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sheshe2

(92,171 posts)
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:47 AM May 19

Statement from Hunter Biden: "Thank you. I love you, Dad."

“For my entire life, I’ve looked at my dad in awe. How could he suffer so much heartache and yet give so much of whatever remained of his heart to others?

“Not only in the policies he passed, but in the individual lives he’s touched.

“Over a life time I have witnessed him absorb the pain of countless everyday Americans who he’s given his personal phone number to, because he wanted them to call him when they were hurting. When their last hopes were slipping through their hands.

“That unconditional love has been his North Star as a President, and as a parent. He is unique in public life today, in that there is no distance between Joe Biden the man and Joe Biden the public servant of the last 54 years.

“I’m so lucky every night I get to tell him I love him, and to thank him. I ask all Americans to join me tonight in doing the same.

“Thank you. I love you, Dad.”


-Twitter

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Statement from Hunter Biden: "Thank you. I love you, Dad." (Original Post) sheshe2 May 19 OP
Thank you for this wonderful post, my dear sheshe2 . . . CaliforniaPeggy May 19 #1
Thanks, hon. sheshe2 May 19 #2
Oh, God. nolabear May 19 #3
I know hon, I am the same way. sheshe2 May 19 #5
Teach your children well. sheshe2 May 19 #4
Statement enid602 May 19 #6
Thank you. I was wondering how Hunter was doing. niyad May 19 #7
This must be very difficult for him and for all of them. sheshe2 May 19 #9
Thank you President Biden! AKwannabe May 19 #8
What a Lovely photo of Joe and Hunter Biden. 💙🌈 Cha May 19 #10
👍👍 speak easy May 19 #11
💙🌈 Cha May 19 #13
They have been through so much together. sheshe2 May 19 #12
So beautiful. Thank you for posting this. I was particularly struck by "...no distance between LoisB May 19 #14
Thank you, President Biden for the human being you are and the President you were. Buddyzbuddy May 19 #15
The real deals. Not phony, not fake. Models. sprinkleeninow May 19 #16
🌈❤️That's a genuine family❤️. Love to Joe and all the Bidens, and thank you for everything. Hekate May 19 #17
For Joe Biden from eastern Iowa. Lemon Lyman May 19 #18
K&R spanone May 19 #19
Beautiful! Thank you for posting, sheshe. brer cat May 19 #20
for President Biden markie May 19 #21
I'm not crying, sniff sniff PatSeg May 19 #22
This is enough to make me cry peggysue2 May 19 #23
I love Joe too samnsara May 19 #24
Thank you Joe Biden MustLoveBeagles May 19 #25
Shared humanity is powerful and meaningful. Ninga May 19 #26
It's Good vs. Evil. Never forget it. Joinfortmill May 19 #27

sheshe2

(92,171 posts)
4. Teach your children well.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:05 AM
May 19

There will be times you have to pick them up, Joe did that more than once for Hunter and he is standing on his own two feet now.

sheshe2

(92,171 posts)
9. This must be very difficult for him and for all of them.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:14 AM
May 19

However, there is a lot of love in that family and that is their strength.

Cha

(311,284 posts)
10. What a Lovely photo of Joe and Hunter Biden. 💙🌈
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:41 AM
May 19

Mahalo, she.. I've been thinking about Hunter, too

What a Beautiful Statement from him about his Dad.

sheshe2

(92,171 posts)
12. They have been through so much together.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:50 AM
May 19

Love and family bind you for life, through thiick and thin.

Thanks, Cha, it is a beautiful portrait of them both. Father and son.

LoisB

(10,604 posts)
14. So beautiful. Thank you for posting this. I was particularly struck by "...no distance between
Mon May 19, 2025, 03:15 AM
May 19

Joe Biden the man and Joe Biden the public servant...". One can see the kindness and strength in President Biden's eyes.

Buddyzbuddy

(903 posts)
15. Thank you, President Biden for the human being you are and the President you were.
Mon May 19, 2025, 03:29 AM
May 19

I wish for you a fast and painless recovery. You have risen to the occasion time and time again, each time surpassing our expectations. A finer example of a man, a husband, a father and finally politician you will not find.
You and your family are in our thoughts.
Be well.

sprinkleeninow

(21,020 posts)
16. The real deals. Not phony, not fake. Models.
Mon May 19, 2025, 04:24 AM
May 19

"God grant thee many and blessed years in health and happiness." 🙏

Hekate

(97,817 posts)
17. 🌈❤️That's a genuine family❤️. Love to Joe and all the Bidens, and thank you for everything.
Mon May 19, 2025, 04:41 AM
May 19

(Unlike the current nest of snakes representing us to the world)

Lemon Lyman

(1,494 posts)
18. For Joe Biden from eastern Iowa.
Mon May 19, 2025, 05:20 AM
May 19

My family believes that Joe is one of the best men in the world.

peggysue2

(11,877 posts)
23. This is enough to make me cry
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:57 AM
May 19

The photo (which I've seen before and is beautifully composed) has additional poignancy now after Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis.

Yeah, makes me want to cry.

Ninga

(8,846 posts)
26. Shared humanity is powerful and meaningful.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:53 PM
May 19

I am lucky to have witnessed and seen such shared humanity as displayed by Present Joe Biden. It is deep, real, and speaks to who he is as a person, not for what ever title he may have
had.
Just love.

Joinfortmill

(18,122 posts)
27. It's Good vs. Evil. Never forget it.
Mon May 19, 2025, 03:42 PM
May 19

Joe is the Champion of Good. He always has been. Never Forget who chose Evil. Never. Everyone who voted for Trump chose Evil. Every goddamn one them.

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