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  When Father's Day is Mother's Day

  Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 2:16 PM | By Dayo Olopade

  When word broke that Barack Obama is pausing his busy schedule of revamping health care and heeding climate science and not intervening in the electoral process of a sovereign nation in order to spend three hours preaching "responsible fatherhood"—why, I nearly did a jig. The celebrity-stuffed event in the East Room sheds light on a little-reported obsession of the president whose own father abandoned him when he was barely 2 years old... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

  Filed under: Barack Obama, working families, father's day, mothers

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