**Heads Up: Joe and Hillary to Say Farewell to the Senate**

[Clio the Leo]

Expected to start at 10am Eastern

On CSPAN2

or

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx

[Jennicut]

1. Thanks Clio! I am getting my tissues ready.

35 years is a long time to work at one place. My Dad is retiring soon and he said he wants to but at the same time he will actually miss working for the phone company (which is now AT&T, its changed so many times).

[firedupdem]

2. Can I not see Holder's confirmation hearings? I only have

cspan 1 and 2.

edit: damn, it's on 3.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Are they not showing that on MSNBC?

(but I also remember Chris saying they'd be broadcasting Joe's speech)

[Jennicut]

4. Its live on CNN right now, I don't have c-span 2.

[Clio the Leo]

5. And here is CNN's stream of the Holder hearing..

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream4

[Clio the Leo]

6. Joe the Hotness is up now!!! NT

[jillan]

15. Joe the hotness - - - -

[Clio the Leo]

27. prrrrrr! NT

[Clio the Leo]

7. "I may not be a young man anymore, but I'm still awe-struck."

After telling a story about his first visit to the Senate floor (as a 21 year old tourist who strolled in and plopped himself down in one of the chairs during the days when security was obviously much more lax.)

[Clio the Leo]

9. "THE Lion of the Senate .... Ted Kennedy"

talking about all the great names that were there when he first joined the Senate.

[Jennicut]

11. Great story! He is telling one now about Senator Stennis who was for segregation

and gave Joe his office when he retired. Joe is a really good story teller.

[Clio the Leo]

13. aint he though? NT

[BeyondGeography]

8. Was Diane Feinstein given a heads-up about this?

[jillan]

10. Watching now.

Joe telling stories of some of his foundest memories.

[Clio the Leo]

12. "Every man sent here is sent because their state finds something good about them."

"It's up to you to find that part. Question a man's judgement, but never question a man's motive."

(as told to him by Sen Mike Mansfield.)

[Clio the Leo]

14. He and Barack do better impressions .....

.... than those who portray them on SNL. lol

[jillan]

16. Okay Joe - I love you - but

wrap it up.... you are living up to your reputation :P

[firedupdem]

17. LOL!!

I love him but I went into the shower after he was talking about 10mns...I'm out and dressed and he's still going!

Go Joe! He may set a record today! :)

[Jennicut]

18. Hee hee. Its his last day there, he is allowed to talk as long as he wants!

His stories are great though. :)

[Clio the Leo]

19. Nah ... let him do his thing.....

... any man with that much talent should take his time.

It would be like asking Michelangelo to paint a smaller mural on the Sistine Chapel. ;)

[jillan]

20. Okay - now I am crying my eyes out - his speech about how he came to the Senate to fight

for civil rights, and we are now witnessing the first black President....he came full circle.

[Jennicut]

22. I cried when he said the Senators gots together and made him come to dinner when he was all alone

and then we he said thanks to his kids and to Jill. "You once saved my life". I love this man.

[TayTay]

24. Give the man his due. It is a general good

We often forget that the people who serve us in the Congress are also people. They have families and friends who know them as people, not just public figures.

It is no small thing to watch something like this and marvel at how being in the Senate affects people, as people.

We don't send gods to public office. We send people. Speeches like this remind us of that. Let Joe speak, it is a good and wonderful thing.

[Clio the Leo]

21. "I came here to fight for civil rights...."

"and I leave you to serve our Nation's first African American President. The 'arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' ..... I yield the floor."

And to that *I* would add, "HOW LONG!!! NOT LONG!!!"

GOD BLESS YOU JOSEPH BIDEN!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYITODNvlM

[jillan]

23. Thanks for that link - I'm going to cross post it in the Bidenites group.

[Clio the Leo]

25. The Bidenites group! Where!

Tell me tell me!!!

[Jennicut]

28. Go to DU groups and Democrats and Joe Biden supporters group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=404
You have to have donated to be able to post in the groups section. :)

[jillan]

29. Get your little butt over there :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=404

[Clio the Leo]

30. cool thanks. NT

[jillan]

26. Hillary!

[Beacool]

31. I missed Biden's speech, but Hillary's speech was very moving.

I was at a meeting and missed Biden's speech, but when Hillary spoke about 9/11 it made me cry. As someone who was in the North Tower on that fateful morning, I know perfectly well the events that took place that day. I also know how hard Hillary worked on behalf of the city, helping to get aid from the Bush administration, extending healthcare for all first responders and just being there for her fellow New Yorkers during the worst tragedy to befall the city in its history.

The NYC fire department sacrificed so much on that day, and later on when some of its members lost their health and lives due to the contaminated air that they inhaled for weeks during the cleanup. Their endorsement of Hillary is the only one of all the endorsements received by any candidate that brought me to tears.

The NYFD concluded their endorsement with these words,

"She's our hero."

Well, she certainly is mine........

;)

[Jennicut]

32. You were in the North Tower, Beacool? I am so glad you made it out okay that day.

One of my close friend's nearly lost her sister in the Pentagon that day. She went into a coma but luckily came out of it about 4 months later. I also had family that in NYC that day. They were all okay though. And Thanks to Hillary.

[Beacool]

33. I worked four blocks away.

It was a beautiful late summer morning and all was well with the world as far as I was concerned. My main goal that morning was buying coconut macaroons from the farmer's market that in summer was there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was coming from Hoboken, NJ on the PATH train, the terminal was underneath the North Tower. It turns out that I was on the next to last train to pull into the WTC.

When we got there there was a distinct fuel smell and by the time we got to the ground floor it was filled with smoke. I went outside and asked what happened and some woman said that a plane had hit the building. No sooner did she say that, that the crowd started screaming. People were jumping out of windows to their death, a sight that I will never forget for as long as I live.

To get away from seeing such horrors, I walked parallel to the South Tower when people started screaming "a plane", when I looked up I saw the blue belly of a passenger plane across the street from where I was. It hit the building like a bomb and debris flew in every direction. It was at that point that I thought that we were going to die. Well, I ran into the Hilton Millennium Hotel and eventually made it to work.

:-(

I'm sorry about your friend, I hope that she has fully recovered.

;)

[ronnykmarshall]

34. I can not image what it was like to be there in person.

Thanks for sharing this.

[Beacool]

35. I just got flashbacks to that day.

We are watching at work the plane that fell into the Hudson. We have a perfect view of the event. Thank God no one appears to have died. Damn, the whole thing brings back so many memories, and none of them good.

:(