Michelle Obama: Celebrate the Men Who’ve Had the Courage to Step Up

Talking about fatherhood is one thing.
Living it when you have been laid off, bills are due, your kids are hungry, your wife is crying because you can’t find work… Live it then…….
Living it when you travel long distances to work, never home with your family, trying to provide shelter and food for your family, your kids wonder who you are. Live it then…
When you have to explain to your children why the family is staying in a motel because the bank took your house, and why there isn’t anything for dinner…. Fatherhood is great isn’t it?
Look at the bankers and stockbrokers see their arrogant opulence as they eat your families food. Live it then
I wonder to myself, why is the question never ask….. Would it not be better to hold accountable those who are wantonly and knowingly stealing food and shelter from our family?
Why does the useless government still allow them to steal the roof from our children, the food from the table. When is it time for the government live it?
Live it now…… Only then, are you qualified to talk about what is really happening in our country to millions of people that have been abandoned.
Living it sucks and so does the government.
Extremely Sincerely
The Real USA Family

That we have such a wonderful example of fatherhood, and family dynamics, in the Whitehouse is terrific.
That our current president is willing to lead by example is inspiring.
Thank you Michelle for speaking out this special day.

The message is nice, but it lacks encouragement to those who one way or the other are not obliged!

For 10 years, I watched my ex-husband spend 750,000 dollars on toys while I held down two jobs to provide food and a roof over the head of our two children. Our judicial system offered me no assistance. Where did he get that kind of money? By suing his own family because after he left us, he was still unhappy. But I couldn’t get a dime.
And now my darling daughter is going through the same thing. While her ex-husband spends money dining out and living a lavish lifestyle, my three grandchildren are going without. It is certainly not the government’s fault that this happens but an incredulous judicial system that allows men to hide funds.
I have a roommate now whose ex-husband also claims to have no money to pay for supporting his three children.
How do they get away with this? They’ve intimidated devoted wives who wanted nothing but to raise a normal healthy family but their desire for power and perhaps a younger body overrides any semblance of common sense.
It’s time for real EQUITY for America’s mothers and for judges to realize what they’re doing to the next generation.

I don’t know why but I feel and sense that Mrs. Obama is still an angry woman underneath – despite the gratefulness that should have been obvious.

danita – Mrs Obama projects a beautiful spirit and I sense no anger at all. But then, I don’t spend any time listening to angry people who are projecting negativity on to her.

The courage to step up? Is that what we’re calling it these days?

So now we have so lowered the bar as to call what was once the norm “courage”. There was a time in this country when the fathers of children took the responsibility to provide and raise their children and it was not called courage. It was called the right thing to do. Period. I guess the folks that got to their station in life filling quotas just don’t understand that.

Michelle Obama has a special message this Father’s Day: “celebrate responsible fatherhood and the men who’ve had the courage to step up. —————————–
It was called the right thing to do. Period. I guess the folks that got to their station in life filling quotas just don’t understand that. – edlaw——— I guess being in the gifted program in elementary school, being a member of the National Honor Society in high school, graduating as the salutatorian, and graduating cum laude from college is all due to quotas! Please!

I guess being in the gifted program in elementary school, being a member of the National Honor Society in high school, graduating as the salutatorian, and graduating cum laude from college is all due to quotas! Please!
Yes I do believe it was all quotas. The quotas for the victim class start early in life and run all the way to the white house!

Why in the world is someone on here talking about quotas and a bunch of other crap!! Stop being jealous of your President. We have a great president in office and I’m simply loving it!

It seems our politicians, CEOs, etc. were born in what you might call the “norm” perfect 2-parent family. Ummm, now this country has continuously spiraled downhill. With 2 parents, how did they go wrong in mismanaging this country. These were leaders we trusted; and they turned out to be crooks, and thank goodness some are spending their Father’s Day locked up. What a mess. But I’m still positive. The First Family is such a positive force.

Obama should have put out a statement not
Michelle.But, I guess Obama was too busy sucking up to the Pakistanis in his interview today.

Jaylah……..The Obama’s knew what the job entailed. So save your poor Obama’s cr@p.

I’m supposing that people who constantly cite quotas in their posts don’t realize that if you are given the opportunity to enter a university, while quota may get you in it sure as the devil won’t keep you there. But probably the people mouthing off have never tried to get into anything they just stand back and bellyache about others who work really hard and study really hard to better prepare themselves for a better future. Those are the ones that always seem so hateful when someone else tries and succeeds. There were quotas to that others could have used at Howard and Morehouse and many other schools but they couldn’t have stayed there even meeting a quota; they’re usually the dummies. We should move on and give them each other with whom to converse because you can never get them to understand. They don’t want to understand because then they will have to admit that they, themselves, never tried to be better.

It is not Michelle’s place to make any type of political
comment. We voted for one president, not two.

Political comment? What about her statement was political. Wow… you Obama haters are too much.

Father’s Day fell on the Summer Solstice, Litha, The day when the Sun is at it’s highest in the sky and shines upon the earth as the longest day.
That being said, I have noted that my attitude had begun to be negative as I read through the comments that are also negative and more often than not, insulting as well. I realize that I had fallen in step with those that had lost the election and so now just criticize everything this President does while excusing everything the last administration and the GOP has done by being just as negative as they.
I realize I can’t help them to be any different than they decide to be but, I can change me… I don’t have to be negative, I can follow our President’s example as he rose above the assaults from the right…during the campaign and everyday since.
I am very happy with this President and his lovely family.
When fathers are responsible and we all know that sometimes they are not… It hurts the children, but it also hurts everyone else. We all feel the ripple effects of irresponsibility throughout society.

“For the first time in my adult life I am proud to me an American”. What a joke of a First Lady.

wow! and I guess that BO stepped to the plate when he spent the last (how many years?) traveling here and fro during an election cycle whirlwind never seeing his children, commuting between Chicago and DC as a Senator, having Grammy as a live in nanny and Michelle, also on the trail, talking about feeling like a “single mom” but, of course with private chefs and housekeepers! (Don’t think that many single moms have tht opportunity).
Sure BO is still overwhelmingly angry at both his fathers – his biological and step father – for abandoning him as well as his mom shipping him off to Grammy and PopPop! But what about the millions of “lost” and “damanged” children who thru no fault of anyone have lost their parent/father to death – from disease or violence. Or even those whose father has been sent to Afgan/Pakistan and Iraq (and their mothers as well) never to return.
And he has the nerve to do the “step up” softshoe … and Michelle echoing that meme? Ah! it’s ever so popular to trash the deadbeat dad but not acknowledge the millions of MOMs who do double duty – either by choice or chance. Or those single Dads who do more than step up when they are the ONLY caregiver. Do they too not deserve more than recognition. Is it not better to point out positive role mmodels? Those who have done it and do it everyday?
What better example of the non-traditional family that the POTUS? Could they not, instead of “victimizing” the children of a one parent family pointing to the “hole,” applaud those who have overcome that adversity and were successful? Who didn’t wallow in it but got on with life? In my generation that was all those babies whose fathers never came home from Nam or came home in a body bag. Are our children forever “damanged” as he implies?
Of course he works hard at being a father – as do millions of others men and women … and even those who have two parent families but neither parent has a penis. But I’ll be damned if he is my “father” or he is as one quote said, “the Father of our coutnry” or even the “Father in Chief.”
If his priority were his children, he wouldn’t have been off chasing his own Dreams and those of his father but the dreams of his children. Even Bill Clinton intentinally waited for national recogniztion until Chelsea was older.
Meanwhile until he is really willing to take on the underlying family needs – poverty, joblessness, crime, substance abuse, health care, education for every child (not just a few who have vouchers) etc – and take them on as a STRONG and principled LEADER, he is failing and his greatest fear will be maifested – that he is not loved and will be rejected by “his” constituants. After all, this is a man who desires to be loved by everyone, will do anything to please everyone and that big hole can NEVER be filled – no matter how hard he tries! For him and so many others. For him, it’s all about HIM … and only HIM.

I think ABC, NBC, CNN,CBS, and public t.v. have all fictionalized the Obama family.Add the liberal magazines and newspapers and we have the continuing indoctrination of the American voter. We are told how perfect the Obamas are and we are never really given the hard core facts that indicate otherwise. It’s difficult to believe anything that Michelle Obama says once the true facts have been revealed .

It is not Michelle’s place to make any type of political
comment. We voted for one president, not two.
Posted by: a.matai | Jun 21, 2009 10:34:28 PM
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As someone who actually voted for Obama I would say to you …. speak for yourself… I have no qualms with anyone trying to better this country by addressing a very real and serious issue.

Courage to step up????
If that is the way the First Family thinks, this nation is in real trouble. Fathers and mothers have an obligation to their children, which is a given in civilized society.
I would venture to say that Obama has followed in his own father’s footsteps in pursuit of his own dreams and career goals and his quest for omnipotence. His kids are young, as he is, and he had the option of waiting until his family was grown before running for POTUS. But then, he would have had an actual track record, and the country wouldn’t have fallen for the Obama shell game.
So save the advice, Meechelle, and hope that Barry’s photo ops provide all the fathering your kids need.
Hillary should be POTUS.

It’s all about drinking beer and having fun on fathers day. A lot of negative comments for this post. Why?