Obama's Father's Day Speech

A must-see:



At the beginning of the speech, I thought to myself how funny it would be to do a parody where he launched into Chris Rock's infamous "supposed to" routine. And then he actually did it (and expanded on it, in a laugh out loud manner, with regard to eighth grade graduation parties).

It's amazing: we are dealing with some of the most important issues in the history of our country, including what to do about Iraq, our economy, the environment, education, our standing in the world- it goes on and on.

But the issues that Barack Obama addressed head-on in this speech are in a way even more pressing, even more prevalent, and even more difficult for all of us as Americans to address- and he is the first person EVER that truly has the opportunity to ascend to the presidency to help our country deal with these most challenging issues of our own internal and awkward weaknesses and divides.