The Liberal media strikes again. This time, the New York Times came up with this massive discovery: Being a good father may just be another failure of president Obama, and even worse, it might be dangerous!
Uder the headline: He Breaks for Band Recitals, in the Fashion & Style section, there's this negatively-cynicly-sounded feature, about Obama's fatherhood habits.
It starts like this:
IT is no secret that President Obama desperately wants Congress to pass legislation to overhaul health care. But last month, when Mr. Obama convened Congressional Democratic leaders at the White House for a marathon negotiating session, another priority intervened.
His 11-year-old daughter, Malia, had a band recital.
Thus did the president of the United States ditch his own health care talks — temporarily, at least — to slip off to Sidwell Friends School for a few hours to listen to Malia play the flute. When the recital was over, he returned to the White House, and everybody went back to work. The talks wrapped up at 1:30 a.m., and if the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi; the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid; or anybody else had anything to say about the delay, they held their tongues...
Then there's the implication that he's actually neglecting his duties as Commander In chief, in order to have dinner with his kids:
...He knocks off work at 6 p.m. each evening to have dinner with his family, and has given his schedulers strict instructions that, if he must have night-time activities, they are to take place after 8 p.m. That includes matters of war; in November, as the commander in chief wrestled with sending more troops to Afghanistan, he called an 8 p.m. meeting of his national security team, in deference to his role as father in chief.
He squeezes in parent-teacher conferences, soccer and basketball games, and broke away from an economics briefing to call his younger daughter, Sasha, on her eighth birthday. (She was in London with her mother.) And when the White House announced that Mr. Obama would be traveling next month to Indonesia and Australia, the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was not shy about confirming that the trip was timed to coincide with the girls’ spring break...
And let's not forget the obligatory Right Wing criticism - So that no one can accuse the NYT of being Liberal. You see, members of Congress "sacrificed their families", so the president should do too (because his kids seeing their father being called "Hitler" on TV and facing non-stop death threats is not enough):
... Yet even in today’s father-friendly world, Mr. Obama’s balancing act is not risk-free — especially in an economy where so many ordinary Americans are struggling. Critics could accuse him of slacking off when the country is in need. And this city is filled with politicians who have sacrificed their families for their jobs, so Mr. Obama must be careful not to generate resentment among those whose schedules must swing around his own.
"People elect you not to be a good family man, they elect you to fix their problems, and that’s the cold-hearted reality of it," said John Feehery, a Republican political strategist. "And all those folks on the Hill, they’ve left all their families at home; they don’t have the luxury of skipping back home in the middle of the meeting to catch their daughter’s recital."...
And this is, Ladies and Gentlmen, the cream of the mainstream media, trashing one of the most hard-working presidents ever, because he's being a good father.