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Obama to fathers: Don't be like my absent dad
Associated Press ^ | June 19, 2009 | BEN FELLER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; fatherhood; fathersday; obamafamily
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1 posted on 06/19/2009 6:57:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Everything is about him.

Narcissist-in-chief.


2 posted on 06/19/2009 6:58:34 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And who IS your dad, Usurper?


3 posted on 06/19/2009 6:59:30 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force." George Washington)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought in Kenya, it took a village?


5 posted on 06/19/2009 7:01:05 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


6 posted on 06/19/2009 7:02:10 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (The Obama constituents : "You are about to be ruled by the Black Man Cracker")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Don't be like my absent dad

And don't be like his pastor (Wright), mentors (Alinsky, Ayers), or mother (commie slut) either.

7 posted on 06/19/2009 7:02:41 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


8 posted on 06/19/2009 7:03:14 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Now That, is funny.
9 posted on 06/19/2009 7:04:46 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Typical_Whitey

“This man has no business lecturing anyone on fatherhood.”

AGREED!!!


10 posted on 06/19/2009 7:04:59 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: ilgipper
Have you gotten your copy of DREAMS OF MY FATHER yet? Here are the best parts.
11 posted on 06/19/2009 7:05:15 PM PDT by exist
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To: doc1019

It takes a village to make sure the teleprompters are set up correctly.


12 posted on 06/19/2009 7:07:44 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe it was one of the dreams of his father to not have to be tied down to a wife with kids.


13 posted on 06/19/2009 7:08:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


14 posted on 06/19/2009 7:08:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Wright says to Obama...”just call me big daddy”.

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.

15 posted on 06/19/2009 7:09:03 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Third World trickle up poverty, will lead to cascading Third World tyranny.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

LOL! Good point.


16 posted on 06/19/2009 7:09:23 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: exist

“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.


17 posted on 06/19/2009 7:13:45 PM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama to fathers: Don’t be like my absent dad

The same holds true for step-brothers of poor Kenyan men.


18 posted on 06/19/2009 7:20:40 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


19 posted on 06/19/2009 7:22:26 PM PDT by Curious George1978
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I imagine, there was a "great deal of confusion" (on Father's Day) from Zer0Bambi
about his Sire Whereabouts....Britain / Kenya / Indonesia / Hawai'i

????? Where's / Who's My Daddy????

20 posted on 06/19/2009 7:23:08 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid / deadly things happen... :^)
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