According to a daily pundit summary by BarbinMD of Daily Kos,

E.J. Dionne hopes that Barack Obama’s speech on fathers and responsible parenting won’t be dismissed as a political ploy, saying that, “It actually matters that a presidential candidate is taking the costs of fatherlessness seriously.”

Read the quote in context here.

Are we going to have to wait till next father’s day, though, before somebody needs to get the word out that being a father isn’t just a duty, nor is it only some kind of “wages of sin” for fucking? Because especially if you actually get in there and father your children instead of just dropping in by bungee for the suppertime be-good presentation and (Chris Rock was off by one on this) the “big piece of chicken.”

Because it’s not all duty you know.