Biden: “Between Barack Obama and me we are going to ONE Square It.”
September 17th, 2008 at 5:39 pm | posted by Chris.ScottTyler Sangermano from the University of Missouri attended a rally with Senator Joe Biden in Columbia, MO last week and managed to not only ask the senator about his plans to combat extreme poverty, but also hand deliver a ONE shirt and capture on video the senator telling a great story about his wife and he thinking about ONE the night before he was selected to be Senator Obama’s running mate.
The audio is a little rough in this video clip, so I transcribed a few key bits of what Senator Biden says below.
First he talked proudly about how he
“shepherded through the new AIDS, malaria, and Tuberculosis proposal [PEPFAR] that went from 30 billion to 50 billion and by the way, George W. Bush deserves great credit.”
And then after Tyler handed Biden a ONE shirt, which he held up for the crowd, Senator Biden told this great story:
“When Barack Obama picked me and asked me to be his vice president, I talked […to my wife]. And my wife told me the night before… I don’t know about you guys, but my wife is such a busy mother and grandmother and teacher…and all of the notes at our house are literally taped to the bathroom mirrors…so literally notes are on the mirror any where I shave.
And she had a ONE decal, you know the big decals you have like this? Only it was white with blue on it. And she had [written] underneath ONE, she had ’squared’. That’s me. ONE Squared. Between Barack Obama and me we are going to ONE Square it.”
-Chris Scott
September 17th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
That is a great story. One has been so good at raising awareness and t-shirts were everywhere during the conventions.
Keep Givng everyONE!
September 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Thanks Virginia for the use of everyONE. It’s nice to see someONE else use the term. I’m hono(red).
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
amazing work tyler!!!! a great story captured for the ages. ONE really is part of the every day lives of ordinary people as well as vice presidential cadidates and their families. i am sure there is a one sticker somehwere in the obama houshold, and i am sure the mccain clan some too. i know there are a few somewhere soon to be discovered in my own home…
September 19th, 2008 at 10:19 am
That’s just a fantastic story. That core idea of ONE Squared, is truly great. 1 squared is obviously 1. But that goes directly to the heart of why ONE is such a powerful movement, organization, idea. The more you do, the more you reinforce the core concept of the organization. Stating it like that is like stating one of those Buddhist stories that is meant to stop thought and increase enlightenment.
ONE squared.