Posted on 02/15/2013 5:26:01 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama says 'I wish I'd had a father' as he addresses guns in Chicago
President Barack Obama today urged the young men of America to help tackle gun violence by taking responsibility for raising their sons, using an emotional return to his home city to admit: “I wish I'd had a father who was around and involved”.
In an unusually personal speech at a school in his old Chicago neighbourhood, Mr Obama, who was raised by his mother, said his attempts to introduce new gun control laws must be matched by more men behaving like role models who are “held up in respect” by their sons, grandsons and nephews.
“There's no more important ingredient for success, nothing that would be more important for us reducing violence than strong, stable families, which means we should do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood,” said Mr Obama.
Hailing his “heroic” late mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, “who gave everything she had to raise me”, Mr Obama said in one of the most candid statements of his presidency: “At the same time, I wish I had had a father who was around and involved”.
Barack Obama senior, a Kenyan economist, divorced Ms Dunham in 1964, three years after the birth of their son. A heavy drinker, he died in a 1982 car accident, 11 years after he last saw Barack junior.
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Exactly. He had an easy life compared to many others who turned out way better.
I wish his “father” has used a condom.
Would have saved us all a lot of trouble.
Obama lives in cloud-cuckoo land.
His putative father/name-sake was a professional student and bed-hopper, a bigamist and abusive husband, he died young in a car wreck, driving drunk. And Barry lionizes this guy.
This opinion was brought to you by a sovereign citizen:
What’s the most confusing holiday of the year at the White Hut?
Fathers day.
On the flip side - if all the thugs of Chicago want the fruits of their rotten loins to become President, they’ll need to stay away and let the breeding stock raise the lad. No sense mucking up the works with some actual responsibility.
“We have to find a way to make youths and people in gangs realise that life is precious...”
Then quit pushing abortion you fool.
He wishes he had a birf certificate.
BO burnishing his immaculate-conception/Messiah myth again?
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