Obama spoke saying:
“I would say the fact that I grew up without a father in the home. What
that meant was that I had to learn very early on to figure out what was
important and what wasn’t, and exercise my own judgment and in some ways to
raise myself.
My mother was wonderful and was a foundation of love for me,
but as a young man growing up, I didn’t have a lot of role models and I made a
lot of mistakes, but I learned to figure out that there are certain values that
were important to me that I had to be true to.
Nobody was going to force me
to be honest. Nobody was going to force me to work hard. Nobody was going to
force me to have drive and ambition. Nobody was going to force me to have
empathy for other people. But if I really thought those values were important, I
had to live them out.
That’s why it’s so important for me now, both as a
United States senator and as a president candidate, but also as a father and a
husband to wake up every morning and ask myself, am I living up to those values
that I say are important
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