Barack Obama actually said...

The second step we'll take to strengthen families is to ensure that working Americans are not impoverished Americans.

There are fewer and fewer families who can tell this story today.

Parents will need to make sure their kids turn off the TV once in a while, and put away the video games, and start hitting the books.

I think about my grandfather, who first became a father when my mother was born on a Kansas army base at the outset of World War II. He left...