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On Father's Day, Barack Obama delivered a sermon in a Chicago church chiding black men for their failures as parents. "Any fool can have a child," he preached. "That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
Those words elicited some telling reactions. Under the headline "Obama's Father's Day Grand Slam," David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network called it "a defining speech" that "spoke directly to the concerns of millions of concerned parents across the country."See the full content of this document
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Obama Trying to Reach Beyond Party Lines
By contrast, black commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson said Obama "clearly is fixated on the ever popular media notion of the absentee black father," a notion he calls a "ste...
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