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  • Obama says still wonders about his absent father

    06/18/2011 12:00:32 PM PDT · by Meet the New Boss · 74 replies
    Reuters ^ | 18 June 2011 | Laura MacInnis
    (Reuters) - Barack Obama, whose Kenyan father left his family when the future U.S. president was 2 years old, said Saturday he still thinks about how things would have worked out had his dad been there. "I felt his absence. And I wonder what my life would have been like had he been a greater presence," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address a day before Father's Day in the United States. The president said that being a father was "sometimes my hardest, but always my most rewarding job," and called on other fathers to make spending time...