Caution-- Barf bag alert.

A man who doesn't even know his own father as the new Father of the country-- which country? Certainly not America!

The idea of Obama as any kind of father figure died with our heroes in Benghazi.
Fathers do not betray and then lie about it.

Father figure? Boyish good looks? Delia Lloyd has to stop smoking those funny cigarettes.

Obama and Biden both have potty mouths. I wouldn't want either of them around children.

When I first started reading this article, I thought it was a spoof -- and it may be that it really is a spoof, but too subtle for me to get. Assuming it is serious, though, I have to wonder where on earth the writer got her image of a father figure. A petulant, thin-skinned, self-absorbed person so insecure that he pins blame on everyone and everything but himself? I know fathers like that, but I would never consider them father figures. I would consider them object lessons on the kind of father you don't want to be. Romney on the other hand...? Great role model. Even Ward Cleaver could have learned some things from his example.

So the 'Rats are now saying "Vote for Daddy?" Really?

My own father is a father figure of stature unlike anything the boy obama will ever be capable of achieving.

So, now he has morphed from Abe Lincoln to George Washington!! Hey Delia! News flash! Zippy doesn't have the morality of an ant.

More like alchoholic, deadbeat dad.

Obama has made big promises and talked a good game, but in the end, he was an empty suit who let everyone down.

Charlie Manson and every dictator that ever lived figures himself a "father figure".
If he is, he's the type that rapes, sodomizes and murders his own family.

I had a father and I don't need a psychological replacement figure. I'm a grownup. Besides, I wouldn't trust obama to water my plants and feed the cats if I went out of town for a night.

This would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic.

When I see "Obama" and "father figure" in the same sentence, my only reaction is "Obama, who's your daddy?"

I was certain it was a parody...till I realized it's the WaPo and they don't have a sense of humor. These people are in their own world.

"I think the father-thing is going to resonate" like a fart in church!

My Father was a real live Cowboy and a good
man. Obama does not deserve to carry his
lariat...

If Joe Biden is the loyal friend, I'd hate to see the enemy. WaPo should be blacklisted for publishing this drivel.

Wait. Yesterday he was supposed to be our lover. Now he's our father.

That is some sick stuff, right there.

Couldn't bring myself to read past the headline (eyeballs rolled back into my head). Gimmee a break!

If Obama's a father figure, Delia is the prototypical victim of child abuse. Combined with Stockholm Syndrome, or something.

Since she apparently lives in london, this pinhead doesn't have to live with the consequences of solbama's lousy leadership. If she thinks she needs a new father she is welcome to him.

Washington was the Father of Our Country. If re-elected, Obama will be the Father of the End of Our Country.

Poor soppy Delia.

Obie does appear to be inappropriately besotted with his elder daughter, but that's about the extent of it.

How Delia can see Mitt Romney with his huge family and not believe he is a father figure is beyond me. He just doesn't pretend to be the father of the entire country who will take care of everyone no matter what. He is the good father who urges everyone to become their very best self.

One other thought: Is this embarrassing attempt to cast him as "father figure" a weak effort to save him from the embarrassing, sexually suggestive video implying that the youth of America think of voting for the first time as the opportunity to have him take their virginity???

It would be difficult to take these people seriously, if they weren't such a danger.

A guy who purportedly hung out in a Chicago bathhouse and had older men service him does not sound like a father figure to me.

Oh, and read the Wapo comment thread. Looks like even the Koolaide brigade are stunned into silence by the stupidity of this article. The few comments posted could have come straight from L.dot.

I don't think of an incompetent that acts lika a juvenile delinquent as a father fiqure.

Get help, Dalia.

This woman holds a PhD in political science.

Like the sophomoric worldview and politics of others with advanced degrees and long experience in academia, her stunning cluelessness and naivete raise disturbing questions about the value, indeed the safety of such learning.

More proof, at least to people like me, that the real sickness of the West begins in its universities. Until there is something akin to a cleansing of these Augean stables, the problems of which Barack Obama is merely the incarnation will persist. Left to themselves, they will probably get worse. A nation whose educational system has been transformed into a vast manufacturing plant for the mass production of fools is on the road to serfdom. People like the writer who want a father figure as president have lost the capacity for self-governance. Perhaps they do not wish to have such a responsibility.

I'd prefer him being a farther figure. And the only item he represents is a POS.

Father figure? Obama?? Huh???

This is typical of the Democrats. They take something from the Republicans and turn it around. They see the world in reverse image.

After the debates people have noted that it seemed like "the good father vs the abandoned son". The "good father" being Mitt Romney, of course. So now we get this "father figure" nonsense.

They call Sarah Palin a "grifter", clearly not knowing what the word means, because Republicans pointed out the Clintons grifting tendencies. They started saying the GOP was a cult (nonsensically if you look at how contentious the party is within its ranks) after people started pointing out the Democrats mind-numbed cult-member behavior.

There are many more. I don't know if it's an Alinsky thing or just more immaturity from the knucklehead party, but it's uncanny. They do it every single time the Republicans strike a nerve.

As I've posted before - - the issue has been settled - - - -

- - - - leftist delusion is permanent and irreversible.

Sick, sick, sick people. Really, really sick.

This article begs the question of why functioning adults need a father figure. (The pony-tailed guy who wanted Clinton to think of us as his children was clearly a case of arrested development.) The infantilization of the U.S. proceeds apace.

Deep down, Delia Lloyd probably understands that what she's saying is utter nonsense. But it's probably more important to her to establish her creds as a non-racist.

"I’ve been struck by how parental he sounds."

decorum prevents me from describing how Obama "sounds" to me, when he speaks.

If he's our daddy, it's time that the family pulls together and stages an intervention...

1} He used his daughters as the example of the need for government-funded late-term abortions and immediate destruction of immature infants who survived the abortion. 2} He used Malika as his prime example of the need of black parents to scold their children to make them do well. He said Malika's grades fell off so he told her she was bringing down the black folk just rising up from slavery who didn't have good opportunities. This held the girl up to the world as a a contemptible creature. (The story does not ring true. A pricey place like Sidwell-Friends could give a pupil a 5-minute talk on releasing eexternal ideas and focussing on the material} Daddy dearest?

Sorry Malia is correct name.

My father was a great mand and a wonderful Dad. By the time he was 20-years old, his parents were dead and he raised his younger brother and 7 younger sisters. He married late, and when my mother died (39 years ago this week) he was left alone to do it again with the seven of us, the youngest of his children were still in grade school. I loved my Dad, he's been gone since I was 21, I miss him bitterly to this day. And Obama is NO father figure to me or to anyone I know. What an insult to even imply such a thing. What an outrage.

WOW! The crazy lib cult of the media is pulling out all of the stops during these last few days before the election. Can't wait to hear about the alien invasion from planet Xertwn he single-handedly prevented.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Delia Lloyd is so stupid and ignorant that she thinks the American people are looking for a father figure in a man that is a failure as a human being. He's never touched anything that he didn't make worse.

Obama likely cares deeply for his daughters, may even have some regard for Michelle. But the only person he wants to please is Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett is his mother figure, and he knows not how to relate to other men.

The disgusting thing is that people like the writer and some of the people I know genuinely believe Obama cares about them personally. What a delusion.

Surprise! He wants your vote and does not care about anything else related to you - except his desire to control you.

I'd have said it if you hadn't, #16. Perverting the natural. Kind of fits, don't it?

If a "father figure" is really anything that some voters are looking for, does anyone doubt that Romney fits that bill far better than Obama ever could?

I suppose next he will mandate that we all pray, "Our Father, who art in the White House..."

If the lapdog media consider O a father figure, this country is one seriously dysfunctional family.

Speaking of Fathers... Where have his 2 daughters been? Not at any of the rallies or debates.... strange., multitude of tv appearances... no kids. Maybe they are too young to mask the radicalism they've been endoctrinated with.

In your dreams, Barry. You're not my daddy.