Giving Fatherhood Some Pop, ...Laura Bush Touts Role of Dads

God, Dad and apple pie. Nothing against moms, but the new mantra of the Bush administration is all about fathers.

"Celebrating fatherhood is something our whole society should be doing," Laura Bush said at last night's National Fatherhood Initiative awards gala. The address at the Willard Hotel was part of the first lady's Helping America's Youth project to give children -- especially boys -- adult role models.

Moms, it seems, are a given. It's fathers, or the lack thereof, who are getting all the attention these days. The high-profile organization promotes the importance of dads as loving, involved parents -- and the presence of the first lady gave its message a White House seal of approval.
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"It's Mom who usually provides the kiss that makes the pain go away, and Dad who's up for wrestling on the living room floor," Bush said. "But the differences don't allow one parent off the hook while the other provides all the support and love. Parenting is best done as a team, with both Mom and Dad fully committed to raising their children."

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The father of her two daughters, who was an alcoholic lout until his 40's.

they've raised. If they weren't surrounded by Secret Service, you can be damn sure both of 'em would've been on a Girls Gone Wild tape by now.

vibes comin' down @ the Lincoln museum yesterday Btween pickles and her husband.. There was something going on. Her body language was not friendly plus she had her sunglasses on....again.

thorazine soaked consciousness?

n/t

Meanwhile, her husband was on a 15 year bender while her kids were growing up.

This woman has some fucking nerve.

Just open up her head and reprogram the chip, then she'll be fine.


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but I think that quality role-models are in short supply in the Republican party. It's like their allergic to the idea that a man can be anything more than a party line jackass.

Thanks, George Sr. for doing a bang-up job with your spawn!

Jenna Bush went into the hospital for an emergency apendectomy.
Bush was in Florida fishing with Poppy and Jeb the next day. Don't know if he ever bothered to see her in the hospital.
When the press asked him about her, he said she could join them in Florida, or go home and clean her room when she got out of the hospital.

it was 1986. his daughters were toddlers when he was still drinking his brains out and bragging to his friends about it. "DADDY'S HOME!" *hic!* "HOW'S DADDY'S FAVORITE LITTLE GIRLS, HUH?" "Daddy, you smell funny!"

If not on the point of passing out, unresponsive (and his biographers have reported that he'd be throwing up).

I'm sorry for the girls, because it can be really scary for little kids to see a parent incapacitated. I know I used to get frightened when my mom was sidelined by migraines. I had friends who reported finding their dad out cold on the couch after too many beers ... they would go around the neighborhood and look for someone to have breakfast with because they were hungry.

What bullshit! I raised both of my kids alone, without fathers or child support, and they turned out a damn sight better than a lot of the monsters I've seen from so-called "intact" families!

:grr:

my daughter is a single mom, for three years now , and is doing a spectacular job. Their dad has not seen them in two years and only calls when he's high enough! Both children are in the honor's society. When he was around, he was drunk or high, and was not a great role model. I imagine Laura experience much the same from *!

Women are just incubators..it's about time we diminish their roles as caretakers of their children.:sarcasm:
Moving closer and closer to "The Handmaid's Tale" where the incubators are kept in locked quarters until the almighty man feels the need to procreate...with their wives watching.
I guess pickles is a voyeur and that is why she is promoting this. If parenting is a team as she states, then she should be celebrating parenthood--not fatherhood.

Was born in 1900 and raised my Mom and Uncle all alone (widow). She had a saying "no man is better than a bad man". Maybe Bush and his Christian Family Organizations should pay heed to this with Promote Marriage for Welfare Moms. Give them training and JOB SKILLS, rather than push them to marry just ANYBODY.

My great-grandmother was widowed in the mid-1920s with 5 children. She then married a man who abused her, but kicked his ass out when he told her the only reason he married her was so he'd have a place to live. By then though, she was pregnant with my gram. It was hard, but she knew her kids were better off.

shostakovich used to do the same