June 21: Father’s Day in the United States and other places around the world. President Barack Obama issued, three days before, a proclamation to go with this event. Good impression, with his Father’s Day messages, from a man who grew up daddy-deprived.
One of these days, God willing, I will share why I did not vote for Barack Obama. But I will also tell why I think he is God’s annointed for the moment. Obama, methinks, is the chosen one to wield the flaming sword on this leg of the spritual combat relay. And why I pray much for him to succeed.
If your inclination is not Obamarian, my dear blog reader, don’t jump on me from a great height just yet. Wait till you see what I have to write. Success can be many things: and I am talking about success in doing God’s work, not in seeing to fruition the uncorrected Obama agenda. You see, President Obama’s slate of core beliefs and the camps from which it has brought him support from around the world, identify him as a misguided but hardened liberalista. Unbridled liberal values, like communism, are so self-contradictory, that even without any resistance, they are doomed to ultimate failure. While it may take some time, and a lot of societal damage (check the formerly Great Britain), the only way a liberal ideologue can succeed is with conversion. Hence my prayers for President Barry to succeed.
Now to what good Father’s Day things the president said, and where does it tie in with the contradictions of liberalism. President Barry must sign many proclaimations, and in the month of June, he also signed the gay, lesbian, transgendered pride month proclamation thingy. In this one, he expresses his Pride at being the first president to move aggressively to gayicize America and the whole world. Setting aside the issue of cultural imperialism for the moment (something liberals are deadly opposed to, save in the case of aggressively advancing the human rights of certain favoured minorities), President Obama’s gay month proclaimation speaks of adoption rights and other rights that I imagine include parenting ‘rights’ with things like state funded (under his new health care initiatives) IVF treatment for lesbian couples.
Hey, is President Barry racist, or is he just showing off his prowess at the liberal art of speaking from both corners of the mouth? On the one hand, black families have to endure the eternal unflattering public analysis of the criminals, drop-outs, underachievers and welfare-louts that our communities and countries produce; the result of high rates of father absence goes the conventional wisdom. On the other hand, we have to hear how great it is for the state to legislate for kids to grow up in families with two intentional, not accidental, moms and no dad. And how the darling black president will make it very likely a hate crime for any unfortunate soul who dares say this is wrong. Does he love or hate black families? Promoting adoption rights for a black lesbian couple when you just said black father absence is a grave societal sin?
The president, like many Caribbean and black North American children growing up in households with two or more adult women, surely has had a taste of two ‘mummy equivalents.” Here’s what he had to say about the experience:
While I was lucky to have two wonderful grandparents who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me, I still felt the weight of his [Obama's father's]absence throughout my childhood.
So you see, the president even had grandpa to go along with mom and gandmom, and that was still not enough. Like many black kids gone bad, who grew up with mama and grandma, or two strong aunts or closely related adult females that all had a collective hand in the rearing of the kids, something apparently was still missing. Here is another snippet from this article found on msn.com, where the above quote was extracted:
That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.
Wanda Sykes
Ah President Barry, does that mean, in future policy and proclamations you will be talking down things like annonymous sperm donations, pregnancy surrogacy and IVF arrangements for gay couples, to move widespread behaviours in the opposite direction? Or does the detachment of biological fathers, after conceptions has occured, only affect a special sub-class of people, blacks? Are you saying other “minorities” can do fatherlessness admirably, or are you unwittingly admitting that your enthusiam for certain minority arrangements will unleash a future wave of even more deadly mayhem, maybe angry domestic bombers, on North American society?
But President Obama has been consistent in his Father’s Day message. This old post from an ”unapologetic black liberal’ takes us back to the candidate Obama’s Father’s Day message in 2008. The not yet President Obama spoke, from a Christian Church, about absentee fathers as the “epidemic that has infected” black communities. The posts goes through the woeful statistics chronicling the high rate of fatherless and lone-parent (including single daddy) households among black people. But what is so bad for black children, will now be extremely good for the children of gays. If one daddy growing his own girls has proven bad for kids, it is apparently made good by state-approved two fathers adopting non-biologically related girls. And don’t you dare say anthing about that, you nasty loathsome hater. Someone will come out with a study on MSN in less than half of no time proving you all wrong.
To give some more confirmation about President Barry and the societally destructive contradictions of his beloved liberalisms, there is a quick response article on liberal-leaning msnbc/msn.com, which gives some more examples of the same. Obama’s Father’s Day Criticism of Dads Misses Mark, it is titled. The article rightly points to the fallacy of blaming men entirely for the fatherless state of affairs. An MSNBC/MSN story will hardly say so openly, but the ‘blame men’ fallacy can be attributed in large measure to radical feminist ideology, which significantly drives the modern homosexualist culture, which is the academic creed that President Barry’s generation would have been force-fed in universities.
I recall a journalism class where I wrote a class assignment on the link between father absence and the growing gun and other violent crime among young black men. My argument was, in part, that liberal values in metropolitian countries may have to shoulder the greater part of the blame than poverty and father absence per se. Of course I gave supporting period and country data to go with my arguments; showing better outcomes where and when families were poorer, visiting but contributing fathers very common, but the prevalent ideologies of the age were more conservative.
My lesbian instructor wanted to tear it to shards, because I had brought in the “bad for blacks but seeminly good for gays” reasoning. (By the way, I do agree that the low marriage rates and single-parent households for black people are a terrible problem; my arguements were more to point out the ravages of liberalism in making already bad matters worse). I only got her to back off when I pointed out that just a wee bit before, there had been a sharp uptick in gun crime in our city. Someone in the magic elite media cirlce of which she was a clique-member had discovered the tale linking distant slavery, broken black families, high percentage of single-parent households and fatherless boys correlated with criminal behaviour. And that was all the pseudo experts in blackness had written about for weeks. So, I asked her, how come what they believed bad for the goose was suddenly good for the gander. In a huff, she let my story be.
Anyway, I digress. Here are some extracts from that msn.com story, that in the process of showing us how good fathers are for producing good children, unwittingly tells us how destructive liberal values, and the social experiment they engender are. The kind that President Barry is becoming the poster president for.
Obama is correct that kids need their fathers. However, he makes a serious and harmful error in placing all blame for family breakdown on men. Family courts, child welfare agencies and mothers themselves often erect barriers to father involvement that even the most devoted fathers sometimes can’t overcome.
Obama is correct that involved fathers–even divorced or separated ones with little income–provide their children with substantial benefits. A recent Boston College study of low-income minority families found that when nonresident fathers are involved in their adolescent children’s lives, the incidence of substance abuse, violence, crime, and truancy decreases markedly. Lead author professor Rebekah Levine Coley, says the study found involved nonresident fathers to be “an important protective factor for adolescents.”
Approximately 750,000 teenagers become pregnant each year, and 3 in 10 teenage girls become pregnant at least once before age 20. MSNBC health and science writer Linda Carroll, describing a new Coley/Boston College study on teen pregnancy, explains:
“When it comes to preventing risky teen sex, there may be no better deterrent than a doting dad. Teenagers whose fathers are more involved in their lives are less likely to engage in risky sexual activities such as unprotected intercourse, according to a new study…While an involved mother can also help stave off a teen’s sexual activity, dads have twice the influence.”
To those on the social cnservative side, I say, let’s give President Barry a thumbs up for saying something good. Maybe our encouragement will nudge him to say and do more good things. We should hope and pray that it is not just for political expidiency but because he has come to believe in them.
