PHOTOS From Tonight (Feb 24) UPDATED

[Jackeens]

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[Oceansaway]

1. SCJ Ginsberg reminds me of Granny

from the Beverly Hillbillys..Irene Ryan...and before someone jumps my bones

i don't mean that in a bad way....jmo...

[Jackeens]

4. LOL....me too!!! n/t

[Sugarcoated]

7. I didn't realize she was so tiny

She's adorable.

[SeattleGirl]

11. I chocked up when she hugged Obama

And I loved the reception she got when she entered the room.

[Hepburn]

32. Same here....

....to see her so soon after surgery....the tears started down my face.

[demokatgurrl]

2. kick

[Jackeens]

5. I second that emotion!!!!!

[Booster]

3. This is a great night. This is a great country once again.

[blaze]

6. Dang, you're fast!!

Thanks, as always, for a great collection of photos!!

[Sugarcoated]

8. kick

[Clio the Leo]

9. Well it's about frickin' time!

I've been waiting on this for a slap hour! :)

[Jennicut]

10. Jackeens! Great pics....I love Sully, Hillary looks great in that color, and

Nancy seems sooo much happier to be hanging out with Joe instead of Dick!

[quiet.american]

12. Beautiful pics. Pres. Obama -- gorgeous, brilliant, compassionate.

Michelle found herself one incredible man. So glad she was willing to share him with the world. :)

[Arugula Latte]

13. The George W. Bush Goose got sucked into our country's engine

we were plummeting, but, have no fear. Barack is our Sully and will land us safely.

[monmouth]

14. Oh Jackeens, you never disappoint. Your posts, like Obama's speeches,

seem to continually outdo themselves. Wonderful.

[EraOfResponsibility]

15. HOT DAMN! @ pic# 19

good stuff.

[Triana]

16. LOVE 'em! Thanks Jackeens, as always! You ROCK! Someone caption this one!

[newview88]

17. Love #23

Thanks for the pics!

[elleng]

18. WONDERFUL to see President Obama with Justice Ginsberg!

I hope she knows how she's appreciated.

[Sultana]

19. the guy sitting next to Michelle is fiiiiiiinnnnnneee

:D

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

20. Wow. I was just about to say the same thing! lol!

[Undercurrent]

21. Yes he is.

He is Philadelphia Police officer Richard DeCoatsworth. He was shot in the face during a traffic stop. The attacker fled, but the the officer managed to chase him, and arrest him.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20090225_Hero_police_officer_gets_seat_of_honor.html

[AyanEva]

27. :(

The stripe across his badge makes me sad. All of the good, decent cops here just keep getting killed for no reason while the crooked ones continue on unharmed. I'm losing count of the number of funerals. At least this one survived.

[Undercurrent]

33. Yes :( This makes me sad too.

I didn't notice the black stripe, so I checked Google for recent officer deaths in Philadelphia.

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Sat, Feb. 21, 2009
Another fallen Phila. officer laid to rest

Another fallen Philadelphia police officer was laid to rest yesterday, surrounded by thousands of mourners numbed by a frigid winter wind and a sense of disbelief.

Officer John Pawlowski, 25, the fifth officer killed in the line of duty in less than a year, was buried at Resurrection Cemetery in Bensalem after a Funeral Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20090221_Another_fallen_Phila__officer_laid_to_rest.html
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And both so young. Pawlowski was 25 when he was killed, and DeCoatsworth was only 23 when he was shot.

[Undercurrent]

22. Once again Jackeens, thank you!

I'm still basking in the afterglow of last night's events.

[Hope And Change]

23. Wonderful pics.K & R!

[Sanity Claws]

24. Who is talking to Burris in #5?

I'm wondering whether he's telling Burris to leave cause he doesn't belong here.

[Jackeens]

25. Anyone know? He wasn't named in the caption n/t

[Political Tiger]

26. Thank you for the pictures!

I love all the ones with Michelle Obama ... I don't know what it is about her but I just find her so inspiring!

Does anyone know who the woman is that Michelle was hugging in pictures #8 & 18?

Also, the pic of Hillary giving the president a kiss is really cool!

[Jackeens]

28. Hi there, the woman in 8 & 18 -

is student Ty'Sheoma Bethea of Dillon, SC.


One of the guests at President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night was Ty'sheoma Bethea, an eighth grader from a small town in South Carolina. Bethea wrote Obama and asked that money from the stimulus go to her dilapidated school. She had reportedly never been on a plane before boarding a flight to D.C. with her mother for the speech.

The president referenced Bethea's story in his remarks, and quoted her letter:

I think about Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina - a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom. She has been told that her school is hopeless, but the other day after class she went to the public library and typed up a letter to the people sitting in this room. She even asked her principal for the money to buy a stamp. The letter asks us for help, and says, "We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself and one day president, so we can make a change to not just the state of South Carolina but also the world. We are not quitters."

In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Bethea revealed her own ambition: to be the first female president. She said she was inspired to write the letter because she thought too much of the stimulus money was going to people who already had enough

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/tysheoma-bethea-obama-ins_n_169818.html


This was her back home today:



J.V. Martin Jr. High School student Ty'Sheoma Bethea, 14, waves to her fellow students after receiving a "welcome home" gift at her school as she returns to Dillon, S.C. from Washington. D.C on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 in Dillon, S.C. More than a year before Obama mentioned J.V. Martin Junior High in his speech to Congress Tuesday night, he visited the school in the poor, rural city of Dillon and saw how "the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by." Bethea was in the audience for Tuesday night's speech, sitting next to the first lady.

[Political Tiger]

29. Oh! Excellent! Good for her!

More power to her!!!

Thank you for the info! :)

[Cha]

30. Thanks~Jackeens~ those pics

bring back, ever so vividly, the beauty in its honesty of Obama's Presidential Address to Congress.

[Jackeens]

31. You're more than welcome Cha!

[Ocracoker16]

34. great pics- love the ginsberg pics

[ensho]

35. very interesting and pretty hairdo on #13

2 rings of braids

thank you for your pics, this thread and others.

that may be the happiest I've every seen that room of people be.

it wasn't televised at the end of WWII. that may have been a happy scene too.