'Nuff Taught

Sometimes you can never get enough and other times enough is enough. It is a father's job to teach his children which times are which and why.

No doubt former Bush administration (41 & 43) member Colin Powell will need to explain to son Michael his recent endorsement of the candidacy of Barack Obama. As of last month, the former FCC commissioner and John McCain adviser didn't think his father would be endorsing anyone. The senior Powell said his "change of mind" is the result of someone else's son being demonized.

Seeing a picture of a mom weeping at the gravestone of Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, a Muslim who lost his life fighting for America, and having heard more than enough from one side of the politcal spectrum were what led to Powell's inserting a soldier into this year's political dialogue (one which has too often revolved around the inanities embodied in Plumber Joes). For which Khan's father can't thank Powell enough.

One of Powell's poinsts was that it wasn't enough for someone to say Barack Obama was not Muslim. It was American, it was just plain right to ask what would be wrong if he was and demand that the answer be that there would be nothing wrong. Similarly, as stay-at-home-dad Melton argues, it's not enough to admit that SAHDs and all dads can take care of children, it's time to recognize that it is plain stupidity to assume (as media and "common" wisdom does for the sake of lame jokes) that in general dads can't parent.

Listen up children, enough is enough.