Posted on 06/19/2011 11:12:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As families around the country get together to celebrate fathers today, I'm thinking about dads like Alex.
Alex is the father of two boys and two girls, ages six to 13. During the week, he works the 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift as a front-desk supervisor at a Seattle hotel. After work and on the weekends, he devotes his time to a summer organizing program that's giving more than 1,500 first-time organizers the training they need to help build this movement in their communities.
He says he hopes this organizing work will help teach his kids the power one person can have -- that if "they see something that needs to be changed, they know they can make a difference."
I wanted to share a video of Alex explaining what prompted him to join this program and devote his summer to this work.
I was really moved by what he had to say. Take a look, and share it with a dad you're thinking about today:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c11471/6bdd0526/162f9a85b/11883369/1553663258/VEsH/
Today, I'm also proud of my husband, the man who drove our first daughter and me home from the hospital 13 years ago next month, determined to be the kind of father he hadn't had for himself.
Barack often says he decided that day that if he could be anything in life, he'd be a good dad, and he dedicated himself then and there to making sure our daughter had every opportunity he could provide.
When it comes down to it, that's why we're all here -- Barack, Alex, myself, and everyone who's part of this campaign. We're all working to make sure we leave our kids with a country that's fairer and more full of opportunity -- just as our parents did for us.
Thank you for being part of that work, and part of this campaign.
Wishing you a happy Father's Day,
Michelle
Ever the socialist ... even on Father’s Day... Thanks Michelle... now sit down and shut up.
Gee I’m sitting here thinking if I had just had a Community Organizer I would have a job today.
She is as irritating as her husband is! I hope they are gone from the White House at end of one term, or before. They are destroying America!
I had always thought if we had a black president it could be a great thing, a unifying thing, for USA. Jeez was I ever wrong. He has done nothing but divide and destroy US.
Making the country fairer? Is that what it’s all about? Taking down anyone with opportunity and paying everyone without as much?
like some old know-it-all who thinks people need directions on how to appreciate family members... eeks !
My dad always told me “Life isn’t fair” and he was right
if it was I would be Christie Brinkley :)
So Father’s Day is about “organizing” for change? I thought it was about fatherhood, family, children etc. Mother’s Day is about breasts, Father’s Day is about organizing for “change,” Valentine’s Day is about “domestic violence.”
That was the VERY first thing our kids learned - Life isn’t Fair. At a VERY young age. It pays off.
I have to brag on my daughter for Father’s Day if you’ll indulge me. She is 13 and returned her loaner laptop to school with a broken screen. Her twin sister may have knelt on it and broken it - but not sure (3 days before turn in!). The bill is $150.
We were talking about it at my Father’s Day’s dinner. I told her because of the unknowns, I was willing to pay half. She said “No - I’ll pay for it all.”
“Well, if your sister is partly to blame, but we aren’t sure, so I’ll pay half. If we were sure - she’d pay half.”
“That’s not fair - you didn’t do anything!”
“I know, but it is called Grace”.
“Well, it was my responsibility to keep care of it, and the screen got broken - so I should have kept it in a safer spot. I’m going to pay it all.”
I told her that I respected her, and would honor her decision to repay it all. (Now to find some ways around work this summer so she can earn some money!)
The other two major “Dad” rules around here:
“Nothing’s easy” and
“It’s always something”!
“The trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.” (RUSH)
Hey mon, the best dads aren’t out there busting their butts to earn a dollar for their families, they’re out there community organizing!
No, not a single commie lives at my house.
On his death bed, will Alex say “I wish I had spent more weekends away from my kids doing community organizing?”
How very odd... on Fathers' Day, most normal Americans think about their own dad. Whassamatta, Mooche, never figured out who yours was? Darn shame, that.
(_8(|) "Doh!"
Yes, that's on pages 14, 17, 22, 41, and 66 of Chairman Obama's little red book.
This shelf ass wookie bitch sure isn’t a first lady I can be proud of.
THIS program? What are they organizing for? More free stuff?
She wasn’t talking to you, or me, she was talking to
the party faithful.
“a summer organizing program that’s giving more than 1,500 first-time organizers the training they need to help build this movement in their communities. “
Ah, the movement, personally it scares the crap out of
any free thinking person.
Organizing is just collectivization with a lot more
polish, when they did it with the peasants they could
be much cruder, now it has to be slick but the rubes
still buy it, and eventually like the peasants it won’t
matter if they buy it or not because by then it will
be too late.
Here is the movement:
www.publicallies.org
the 0bamas call it their "public allies"...check out the web site for further info.
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