I’m on the email list for “Obama for something” so when I received my very own personalized email (Hey, they know me as “Friend”) talking about Father’s Day from Caroline Kennedy, I just had to take notice:
Friend —
I grew up in the White House. I remember as a small child visiting my father in the Oval Office while he worked. But really, we could have been growing up in any American home. We were just children, happy to see our dad — even if he was stepping out of a helicopter that had landed on our front lawn. That’s why, on Father’s Day, I’m thinking of Michelle Obama and the girls, and the time they’ll get to spend with the President as a family. I can appreciate how long the days can be — and how wonderful it feels to know that, no matter how full your father’s plate is, you’re the best part of his day and the most important part of his life. So I’m joining Michelle and others all around the country to wish the President a happy Father’s Day. As you acknowledge a special father figure in your own life, I hope you’ll join me by adding your name to tell Barack how much he means to all of us:
Riiiight. So I, as a Father, should now get all warm, fuzzy, and looney, to think that I need to send Obama a Father’s Day Card because he’s the President? Or because he’s taking such a beating during this campaign that my simple gesture would make him feel better?
But then I saw this a week later:
