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applegrove

(118,577 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 06:52 PM Jan 2017

Obama Surprises Biden with Award



https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/12/obama-surprises-biden-award/

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President Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a shocked Vice President Biden on Thursday at the White House, the Washington Post reports.

“Biden immediately spun around and wiped his face and eyes with his handkerchief. The president added that he was bestowing the medal ‘with distinction,’ an additional level of veneration that his predecessors had reserved for only three other recipients — Pope John Paul II, former President Ronald Reagan and Gen. Colin Powell.”


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Obama Surprises Biden with Award (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2017 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2017 #1
Oh bullshit ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #2
What happened there? I missed it. liberalnarb Jan 2017 #7
very touching and deserved suzanner Jan 2017 #3
This is what humility looks like. 2naSalit Jan 2017 #4
THAT video is a saver.... dixiegrrrrl Jan 2017 #5
God, I love Joe Biden! longship Jan 2017 #6
His reaction was the best! liberalnarb Jan 2017 #8
I can only hope rtracey Jan 2017 #9
this rtracey Jan 2017 #10

Response to applegrove (Original post)

longship

(40,416 posts)
6. God, I love Joe Biden!
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:24 PM
Jan 2017
Something in my eyes. Or maybe allergies or somethin'.

Scuse me. I'm a bit emotional right now. But this is a big fucking deal.
 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
9. I can only hope
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 04:36 PM
Jan 2017

I can only hope that this nation is still around after Fuckump and the right winged shits run it into a 3rd world nation, to allow a democratic president to award Barack H. Obama the Presidential Metal of Freedom.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
10. this
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 09:28 AM
Jan 2017

This never gets old. I have watched this about 5 or 6 times and continues to bring a smile to my face. I just can't see Fuckump doing this. Although, I can see him giving this honor to his kids, wife, himself

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