Posted on 06/19/2009 3:43:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama for Father's Day: Stay Home, US Dads
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 19, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Growing up without a father left a painful hole in his heart, President Barack Obama told a lawnful of 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 a bit older -- to stay home and stay 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.
He spoke at length about how his father, Barack Obama Sr., left home early. The future president was just 2 at the time and saw his dad only once more, at age 10, a short visit that still left a lasting imprint.
''I had a heroic mom and wonderful grandparents who helped raise me and my sister, and it's because of them that I'm able to stand here today,'' he told a throng of youngsters. ''But despite all their extraordinary love and attention, that doesn't' mean that I didn't' feel my father's absence. That's something that leaves a hole in a child's heart that a government can't fill.''
''Just because your own father wasn't there for you, that's not an excuse for you to be absent also. It's all the more reason for you to be present,'' Obama said at the White House. He gave the same message earlier at an education center for young, at-risk adults.
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well said FRiend
Barrys’ father was not there for him because his mother was a white trash whore who fell into bed with the village drunk in kenya. His father went on to crash his car and have part of one of his legs amputated. “Dreams of my father”? Fine father figure there! now Barry is trying to convince the world that we can just get along? He has no substance and slowly the world is seeing through his pretend new world order.
I like that phrase. Mind if I use it for a tagline?
And I have no idea who he is/isn't.
What about the huge hole your budget defecits are going to leave in these youngsters pockets? Did you want to say a few choice words on that, you idiot.
Well them I am sure you will Chastise him for stealing the future from these same kids he was talking to today, Right?
Did he remind them that Babies are a punishment too, you know, Be a sport and please abort....
I remember my dad talking about Father’s Day. Mother’s Day there are the dinners and flowers and “what does Mom want to do”. Father’s Day, “let’s drag dad around here and here” when he would prefer spending a relaxing Sunday sorting his tools. (I was too young to treat Father’s Day like that, so he wasn’t talking about me. hee hee). It has been fourteen and a half years since I last got to see my daddy, so in his honor, my husband gets to go play with his friends Sunday morning and gets a nice meal.
Well done.
It's all about you, isn't Barry?
Right on.
Maybe not in the community where you come from but in most others being a father IS an obligation.
You can take the man out of the ghetto...
Of course, feel free to use it. I have lived a rather...well lets say I have been exposed to a lot of differant folks in my life. And I recognised this guy as a bs artist from the get go.
This is a slap in the face to the stepfather who raised him for many years, and the grandfather who also raised him for many years.
The selfish bastard who sired Obama was just a sperm donor...not a father.
I just managed to stagger to my feet from the floor where I fell when I read this. I am still in disbelief. I can’t believe that ZERO thinks there is anything that government can’t do.
As for the absence of his “father”, that could have been a good thing but it is hard to imagine him being any more warped, insecure or bitter than he is already.
If I had a son like him either he would change his name or I would after I disowned him.
What do you mean?
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