Schools Can’t Do It All

In tonight’s debate, Barack O’bama made a statement that I will always remember and may tip my vote to him.

He said that as a product of a home without a father, he knows first hand how important a father in the home is and that schools cannot make up for a missing father. {No matter how much money we through at the schools}

Bill Clinton did not have his father in his home. He had an alcoholic step father for a while.

I admire Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, flaws and all. They are both great men who have overcome and understand what they have overcome and both intimately understands their imperfect selves as a result of the missing element. Perhaps overcoming adversity, that lack, is a motivating element in their greatness.

But we need a nation of great men, not just a few, and that means more men, black men, white men, yellow men, brown men (get over it, they are just words) and thus society is better served if any child, boy OR girl, is raised by a loving couple committed to each other, who loves, shelters and teaches them from birth and before.