Posted on 06/19/2009 6:57:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Growing up without a father left a hole in his heart, President Barack Obama told boys at the White House Friday in a remarkably personal Father's Day weekend message. He implored fathers everywhere—and the kids when they're older—to be involved in the lives of their own children.
"This isn't an obligation," said the father of two in a message to millions of wayward dads. "This is a privilege to be a father."
Obama spent hours on Friday with teenagers, young men, community mentors and everyday dads in hopes of launching what he called a national conversation on responsible fatherhood. Each story was personal. But one of them commanded the most attention: his own.
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Everything is about him.
Narcissist-in-chief.
And who IS your dad, Usurper?
but........but........but.........I thought he said a baby was a punishment????
I thought in Kenya, it took a village?
This from the same man that is robbing them of their future with trillions in defecit spending that they will have to pay some day. This from the same man that said “ I wouldn’t want my daughters to be punished with a Baby”. This from the Monster that sponsored law that would ensure that an innocent baby that miraculously escapes from the torturous tools of the abortionist should have its life then snuffed out because that was the original intent of the mother.
This man has no business lecturing anyone on fatherhood.
And don't be like his pastor (Wright), mentors (Alinsky, Ayers), or mother (commie slut) either.
Perhaps if our society didn’t undermine the idea of fatherhood at every juncture we wouldn’t have to hear the same exhortation every Father’s Day.
“This man has no business lecturing anyone on fatherhood.”
AGREED!!!
It takes a village to make sure the teleprompters are set up correctly.
Maybe it was one of the dreams of his father to not have to be tied down to a wife with kids.
I haven’t read Dreams of My Father, but I’ve read extracts from it. I thought that he repudiated his white grandparents and idolized his black father—a drunken lout who abandoned him.
Of course, his white mother subsequently abandoned him, too.
But I’m suspicious of the way that everything, as always, points back to me, me, me. It would be more to the point to DO the right thing, and not to reverse the welfare reform Republicans imposed upon clinton (and clinton later took credit for) that helped reduce the growth of single mothers and absent fathers encouraged by the welfare system.
Did he say that it wasn't an obligation being a father?
Oh I think it is. Typical leftist lingo saying that it's a privilege to be a father rather than a responsibility. Well tell all of those progenitors running around the projects that they're among the over privileged.
LOL! Good point.
“Have you gotten your copy of DREAMS OF MY FATHER yet?”
Ewwwwwww, Obambi has a real nasty mouth. I hope he doesn’t talk like that around his daughters. I bet MO could tell some tales.
Obama to fathers: Don’t be like my absent dad
The same holds true for step-brothers of poor Kenyan men.
I bet he spends the day playing golf. You can always count on him to do the opposite of what he tells everyone else to do. He’s such a POS.
"I think of him as my father now," Downing said after he shook Obama's hand and got a pat on the back. "He's really special to me. He's an amazing man."
Now that is just sad. He shakes his hand and pats a kid on the back, so the kid thinks of him as his father now? Pretty low standard for fatherhood, isn't it? I guess the media wanted to show how magical even the merest contact with Obama can be, but it just struck me as pathetic.
Well I’m sure their are Dads who point at him and tell their children as they gather around the diner table, if they can afford to buy food for them while being out of work, don’t grow up be like this him.
No he doesn’t.
“This isn’t an obligation,” said the father of two in a message to millions of wayward dads. “This is a privilege to be a father.”
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May I be the first to suggest this quote get plastered at every womens’ clinic?
or his real father, whoever the heck that was. Only the DNA will prove beyond a doubt. His mom sure did get around.
Since his favorite subject is talking about himself, how about saying, “Don’t be a pompous daddy like me.”
Which one? Barack, Sr? Frank? or Malcolm?
Say what you will about Zero, but I believe this 100 percent.
To have a dad who chose to cavort off into the universe and leave you must be devastating. Think about it, folks.
That being said, *real* dads know how to not spend money.
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