Obama’s Star Struck Eyes Invites Celebrity Dads to the White House

Obama is celebrating Father’s Day by hosting an event at the White House celebrating fathers in an impromptu town hall meeting (remember when his poll numbers fall, Obama resorts to a town hall meeting to show he’s just one of us). Obama gathered celebrity dads around the country who will tell their story during the event. Notice Obama invited celebrities over normal men to tell their stories. Obama wants to be seen with celebrities because he considers himself one of them. He relates to them. For Obama to invite normal dad’s to the White House would place him in reality with the real struggles of fatherhood today, and people wouldn’t ogle over the people in the room.

I have told the story on this blog about my grandfather, Harley William Bowler, two days before he died. Jimmy Carter and the Democrats were in charged, and my grandfather a Democrat himself looked at the country with sad eyes, which would probably be teary if he was alive today. He would be teary because the ideas he fought against in World War II and watched grow in Eastern Europe have found their way across our plains.

It was in a gas station my grandfather would place a lasting memory in the depths of a young eight-year-old child’s mind. He spoke to the attendant at the Amoco at the corner of US65 and Kearney Street in Springfield, MO—a stretch of Route 66. The words he said never left. “I look at the direction of my country and I don’t see much of a future for my grandson here.” Most eight years olds might not be paying attention. They probably would shuffle the candy bar aisle begging for a package of M&Ms. I was there by his side. I was meant to be there.

Over the next few years, my grandfather’s words resonated. The company he left my father struggled from years of Jimmy Carter’s mismanagement of the economy which led to little construction, high unemployment, even higher interest rates, and out of control inflation—conditions Obama’s policies will lead us to as well. There were many nights of Spam and cheap hot dogs at the family table. I watched my dad struggle, cry, and try to provide for his family. I endured wearing cheap baby-blue tennis shoes passed down because we couldn’t afford to buy new ones. No young boy should have to wear baby-blue tennis shoes. Times were tough, and eventually the company my grandfather built fell victim because no one was building houses because people weren’t buying houses thanks to the high interest rates and inflation. If people weren’t building houses, they weren’t drilling wells.

I feel like Obama snubbed the fathers working hard in America today who have a story to tell. These fathers face 40% of their income robbed from them in one form of taxes or another, and the reality is Obama will take more as he promotes cap and trade which raises energy taxes, a VAT tax which experts believe will raises the average costs of goods and services by 25%, new taxes on food and beverages, and promises of more coming. If I were there he would get an earful from me about how family time is robbed by unfair taxation.

If Obama cared about American fathers, he would see to it gas prices were brought down by drilling for our own oil, so fathers don’t have to take out second jobs to make ends meet as costs skyrocket thanks to higher energy costs.

If Obama cared about American fathers, why is he pushing sub-compact cars on Americans which will rob them of their ability to take the family on a road trip across the United States to discover the history of our beautiful country—or is that once beautiful country and the memories of what the country used to be about. I doubt Obama would put Sasha and Malia in a Smart Car knowing their survival rates in a crash would be drastically reduced, but this is what Obama is demanding of fathers when he requires CAFE standards that can only be met by shrinking cars to a size smaller than a Kia Rio.

If Obama cared about American fathers, he wouldn’t have spent their children’s futures away by spending at a record pace from the earliest days of his administration. Not only is this spending going to raise the taxes of the American family, it will also be passed on from father to child. What did it accomplish? Bigger government and fraud!

Obama wants to spend his Father’s Day celebration with movie stars and athletes. He is one of them in the political world. He may be a dad, but he isn’t the hard-working American dad who has to worry about keeping his job to put food on the table for his children and how he is going to get them through high school and into college. Obama’s path was paved, which is one of the reasons it’s so hidden from the view of Americans. If Obama really wanted to understand the real American father, he would invite people like my dad who saw policies similar to Obama’s help a 20-year-old small business go from a success story to a memory. Of course, Obama doesn’t want people like my father at the White House talking about the struggles of being a father and providing. It would be too easy to make connections to the failed policies of the 70s and connect them to Obama’s future disaster.

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Originally posted at Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom

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