Washington, We Have a Problem | Politics | Vanity Fair
The one part of the evening that is sacrosanct, if the president is in town, isdinner with his wife and daughters. Even as the president’s travel schedule picks up, in anticipation of the midterm elections, aides told me, he intends to be home for dinner as often as possible. “He had a father who had abandoned him,” Valerie Jarrett says, and “he always wanted to be a present and involved father.”
Joint Center:: DataBank (http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/factsheet/livarg.htm - broken link)
Since 1960, the proportion of black children living with a single parent more than doubled, from 22% to 53.3% in 2000. Since 1980, more black children have lived with a single parent than with two parents (42% versus 45% respectively) in 1980, and since 1983, the majority (at least 53.6%) have lived with a single parent.
Obama Family Values - Forbes.com
Overall, Obama is playing an exceedingly smart game of cultural politics. Most Americans, particularly youth, no longer relate to the vintage 1950s sitcom
Ozzie and Harriet, an illustration of the lifestyle embraced by conservatives. Too many women now work outside the home and have friends or relatives who practice "alternative lifestyles." Demonizing "deviants" is increasingly difficult, after all, when many if not most Americans have loved ones who are gay or otherwise outside the historical mainstream.
Yet at the same time, there is a growing rejection of the highly secularized, self-absorbed lifestyle many boomers embrace. As a result, when it comes to today's values, the role models seem to be socially hip and strong families like the Huxtables from
The Cosby Show. Or perhaps, just maybe, the Obamas.
Chris Rock -
"******* always want credit for some **** they're supposed to do," he announces, in typically head-on fashion. "They'll brag about stuff a normal man just does. They'll say something like, 'Yeah, well, I take care of my kids.' You're supposed to, you dumb ************. 'I ain't never been to jail.' Whaddya want? A cookie? You're not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having ************!"
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