Obama just gave Joe The Medal of Freedom with Distinction

[madaboutharry]

Congratulations Joe!

[Beaverhausen]

1. Watching on Facebook

watching and crying...

[TeamPooka]

2. I have tears in my eyes, sobbing like a baby

[True Dough]

4. Joe was wiping away the tears as well

So deserving of this honor!

[Zoonart]

5. Me too

I'm balling like a baby.. What we are loosing is so profound.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. Yes.

Yes it is.

[trueblue2007]

25. Joe, you are the best. I am happy for you

[calimary]

37. I cried through the whole thing.

Can't get around feeling so sad - for what we're about to lose. As of this writing, in a week and a day. We'll be changing strong, steadfast, compassionate, brilliant, and selfless public servants for a thin-skinned, petty, sexist, bigoted, vengeful, and spectacularly ignorant liar/hypocrite/sociopath and his sidekick, the albino religious fanatic.

Fabulous.


God! I miss Obama/Biden already! I'll be 64 this year. I can remember quite a few of the presidencies that I've lived through. This one is the classiest and best in my memory. And scandal-free, to boot! We already know that scandal-free part is NOT going to be the way we'll see things play out over the next four years.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. I'm having the same problem with how sad I am

I can barely even approach it.

All I can manage is reading you guys here to kind of process for me. (Sorry to be a hoser. Lol...)

I just turned 59 in December.
I guess that means something. I dunno.

[calimary]

48. Happy Belated Birthday, dear Blanche!

I don't know what makes me sadder - seeing the absolutely STERLING Obama/Biden team step away from power and into the history books, or seeing the almost staggering, versatile, brilliant, experienced, compassionate, supremely well-informed, and super-prepared one-woman talent pool whose many gifts and talents in the public service arena we will now be DENIED. Because Hillary was, let's just say it, CHEATED out of the job. This is another stolen election. But this time, it was stolen by the rovians. This time it was much bigger and far murkier: Vladimir Putin and his operatives.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. It was a surprise for Joe.

He's in tears. As am I.

Well deserved, Sir. Well deserved!


.

[monmouth4]

6. I am in a puddle. I do think he was surprised by all of this. Go Joe..n/t

[Upthevibe]

10. Well now I'm in tears. I haven't cried in a long, long time. No one is more deserving

than Vice President Joseph Biden...

[cry baby]

7. I really love that man!

He is so deserving of this award.

[Grey Lemercier]

8. Like others I teared up, so proud of VP Biden and Pres Obama

What a tragic loss we are about to go through.

[nolabear]

9. I am just undone. These good men...

[hibbing]

16. Contrast

I know, me too. Contrast President Obama's farewell address with whatever the hell that thing was that was identified as a press conference. We go from a man that overcame so many obstacles to achieve the American dream to this tiny, vile ogre.


Peace

[grantcart]

20. From time to time you will, if you are lucky, meet people as decent as these two.

You will never meet anyone with more decency.

Sometimes our system gets it right, just not often enough.

[madaboutharry]

11. It hurts so much to see them leave.

And knowing what awaits us is like a knife in the heart.

[leftynyc]

19. I feel the exact same way

We're going from these two beautiful families to vile, repulsive trash. It breaks my heart.

[hamsterjill]

30. That's it exactly!

Totally agree. We are going from class to the sewers.

But for this moment in time - Congratulations, Joe!

[mainstreetonce]

12. A beautiful ceremony

So proud of Joe.

Good people recognize each other.

Joe and Barack forever connected.

[Satch59]

13. Love them both...

The best team ever to grace the white house...hope they remain involved...we'll need them!!

Joe was certainly surprised...so sweet!

[ailsagirl]

34. I'm so glad-- I missed the ceremony

I know I'd be crying anyway

[herding cats]

14. That was so cool!

Joe's reaction was priceless!

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. It's well deserved.

Herr Drumpf probably wants one now.

[Loge23]

27. Ugh, you just made me realize..

drumph will be giving these away like candy to all of his "supporters". Can you imagine Conway with this? His kids? Bannon? I guess we'll find out if he doesn't implode before then.

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. He'll cheapen the award, unfortunately.

The upside is that he'll likely never win a Nobel Peace Prize.

[oasis]

17. Touching presentation.

[2naSalit]

18. Well deserved!!!

He may not be white tie material all the time but he's true blue and has been for US his whole career, even through major personal tragedies. Absolutely the kind of person I want representing me in government.

[Tripper11]

21. Classiest of all bar none

Both these men have so much class.
Professional to the bone.
Humble, smart and both great sense of humour.
They will forever be friends no doubt.

[cornball 24]

22. I am so happy to witness this incredibly inspiring and moving exchange between

two of the finest men to ever lead our great nation.

[mcar]

23. A wonderful, deserving surprise

[Stonepounder]

24. Just ditto to all above.

So well deserved. Thank you, Joe, from the bottom of my heart.

[WiffenPoof]

26. All I can say is...

...this is a "big fucking deal."

I am so moved. For some reason, my screen is a bit blurry.

Thank you Joe. Thank you.

[Vinca]

28. What a touching ceremony. It made me tear up.

[caballojm]

31. I'm having tremendous difficulty accepting the idea that there are actual Americans

who voted for an orange shit-flinging baboon to replace these two dignified and reasoned men. The juxtaposition between this video and yesterday's embarrassing craptacular is beyond striking. How long before President Caligula awards the Medal of Freedom to himself?

[calimary]

38. Welcome to DU, caballojm!

Such a beautiful event, for two spectacular and towering leaders, brilliant, compassionate, well-informed, devoted, salt-of-the-earth gentlemen of the first order. THIS is true class. THEY are true class. All the money and all the branding and all the fancy-ass real estate deals and all the golden towers (OR golden showers) in the world can't buy you class.

[47of74]

40. Sssssshhh, you'll get the Frank Burns of politics an idea.

[caballojm]

53. That's hilarious!

He is Frank Burns! Or maybe Montgomery Burns ...

[3catwoman3]

43. It defies reason, that's for damn sure.

Mu incredulity grows by the day, instead of diminishing.

Welcome aboard, caballojm.

[Paladin]

32. Outstanding!

A terrific and well-deserved award. I hope it makes what we're faced with a bit more bearable.

[kstewart33]

33. Absolutely makes my day.

Bless you, Joe. Thanks for so many years of exemplary service for our country.

[Lucinda]

35. KNR

[11 Bravo]

36. I watched. Fortunately I'm a tough-as-nails ex-grunt. Otherwise ...

that moisture on my face might have been construed as tears instead of dust, or pollen, or allergies, or something.

[calimary]

39. :)

[Historic NY]

41. WTG "Uncle Joe".....

[Stellar]

42. The Whole Video....

[3catwoman3]

46. How often have we watched a video clip of one thing or another, and ....

...said, Damn, I wish I cold have those 5 minutes back.

Not this time. I savored every second of those 37 minutes, and wish I could freeze time in an endless replay loop.

The tears I have been too numb to shed since the travesty of the election (and I don't even want to call it that) are flowing freely down my cheeks as I type this. Such decent people.

[Gothmog]

49. This is a well deserved honor

Yeah for Uncle Joe

[Scurrilous]

50. K & R

[RKP5637]

51. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[handmade34]

52. ...