Responding to Obama's Father's Day Message

On Saturday, President Obama delivered his latest in a series of annual prognostications on what men need to do to be better fathers. As far as I know, he’s currently only suggesting fatherhood improvements, but his Democratic henchmen might be able to work out legislation for his signature before the end of the year.

Apparently, Obama’s not satisfied with running the country and General Motors. He’s dedicated to increasing the presence of government into almost every bastion of capitalism, while promoting his socialistic approach to taxes and reinventing a lame, but not broken, healthcare industry.

Now, he wants to reach into every home and give every father in America his one-size-fits-all approach to parenting. As with most of Obama’s grand schemes, there were few specifics to his plan.

Based on his first six-months in office, I can only assume that we fathers need to establish more rules and regulations for our children. Of course, we can’t stop with more rules. We also need to spend more money on our children than we will earn in our lifetimes. Fathers have an obligation to let our children’s great-grandchildren worry about who’s going to pay for our fiscal irresponsibility. These seem to be the guiding principles of the Obama presidency. Is this the way he would ask fathers to raise their children?

I think Mr. Obama would be well served to follow some advice handed down from my own father: “Don’t put anything on your plate that you can’t finish.”