Rev. Marvin McMickle speaks at Tubbs Jones celebration of life as ‘fragile and fleeting’

DENVER - The Rev. Marvin McMickle spoke to the Ohio delegation at the celebration of U.S. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of how life is "fragile" and "fleeting," and said that because of these characteristics it is necessary for people to take advantage of every moment and to do the good that they will "now."

"When I heard last week what had happened to [Stephanie Tubbs Jones] it took me several days to comprehend that someone who was larger than life was not alive," McMickle said.

McMickle asked the delegation to imagine what the week in Denver would have been like had Tubbs Jones been there. He asked the delegation to imagine her exuberance and vitality during the historic convention in Denver.

"In the absence of Stephanie our challenge is to keep going," McMickle said.

McMickle spoke about the risk Tubbs Jones took in her endorsement of Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.

"The real mark of her character was not in her endorsement of HRC," McMickle said.  "The mark was in her level of commitment."

McMickle quoted Tubbs Jones as saying that "all you have in politics is your word. I have [Hillary Clinton] my word."

"Whatever your office, whatever your presumptions about today or tomorrow, life is fleeting, and we are fragile," McMickle said. "Don't tell me what you're going to do in January. Don't tell me about your plans in 2009. Whatever good you're going to do, do it now.

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