Meet the other SOTU "props"

[ProSense]

Andra Rush

The good news is, we know how to do it. Two years ago, as the auto industry came roaring back, Andra Rush opened up a manufacturing firm in Detroit. She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them. She just needed the workforce. So she dialed up what we call an American Job Center – places where folks can walk in to get the help or training they need to find a new job, or better job. She was flooded with new workers. And today, Detroit Manufacturing Systems has more than 700 employees.

Misty DeMars

Misty DeMars is a mother of two young boys. She’d been steadily employed since she was a teenager. She put herself through college. She’d never collected unemployment benefits. In May, she and her husband used their life savings to buy their first home. A week later, budget cuts claimed the job she loved. Last month, when their unemployment insurance was cut off, she sat down and wrote me a letter – the kind I get every day. “We are the face of the unemployment crisis,” she wrote. “I am not dependent on the government…Our country depends on people like us who build careers, contribute to society…care about our neighbors…I am confident that in time I will find a job…I will pay my taxes, and we will raise our children in their own home in the community we love. Please give us this chance.”

Estiven Rodriguez

Estiven Rodriguez couldn’t speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates – through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors – from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he’s going to college this fall.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/28/president-barack-obamas-state-union-address

[JaneyVee]

1. Props to the President.

Another great speech and vision for the future of our Nation.

[Cha]

5. Snap!

[yeoman6987]

6. Outstanding!!!!!

I agree with your post a trillion percent.

[sheshe2]

2. Kicked and Recommending!

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. yeah...what "Tools" THEY are!

[Whisp]

4. K&R

Really brings home how ridiculous that prop stuff is.

It was when Bush used it to glorify war

But it wasn't when Obama showed us the cost of dumb wars that Bush and his predessesors were responsible for.

People are so thick sometime.

[Cha]

7. "Prop" is a disgusting gopropaganda insult to our Military and

Sgt Cory Remsburg in particular. Of course the gop hated that he brought Sgt Remsburg.

Another "prop".. I bet Soon to be gone Senator McConnell hated this "prop"..

[Delphinus]

11. Love this!

I'd not seen it, but boy is he right.

[Cha]

16. I know, huh!

[ProSense]

14. It's like the GOP

booing the gay soldier. They just know they're right because they're against it.

The soldier is being labeled a "prop" for accepting the honor of a tribute to his resilience because they hate the MIC.

[Cha]

17. Is the "MIC" like

the "CIC"?

[TwilightGardener]

8. Obviously they're suckers, chumps, children, or glory-hounds.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. indeed!

Great point!

[ProSense]

10. Thanks. n/t

[snooper2]

12. Next thing we know he will be using little children as props

[ProSense]

15. Yup. n/t

[JNelson6563]

13. Great stuff!

[ProSense]

19. Thanks.

Bad Obama!

[SidDithers]

18. "Circus freaks", one and all...

Sid

[arely staircase]

20. recommended nt