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OMG here is your morning cry - Joe Biden's Dad's advice about gays
If this doesn't get you choked up this morning I don't know what will. This is an excerpt from Joe Biden's speech from Freedom To Marry Celebration Of Victory gala in New York where he talks about the first time seeing two men kiss and how his father told him just exactly what he thought about that.
http://wonkette.com/590738/afternoon-nicest-time-the-time-young-handsome-joe-biden-fell-in-love-with-gay-marriage
This has been a heroic battle, but it has been based on a very simple proposition best expressed at least to me by my dad when I was a 17-year-old kid. My dad was one of those — as the Irish say, the highest compliment you give someone is he was a good man. My dad was a good and decent man.
And I was — I learned early on I didn’t like digging ditches in the summer with construction crews so I became a lifeguard. (Laughter.) But they paid a lot more money. I was in a county system, in a county pool. And they paid more money in the city. And so my dad on the way to his job in the morning, and this — if you know anything about — you probably don’t — my city of Wilmington, there’s a place called Rodney Square. And the buildings surrounding Rodney Square were the DuPont Company; the Hercules Corporation, which was big then; and ICI Americas, and so there were a lot of plain grey suits. And an awful lot of — at 8:00 in the morning, an awful lot of men and women hustling off to work.
But the courthouse is in that square. And my dad pulled up to let me run out and get an application for this job in the city, and then I was going to drive him to work and drive myself home.
And as we were stopped at the light, two men on the right — very well-dressed men, obviously, business people working for either Hercules or DuPont turned and embraced one another and kissed each other. And they went their separate ways.
I’ll never forget. I turned and looked at my dad, just looked at him. And I’ll never forget what he said. He said, Joey, they love each other. It’s simple. (Applause.) They love each other. It’s simple
Read more at http://wonkette.com/590738/afternoon-nicest-time-the-time-young-handsome-joe-biden-fell-in-love-with-gay-marriage#F3FHyEdtWQg62o3P.99
This has been a heroic battle, but it has been based on a very simple proposition best expressed at least to me by my dad when I was a 17-year-old kid. My dad was one of those — as the Irish say, the highest compliment you give someone is he was a good man. My dad was a good and decent man.
And I was — I learned early on I didn’t like digging ditches in the summer with construction crews so I became a lifeguard. (Laughter.) But they paid a lot more money. I was in a county system, in a county pool. And they paid more money in the city. And so my dad on the way to his job in the morning, and this — if you know anything about — you probably don’t — my city of Wilmington, there’s a place called Rodney Square. And the buildings surrounding Rodney Square were the DuPont Company; the Hercules Corporation, which was big then; and ICI Americas, and so there were a lot of plain grey suits. And an awful lot of — at 8:00 in the morning, an awful lot of men and women hustling off to work.
But the courthouse is in that square. And my dad pulled up to let me run out and get an application for this job in the city, and then I was going to drive him to work and drive myself home.
And as we were stopped at the light, two men on the right — very well-dressed men, obviously, business people working for either Hercules or DuPont turned and embraced one another and kissed each other. And they went their separate ways.
I’ll never forget. I turned and looked at my dad, just looked at him. And I’ll never forget what he said. He said, Joey, they love each other. It’s simple. (Applause.) They love each other. It’s simple
Read more at http://wonkette.com/590738/afternoon-nicest-time-the-time-young-handsome-joe-biden-fell-in-love-with-gay-marriage#F3FHyEdtWQg62o3P.99
The whole video is at the link including a video clip of the section I posted at the link above. I will say this much, I defy you to find a better speaker out there than Joe Biden. He is the best there is here in the USA, he is a national treasure to this country!
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I remember being 12 and seeing two women in a passionate kiss. I looked at my mom with my mouth hanging open. My mom (who had served in the Woman Marines, 1942-1945) said, "close your mouth, you look like a fish. It's love. They love each other. It's simple."
Thanks for a good post and a good memory. Even for an old cynic like me.. love finally wins! It's simple.
Joe Biden!
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