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Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts) Fri Oct 5, 2012, 10:10 AM Oct 2012

106 years old and voting for Pres. Obama - a very cool story in this ad

Found from this tweet I saw this morning by the British Globe & Mail's US politics correspondent...

Konrad Yakabuski ?@konradyakabuski
This Obama ad may be the best ever. She's 106, with 88 gran'chiln and can't wait to cast her first ballot since 1928

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106 years old and voting for Pres. Obama - a very cool story in this ad (Original Post) Waiting For Everyman Oct 2012 OP

Wow.. that one really gets to you... Bless that sweet, wonderful woman. hlthe2b Oct 2012 #1

hlthe2b

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1. Wow.. that one really gets to you... Bless that sweet, wonderful woman.

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Fri Oct 5, 2012, 10:17 AM

Oct 2012

Funny, I just saw a re-run yesterday of Designing Women--the one where Charlene is in the hospital having her baby and Julia Sugarbaker happens on a wonderful old black woman patient--102 years old-- who is living her last hours. They all end up visiting with her, but the scene captures the long long life of this woman and all the changes she's seen and the real glory of how far we have come, particularly in the views of an elderly black woman. It really was a very nice part of the episode and reminds me of this video here.

May this treasure of a woman get her birthday wish and many more.

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