Obama: Being a good father isn't easy

June 15, 2013 @ 3:03 am


President Barack Obama holds a child a he mingles in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 14, 2013, where he hosted a Father's Day luncheon. Obama hosted fathers and their children as well as students and leaders from the Becoming a Man program at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago for the lunch. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) | Zoom

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says there's no substitute for the love and support that fathers provide.

In his weekly Internet and radio address, Obama is wishing Americans a happy Father's Day. He's laments that his own father wasn't around and says he's still working to be a better father.

Obama says being a dad isn't easy for anyone _ gay, straight, grandparent or foster parent. He says he wants to encourage marriage and strong families by reforming child support laws to get more fathers engaged. He says businesses, faith groups and communities have a role to play.

In the Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says the Education Department has become like a national school board. He says Republicans have a plan to give state and local authorities more control.

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Online:

Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov

GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress


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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    There won't be any America by 2016.
    January 5, 2013 4:24 pm
    We'll be Eastern China by then.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Just in time to invade Syria and Iran...
    January 12, 2013 12:18 pm
    .....I mean the "Nobel Peace Prize winner" sure does like killing people w/ drones.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    "demands"
    January 14, 2013 8:19 am
    Well you know what, Barry? I DEMAND you stop f*#cking w/ my grand kid's futures, ya jackwagon!!!! STOP BORROWING AND SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • C"mon Man wrote...
    Starting at 10:30 am
    January 21, 2013 11:31 pm
    Will stay in campaign mode and re-distribute wealth and deflect blame, and tell Bill Gates, Paul Allen,Jeff Bezos,Bill Boeing,The Nordstrom and Clapp family:" You did not build that!"
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    We Americans to tackle big intrusive Obamunist government.
    January 22, 2013 1:59 pm
    IMPEACHMENT STYLE!!!!!!!
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    he White House struggled to back up his sweeping rhetoric with specifics
    January 22, 2013 2:33 pm
    No different than his first term. Lip service, unfulfilled "promises", lies, fabrication and lies. The only thing he's good at is spenidng MY money.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    This is one act of Subterfuge the regime has been up to.
    January 29, 2013 5:40 am
    With all media attention focused on the Dear Leader trying to abolish our Second Amendment and ObamaGate, the regime is attempting to get all these illegal aliens American citizenship.

    More votes for Liberals!

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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    "Can be..."
    February 2, 2013 10:56 am
    HOPE & CHANGE!!!!!!! ALLEUIAH!!!! Yes. It can. But you and your socialists in Congress are in the way.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    More propaganda from Comrade Owebama.
    February 4, 2013 4:23 pm
    It's not working, Barry. The 2nd will live on despite your treasonous intentions.
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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    seems to me like FUNDING may be an issue
    February 6, 2013 5:23 am
    since the Obama administration has failed to comply with the law on a budget proposal over the last 4 years....no consequences when the lord and savior brakes the law.....soon he will have to pay the consequences for runaway spending and out of control debt he has burdened AMERICA with. Inteptocracy at it's finest.
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