And of course, though I did not know him well, every year around Father's Day I think of my own father. He and my mother divorced when I was only two years old, and for most of my life I knew him only through the letters he sent and the stories my mother and grandparents told.
Obama reflecting on his personal experience with his father, whom he barely knew.
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And one of the most disturbing things about this election and about Trump's rise in politics is how we seem to have set the values we were taught aside, how we seem to disregard them, how we pretend they don't matter.
This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues.
Don’t tell me you’re a Democrat but you’re kind of disappointed right now, so you’re not doing anything.
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