hat tip-The Obama Diary
Desiline Victor (102) awaits the president’s State of the Union Speech
When she set out to her local library in North Miami, Fla., to cast her vote in the presidential election last year, Desiline Victor had no way of knowing the journey would lead all the way to the White House.
On Tuesday night, Victor, a 102-year-old Haitian immigrant, will sit in the ornate House chamber as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama to listen to President Obama’s State of the Union address
Victor voted for the president, but it was not easy. On her first visit to the polls on the morning of Oct. 28, the first day of early voting, she waited in line for three hours. Poll workers eventually advised her to come back later, and she did.
She finally cast her vote that evening.
Her story spread around the polling place and inspired some would-be voters to stay in line, too, instead of being deterred by the delays.
On Monday night, Victor sat in a suite at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza hotel in Washington, a flight from Miami behind her. Ahead was a night in which she hopes meet the man she waited to vote for.
“I’m very happy, very proud,” she said, communicating through a translator because she speaks only Haitian Creole. The translator is her godson, Mathieu Pierre Louis, whom she raised as her son. She moved to the United States in 1989 and became a naturalized citizen in 2005.
She never expected to become a symbol, she said — she just wanted to vote.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
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Good speech overall. Liked the wage and energy ideas (although Republicans will block those initiatives). Found it interesting that Republicans appeared disgusted (when camera panned their way) when Pres mentioned equal pay. How can they be against an equal pay for women law?
Of course I didn't care much for his foreign policy positions (with exception of ending war in Afghanistan).
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