Father's Day Campaign Video: First Lady Discusses Importance Of First Family Dinners

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"We have dinner together almost every night," Mrs. Obama says...
Obama 2012 posted a 3+-minute video on Sunday on BarackObama.com titled "Happy Father's Day from First Lady Michelle Obama." Onscreen, Mrs. Obama hails President Obama as an excellent "hands-on" father, and discusses the importance of family dinners for keeping him both "grounded" and connected to regular Americans. The video includes loads of family photos with daughters Malia and Sasha.

"We have dinner together almost every night," Mrs. Obama says onscreen. "That means his work stops, he comes home, and we sit down together as a family and when we're sitting around the dinner table, he's not Barack Obama, President of the United States, he's Malia and Sasha's dad, and I think that helps to ground him."

The President travels widely for official events and campaign events. In June alone, he was in New York on two separate occasions for a series of evening fundraising events. He also traveled to California, Nevada, and Colorado during a three-day western campaign swing. On Sunday, the President departs for Los Cabos, Mexico, where he will remain through Tuesday night. On Friday, he travels to Orlando, Florida.

"I know that it [family dinner] keeps him focused on where we need to go as a country, that we need to make sure that we're giving families all families in this country the kind of economic support and opportunities so that they can be the best parents that they can be," Mrs. Obama says in the video.

Mrs. Obama has frequently spoken about the importance of eating together as a family during speeches for the Let's Move! campaign, and she reiterates the family dinner theme in her recently published book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. The book includes family-sized recipes that are designed to be healthy, delicious and affordable.

A note on the BarackObama.com with the video reads "Every solution the President puts forward is inspired by a desire every parent shares: the need to build a better world for their kids," and encourages supporters to share the video with friends.

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