNBC as much as I could.
My thoughts exactly. That and the million dollar reward, fucked up emmessem management. The CA police head honchos should be fired for sheer incompetency.
Another ex-officer is corroborating what Dorner said in his manifesto.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/joe-jones-manifesto-christopher-dorner_n_2670513.html
Don’t jump to conclusions. Can’t believe everything media puts out there.
I never jump to conclusions, but I’m willing to give him the benefit of a doubt because of my own experience when I had the nerve to file a complaint against a police sergeant. Two detectives came to my house and tried to convince me to drop the complaint. I refused. I received a traffic citation every single day (sometimes two) or was pulled over. They even picked up my daughter one day on the way home from school…she was twelve. It’s a long story, but when they wanted to charge me with filing a false report, I discovered that I had the initial encounter on a camcorder. My daughter had been recording me doing a new dance she was trying to teach me and had left it running.
Oh, I’m sorry. Thank goodness for the camcorder. That must have been traumatic.
But they think drones killing American terrorists is wrong.
perfect!
NY Times article about Mrs. Victor (love the picture)
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/a-102-year-old-face-of-voting-delays-at-the-state-of-the-union/?smid=tw-thecaucus
There are ugly comments posted on there now! Disgusting.
Argh. I didn’t read them. It’s my habit not to read them on NYT for that very reason. Pretty vile people out there.
I try not to, but they were right there.
We all know that there are disgusting people out there.
Yes, we do. Not personally though.
So many good tweets, so little time…
So the hypocrite Rubio who took advantage of student loans, Medicare, and who knows what else, want to get rid of these things to help other people.
Morning! Great pic 🙂
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/02/13/marco-h20/
LOL!
During the VP debate in 2012, Paul Ryan was also drinking loads of water – what’s up with lying Rethugs and the need to drink water?
Basic law of physics: Hot air dries the throat! You can only tell some many lies before you need to hydrate.
I can’t help it — they’re just TOO GOOD!
On Morning Joe they’re talking about Calvin Coolidge and praising him to the high heavens. What is it about these people and revisionist history? He was the President of eugenics, who wrote “There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is a great necessity to a nation as immigration law.”
He signed the immigration law that banned Asians, the mentally ill, illiterate, epileptics, homosexuals, alcoholics, etc. He signed the law that allowed mandatory sterilization.
Maybe you should inform him….and ask if that’s what he REALLY thinks is fine and dandy? I never listen to this BS in the morning…what about Coolidge is he praising? Good grief…
You don’t really expect Morning Schmoe to actually know history do you?
Sorry it took me so long to respond…had to make a run. I actually try to avoid Morning Joke, but I have guest who love the show. I think the man is an idiot. To Desertflower, of course they wanted everyone to know what a great guy he was…as great, in many ways, as Lincoln. The part that pissed me off…”President Obama could learn a thing or two from Coolidge”.
Have a great day everybody! 😀
You too! Try not to break out in spontaneous laughter today thinking about the Rube 🙂
Oh, they already know I’m crazy at work. It’s alright! 😀
Suspect that someone has shared this moment of exchange between PBO and Sen M Kirk. I missed it when it happened live
This GIF of Obama’s Exploding Bipartisan Fist Bump Is the State of the Union Highlight
http://gawker.com/5983860/this-gif-of-obamas-exploding-fist-bump-is-the-state-of-the-union-highlight
You Tube search: drinking water helps you poop! 😈
Also search: Cute Elephant Drinking Water From Pool, Walking
The European Union and the US will begin formal talks on a free-trade agreement, paving the way for the biggest trade deal in history.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the joint announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
A deal would bring down trading barriers between the two biggest economies in the world.
EU-US trade is worth around 455bn euros (£393bn; $613bn) a year.
Mr Obama announced US support for talks as part of his annual address to Congress on Tuesday, saying a free-trade deal would “boost American exports, support American jobs and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia”.
In a joint statement, US and EU leaders said trade between the US and EU supported millions of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Well, it’s about damn time!
What about reparations? 20 acres and a mule…….do not hold your breath!
Awake, alert and in the villlage, somewhere! Good Morning!
Is that the real reason he is retiring…….seriously?
I don’t believe it for a second. Has more to do with pedophiles and money….
DF, I know it has to be more…..my question is: Does he have to give the ring back?
🙂
Good morning, TODville.
Good news! Jen Psaki is going to the State Dept. as a spokesperson!
Awesome.
Good morning, VC!
What’s cookin?
Hi there, LDS! Nothing yet. Can’t decide what to eat. You know that feeling when you want something ‘nice’ but can’t decide what? I’ll probably go eat a yogurt as consolation in a little bit.
Yes, I know. Just grabbed a handful of raw almonds…..
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/02/13/rise-and-shine-429/
What a heroine Desiline Victor is, and I do not think it was a coincidence, that Ms. Valerie Jarrett, was seated right in front of Ms. Victor, very respectful of the inner circle of The White House, though I did not expect otherwise – the humanity of President Obama shows at all levels, in sharp contrast to the absolutly embarrasing and rude
behaviour of John Boehner, who as a host ( in his case a so called “host”) did not at all live up his job, respecting
all “his ” guests. What a small mind, and if I were him, I would have committed harakiri on the spot…
Mario Rubio as “wunderkind” forget it!
President Obama fullfilled the greatest expectations, what a pleasure to witness him.
Thank You Chipsticks for all You do, and last night for the best laugh in a long time!
Lovely post as always, Lady Chips 🙂
Thanks.