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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOMG, I love our POTUS so much....tender gesture to slain officer's child at funeral
Link to tweet
Edit to add:
"Young daughter of slain officer had a small toy at the funeral. She accidentally dropped it and it rolled away near President Biden. Would be awkward for her to go pick it up, and Biden picks it up off the floor and carries it over to her. Just a very sweet, very human moment)."
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 13, 2021, 04:38 PM - Edit history (1)
Something like that
Toy, as it turns out
Link to tweet
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President Biden picks up a Capitol dome toy and hands it back to Abigail, Officer Evans' daughter
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Tanuki
(14,919 posts)"Young daughter of slain officer had a small toy at the funeral. She accidentally dropped it and it rolled away near President Biden. Would be awkward for her to go pick it up, and Biden picks it up off the floor and carries it over to her. Just a very sweet, very human moment)."
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)He is precisely the president we need. Better than we deserve.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Jerry2144
(2,103 posts)What is what a good person looks like
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)What would the former guy do?
Keep it and demand a reward to give it back, or kick it out of his way?
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)fierywoman
(7,686 posts)IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)ordering officers to commit violence against protestors to worsen every situation.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)peppertree
(21,639 posts)"Hey, Cheech - get that fucking kid outta here!"
"Yes, sir."
"Don't yessir me - do it, dammit!"
ShazzieB
(16,426 posts)between President Biden and He Who Must Not Be Named.
I can easily imagine Obama and some other presidents doing something like this, too, but I'm sure it wouldn't enter the Traitorous Psychopath's head to pick up a toy even for one of his own kids, let alone somebody else's. The idea of him ever lifting a hand to help a child or anyone else is unimaginable.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)AZ8theist
(5,477 posts)The Treasonous Pig is so out of shape, he'd be unable to bend over and pick up anything off the floor, and secondly, if he could bend over, the only things he would EVER pick up are golf balls and $100 bills...
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)President Obama was giving a speech somewhere, and a man in the crowd said he'd taken his daughter out of school so she could be there. On the spot, President Obama wrote her a note to excuse her from school that day and had her come up to him to get it.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)will call him a pedophile for doing that.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)I know this because there was nothing stopping him from being there today, was there?
The only funeral I want to see the Traitorous Pig at is his own.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)emily333
(23 posts)I think Nancy would've done better to just ignore what happened instead of calling attention to it. She called the object "one of your distractions" or something, which was kind of insulting ; perhaps it was a comfort object, not a "distraction".
RussBLib
(9,020 posts)Try again, Nancy
aggiesal
(8,919 posts)If you look close enough, you'll notice the dome that the object rolls around.
I believe that is what the little girl dropped.
She gets the added bonus of meeting the President on video.
dlk
(11,569 posts)We are so fortunate to have him as president at this challenging time.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)wryter2000
(46,051 posts)I can't imagine anyone better.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)To a child who didnt know what to do. Whether to sit and ignore the toy, or go and pick it up.
Kindness. What a breath of fresh air!!!
AllyCat
(16,192 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)Such a beautiful and dignified service. President Biden, Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi all gave beautiful eulogies.
I found myself, in the middle of all my appreciation of the dignity and compassion of this service and the words of our leaders, becoming furious that we were denied this kindness, dignity and compassion for the past four years.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)We now have a President with genuine empathy who replaced one with not one shred of it.
Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)... speech by Biden. I knew what he was going to say, of course. His greatest skill is making genuine each time. It's the same speech, but it's not the same speech. Yes, Biden's interaction with the family was beautiful.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Stuart G
(38,436 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)As the pain and loss fade some, as they inevitably do, that will be a nice memory to hang on to...and a nice little story the girl can tell for the rest of her life. How many people get special, unguarded attention from a POTUS?
i can't tell you have meaningful I think this was, and is.
Hotler
(11,428 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,636 posts)Thank you.