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Sunday, June 15, 2008 --- 74 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/15/happy-fathers-day-mr-presidents
 Filed under: President Bush , Barack Obama , John McCain , Featured Stories , 2008 President , Ken Layne's Outrage This is that special time of year when, as a cheap afterthought to Mother's Day, we sort of vaguely celebrate that other parent who may or may not be around. We call it Father's Day, and our nation's various recent presidential people aren't very good at it, either. The dad who best represents lousy parenting and America's image-over-substance marketing economy is, of course, our greatest president, Father Ronald Reagan. Married, divorced and married again, Reagan fathered children by two different women and adopted a boy with his first wife, shortly before he divorced her. The children who survived to adulthood described him as mysterious, distant, detached and cruel, while his personal diaries show absolutely no affection for Maureen, Michael, Patti or Ron Jr. The Reagan child who turned that distant relationship with President Reagan into a full-time career -- adopted son and right-wing talk show performer Michael Reagan -- wrote in one of his autobiographies that "we were raised by nannies and maids." Th-th-that's not ch-change we can be-believe in! Only one of our current presidential candidates can claim the "Reagan Legacy" when it comes to being a terrible husband, father and human being -- and that's maverick John McCain. Not only did McCain dump his newly crippled wife and her two children that he adopted al ... |
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