If being able put Mitt Romney’s campaign in a tweet is supposed to be a bad thing, what does it say that the Obama campaign often sounds like a knock-off Hallmark card?
Friend –
From coaching basketball to knowing how many Jonas brothers there are, Barack is a pretty cool dad.
But more importantly, Barack is a wonderful father and partner. No matter what’s on his plate, he puts the kids first, and they know how much he loves them.
This Father’s Day, I want Barack to know how much we love and appreciate him back, so I hope you’ll join me in wishing him a happy Father’s Day:
http://my.barackobama.com/Fathers-Day
Thanks for all your hard work, and happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful dads out there.
- Michelle
Knowing how many Jonas Brothers there are does not make one “cool.”
Experience of generation after generation shows the kids twenty years from now will have no idea who the Jonas Brothers are, just as today’s kids probably don’t know who the New Kids on the Block were, just as I and today’s kids will not know whoever the 2032 Jonas Brothers are. It’s just the way the world works. It is thus probably nothing of great importance for a President to know.
“And you black holes? You’re so ominous. And you planets? Watch your back.”
I got one of these, and laughed. I also received one telling me to join Michelle and tell Barack he was in. I guess it’s no big deal.
“Seriously, Michelle, Why Should I Wish Somebody Else’s Dad a Happy Father’s Day?”
Personally, I see this as the Democrats’ attempt to create a “cult of personality”, Stalin-style, for Obama. Stalin was often referred to as “father of the people” during his lifetime and everyone was expected to enthusiastically endorse this “father” even though he was no blood relation to the vast majority of the people in his country.
And for a lot of people who voted for him, he *is* their daddy, in a metaphorical sense. Keeping them fed and providing their medical care and sending them to college, keeping them safe from those evil Republicans and oil companies, patting them on the head when they do good…
Personally I get uneasy wishing the guy a happy Father’s Day when he doesn’t even know how many kids he has (remembers my daughters AND sons).
A day to honor fatherhood turned into a campaign fundraiser. Classless.
– you don’t know how hard you have made it for fathers to care for their families. Take your own issues with your dead drunken pappy mack daddy somewhere else.
Aren’t the Jonas Brothers soooo 2008? That’s a lifetime ago in Teen Pop World. I doubt if the Obama girls even care about them any more.
I do not know how many Jonas brothers there are. Does that make me a bad or “uncool” dad?
I am so fed up with him inserting himself into EVERYTHING. Enough already! On a related note, anyone else notice that the only past presidents that keep their noses in politics are the Democrats? Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, both have made public comments during this administration. You never heard from Nixon or Ford during the Reagan administration, you never heard from Reagan or Bush Sr. during the Clinton administration, and you haven’t heard from either Bush during the Obama administration. But you can’t get away from the Democrats.
Who was that wonderfully beloved progressive national leader who sent millions of ‘reactionaries’ and assorted ‘enemies of the people’ to the labor camps of the Soviet Gulag? Why, Papa Joe Stalin, of course!
Who is that wonderfully beloved progressive national leader, who, if given a second term, and could find it in his executive powers to send millions of conservative to ‘re-education camps’? Why, Papa Barack Obama, of course!
Happy Fathers Day, America!
I think I shall go find my Quiet Urp bag now.
So, Michelle, Barack Obama is “cool”?
What was the Congressional Black Caucus just saying the other day about referring to him as “cool”?
I’m older than he is. I’d feel like a bloody fool wishing him a Happy Father’s Day.
Stupid holiday anyway.
Of course we are to wish Obama a Happy Father’s Day. In the mind of all great leaders (i.e. dictators), we are their sons and daughters.
I would have thought a more appropriate message would have been for Barack, Michelle, Sasha and Malia to wish all fathers out there a Happy Father’s Day. Instead, as with all things involving Barack and family, it’s about them — or more precisely, him.
Who are the Jonas Brothers?
Maybe this is just Obambi trying to steal another President’s thunder. I mean we do refer to Geo. Washington as the father of our country.