Obama’s Father’s Day speech: Raising hopes
By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | The Washington Post
“…Will everyone dismiss Barack Obama’s Father’s Day call to responsible parenting as a simple political ploy?
After all, the man who would be our first African-American president is struggling for support from white working-class voters, many of whom have traditional views of family life and some of whom harbor deep suspicions about black men.
What could be more reassuring to them than his flat statement that ‘too many fathers … have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men’?….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602088_pf.html
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