Obama takes on absent black fathers in speech

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/america/fathers.php ^

[chessplayer]

Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city's largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama invoked his own absentee father to deliver a sharp message to black men, saying "we need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception."

[chessplayer]

Marc Lamont was on FoxNews yesterday and skewered Obama for those comments.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Next up - Obama reads the riot act to convicted murderers. Violence is not the answer!

[SirFishalot]

I really don’t understand all of the air time he’s getting for this. It is the same thing that Bill Cosby has been speaking on for years now.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bill Cosby means what he says. That's why he gets criticized for saying it.
Obama is simply maneuvering for political gain. That's why he gets praised for saying it.

[Maine Mariner]

I also noted that in his speech he called for more government programs and government spending to help solve this problem.

[AmericaUnited]

The Empty Suit just does not “GET IT”, that his socialist welfare nanny state policices ENABLE black males to be absent and single women to not need a “man” to help out financially.

[the invisib1e hand]

fearlessly going where everyone’s already been.

[tbpiper]

This from a man who wouldn’t his daughter “punished with a baby”. Absentee fatherhood is no problem if you kill the little things before they’re born. This guy is the king of mixed messages.

[johnny7]

Spouting a few words in a church doesn't reach the problem... the policies of the socialist, DemocRAT party have eviscerated the black family unit to the point of no return. All this jackass is doing is rearranging the rubble...

[dennisw]

Bash black males= Mo’ white votes

‘Boma already has 100% of the black vote. So now he’s working the devil’s tricknology on the minds of unhypnotized whiteys

[SMARTY]

“we need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”

Really?? How about the responsibility of women to keep their legs together till they are married? Sound like a plan?

BTW-If “dad” respects his child, he will give his child a name! AND if “dad” respects the child's mother, he will marry her before their children are born. Anyway, what the he%$ ever happened to waiting till you could support a child before you have one?

[SMARTY]

“we need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”

Really?? How about the responsibility of women to keep their legs together till they are married? Sound like a plan?

BTW-If “dad” respects his child, he will give his child a name! AND if “dad” respects the child's mother, he will marry her before their children are born. Anyway, what the he%$ ever happened to waiting till you could support a child before you have one?

[Beckwith]

Obama headed to church this Father’s Day Sunday in his hometown of Chicago -- the first time he’s been to church since he severed relations with his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  The Obama family attended services at Chicago’s Apostolic Church of God, one of the city’s largest African-American congregations.

Obama took to the pulpit to deliver a speech on fatherhood, a tenet that should be strengthened, he observed.  "Too many fathers are also missing.  Too many fathers are MIA.  Too many fathers are AWOL.  Missing from too many lives and too many homes.  They’ve abandoned their responsibilities, they’re acting like boys instead of men, and the foundations of our family have suffered because of it.  You know and I know this is true everywhere, but nowhere is it more true than in the African-American community."

Obama knows a lot about this subject.  His own father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., went AWOL and abandoned Obama at the age of two, because his family was a hindrance to his career ambitions.

Obama's denial about who his father really was is best illustrated by this passage from his first book, "...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own.  It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..."

Bigamy, child abandonment, alcoholism and spousal abuse -- are some of his father's attributes.

The photo-op over, the senator left the sanctuary before the actual sermon.

This is interesting -- the Apostolic Church of God's website states, "We believe in water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, and the receiving of the Holy Ghost."

Does that mean Obama will finally get baptized and become a real Christian?  Swearing allegiance to the Black Value System really doesn't make one a Christian, no matter what Obama says.

I'll be watching.

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[BooksForTheRight.com]

Just in time for the campaign. Funny he never said those things until the election campaign.

[Southerngl]

Responsiblity at conception? I don’t think responsibility is what they were going for at conception.

[Right Wing Assault]

the policies of the socialist, DemocRAT party have eviscerated the black family unit to the point of no return

Yes. What is the point of talking to the churches? They know the problem. He should be going to the street corners, the schools, the basketball courts, the jails, etc.

[Southerngl]

Not only do they not ‘need’ it, they lose benefits if they do get married or live with someone.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

” also noted that in his speech he called for more government programs and government spending to help solve this problem.”

Sounds like reparations, with a fig leaf

[garyhope]

Perhaps next he’ll attack “acting like whitey” for going to school and actually learning something. I wonder if he can do something about “hoodies”, sideways caps and droopy pants?

[johnny7]

“Gimme' dat' responsibility, bit¢h...”